What lure caught your largest bass in 2015 ?

[ww2farmer]

In 2015 I caught 3 Largemouth over 6lbs, all on one of my homemade filipping jigs.

[soflabasser]

10 hours ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

I caught my biggest bass fishing for specks with a tiny 2" Berkley swimbait of all things. I was not even expecting a bass to hit it. The specks were boiling up the water all around me and I switched to light tackle when the big one hit.

Doesn't surprise me one bit!I know several speck fishermen who have caught +10 pound bass on small crappie jigs. 

[FloridaFishinFool]

32 minutes ago, soflabasser said:

Doesn't surprise me one bit!I know several speck fishermen who have caught +10 pound bass on small crappie jigs. 

Here she is! Another St. Johns River bass. I posed the Berkley 2 inch swimbait in her mouth for the photo. She had actually inhaled it and it was well hooked into her tongue deep inside the mouth.

You can see the 2 inch swimbait I posed in her mouth... this fish was close to 2 feet long! Skinny, but long. I guessed her weight just over 9 pounds. (no scale in the boat) In another time of the year fattened up this one could have been in the teens.

I still kid my buddy about this fish because this one is a back of the boat fish- in my own boat too- but I gave him the front casting deck on this day 12-24-2015, and he had all the good new water spots before me, and as we passed this area where the specks were boiling up he was telling me to cast into that spot he had just cast to and got nothing.

I grabbed my 7' ML rod to go for some of the specks boiling up in that spot already rigged with a 2 inch Berkley minnow lure swimbait...

So as we past that spot, I was casting back to it and on my last cast back to it I snagged a branch and jerked it free and just let it free fall and counted it down one-one thousand, two-one thousand and it just stopped. I reeled in the slack and felt the resistance and instantly set the hook not sure if a fish was on or not. Then it took off. My 7 foot ML rod doubled over, my shimano 2000 reel with 10 pound sufix braid screamed! Fish on!

It took about 5 or 6 minutes to get this fish in to the boat. Between my buddy and I it was the biggest bass either of us had caught in 2015 and both of us had 8 pounders under our belt, but this one was a little bigger.

I was not exactly prepared when this one hit. I had switched up to some light tackle for speck fishing when she hit. But man that sufix braid line saved the day!

Here is my second biggest bass of 2015, an 8.4 pounder also caught in the St. Johns river:

And this is what I caught this one on- a 3.5 inch Zoom swimming super fluke, Jr. rigged weedless with a stinger treble hook:

[soflabasser]

21 minutes ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

Here she is! Another St. Johns River bass. I posed the Berkley 2 inch swimbait in her mouth for the photo. She had actually inhaled it and it was well hooked into her tongue deep inside the mouth.

You can see the 2 inch swimbait I posed in her mouth... this fish was close to 2 feet long! Skinny, but long. I guessed her weight just over 9 pounds. (no scale in the boat) In another time of the year fattened up this one could have been in the teens.

I still kid my buddy about this fish because this one is a back of the boat fish- in my own boat too- but I gave him the front casting deck on this day 12-24-2015, and he had all the good new water spots before me, and as we passed this area where the specks were boiling up he was telling me to cast into that spot he had just cast to and got nothing.

I grabbed my 7' ML rod to go for some of the specks boiling up in that spot already rigged with a 2 inch Berkley minnow lure swimbait...

So as we past that spot, I was casting back to it and on my last cast back to it I snagged a branch and jerked it free and just let it free fall and counted it down one-one thousand, two-one thousand and it just stopped. I reeled in the slack and felt the resistance and instantly set the hook not sure if a fish was on or not. Then it took off. My 7 foot ML rod doubled over, my shimano 2000 reel with 10 pound sufix braid screamed! Fish on!

It took about 5 or 6 minutes to get this fish in to the boat. Between my buddy and I it was the biggest bass either of us had caught in 2015 and both of us had 8 pounders under our belt, but this one was a little bigger.

I was not exactly prepared when this one hit. I had switched up to some light tackle for speck fishing when she hit. But man that sufix braid line saved the day!

Here is my second biggest bass of 2015, an 8.4 pounder also caught in the St. Johns river:

And this is what I caught this one on- a 3.5 inch Zoom swimming super fluke, Jr. rigged weedless with a stinger treble hook:

Those are solid big bass!

[MIbassyaker]

My biggest of the year is a current PB: 5lb 2oz largemouth on a 3/8oz Megastrike Cavitron Buzzbait, black blade/black skirt.

[Philo Beddoe]

My biggest of the year was also my PB and caught on a 3/8 black and blue chatterbait.

[kickerfish1]

Longest bass was on a Northstar Flip and Swim jig in pumpkinseed. Heaviest was on drop shot with a jackal cross tail shad.

[BassObsessed]

My biggest of 2015 was over 10lbs on a 4'' swimbait in a neighborhood pond in the Orlando area . I'll be hitting up that area in March to try to find more giants.

[FloridaFishinFool]

Now that's a trophy bass! Keep pushing it out closer to the camera! 

 Maybe one day I'll catch one that big! I keep trying!

Maybe on shiners! (I'm in Orlando area too- mind if I tag along???)

[MIbassyaker]

Jeez, you florida guys! Rub it in some more, why doncha!

[BassObsessed]

2 minutes ago, MIbassyaker said:

Jeez, you florida guys! Rub it in some more, why doncha!

I wish. I had to go on vacation and travel 1000 miles to catch that one lol.

[paangler13]

5.09 on a black and blue jig. The last three years my biggest fish have all come on jigs. 5.09, 6.2, and 5.14.

 

Jim

[soflabasser]

19 minutes ago, BassObsessed said:

My biggest of 2015 was over 10lbs on a 4'' swimbait in a neighborhood pond in the Orlando area . I'll be hitting up that area in March to try to find more giants.

Congratulations on catching a big bass from the shore!

[FloridaFishinFool]

9 minutes ago, soflabasser said:

Congratulations on catching a big bass from the shore!

 

BassObsessed said: " I'll be hitting up that area in March to try to find more giants"

Key word: "find" as in sight fish them off the beds (March) from shore I am guessing.

March = spawn. At that time of the year you can see them sitting on the beds and reach out with your rod tip and tap them on the head and not spook them.

During that time, just for a few weeks, you can see the big ones up close to shore and catch them real easy with some patience.

Some years ago I caught one like this twice in under 2 or 3 minutes off the bed. I caught her once, let her go, tossed the lure into her bed again and caught her a second time and let her go right back to her bed, but the third time I threw my lure at her she would not touch it. I moved on.

Bed fishing for monster bass is just too dam easy.

[soflabasser]

8 minutes ago, FloridaFishinFool said:

 

BassObsessed said: " I'll be hitting up that area in March to try to find more giants"

Key word: "find" as in sight fish them off the beds (March) from shore I am guessing.

March = spawn. At that time of the year you can see them sitting on the beds and reach out with your rod tip and tap them on the head and not spook them.

During that time, just for a few weeks, you can see the big ones up close to shore and catch them real easy with some patience.

Some years ago I caught one like this twice in under 2 or 3 minutes off the bed. I caught her once, let her go, tossed the lure into her bed again and caught her a second time and let her go right back to her bed, but the third time I threw my lure at her she would not touch it. I moved on.

Bed fishing for monster bass is just too dam easy.

I do not fish bass on nest,but I consider this +10 pound bass impressive since it was caught from the shore!

[BaitMonkey1984]

Bad year for me fishing. I got out more than ever, just didn't get my butt out early in the morning or late at night. So that definitely may be to blame. Also, we had a tough winter here in the NE last year, so weather may have impacted the fish. I personally think it affected the deer and the bass negatively. Enough excuses....

I caught my biggest bass this year, a paltry 4lb even bass on a terminator spinner bait casted parallel to a dock. I love these spinnerbaits and I just retired one in my favorite color and tied this on. On my first cast the spinnerbait hit the water flat, making a slapping noise like a beaver tail. A Bass hit it instantly and the fight was on. The fish jumped near the boat and I saw something fly through the air. I get the fish unhooked, take some photos and release her. Then, I look down at my line to see if I need to retie and realize that the"something" flying through the air was half the spinnerbait. The spinnerbait wire snapped at the line tie. 100% catch ration on that little bait. 

[FloridaFishinFool]

17 minutes ago, soflabasser said:

I do not fish bass on nest,but I consider this +10 pound bass impressive since it was caught from the shore!

It is impressive! This is precisely how Chris Lane won the BassMaster Elite series on the St. Johns River in March of 2014.

Listen to the one key word Chris says at 2:01 in this video "I FOUND these fish on Monday" as in "FOUND" these bass just sitting there on their beds and then went after them hard for his win- a Florida boy using typical Florida bedding bass targeting. Chris Lane targeted bedding bass for his win- winning a 4 day tournament in 3 days targeting stationary big bass on the beds!

Everyone does it!

 

 

[corn-on-the-rob]

SM: 4.7 lbs on 3'' watermelon grub

LG: 4.2 lbs on 8'' Havoc Juice worm

[Primus]

I had 3 largemouth over 6 lbs, one of them came on a Strike King 8.0 Magnum Squarebill, another was on a 3/4 oz Strike King Structure jighead with a Structure Bug soft plastic and the biggest was on a Got Em' Coach Bluegill swimbait and that one went 6 lbs 15 oz .

I also caught a few between 5 - 6 lbs using jigs , swimbaits and deep diving cranks . 

[WIGuide]

LM: 5 lbs caught on a Rapala DT 14

SM: 5 Lbs Caught on a Berkley Havoc Bottom Hopper Jr. thrown on a drop shot

[Megastink]

Caught TWO the same size during the same tournament on the Chesapeake Bay: 5.75lbs, both on D&L Tackle Advantage Pro jigs, moon cricket (color), with a Quickbaits Quickbeetle trailer (green pumpkin).

[BassObsessed]

The bass caught in my previous pic was not on a bed . Had no clue where she was lurking at. The same pond I caught some giants in March of 2014 but they were all post spawn.

[tater555]

Caught on a megabass popmax, baby bass color. Did not have a scale or tape, so I have no clue of weight or length. She came completely out the water when she hit the popmax! And it was my first time fishing it! From the butt of the rod to the bottom of the reel seat is 11 inches, just for reference.

[Master Bait'r]

I dunno, I don't keep track to be honest.  

 

It was on a hook though, that much I can tell you with 100% confidence.  

[Master Bait'r]

3 minutes ago, tater555 said:

Caught on a megabass popmax, baby bass color. Did not have a scale or tape, so I have no clue of weight or length. She came completely out the water when she hit the popmax! And it was my first time fishing it! From the butt of the rod to the bottom of the reel seat is 11 inches, just for reference.

 

 

 

That face says it all hahaha