Your Bank Fishing PB?

[schplurg]

Well a lot of us are limited to what and where we can fish because of Covid. It's almost like it's still Winter in a way, so here is another "Winter Style" thread about - not much.

 

My PB is from the bank since I almost always fish from there - for now. Seems like most fatties are in the deep water, except during spawn. Anybody can catch a 20 pounder from a boat, right? Just kidding!!!  

 

Anyways, I'm hoping this is a category I don't completely suck in! My PB from shore is 5.25 pounds and is in my current avatar photo. The fish is the one on the left. Got this skinny post-spawn fish with a T-rigged white Super Fluke in Coyote Creek, Morgan Hill, CA, 2019. Barbless for what it's worth. I was extremely excited. My previous best was maybe 3 pounds.

 

I also got my runner-up, 4.75 pounds from the same spot a month later. Crankbait. 

 

So far I'm winning the thread! Not for long, I'm sure.

 

What's your best from shore?

 

 

*** I feel like I've been kind of a jerk here lately. If so, I apologize. Too much stress. If I'm wrong however and I'm just being my normal "bit of a jerk" then please disregard.

[Bluebasser86]

I've got 3 6 pounders from the bank, can't think of one bigger than 6 that I've caught from shore but I don't bank fish a lot.

 

Neighborhood pond on a Ned rig.

 

Wife's family rock quarry on a 6" YUM ribbontail worm.

 

Hidden pond in the woods on a 7" Slammer.

[roadwarrior]

[Koz]

If you can get to where the big bass are you can catch them off the bank just as well as the boat. I bank fish and my biggest is just under 7 pounds, but I've seen 10 and 12 pounders landed from the bank.

[Catt]

Lacassine Wildlife Refuge, 11 lbs 3 oz ?

 

 

[Hook2Jaw]

10 pounds, 5 ounces.  Booyah Bankroll Jig in Money with a YUM Craw Chunk in Craw.  She's the fish in my avatar, I've been meaning to catch her again to see if she's grown since then.

[Dirtyeggroll]

My profile picture is my bank PB - 8lbs 8oz. Also my overall PB.

[Teal]

9 lb 9 oz. In a hunting club pond in 06.  I think it was a black and red ribbon tail worm on 1/4 oz Texas rig.  Another club member pulled an 11lb fish outta there a year before I caught mine.   

[Hower08]

8.4

[DitchPanda]

My bass all come from shore...I don't have a boat and when I go in a boat with my uncle and dad or some buddies we are usually fishing walleyes, perch or crappies. I have been at this bank thing for bass going on 20 years. Over the years I've probably caught 6 or 7 in the 7lb and up class. The biggest was around 8lb 10 oz if I remember correctly almost twenty years ago. Over the past 8 years I've caught the other 6 over 7lbs with 2 of them in the 8lb range. In fact last week I caught one about 7lbs on a chrome blue super spot lipless in a pond literally two minutes from my house.

[Dwight Hottle]

 

Caught on a white spinnerbait. 

[redux]

6 13. Took me awhile to beat that from the boat  

[PhishLI]

No weight, but 23 1/2" on the Rapala fish ruler. 3 pounder?

 

6 hours ago, Dwight Hottle said:

 

Caught on a white spinnerbait. 

BOOM! Nice!

[Hower08]

35 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

No weight, but 23 1/2" on the Rapala fish ruler. 3 pounder?

 

BOOM! Nice!

That fish is in the 5 pound range. An 18 inch largemouth is usually in the 3 1/2 +pound range a 20 incher is typically right around 5 pounds around here I would say the one in your pic is between 5 and 6 pounds comfortably 

[Hook2Jaw]

@PhishLI, that's a lot more than a 3, old modest man!  That girl done outgrew her upper jaw.

 

You got any dem french fried posenkers?

[PhishLI]

36 minutes ago, Hook2Jaw said:

That girl done outgrew her upper jaw.

First thing that came to mind when I saw her was Bubba from Forrest Gump.

1 hour ago, Hower08 said:

That fish is in the 5 pound range. An 18 inch largemouth is usually in the 3 1/2 +pound range a 20 incher is typically right around 5 pounds around here I would say the one in your pic is between 5 and 6 pounds comfortably 

I was just playing with the 3 pounder remark. No scale that night, just a ruler, so I'll never know. It was a toad, so good enough for me. It's always so hard to say, so I avoid speculating and I don't when I post unweighed catches. I weighed a fat 20"er last year that clocked in at 5.63, and lasts night's 19 1/2 weighed 3 1/4,  so I won't even try to guess an average weight. 

[N Florida Mike]

Caught this one in a pond behind a target store. 8.6

[rtwvumtneer6]

7# 10oz from the bank at a private pond.  Public water bank fishing 5# 6oz.

 

My boat PB is 7# 6oz, so a few ounces lighter than my bank PB.  But, that was tournament lunker and won me about $400.  Solid fish for Western PA.

[BooyahMan]

I've gotten 5's off the bank most years and a couple in the 6 range. Got my PB this year at 7lb 5oz on a scale. I've found timing to be extremely important and just knowing where those big ones tend to be when they get near shore.

[schplurg]

Lotta beauties there, love the photos! 

 

I'm still pretty new at this - seems like fish weight can vary significantly in fish of about the same length. I mean duh, but I look at 10 pounders sometimes and think, "That's my fish except after a bunch of big meals!" Mine was so skinny.

[Bluebasser86]

1 hour ago, schplurg said:

Lotta beauties there, love the photos! 

 

I'm still pretty new at this - seems like fish weight can vary significantly in fish of about the same length. I mean duh, but I look at 10 pounders sometimes and think, "That's my fish except after a bunch of big meals!" Mine was so skinny.

Amazing how much more a girthy fish can weigh than a long fish. I caught 2 from the same lake 2 months apart that were great examples. One was 24.5" inches long, but wasn't very fat and only weighed 7.51. 2 Months later I caught a 22" fatty that was about to explode that weighed 7.76. Depends a lot on the lakes I catch them from here too. One lake by my house, an 18" fish will average 3lbs. The power plant lake I fish during the winter, an 18" fish will be over 4 pounds.

[PhishLI]

Dwight Hottie's amazing monsta donk could probably swallow this one, but she was a good one for me! Hooked her on a bomb cast down the bank using a spinning reel. Zoom Fluke Stick. Hit as soon as the lure dropped. Fought all the way in then wrapped around a branch for what felt like an eternity. About 20 feet down the bank and out of reach. 8 lb mono! Uhg. Was sure she was a gonna break me off, but somehow after a few jumps she freed herself and I got her in. I look stressed out because I was! I was smiling on the inside though. And once again, no scale. Sheesh. 3 pounder? ?

 

 

 

 

[schplurg]

Bass can stress you out that's for sure! ^^

 

Catches like the one you described are why I video my trips. I love having it all on vid.

 

I have a vid of my friend walking into the water trying to free a fish he caught that was wrapped in some underwater branches. He finally makes it to the spot and the fish breaks free. Funny stuff I can laugh at over and over lol!

[N Florida Mike]

5 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Amazing how much more a girthy fish can weigh than a long fish. I caught 2 from the same lake 2 months apart that were great examples. One was 24.5" inches long, but wasn't very fat and only weighed 7.51. 2 Months later I caught a 22" fatty that was about to explode that weighed 7.76. Depends a lot on the lakes I catch them from here too. One lake by my house, an 18" fish will average 3lbs. The power plant lake I fish during the winter, an 18" fish will be over 4 pounds.

That’s right! I caught a 26 inch bass last year , post spawn, that only weighed 7.6. That fish had a 9 pound frame on it, but was skinny as a rail.

[lavbasser]

 

Over the years I caught hundreds of bass out of this small pond and not one was 3 lbs except this 6 on a Gambler swing blade.