Your Big Fish

[mnbassman23]

I thought it would be interesting to collect some information on everyones biggest fish and see if there are any trends/similarities. Also it's fun to tell people a little about your biggest fish. 

 

Here's what I was thinking, but feel free to add additional details if wanted. 

 

State-

 

Water Depth- 

 

Lure/Technique- 

 

Structure/Cover- 

 

Weight and/or Length-

 

Picture-  

 

whats the point of having a thread without pictures!

 

If you are from MN make sure to specify lake and GPS location 

 

[mnbassman23]

State- Minnesota

 

Water Depth- 3 ft. 

 

Lure/Technique- Pitching a NSCB Black Series 1/2oz jig 

 

Structure/Cover- Wood 

 

Weight and/or Length- 22"

 

Picture-  

[sharpbbd]

State: Arkansas

 

Water Depth: 2 feet

 

Lure/Technique: Texas Rigged Power Team Lures Hinge worm

 

Structure: Brush Top

 

Weight and Length: 8lbs 3oz, 23"

[00 mod]

State- Sinaloa Mexico

 

Water Depth-  40'

 

Lure/Technique- Bomber BD8f Citrus shad

 

Structure/Cover- Ticjing tree tops in 40 fow

 

Weight and/or Length- 10lbs 14oz/ 25.25'' x 18.10''

 

[Wayne P.]

State--Virginia

 

Depth --3'

 

Lure/Technique--Chatterbait-slowrolled

 

Cover/Structure--steepest drop on the lake along the shore

 

Weight and/or Length--

 

weight---10# 7oz,   24 1/2"   3/15/2013

 

 

Length--27 1/8"  10# 4 oz. 4/22/2005

3'

 

Weedless Wacky Rigged Finesse Worm

 

Stumps

 

[gotarheelz14]

State- NC

 

Water Depth- 6-7 Ft?

 

Lure/Technique- Rattle Trap

 

Structure/Cover- gentle slope off the shore of a pond with a very gummy/weedy bottom

 

 

Weight and/or Length- 26 inches long, 19 in. in girth

[A-Jay]

State - Pennsylvania waters of Lake Erie

 

Water Depth- 25 ft

 

Lure/Technique- Lucky Craft 128 ~ American Shad

 

Structure/Cover- N/A

 

Weight and/or Length- 6lbs 4 oz

 

 

 

State- Sinaloa Mexico

 

Water Depth-25ft

 

Lure/Technique- A-Jay Custom Spinnerbait - 1 ounce Baccarac Special

 

Structure/Cover- Slow rolling up Rock Ledge

 

Weight and/or Length- 10lbs 11oz / 25.25'' x 21.25"

 

 

A-Jay

 

 

 

 

[JellyMan]

State- Florida / 2009

 

Water Depth- 2-3 feet

 

Lure/Technique- 3/8 Strike King Swimming Jig / Green, brown with a standard size Zoom Brush Hog in Bullfrog as a trailer.

 

Structure/Cover- Directly at a drainage outlet into a lake. Small pocket at the base of the outlet next to bushes/sticks/trees.

 

Weight and/or girth- 11.3 lbs / 28' length, 18' girth

 

GPS image... If you were wondering in the photos how I was standing on water, I was standing on the shallow sand bar.

 

 

I had a feeling about this spot and I kept getting these little tiny nibbles. I casted at this fish for 20 min and finally hooked up. Was caught right before sun down in mid summer.

 

 

[Zseen]

State- Arkansas

 

Water Depth- 3ft

 

Lure/Technique- Suspending Jerkbait

 

Structure/Cover- Stumps

 

Weight and/or Length- 10lb 2 oz    24.50"     18.0

 

[brady01]

State- Georgia (Lake Nottely)

 

Water Depth- 8-10ft

 

Lure/Technique- Skipping Green Pumpkin / orange 3/8oz arky jig with Net bait Paca Chunk trailer

 

Structure/Cover- Boat Dock

 

Weight and/or Length- 4.7lbs 

[CPBassFishing]

State- North Carolina

 

Water Depth- 8 feet

 

Lure/Technique- burning a redeye shad from the bank

 

Structure/Cover- no structure, fall cruiser eating baitfish

 

Weight and/or Length- 5-6 pounds, no measurement

 

Picture-  (in avatar)

 

[stew6371]

State-Oklahoma

Depth-2 ft

Technique-Pitching a brush hog

1st fish was 7 lb-3oz, 2nd fish was 7 lb-8oz. Caught them within 30 minutes of each other. Won the tourney, but not big bass. Oh yeah, I'm the short fat dude.

[WRB]

PB LMB;
Lake Castaic CA
3 March 1993 about 9:30A
Light rain, light wind, pre spawn.
Hair jig w/pork trailer in about 17' on a secondary point.
28.5" long, 28" girth
19.3 lbs.
* photo will email a photo, still don't know how to post it!

 

tom18.tiff

 

[ww2farmer]

<----------Picture

 

State: NY

 

Lake: ............ one of the long skinny ones around here.

 

Date/time : sometime in August of last year, sometime in the evening between 5:30- dark

 

Weather:..............it was a nice summer night.

 

Depth: ............ less than 30' feet

 

Cover:.............I don't remember

 

Bait: ........................I can't recall

 

Length/girth...............I don't know...........really.

 

Weight: 6lbs 10 oz. on my handheld, 6.68lbs on the tournament scale.

 

Won us lunker, and was the kicker in our bag in a 3 fish limit/3 hour evening tournament that we won with 13 + pounds.

[Comfortably Numb]

State- Virginia April 2012

 

Water Depth- 3-4 ft

 

Lure/Technique- Home made 5" fluke type bait. White w/smoke back

 

Structure/Cover- Newly emerging lilly pads

 

Weight and/or Length- 8# 24"

 

[Bluebasser86]

State-Kansas October 2011

 

Water Depth-3'

 

Lure/technique-American Shad LC CBS Zero/stop and go retrieve

 

Structure/cover-flat rock point

 

weight/length-20" 5 pounds

 

 

State-Sinola, Mexico February 2004

 

Water depth-30'

 

Lure/Technique-8" watermelon Zoom Lizard T-rigged/along a deep tree line, chased the bait to the boat when I reeled it in and then ate it when I dropped it back in the water.

 

Cover/Structure-Deep tree line

 

Weight/Length-10lbs 2oz

[Goose52]

State- Tennessee

 

Water Depth- ~7ft

 

Lure/Technique- lipless crank

 

Structure/Cover- fish was caught from the bank casting into open water and retrieving parallel to an earthen dam

 

Weight and/or Length- 9.54lb, 25.75in

 

The story of the catch is here: New Lmb PB - 9.54lb - Not A DD...but Close!

 

[SPEEDBEAD.]

State- PA

 

 

Water Depth- 3' with 20' within arms reach

 

 

Lure/Technique- swimbait

 

 

Structure/Cover- Dropoff

 

Weight and/or Length- 7lb 8oz

 

[BigOnFishin]

Fish #1

 

State- Virginia

 

Water Depth- 5ft

 

Lure/Technique- Slow rolling a Strike King KVD Finesse Spinnerbait in Blue Gizzard Shad color

 

Structure/Cover- Point of a brush pile

 

Weight and/or Length- 7.43 Pounds

 

Fish #2

 

State- Virginia

 

Water depth- 2ft

 

Lure/Technique- Strike King Tour Grade Football Jig In PB&J color with Baby Rage Craw trailor

 

Structure/Cover- Spawning Bed

 

Weight and/or Length- 9.26 Pounds

[MarkH024]

State- Wisconsin 

 

 

Water Depth- 2-3 fow

 

Lure/Technique- Scum Frog (white with green spots)

 

Structure/Cover- Lily Pads

 

Weight and/or Length-2.5" Frog

Length: 24"

Weight 7lbs

 

Picture-  

[Bankbeater]

State -  Missouri

Water depth - 2 to 3 feet

Lure/Technique - Cast out a 5/8 jitterbug and just let it set there.  When I twitched it the bass boiled on it.

Structure/Cover -  gravel road bed

Weight and/or length - 6-02 lbs.

Pic - see avatar.

[Dwight Hottle]

State- Sinaloa Mexico lake baccarac

 

Water depth-20 feet

 

Lure-generic white swim bait 7"

 

Structure-rock island

 

Weight-9lb-8 oz

 

26" length x 18.25" girth

 

 

 

 

State-PA lake erie

 

Water depth- 25'

 

Lure-Rapala Tail Dancer

 

Structure-rock bottom

 

Weight-7lb-6oz

 

22' length x 17' girth

 

[BigBassBarry]

<---------- my picture plus one more

 

 

State- Oklahoma

 

Water Depth- 19 ft. 

 

Lure/Technique- 4.25 soonerrun biffle bug on a hard head football jig. 

 

Structure/Cover- Caught over a sycamore tree that fell over in the water rock bottom.

 

Weight and/or Length- 25"  11 lbs 2oz

 

one more pic of her mouth had a growth on lower lip

[greyleg33]

Emigrant Lake, SW Oregon

 

Not sure of the depth but probably about 12 feet.

 

I was jiggeling a half oz jig through a 20x20 patch of surface slop. She took it about 6" down.

 

8lb 4oz. Sorry, no pic.

[Teal]

State - NC

August 2006

Roanoke Rapids Lake

15ft deep

Rip rap point with steep drop

Zoom Brush Hog (full size) texas rigged on a 5/0 EWG with 1oz weight

bouncing lure down the point, lift and drop

8.8 lbs Largemouth

It was 7:30pm, it was HOT, Dominion Power was pushing water and the current was heavy.

I do not have a digital copy of the photo only hard copy that i will attempt to scan in