Where Did You Catch Your Biggest Va Bass?

[basscrusher]

Hey VA crew-

This one's just for fun...I'm not trying to encroach on anyone's secret honey hole. If you'd prefer to keep a spot secret, that's totally cool, just don't reply. I get it. But if you don't mind sharing, let's see how wide an array of answers we get! I'll kick it off.

PB VA largemouth: Burke Lake (tad under 7 lbs) - 6" Zoom Dead Ringer (pumpkin/chart,)

PB VA smallmouth: Upper Potomac (3.5 lbs) - 4" Senko (black/blue flake)

Let's see your stuff!

[JSPOONE]

personal best came out of lake braddock around 4 pounds on a white and red with a red hook on a spinner bait

[Broke bass fisherman]

No Va Largemouth yet but personal Va best SM 2#. Caught on weightless pumpkin green senko. Caught on a small farm pond outside of Christiansburg.

Edit: as basscrusher pointed out this is my best LMB

Best SMB was around 2# caught on rebel pop-r frog (swamp frog color) below Little river dam.

[basscrusher]

That's a largemouth in your pic!

[Broke bass fisherman]

That's a largemouth in your pic!

You know I thought so when I caught it but immediately disregarded it because of the size of the pond, tiny tiny pond. Thanks for the info, always been bad at telling the difference between LMB & SMB.

[mudkart]

Lake Royal, 7-2 LMB, baby brush hog;

Shenandoah River (near Rileyville), 2-0 SMB, Fat Ika.

[JSPOONE]

dang u caught a 7.2 out of lake royal? if u dont mind asking which part of the lake did u catch it and how long ago?

ive been catching 1-1.5 pounders there nothing bigger.. i had a 3 pounder atleast on the line last night and got off 5 feet from the shore on a weightless t-rigged red shad senko

[mudkart]

dang u caught a 7.2 out of lake royal? if u dont mind asking which part of the lake did u catch it and how long ago?

ive been catching 1-1.5 pounders there nothing bigger.. i had a 3 pounder atleast on the line last night and got off 5 feet from the shore on a weightless t-rigged red shad senko

The post is on this site, at least it was, the recent update may have removed it. I think it was 2008.

[JSPOONE]

yeh i didnt see anything about ur catch.. ill have to keep fishing there till i catch one that big.. hopefully its still around

[shimmy]

Here is a smallmouth, was tinkering between 4.0 and 3.15 but hanging on 4 so i called it! The other bass here was basically the same thing but sticking around the 4.14 mark so i couldn't call it. So, PB smallmouth for VA here was caught at the B-Dam (i know a few people here knew where i caught it before i even mentioned it and wouldn't be surprised if they caught much bigger here). There are some big ones in here but haven't hooked into one yet. Still learning the lake. Haven't gone in a few months though.

[crossthemeverytime]

3-12 LMB out of Lake Royal on a Strike King Bitsy Bug jig w/a Netbait Paca Chunk trailer. Sightfishing during spawn.

I may or may not have caught a 4-0 LMB in 2011 at Lake Royal, but i didn't have a scale on me.

[Wayne P.]

Largest largemouth landed and weighed was at Chris Green Lake in Albermarle County--10# 6 ounces.

Zoom finesse worm Watermelon Red rigged weedless wacky

Largest smallmouth landed and weighed was at Smith Mountain Lake----5# 8 ounces.

Zoom 4" curly tail Cherry Seed split shot rigged

[quanjig]

Burke lake 7-4 3/4 and I can not keep telling people what I caught it on! Had a DD hooked up and lost it at the boat from Burke as well! Had a smallie from the res that went just a hair over 4 and another hooked up that looked to be close to 6! Biggest smallmouth was in Wisconsin well over 5

[Nitrofreak]

Largest largemouth landed and weighed was at Chris Green Lake in Albermarle County--10# 6 ounces.

Zoom finesse worm Watermelon Red rigged weedless wacky

Largest smallmouth landed and weighed was at Smith Mountain Lake----5# 8 ounces.

Zoom 4" curly tail Cherry Seed split shot rigged

Was that the one in a photo you posted some time back in a thread about video cameras and still photos?

That was a good looking fish Wayne !!!

Largest LMB is out of Lake Anna, 8.89 lbs , caught on a Green pumkin/Chart Strike King jig with a Rage Tail craw in bama color, pitched it to a point that has an old creek bed just out from it and just let it fall off the bank onto a shelf.

Largest SMB, well, thats a zero, I have never caught one.

[Wayne P.]

Was that the one in a photo you posted some time back in a thread about video cameras and still photos?

That was a good looking fish Wayne !!!

Largest LMB is out of Lake Anna, 8.89 lbs , caught on a Green pumkin/Chart Strike King jig with a Rage Tail craw in bama color, pitched it to a point that has an old creek bed just out from it and just let it fall off the bank onto a shelf.

Largest SMB, well, thats a zero, I have never caught one.

I don't think I have posted that bass picture before. The one I did post was probably one of the 9# + dinks from Briery Creek. The Briery bass are more photogenic since they tend to be longer than similar bass of the same weight catagory.

[Nitrofreak]

I don't think I have posted that bass picture before. The one I did post was probably one of the 9# + dinks from Briery Creek. The Briery bass are more photogenic since they tend to be longer than similar bass of the same weight catagory.

my mistake then, that fish was a pretty good looking ol' girl to say the least anyway, I can agree with you about being more photogenic.

[deep]

Largest LMB is 9 lbs 7 ozs on an 8" huddleston deluxe ROF5 in rainbow trout pattern. Caught her from a little public lake called Sugar Hollow.

Never caught a smallmouth.

[Sam]

Private farm pond in Dinwiddie County.

[Brayberry]

Best largemouth was from Lone Star Lakes, in Suffolk, Va, 9 lbs even. Caught it on a Paca Craw on a Texas Rig.

[Bigbarge50]

I am king of the 3lbers. Third summer fishing in NOVA and while I rarely get skunked anymore (knock wood) and can do ok with numbers, I cannot crack 4lbs. Far from complaining though, 3lb-ers are great fish to me.... will hapiily catch em all day.

[tubeman]

My largest smallmouth was 4lbs. caught in the Jackson River below the paper mill in Covington, VA. this year. I used a brown craw with chartreuse tail Gitzit Spider Jig.

[Curly Joe]

7-11 in VA.

10-2 in NC.

[Hyrule Bass]

LM - 4.5lbs - Smith Mountain Lake

SM - maybe a half pound(LOL) if that from the Shenandoah River by the route 7 bridge. although i probably caught some bigger ones as a kid i dont recall while fishing the potomac with my parents in great falls. didnt know the difference back then though...