Personal Best!

[soflabasser]

8 minutes ago, dodgeguy said:

there are exceptions to every rule. but judging by his pictures his bass does not appear overly thin or fat as a house.

That bass was probably in the 4.0-4.5 pound range which is a nice fish to catch anywhere in the country. 

[12poundbass]

Congrats on the PB. 

[Bankbeater]

Congratulations!!

[Backroad Angler]

That bass looks more like a solid 5LBer to me than 4lber

[496blazer]

4 hours ago, JoshFromBolo said:

That bass looks more like a solid 5LBer to me than 4lber

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!  

[samwise2u]

Good job! Did your spinning rod have a bend in it? Sounds fun.

 

Congrats on the PB.

[jbsoonerfan]

Call it 8 if you want, you didn't have a scale so it really doesn't matter what it weighed or what you say it weighed. I don't mean to sound rude, but that is kind of like a guy shooting free throws and saying he set his new PB for shots made out of 100 but he didn't count them, or a guy beating his PB round of golf but he didn't keep score. Now that you have bought a set of scales you will know what it weighed and you will know what your PB is and when you beat it.

[496blazer]

Yeah I know, I didn't have a scale so it doesn't count.  I know one thing, it was the biggest bass I've ever caught and it made my day..  Just glad I was able to get some pictures before releasing it.

 

Thanks all for the good words.

Edited May 13, 2020 by 496blazer

[Bird]

I do keep scales in my boat but don't way a lot of fish that I know for sure is under 5 lbs.

He knows for sure this is his PB.......it's a building block moving forward. 

[BrianMDTX]

Congrats on your PB. 
 

I swear, this almost sounds like my story from 05/10. I just started fishing this spring after a lo-o-o-ng hiatus. Like about 30 years lol. I relocated from MD to TX last summer and brought all my vintage tackle. Most of my rods and reels are late 60s to mid 70s in age. But I just wanted to check out the local community pond up the street about a 1/4 mile away. So, nothing fancy. Just spooled on some 8 lb test Stren on three spinning reels and one baitcaster, cleaned up my tackle box, got a dozen nightcrawlers from Walmart and hit the pond in early May. First time out I caught several 12”-14” bass and one that was likely about 3 lbs. Same results the second time out. Went back out on 05/10 with my Daiwa Millionaire 3H baitcaster on a Berkley Stinger rod, a Mitchell Garcia 300 on an Eagle Claw Denco Super II rod and a Shakespeare 2052 spinning reel on a Cabela's Black Lightning ultralight graphite rod. I was working Senko’s both weightless Texas rigged and wacky style on the Daiwa baitcaster and Mitchell spinning, and had 1/2 a nightcrawler on a #6 hook and a bobber for panfish. Caught some 12”-14”  bass and a likely 3 lb’er again, along with some decent cats and really small bluegills. I put a new 1/2 a nightcrawler on the hook and cast it back out, but farther than I wanted. I closed the bail on that antique Shakespeare and cranked the handle twice and BAM! The bait got hit. Hard. That little UL rod bent into an inverted U and the drag started screaming. At first I thought it may have been a large softshelled turtle, but it was swimming to fast for that. I fought it for 6-7 minutes and finally got it near shore when it jumped. That’s when I started to get scared lol. I knew it was the biggest bass I’ve ever hooked, let alone caught. After another minute  or so I was able to grab it and haul it ashore. 
 

Like you said, I also had no weight scale, but I did have a tape measure. It taped out to 22”. So it looks (according to the conversion charts I looked at) like it weighed over 6 lbs. I know it was chunky! 
 

I think I have a new hobby!

 

[BrianMDTX]

By the way...I now have a digital scale lol. And a new Fenwick HMX casting rod and a Abu Garcia Black Max baitcaster due to arrive today lol. Going to try some 12 lb Yo-Zuri hybrid line. 
 

I tell ya, being out of the loop for so long, a lot of things are new to me. I never even heard of Senkos until I started doing some reading online. Glad I did.  Already caught several bass on them.