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3/8 Jackhammers with a 4.5" LFT Magic Shad.

6lb (first fish of the year)

 

4" Senko won me over big this year.

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November first caught my PB of 5.18 on a white cavitron buzzbait with a Keitech Fat impact. Only bass I've ever caught over 3.5.

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I think I only caught 2 that I weighed that were over 5 lbs this year... which got me to thinkin I didn’t get out much this year.

 

The first came on a 3/8 oz Siebert Dredge Dock Rocker in Blue Craw Color with an Okeechobee Blue Rage Bug as a trailer. This was in the prespawn period.

 

The second one came on a 1.5 KVD Squarebill in bluegill color in early July.


In 2018 I had at least a dozen over 5 lbs. Geez I gotta make a resolution to get out more!

 

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I never touched the 4lb mark this year, but my largest bass were all caught on jig and craws. 

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Got a few this year:

5-5 moss mouse 

5-12 jig 

5-4 bps double plopper 

5-7 double buzzbait

5-5,5-7,5-8,6-10 double wide beaver

5-9 spinnerbait 

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I caught a lot of 4.5-4.75 pound fish this year, which isn't a bad thing I guess.

 

For fish over 5 though, I caught them on;

 

Yo-Zuri 3DR Vibe, Real Glass Minnow

SK Tungsten 2Tap, Rayburn Red (BB of the year)

Yo-Zuri 3DS Minnow 2.75", Holographic Ghost Shad

Duo Realis Rozante 77, Neo Pearl (PB smallmouth)

Homemade flipping jig/Christie Craw, black and blue

Black Market Balsa squarebill, chart/black back

Black Canoe Lure Co. squarebill, River minnow

 

I caught a lot of fish over 4 on homemade jigs and bladed jigs, as well as a Big Bite Baits YoMomma, so those would be my picks for consistent quality fish.

 

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All my fish over 5lbs came on SK red eye shad 3/4oz, vision 110+2, yellow magic popper, owner flashy swimmer with kalin grub, gan craft 178 glider, deps buzz jet & Seibert swim jig with boot tail trailer. 

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17 hours ago, Bankbeater said:

I never touched the 4lb mark this year, but my largest bass were all caught on jig and craws. 

Jigs were consistently bringing my biggest fish (and biggest is relative, I think I had 1 that even got close to 4lbs).

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MS Slammer 9" - 6-6,6-1,5-8

MS Slammer 7"- 6-4

CL8 Baby Possum - 5-0

WSB 125 rat - 5-0

Two more at 4-15 that came close on the MS Slammer.

All caught fishing at night.

 

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Caught four 5+ this year. Two came on chatterbaits, one on a Zoom finesse worm, and the most recent on a Ned rig. Caught many 4's, several coming on a Fat Ika, others on a number of things, my favorite being an Azuma Wake-Z wake bait.

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I live in Canada, so 5 lb bass aren't super common. I caught two this year, though one was in the USA (North Carolina). 

 

The USA LMB bass was caught on a white tube. 

 

The Canada LMB was caught on a River2Sea White Spinnerbait, on a narrow stretch of river. 

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I caught 4 over 5lbs. 

Megabass vision 110 (my PB)

Whopper plopper 130 Loon

KGB ChadShad 

5 inch hand pour swimbait (homemade)

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Fished a lot of new water and had a slower year but these were my most consistent lures in order:

 

Swim jig - BG color skirt w/ orange head.  Keitech BG trailer

Chatterbait - GP or white with matching Zako or Rage Craw trailer

Stanley 3/8 oz double willow spinnerbait.  White/chart with gold and silver blades 

3/8 oz flipping jig - GP with Menace trailer

Fluke - White or smoke grey

Various squarebills

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On 12/31/2019 at 12:54 AM, txchaser said:

Sprinker Frog. Not even a blowup. Put on a regular frog, game on

That's interesting, it was the opposite for me! Had a lot of fun with the Sprinker this year.

 

As far as 5+ers go, I caught a few.

One on a 4.8" Pro Swimmer rigged on a Flashy Swimmer, one on a B5 line thru Swimbait, and one on the S waver 168!

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Used a white Super Fluke T-rigged with a maybe 1/4 bullet weight unpegged, fished maybe a few feet deep. 5 1/4 lb

 

Other one slightly lighter was a crank bait, I forget the color. Think it was shad, but I catch them with all colors at this spot.

 

 

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Zoom Swimming Super Fluke on a 3/0, 1/4 ounce belly weighted swimbait hook.  Twas a lovely largey. 

 

I don't know how I actually got her in since she was just snagged by the skin on the outside of the lower jaw.  Cray cray

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I caught a few over 5 this year

1 on a spinnerbait

2 on a jerkbait

4 on either a swim jig/paddletail or a pitchin jig Rage Bug

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39 minutes ago, flyfisher said:

Hollow bodied frog

Fluke

Jig

Crankbait

 

There’s nothing better than throwing a hollow bodied frog to the thickest, nastiest slop on the lake. 
 

I have grown quite fond of pitching jigs this past year too. I look forward to doing more of that this year too. 

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Just now, 12poundbass said:

There’s nothing better than throwing a hollow bodied frog to the thickest, nastiest slop on the lake. 
 

I have grown quite fond of pitching jigs this past year too. I look forward to doing more of that this year too. 

I always have a frog tied on and have caught some big bass in open water with them too.  The jig thing I just got into this year really and it has been very good to me.  Definitely looking to refine that part of my fishing this next season.

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18 minutes ago, flyfisher said:

I always have a frog tied on and have caught some big bass in open water with them too.  The jig thing I just got into this year really and it has been very good to me.  Definitely looking to refine that part of my fishing this next season.

I've caught a few bass when I continue to walk the frog back to the kayak AFTER it gets through the slop.  I've tried to convince my buddies to do the same as I watch them get out of the slop and just crank it the rest of the way as fast as they can. 

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I have done particularly well fishing through stickups and any type of wood cover.  I usually walk it a few times and let it sit for a while then repeat.  

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