Your Single Best Day On The Water

[MN_Bassin]

In 7 hours, my friend and I caught well over 80 bass, while there was a club tournament going on. I was trying to give a team tips and I caught one while talking, they still didn't listen. It was to the point where we were both laughing everytime we caught one!

[steverowbotham]

I've had better days since, but the one that really stands out for me was 8 years ago.  I'd never had a 20+ pound bag of smallies in my life, and my best friend and I decided to head out for a few hours one afternoon.  It was last minute and I was actually heading home from a tournament on a different lake when he called.  He wanted to take his brother's "new" boat for a test run.  We werent expecting much as we were in a different area than we normally fished and only had a few hours.  After a biteless hour, I got bit slow rolling a spinnerbait over deep water and it was a 5+ lbs fish.  When we got it boatside, there were 10 or more fish swarming with it.  All giant.  We spent the next two hours landing 20 or more fish in the 3.5 - 6 pound range.  It was by far the best day I'd ever had and will always stand out when people ask this question.  We didnt have a camera so I called my girlfriend at the time (now wife) to meet us at the ramp for a picture before we released them.

[WRB]

At my age everyday on the water is a treasure.

Castaic at it's peak in the early 90's was a incredible giant bass fishery, my best 5 bass limit was was 62 lbs, PB is 19.3 lbs, my best day was 18 bass over 10 lbs, my top 5 jig bass life time; 17.4, 17.4, 17.6, 18.6 and 19.3 lbs, all fading memories now. Winning a night tournament with my son at age 15 when he caught the most of the big bass and pulled his catch out to be weight was priceless.

Tom

[BassObsessed]

One morning, 83 fish, most over 4lbs, including 2 over 10.  Got to the point where you would raise your rod over your head and try to make the fish jump.  If it wasn't over 7lbs, you gave it slack to try and get free.  Never again have I had anything close to this, but man do I hope it happens again.  All on crankbaits!

 

the stats- 2 over 10, 1 over 9, 1 over 8, 4 over 7, 10 over 6 and 10 over 5.  2 biggest were 10lbs 9 oz and 10lbs 2 oz.

 

Jeff

I need directions to this lake lol.

[A-Jay]

Yup...every year I have a couple of days that are "once in lifetime" type of days. Strangely enough, almost everyone of those days is doing something different than the last time I had "one of those days". 

 

And after thinking a little more about this one - 

 

I'm  going to say - I don't want to have "My Best Day Ever" - Unless it's my Last One as well.

 

A-Jay

[whitwolf]

April 14th, 2014. My wife and myself were on our honeymoon and while she had caught a few bass here and there she was totally unprepared for the day we had. I was too! It started out getting to a family pond(17 acres) and seeing a 6ft. swamp snake in the road, she wasn't happy. lol We walked in and my brother had the boat In the water and we were off. I missed a strike right away and didn't care as I thought It was pretty durn cool we were fishing on our honeymoon. 

 

We fished down the bank without anything but great conversation. Tresa made a cast and started talking, and I told here to get the slack out of her line. The minute she took the slack out the line shot sideways and after a short fight I lipped a 2+, a beautiful fish. She caught her personal best 15 minutes In and had we left right then It would have been a great day! We fished for a couple of hours and she was up on me 6-1. I was genuinely thrilled for her to be having a great day. 

 

I finally figured out a little something on a mis-cast and while she Insisted on fishing her way which had been quite successful I went In another direction and things got Interesting. She cast her senko with a Poche tail-spinner(red/shad) right on the bank and set the hook on a chunky 3. That broke her earlier personal best. While she was very happy I was all smiles! I caught a few in the 4-5 lb. range and scolded myself for not bringing enough flukes or boot-tail swimbaits but honestly didn't really care as this was a day that the fish were on and my wife was having FUN! 

 

We had a little time left and I went to a ditch that ran from the bank to about 6 feet out. She cast her senko and slowly reeled It into that ditch and about 3 feet from the bank she set the hook and the fight was on. After a decent fight I lipped a 5+ bass that had inhaled her senko. She once again broke her personal best. 

 

In a nutshell this day was and Is the single best day I've  had on the water. The timing and the fact that she caught her biggest fish ever and all on our honeymoon. It simply was a tremendous day!

[Bass newb]

Sounds fishy to me. 200 fish, 80 fish, all over 6lbs, 10 pounders repeatedly....

My best day in the 5 or so weeks that I've been fishing was today! 3 bass, big on 2lb 2 oz 16.5" long.

It was a big belly bass.

[Gilbone]

Febuary this year a week after the bass master classic left. Me and my buddy fixed up a old 16 foot jon boat. put new decks on it and carpet. the whole nine yards for a jon boat. A wendsday afternoon we put the boat in on hartwell about 2 miles from greenpond. I never used a fluke until that day. the first cast i had a 3lb large mouth chase it all the way to the boat. then we went up near some docks. skipped it under and let is fall and gental popping it out and the boom a fish hit it then he came off and the fluke was sitting in my sight then boom he came up and hammered it on the surface 10 feet infront of me. after that we cught 5 fish on that one dock all over 3 lbs then went across the cove and caught 8  off another dock the same way. by far my best day 10 fish all over 3 lbs but 2 of them and the big fish was 6 the best day on the water ever.