Your Most Beautiful Bass of 2022

[scaleface]

Not my largest but perhaps my prettiest .

[Swamp Girl]

Man, oh, man, you guys catch great fish!

[Bluebasser86]

Not the biggest, a tournament winner or anything like that, but this one really struck me as a very healthy looking fish when I caught it.

[Functional]

15 hours ago, Jar11591 said:

I’ve gotten some very nicely colored smallmouth this year that I wish I had gotten pictures of, including one that was solid black. Slipped out of my hands over the side of the boat before I could take a pic. 

 

[Cbump]

Either my left hand here

 

or my right hand here

 

 

 or this fat girl

 

[Blue Raider Bob]

Got the LM of couple weeks back and my PB Smallie couple weeks before that. It has been a great year to be a Bass addict! Both on the TicklrZ with Medium spinning gear. What a blast!

[Bird]

[Jar11591]

9 hours ago, scaleface said:

Not my largest but perhaps my prettiest .

Looks like you stuffed a softball down that things throat for the picture! 

[GreenPig]

9 hours ago, scaleface said:

Not my largest but perhaps my prettiest .

That BELLY!

[gim]

On 9/19/2022 at 8:55 PM, TnRiver46 said:

It also happened to be the biggest of 2022 but the year is still young. It was hard to measure but inbetween 21 and 22”

 

February 12, 2022

This is the best colored bass in the thread IMO.  Vibrant is the word I would use to describe its color.

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Caught this fish a few hours ago, and in all my years of Bass fishing, I've never seen a LGM that was as brown as this fish.    This is the most uniquely colored Bass I've ever caught.     Pics don't really do the brown justice.   The "browning" was all through his jaw, tongue, and front inside mouth area.      

 

[TnRiver46]

I caught a black smallmouth Friday 

[A-Jay]

This spinnerbait fish had some relatively vibrant coloring,

even on the face & fins . . . . .

A-Jay

 

[Cbump]

Dark one from last summer that was suspended in 30’ water. 

[the reel ess]

8 lb. even on a stick worm June 25th at 9:20 AM.

[TnRiver46]

12 hours ago, gimruis said:

This is the best colored bass in the thread IMO.  Vibrant is the word I would use to describe its color.

It looked completely different when I first caught it. Did the AJay trick and put it in the livewell for 5-10 minutes and it got all colored up. I put it in there to frantically search for my scale but couldn’t find it. Released the fish, got home, found it immediately haha

[A-Jay]

18 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

It looked completely different when I first caught it. Did the AJay trick and put it in the livewell for 5-10 minutes and it got all colored up. I put it in there to frantically search for my scale but couldn’t find it. Released the fish, got home, found it immediately haha

I got that one from the master of taking quality brown bass pics, @Dwight Hottle

A-Jay

[TnRiver46]

11 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

I got that one from the master of taking quality brown bass pics, @Dwight Hottle

A-Jay

Yeah seems like he may have reeled in a fish or two in his day. The ajay trick I really messed up was not having my scale at the ready. It’s easy to forget when you catch dinks for months at a time like me haha. The ones I need to weigh happen about once or twice a year 

[TheBasslayer]

Definitely this bass that I caught in the early spring! It was in my local glacial lake on a jerkbait.

[Swamp Girl]

2 hours ago, A-Jay said:

This spinnerbait fish had some relatively vibrant coloring,

even on the face & fins . . . . .

A-Jay

 

^That is a perfect fish. I've loved them all, but I think I love ^THIS^ fish most of all.^

[galyonj]

Going through my pictures from this year, the only conclusion I can draw is that I need to fish more. Anyway, here's a smallmouth. @TnRiver46 this is from the day that I chummed the water with a chocolate truffle.

 

[TnRiver46]

Just now, galyonj said:

Going through my pictures from this year, the only conclusion I can draw is that I need to fish more. Anyway, here's a smallmouth. @TnRiver46 this is from the day that I chummed the water with a chocolate truffle.

 

I remember it well! Right after Craig said “doesn’t that yellow line scare off the fish?”

[Dwight Hottle]

This is my favorite striped up smallie.

 

 

[galyonj]

42 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I remember it well! Right after Craig said “doesn’t that yellow line scare off the fish?”

 

*boing*

 

"Nah, they don't seem to care too much."

 

41 minutes ago, Dwight Hottle said:

This is my favorite striped up smallie.

 

 

 

That's beautimous.

[gim]

20 minutes ago, Dwight Hottle said:

This is my favorite striped up smallie.

 

 

 

That one doesn't count because its too big.