What lure caught your biggest bass in 2019 ?

[walleyecrazy]

I didn’t catch any monsters last year, but my biggest came on a 2.4” Megabass Dark Sleeper. 

[Steelhead]

LMB: 1/2 ZinkerZ Watermelon 1/15oz. green pumpkin Finesse Shroomz 6.4(PB)

 

SMB: Evergreen Shower Blows 105 Natural Gill 5.1

[Bass Ninja]

My PB, 6.8lb, 23 inch LMB that I got in August, caught on a white and red willow leaf Strike King spinner bait from Walmart. 

[Catt]

Zoom Mag II Plum Crazy ?

[LargeMarge]

9 hours ago, Hartwood71 said:

6.5 in Palm Beach a County on Green&white senko, wacky.  
 

Cool to see all the different baits in this thread.   Proves, lotta ways to skin a cat.   

Yep! I think the biggest takeaway is that you don't NEED to use a big bait to catch big fish. Like @Catt always says, you gotta fish where the big fish live.

 

My PB largemouth in 2019 came on a TX rigged tequila sunrise power worm, unpegged 3/16oz tungsten bullet. 6.2

[Hawkeye21]

5-12 largemouth on a black/blue jackhammer chatterbait on Easter.

[BassNJake]

5.7 lb largemouth Keitech Noisy flapper (hand poured copy using remelts)

 

4.6 lb smallmouth Shower Blows Mat Hot Tiger

 

Love a topwater!!

12 hours ago, the reel ess said:

Whopper Plopper 110. The bass was 7.92 lb. and a PB. I don't really know if it had anything to do with the bait as my last 2 PBs bit as soon as the bait hit water. It wasn't an explosion as you might imagine from a PB on a topwater. The bait just disappeared and I set the hook. It was July.

Seems like the bigger ones just suck it in, where as the smaller ones can get crazy attacking a topwater

 

[wisconsin heat]

Didn't get a weigh, but thinking in the 4 pound neighborhood. Caught on a Strike King Rodent on a BOSS finesse flip jig ( no skirt). 

 

Caught it on the best looking spot on the lake, a big tree fallen into the water vertically next to cliff, the only straight vertical drop on the lake.

[haggard]

Largemoth unknown weight (no scale yet) on a 6" Yum Thump'n Dinger, watermelon with red flake, TX rigged with 3/8 oz bullet.

 

 

[the reel ess]

1 hour ago, BassNJake said:

5.7 lb largemouth Keitech Noisy flapper (hand poured copy using remelts)

 

4.6 lb smallmouth Shower Blows Mat Hot Tiger

 

Love a topwater!!

Seems like the bigger ones just suck it in, where as the smaller ones can get crazy attacking a topwater

 

On an earlier trip in the same vacinity, I had another big one come flying out of the water like Shamu with its mouth closed. It was trying to stun the bait. I made a lot of follow up casts with different baits to no avail.

[plawren53202]

Zoom Super Fluke, bluegill flash color, Texas rigged weightless on a Gamakatsu 4/0 EWG hook

largemouth between 4 and 5 pounds (no scale or tape measure with me)

[Hook2Jaw]

Me :

 

bait monkey : BUY ALL THESE LURES

[kjfishman]

H2o Express Shad color square bill

[Landis Carrier]

7lb11oz by far my PB on a 110 Loon Whopper Plopper.

[Tizi]

2019 PB: 4.2 lb largemouth caught on Zoom Super Fluke bluegill flash, rigged weightless/Texas style.  

 

Overall PB 5.8 lb largemouth caught on a Strike King 5XD in yellow perch.

[BassNJake]

1 hour ago, the reel ess said:

On an earlier trip in the same vacinity, I had another big one come flying out of the water like Shamu with its mouth closed. It was trying to stun the bait. I made a lot of follow up casts with different baits to no avail.

I will get a few smallies a year that come flying out of the water next to the bait and they grab it on their way down.

I fish a toad a lot and it seems there are days that they just smack at it like they are trying to stun it.

I used to follow up with my wacky rig and sometimes I would get that second hit not very often though.

 

I see a lot of people talk about making sure they have their follow up bait ready.

I dont think my success with the follow up is as good as theirs

[JS Patterson]

I had 5 within a couple ounces of each other at 6 lbs.+/-so I think they are all worth noting. Four were on jigs with a z craw trailer, the second largest was on a squarebill. 

[dgkasper58]

110 Bone whopper plopper

[gar383]

Congrats on the Smallie A-Jay!!! That's one of the biggest I've seen in a while. That's a trophy anywhere in the US!!

[lo-fi-hi-fi]

On 1/14/2020 at 7:25 AM, LargeMarge said:

Yep! I think the biggest takeaway is that you don't NEED to use a big bait to catch big fish.

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[tander]

Junebug Zoom trick worm with  shaky head.

 

 

[Dwight Hottle]

Strike King red eye shad 3/4oz lipless   11.5 largemouth PB

Ima flit 120   smallmouth didn't weigh it. 

[Plottman1974]

5.35 pound largemouth from the bank.  Ned rig TRD.  peanut butter and jelly color 

[Chrisenthran]

South Africa, Johannesburg. 2019.

 

2.46 kgs (5.4 lbs) - 3/8 oz SK Premier pro spinner bait, white and chartreuse. Sept (Our spring)

2.15 kgs (4.63 lbs) - Spro bronzeye jnr, leopard. Oct ( Early Summer)

2.06 kgs (4.54 lbs) - Spro bronzeye jnr, leopard. Oct ( Early Summer)

2.19 kgs (4.82 lbs) - 3/8 oz War eagle flipping jig, brown and orange, Zoom Z craw trailer. Jan (Mid summer)

 

All LMB, sadly no SMB's on the highveld.

[bigguy24]

75 Whopper Plopper in Bluegill...the LM was 6lbs 6oz which was/is my PB by far, especially here in Northern IL.