Experience And Dd Bass?

[5 Dollar Fishing Game]

I've been fishing since December of 2011. My biggest bass to date is 6 pounds 6 ounces. My goal is to get 10.0 or better. :-). Just like the goal of bowling is to shoot a 300 game, bass fishing has this famous milestone. At least it is a start to milestones.

You all out there that landed a DD, how long did it take you?

[South FLA]

I fished from about 5 until my late 20s before I got mine. I didn't use live-bait or fish a stocked pond. Live baiting is fine, but IMO its not as fun or rewarding as artificial, don't want to offend anyone.

[georgeyew]

Any stories of people catching DD bass on their first outing?

[5 Dollar Fishing Game]

So about 20 years for you. Nice! I use artificial 100% of the time.

Then you have the newbies that cast a few times their first day on the water or from the bank and land a ten pound lunker. :-/

[00 mod]

My first DD came when I was 28. Started fishing with my dad when I was 3. Took a break for a while, but just know you have to put in your time!!!

Jeff

[Paul Roberts]

I've fished mostly in NY and CO: state records for both are 11lbs. We aren't shooting for DD bass there.

[Weld's Largemouth]

First time bass fishing I got a 6 lber and a 7 lber

[WRB]

NC state record LMB is 15 lbs 14 oz, so a DD bass is possible for you fishing NC.

Every bowling alley has the potential to roll a perfect game of 300, skill combined with luck!

Not every lake has DD living in them, so regardless of your skill or luck catching bass that are not there is impossible.

To catch big bass you must fish where they live and fish where they are located in that lake. A blind squirrel can find an acorn, odds are better if the squirrel looks under a oak tree.

Spend some time to locate the oak tree and use acorns to achieve your goal.

My 1st DD bass was 11 lbs from lake Havasu when I was 12, 2nd was 12 lbs 3 oz from a quarry pond at age 14, 3 rd was 10 lbs 1 oz from lake Sherwood, all these were NLMB before FLMB were introduced in CA.

Logged my 100 th DD bass in 1971. Raised my personal bar to 15 lbs and have over 20 giants since then with 5 over 17 lbs.

Tom

[Raul]

 Well, I started bass fishing in 1980, March of 1992 so that makes 12 years before I caught my first one, then I went on a fishing spree, fished everday went to a lot of places where 10+ lbers were common and had that spree for 15 years where I caught at least one 10+ lbs per year. It´s been a very long time since that, the closest I´ve been to a 10 lbers was a couple of years ago, 9.86 lbs. But you can´t expect to catch biguns if you don´t go fishing where there are biguns.

[5 Dollar Fishing Game]

Thanks Tom and Raul!!!

Good story too Tom. Awesome to know the NC state record. Gives me something to shoot for. :-)

[BassObsessed]

I have been fishing since a kid but the bass bug kicked in bigtime around 2010 and this past March was the first time catching dd bass ( two of them) with the bigger one in my avatar but I made a specific trip to Florida to hope to catch one.

[Raul]

Actually, my first one was not caught in a lake, it was caught in a pond, must be half an acre in surface and choked up to about half of it´s surface with tule. If you got time to read this is how I caught it.

 

I tied a Rapala Original Minnow size 9 RT pattern, made a cast and let it stay there motionless until the ripples disappeared, I barely twitched the rod tip just to make the lure dive it´s head, then waited, repeated the action over and over again for about 10 mins, you may imagine that a 10 + lber was going to smash and blow the bait trying to tear it to pieces but that was not the case, I barely was able to see how the bait dissapeared, then the line started to move and I allowed her to have it, when she began moving towards the tule was when I set the hook and she took off like a rocket, her mistake was to swim away from the tule into more open wáter, we fought for a while until I finally was able to grab her from the mouth, man she was big ! short and fat like bass are down here. But that day I not only caught that one, I caught another 2 more, one slightly smaller and another one slightly bigger, and lost a fourth one.

 

My PB was caught with a Rapala Shad Rap size 7 SD in Lake San Lorenzo ( Tamaulipas ) and was the least satisfactory fish in my history, at that lake there are large weedbeds  of elodea in the form of patches, in between those patches there are weed free or short weed channels so you have to cast to those or you hang up, I made the cast and saw the bait running, she came out of the weeds, hit the bait and took a dive into the weeds. 13.86 lbs of bass surrounded by 40 lbs of weeds,weeds fought more than the fish.

 

The interesting thing here is that it´s probable that I may never break my own record, in order to do so you have to go as much as you can to places where there´s that kind of fish and I can´t do it any more at least for now; during my spree I had days I caught 3,4 or 5 10+ lbers, my PB string is 5 fish = 52 lbs at Lake Cajón de Peñas ( now we call it Cajón de Penas ( pena = sorrow )  because it´s sad to see what used to be a great place take a nose dive from the ugly tree ).

[FD.]

Almost 35 years of fishing.  I had an 8 pounder that was the biggest for several decades.  That was before I found this site.  Now 6 to 8's are fairly common.

[Catt]

Started seriously bass fishing in 1961 at age 10 and logged hundreds of 9#s but it took 46 years until in 2007 I caught 11 bass over ten pounds including a 12 lb 8 oz.

29 double digit bass were caught with out the added weight of roe!

[5 Dollar Fishing Game]

Great stories!!!

[Grizzn N Bassin]

I've fished mostly in NY and CO: state records for both are 11lbs. We aren't shooting for DD bass there.

why not?

[tomustang]

If I was really looking for a DD bass I would search for the better lakes where they are. I can't take my 120 bowling game to other lanes and score better.

[Bluebasser86]

I've been fishing since before my first birthday, bass fishing seriously since I was 9. I caught my first (and only) DD on my graduation present trip to Mexico in 2004 when I was 18. So either 17 or 9 years depending on how you want to look at it. 

[AK-Jax86]

Man I am still waiting on mine, hooked a couple but never landed any! Enjoyed reading these great stories... Will revisit this in the future (thought I had one few weeks ago but she went 8.1 and was spawned out wish I caught her before to see what she weighed then)

[5 Dollar Fishing Game]

Alright guys, let's make 2014 the year of lunkers!!!

[SirSnookalot]

Dunno, don't weigh bass, caught some pretty good ones.

[K_Mac]

I've been fishing a very long time without a DD bass. Here in the Midwest a legitimate DD is fairly rare. I fished a private strip pit a few times over a couple of years that had the very real possibility of producing one, but I no longer have access. I do fish a couple of public lakes here in Southern Illinois that could produce a DD. I have caught a couple that given another year or two might make it, especially if caught full of eggs and not released into someone's deep frier.

I am not as driven as I once was. Enjoying the experience is more important than size or numbers for me. My experience, skills and patience are much greater though, so I won't be surprised if I do catch one. There is always the possibility of a road trip to an exotic southern locale-like Louisiana!

[Catt]

My 1st DD bass was 11 lbs from lake Havasu when I was 12, 2nd was 12 lbs 3 oz from a quarry pond at age 14, 3 rd was 10 lbs 1 oz from lake Sherwood, all these were NLMB before FLMB were introduced in CA.

Logged my 100 th DD bass in 1971. Raised my personal bar to 15 lbs and have over 20 giants since then with 5 over 17 lbs.

Tom

When was #300?

[papajoe222]

I've been actively fishing for bass for 50 years and have yet to hook, let alone land a DD.  I take that back, I married one about 44 years ago .

Seriously, If I really wanted to break the 10lb. mark, I'd target lakes known to give them up on a regular basis.  My home lake record is 8lb.13oz. and I doubt that any of the lakes I frequent have given up a double D.  My goal is to catch more fish over 5lb. this year than I did last year and I've succeeded that goal for six years running.  Good luck on your quest.

[Dwight Hottle]

I fished from about 5 until my late 20s before I got mine. I didn't use live-bait or fish a stocked pond. Live baiting is fine, but IMO its not as fun or rewarding as artificial, don't want to offend anyone.

I'm offended.