Super User NYWayfarer Posted January 2, 2019 Super User Posted January 2, 2019 my biggest Smallmouth of 2018 was caught on a size 90 Whopper Plopper in Bluegill color Horrible pic of the scale but she weighed in at 4.01 5 Quote
Comfortably Numb Posted January 2, 2019 Posted January 2, 2019 110+1 KO I painted. Jan 2018 and weighed 7-1# 6 Quote
keagbassr Posted January 2, 2019 Posted January 2, 2019 I Double wide beaver 3/4oz. Tungsten wgt. 6/0grip pin hook. 6-1 5 Quote
Super User FryDog62 Posted January 2, 2019 Super User Posted January 2, 2019 25 minutes ago, keagbassr said: I Double wide beaver 3/4oz. Tungsten wgt. 6/0grip pin hook. 6-1 That’s the one I’m looking for Nice fish keag..! 1 Quote
dgkasper58 Posted January 2, 2019 Posted January 2, 2019 Xrap Ghost- First cast of the season! Lost it later that day 5 Quote
OCdockskipper Posted January 3, 2019 Posted January 3, 2019 Largest for 2018 was caught on a 5" Senko, color Amber Laminate (which sounds like the name of a dancer down at the local club). It was weightless & wacky rigged, skipped under a dock in about 4 feet of water. She was post spawn, weighing just 6 lb, 2 oz despite her 24" length & big fat head. BTW, I am not a big fan of quantum, I just got the shirt for free 6 Quote
Super User Munkin Posted January 3, 2019 Super User Posted January 3, 2019 8 hours ago, Comfortably Numb said: 110+1 KO I painted. Jan 2018 and weighed 7-1# Great looking bait! Feels better catching them on something you made as well. Now send me one or two to test to make sure it wasn't a fluke. Allen 2 hours ago, OCdockskipper said: Largest for 2018 was caught on a 5" Senko, color Amber Laminate (which sounds like the name of a dancer down at the local club). It was weightless & wacky rigged, skipped under a dock in about 4 feet of water. She was post spawn, weighing just 6 lb, 2 oz despite her 24" length & big fat head. BTW, I am not a big fan of quantum, I just got the shirt for free I am a Quantum fan and own about 25 of them but they have never given me a shirt. Allen 2 Quote
RyneB Posted January 3, 2019 Posted January 3, 2019 biggest smallie. Lake Fork magic popper in bluegill during the mayfly hatch. Biggest largie came punching mats with a Gambler Ugly Otter in Bowens silver with a black an blue punch skirt. Largie weighed just under 4.5 lbs in Illinois. Smallie is a Traverse City area smallie and not sure what it weighed. Topwater bite was ON and didnt want to waste valuable time. 3 Quote
papajoe222 Posted January 3, 2019 Posted January 3, 2019 Mine was a 23in. LM on a 5in. Havoc Grass Pig rigged on a Siebert jig head. I went through about fifteen packs of those baits last season. Just my luck, they're getting difficult to locate around here now. 2 Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted January 3, 2019 Global Moderator Posted January 3, 2019 1 hour ago, papajoe222 said: Mine was a 23in. LM on a 5in. Havoc Grass Pig rigged on a Siebert jig head. I went through about fifteen packs of those baits last season. Just my luck, they're getting difficult to locate around here now. WalMart carries them around here, usually in a bin on the bottom of the shelves instead of hanging up. I have quite a few still I believe, I can send them to you, I rarely use them anymore. Quote
Super User PhishLI Posted January 3, 2019 Super User Posted January 3, 2019 Bass season is closed for the spawn on L.I. between May 1st and the end of the 1st week of June. The NYC bucket brigades hammer our waters mercilessly taking everything they can get away with including bass. They'll take a bluegill smaller than a saltine. Most are sold to particular restaurants in the city. So, I let the bass be, per regulations. The last three weeks of April were fire though! Got a few 4 pounders and everything below. But before then I'd convinced myself that aliens had beamed all the bass to a different universe. I couldn't, and neither could any of the local hardcores, get bit for nothin from December until then! Part of the issue is the two fall trout stockings in October and November. The bass crush trout and don't seem interested in biting artificials, even trout Hudds and such. The lakes are shallow near shore. The cold sets in. The deeper holes are out of reach. Kaput. I hit my spot running when the season re-opened. Fished before work and after dinner. Snuck in some lunches too. Zilch! Two weeks skunked. I was power fishing, thinking the bass wanted to eat and would chase. Wrong. Eating dinner one night I said to my wife "have an idea, gotta go". This is after I said I'd be taking a small break. There was no protest. She's a good one. Anyway, it had struck me that I needed to go in a different direction fast: Slow way way down. The lightest setup I had not used up to that point was a BG2500 spinner with Transoptic 8lb test on a 6'6" Tatula M. I was getting blanked on 5-6" senkos previously, so I rigged up a Zoom Fluke Stik instead, T-rigged weightless, Owner 4ot. I know, I know, not a real Texas rig without a bullet weight. I'm rusty. Cut me some slack! June 21st. 6:40 pm. I hit my lake. Chucked the fluke stik straight out. Instead of instantly popping it then dragging it then popping it again, I let it soak. Felt like forever. Was more like two minutes. Then ever so slowly I dragged it a little, then let it soak. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Fish on! Got her in. Maybe 2 1/2lbs. Had to kiss her! It worked. 6:47 pm The next cast I whipped it out left, parallel to the bank, a good 100ft cast. Let it soak, then soak some more. Dragged it slowly for a skosh. Soaked it again. Reeled in again and I'm snagged in weeds? But I'm not! Fish on! It's really heavy and fighting hard. She breaks the surface with a violent head shake. From 80 feet out I could see she was a montsta. Drag is screaming! At that precise moment two guys were approaching my spot from a path. They erupt. Holy this and holy that! Ya know. As I get her close she takes a hard run straight into some downed bushes and wraps me up. I'd been fishing with 30 and 50lb braid for weeks and here I am wrapped in branches with the biggest fish I'd ever seen personally. Nothing seperating us but 8 pound mono! I couldn't believe it. Defeated I said " I can't believe I'm gonna lose this fish". Next I said " I'm goin in!". Somehow, someway, just then, she erupted again and spun herself out. A miracle if there ever was one! Got her to the shore and she was football fat. Lipped her, wet my other hand and scopped her up horizontal. Had to cradle her with my palm to just balance her, and I have mitts. One of the dudes took my camera and got some shots. Measured just shy of 23 inches. I didn't want to wreck her jaw so I didn't weigh her. Against very bad odds this fish had somehow survived the bucket mobs. Just wanted to get this one in safe and unharmed. It was a good day. P.S. I went out the next day and bought 10 more bags of Fluke Stiks. Buy 5 and get 5 free! Haven't caught a single fish on em since then. Doh! 4 Quote
Super User Sam Posted January 3, 2019 Super User Posted January 3, 2019 KVD 1.5 Square Bill in Sexy Shad on the Potomac River in Virginia. 2 Quote
papajoe222 Posted January 4, 2019 Posted January 4, 2019 21 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said: WalMart carries them around here, usually in a bin on the bottom of the shelves instead of hanging up. I have quite a few still I believe, I can send them to you, I rarely use them anymore. Maybe next time we get together, appreciate the thought. Maybe my local WM will bring 'em back when the season kicks in. Quote
Super User Boomstick Posted January 4, 2019 Super User Posted January 4, 2019 5 pounder on a Norman Fat Boy crankbait. Must have been in early May because it was right before I went into the hospital. 4 Quote
Shane Y Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 7 pounds on a fluke in the smokin shad color 4 Quote
FCPhil Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 5 pounds 7 ounces on the whopper plopper this fall. Broke my PB and my rod tip... 5 Quote
Dens228 Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 Throughout the season my top 5 were all caught on jigs, but then on the very last day I fished, in 42 degree water I caught my biggest of the year on a Strike King jerk bait. 4 Quote
long island basser Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 According to the BBWC 7.28 Caught on a 4” pit boss pitched into pads. 3 Quote
Super User Dwight Hottle Posted January 5, 2019 Super User Posted January 5, 2019 On 1/1/2019 at 12:57 PM, Jig Man said: 6.25 on the Ned rig 1/16 oz head 6# fluoro This picture should get the prize for the biggest 6.25lber I have ever seen. Looks a lot bigger. 3 Quote
CaptPete Posted January 5, 2019 Posted January 5, 2019 6.45lb caught on a Gantarel Jr, way upstate NY Largest smallie was around 3.5lbs: caught on a 3" SK coffee tube 3 Quote
Mr. Aquarium Posted January 8, 2019 Posted January 8, 2019 6.13lbs MA fish, MS slammer at midnight early may 1 Quote
pinchofpepper Posted January 9, 2019 Posted January 9, 2019 5.13lbs caught on a Savage Gear line thru trout (6 inch version), OR Quote
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