Most recent PB

[T-Billy]

1 hour ago, WRB said:

This March will be 30 years since catching my PB.

Tom

But, oh what a PB it was!!! 

 

Been awhile since I caught a PB bass. It was 2007 for LM, 6lb 10oz, and 2018 for my PB SM at 6lb 4oz. Caught my PB saugeye 6lb 14oz in 22, and my best muskie 46" in 21. 

 

[Ski]

7 hours ago, gimruis said:

Well it’s obvious already here that my 18 year PB is clearly the longest individual drought out there.

Caught in 1993= 30 years. I knew when I caught her I would probably not ever beat it, but I am still casting. In fact leaving in half hour to fish the St. Johns River here in Fl.

 

[Susky River Rat]

I caught this just under 6lb smallie right around thanksgiving 2022.  Big ones are a bonus I just enjoy catching fish.

[TnRiver46]

7 hours ago, Dirtyeggroll said:

Spring 1997 I caught my PB, 8 lbs 8 oz. 25 years ago...

 

Holy cannoli when did get I old enough to say 25 years ago

Welcome to the club, you’ve earned it haha

[roadwarrior]

 

 

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[Woody B]

32 years for my PB 10 1/4 largemouth.  41 years for my PB 6 even smallmouth.  I doubt I'll ever eclipse either.   I rarely fish where smallmouth are.   I did catch a 19 incher last year in my only trip to a smallmouth lake.   I bet you could count on 1 hand the number of DD largemouth in the lakes I fish.  Maybe I'll get surprised someday.  

 

When I fished before there weren't any spots around here.  (that I knew of anyway)   I caught a 4 pound 4 ounce spot the day I bought my boat.  (Dec 18 2021)  I just thought it was a largemouth with a smallish mouth.  I didn't take a picture but I'm sure it was a spot.  That was my PB until exactly a year later.  I caught my current 4 pound 15 ounce spot on Dec 18 2022.   I should have used my mechanical scale.....it would have been 5 pounds.  LOL

 

[N Florida Mike]

I probably beat all y’all in total years since I caught my pb Largemouth. 43 years. I came within 2 ounces of it around 5 years ago, and came within 7 ounces of it 4 years ago.

What’s strange is that  I caught that fish when I was 19, and had only been bass fishing seriously for a few years. I have barely lost several fish that would have beat it easily by several pounds…

I did, however, catch a LONGER fish about 3 years ago, that beat the heaviest pb by a inch and a half in length, but was a pound less in weight…

This is the longest one I ever caught-26 inch.

[Catt]

February 3rd 2007 ?

[LrgmouthShad]

30 minutes ago, Catt said:

February 3rd 2007 ?

Your anniversary is awfully soon!

[Catt]

17 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Your anniversary is awfully soon!

 

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[scaleface]

Be approximately 40 years for me . Jig and pig, wood lay down, backwater of the Mississippi river protected by a levee .

[gim]

15 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Be approximately 40 years for me .

Ding Ding Ding! 40 years is the winner.  That's older than me.

3 hours ago, Ski said:

Caught in 1993= 30 years.

You know its been quite a while when the photo is in black & white.

[J Francho]

6 minutes ago, gimruis said:

You know its been quite a while when the photo is in black & white.

Relax junior, color photography is way older than me, lol.  I'm not sure when newspapers went to color, but the comics had it first, even back when I was a kid.

[Pat Brown]

7 lb largemouth on November 8th 2022 at 7 pm in 1 ft of water on a 1/4 oz Siebert Outdoors Brush mata jig in black and blue with a blue zoom chunk on the back.  Caught it at my incredibly pressured small pond, so I was proud.

 

Prior to that was a 7 lb post spawn female I doodled out from under a dock with a wacky rigged senko in the rain in May!

 

 

[Dwight Hottle]

I guess I have been lucky with more recent PB's for both largemouth & smallmouth. My smallie PB was May 2022 & my largemouth PB was Oct 2020. 

[Mobasser]

1990 for me. 8lb 2oz LM bass. Mann's Jelly Worm, black.

[gim]

1 hour ago, Dwight Hottle said:

My smallie PB was May 2022 & my largemouth PB was Oct 2020. 

Those don't count.  They're way too big.

[Team9nine]

What I consider my first PB came in Mar 1989 and just a tick shy of 7lbs. I beat that in Apr 1992 with a 9+. The only fish close to those was a 7lb class fish from Chickamauga while practicing for a B.A.S.S. Top 100 event in 1990 (unweighed). And then just recently, after all these years, I got an 8 in Dec ‘21 and a 7 in Jun ‘22. Both were pleasant surprises, but not an official PB.

 

[Blue Raider Bob]

5-1-20 on my PB LM. Picture is in livewell because I was shaking too hard to weigh. My livewell is 22" wide. Fish weighed 7-4 and was released.

Smallie was 8-21-22 4lb 7 oz

[ScottW]

8 hours ago, Ski said:

Caught in 1993= 30 years. I knew when I caught her I would probably not ever beat it, but I am still casting. In fact leaving in half hour to fish the St. Johns River here in Fl.

 

St. Johns river explains it! It's a 'Frankenfish'!! ?

 

Since I just started back fishing when I retired last March I can't say much on this topic since it's been too long ago when I last wet a line so I'll just enjoy the thread. ?

[Swamp Girl]

Man, you guys catch BIG fish. 

[Bluebasser86]

My largemouth PB would have been back in 2005, the year after I graduated HS because I asked for a trip to Mexico to chase a DD for my graduation present and I found one. It was an old, skinny fish that could have been in the low teens had she been healthier. 

 

My smallmouth PB was much more recent, in May 2019 at 5.83lbs, a pound off our state record. One of the most stressful fish catches I've ever had.

 

 

[J Francho]

Smallie was 5-12 and caught 11/13/2010

LMB was 7-2 and caught around 2005 in the dead of summer. 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

7 hours ago, Blue Raider Bob said:

5-1-20 on my PB LM. Picture is in livewell because I was shaking too hard to weigh. My livewell is 22" wide. Fish weighed 7-4 and was released.

Smallie was 8-21-22 4lb 7 oz

I can almost feel the level of joy in the last pic, that's what it's all about right there Bob!

 

This is also what I imagine when reading your post......a cross b/t Santa and McGuyver   ? 

[Bankbeater]

I caught my PB largemouth back in 2009 on a Jitterbug.  My PB smallie came out of a creek in southern Missouri back in 2015.  I got that one on a tube.