What lure caught your biggest bass of 2016?

[trupp30]

5lb 11oz on a 130 perch whopper plopper.

[j bab]

11.12 lbs on this very 8" Hudd  

[Kidflex]

1/2 seibert jig- bamabug color. Yum craw for trailer 

She was 8lbs 12oz

 

[Alan Reed]

White skirted  Zman Chatterbait with a White Ice Zoom paddle tail trailer. 

[J._Bricker]

Just over 8lbs dropshoting an MMIII

[Mumbly]

Super spook jr.

[AO2point4]

First post here, I've been reading up for a long time and trying to absorb as much knowledge as possible.

 

Anyways, my biggest bass came while fishing a Musky tournament on big Whopper Plopper 190.  Unsure of length/weight, but it was by far my biggest of the year.

 

 

[mwh33]

I caught a 7 lber on a dirty jigs swim jig in citrus shad with a reaction innovations skinny dipper in pearl trailer.

[brgbassmaster]

8.64 largemouth on a strike king 6xd and a 5.2lb smallie on a lucky craft jerk bait 

[Senko Junkie]

3" Solid Black Senko at Dale Hollow Lake in November in less than two ft of water in heavy grass and 6#test line. It was a fight......lol

[kbeeb374]

I caught my best 2 fish ever this year within 10 minutes of eachother on a yumbrella flash mob junior.  Didn't get weights but got length and girth and used the estimator on here and it said 5.2 and 4.6.

[Jtrout]

4 pounder on a green pumpkin humpin toad on a 3/0 bps ewg hook 

[Choporoz]

Bass Assassin Tapout on a shakey head

[Deleted account]

Baby 1 minus, about 8 1/2 lbs. Funny part is everything else I've caught there has been like 10-12"

[gulfcaptain]

Biggest fish of the year was a 9.7lb (fish on the right in profile pic).  Fish came off a a rock that came up to 4ft from 8ft on a Spro Rock Crawler Crank.  Btw, the fish I'm holding up with it came off the same bait as well.

[the reel ess]

14 hours ago, AO2point4 said:

First post here, I've been reading up for a long time and trying to absorb as much knowledge as possible.

 

Anyways, my biggest bass came while fishing a Musky tournament on big Whopper Plopper 190.  Unsure of length/weight, but it was by far my biggest of the year.

 

 

Does that happen a lot that you catch big bass while musky fishing? It seems like the same type baits, just bigger.

[WI_Angler1989]

24 minutes ago, gulfcaptain said:

Biggest fish of the year was a 9.7lb (fish on the right in profile pic).  Fish came off a a rock that came up to 4ft from 8ft on a Spro Rock Crawler Crank.  Btw, the fish I'm holding up with it came off the same bait as well.

 

That's one big fish! How have you liked the Spro Rckcrawler? I really like the look of it. Does it come through rocks well? I don't really fish a lot of deeper water, so the 11' depth kind of scares me. I canoe fish shallower rivers mainly. 

[AO2point4]

7 minutes ago, the reel ess said:

Does that happen a lot that you catch big bass while musky fishing? It seems like the same type baits, just bigger.

Not usually, but on this particular trip we caught 4 big bass on musky baits.  We caught 2 on a big, ugly Suick, and another on a big walking bait.  It was odd how 3-4lbs fish we hammering baits that were over 6 inches.

[brgbassmaster]

48 minutes ago, AO2point4 said:

Not usually, but on this particular trip we caught 4 big bass on musky baits.  We caught 2 on a big, ugly Suick, and another on a big walking bait.  It was odd how 3-4lbs fish we hammering baits that were over 6 inches.

 

Not odd at all swim baits have been catching 3 and 4 lbrs forever. I have caught a 6 inch bass on a 9 inch ms slammer in michigan. Out here in arizona a Deps 250 10 inch swim bait will catch 4 lbrs all the time. Same as back home in michigan. Even better in michigan cuz bass dont see those baits often. Nothing like catching giant bass on swim baits especially up north where people say they won't hit baits like that. 

[iceintheveins]

Popped a pair of 6 pound pluses on a black blue pit boss!

[AO2point4]

10 minutes ago, brgbassmaster said:

 

Not odd at all swim baits have been catching 3 and 4 lbrs forever. I have caught a 6 inch bass on a 9 inch ms slammer in michigan. Out here in arizona a Deps 250 10 inch swim bait will catch 4 lbrs all the time. Same as back home in michigan. Even better in michigan cuz bass dont see those baits often. Nothing like catching giant bass on swim baits especially up north where people say they won't hit baits like that. 

Hm, that's definitely something for me to look into in the future.  But for now, I'm going to keep telling myself that it is odd, because the last thing my wallet needs if for me to get hooked on throwing big swim baits...

[brgbassmaster]

43 minutes ago, AO2point4 said:

Hm, that's definitely something for me to look into in the future.  But for now, I'm going to keep telling myself that it is odd, because the last thing my wallet needs if for me to get hooked on throwing big swim baits...

 

haha they definitely take a hit on the wallet. but i recently over about a year ago started to just target big fish and throw swim baits. So instead of buying all the conventional stuff constantly just have 10 or so nice swim baits to throw. Unless i break one off mid cast or pike takes it lol then that would be an expensive problem,. But that hasn't happened yet. 

[AO2point4]

17 minutes ago, brgbassmaster said:

 

haha they definitely take a hit on the wallet. but i recently over about a year ago started to just target big fish and throw swim baits. So instead of buying all the conventional stuff constantly just have 10 or so nice swim baits to throw. Unless i break one off mid cast or pike takes it lol then that would be an expensive problem,. But that hasn't happened yet. 

The biggest problem is that they would get absolutely destroyed by pike up here, I'd have to almost exclusively fish hard swim baits.

[DaveT63]

7lb 1oz on a green pumpkin senko

[smr913]

20" smallie on the Ned Rig. I was lucky this year to have caught a bunch of nice river smallies, but this one took the cake. Didn't get a weight but I'd guess about 4#.