What rod/reel caught your PB?

[PaulVE64]

5 hours ago, Dwight Hottle said:

.......10lb braid with a mono leader. 

I love mono leaders too.

 

Edit - StC Avid AVS70MF2 and a Daiwa BG3000 wuth 15# - 832 and a 17# mono leader 

22" river smallie and all that.

[MIbassyaker]

5.5 largemouth, 6'8" MHF Fenwick Aetos baitcaster + Pfllueger Supreme XT 7.1:1; 15lb InvisX; t-rigged Rage Tail Space Monkey

 

4.2 Smallmouth, 6'8" MXF St. Croix Avid X Spinning + Pflueger Supreme XT 30; 15lb Power Pro Slick to 8lb YZH leader; weightless 4" Strike King Ocho

[Columbia Craw]

I don’t remember.

[N Florida Mike]

It was an olympic spinning combo from the 70s…

[F14A-B]

Well in was 1988 on Lochloosa lake. It was a 6’6” Lews rod, made in Korea. It was a heavy, stout action. Had a graphite fore grip and gold frame Fuji guides. Best rod I ever owned. Reel was a Quantum burgundy colored with a magnetic dial, graphite frame. That reel never gave a moments trouble. I took both items to Puerto Rico about a dozen times.. the fish broke me off on a topwater at daybreak I suspect but can’t be certain, but 10 minutes later she was mine. Same rod n reel but I tied on a worm hook and a Gilraker worm, black spinal core, 6 or 7” probably 1/2 ounce weight (lead) 16 pound Stren clear blue saltwater grade.. here’s the recovered lure, it popped up about 10 minutes later, I’ve never used it since! I pitched into a circle opening in the very thick hydrilla and BAM! Big fish big fish!!

11.2 weighed in by Wade Boggs father who ran the fish camp.. he had large tanks, long and fairly shallow and if you caught a big fish they would tag it and hold it while you kept fishing..( a lot of guide fishing with clients) I loved that place. Totally. Buddy Baker of NASCAR fame told me about the lake when he came by a friend of mines father in Georgetown, In. He had a 10 pound mount with a 10” blue Mann’s auger tail worm. I swore I would fish there and I was 15 at the time, and so I did….its the greatest fish story of my life and there are others.. but it’s my most fond. Again, here is the topwater bait pic, I believe it is a Poes cedar bait… 

[JohnFromLisbon]

An older fiber blend G. Loomis CBR 783 paired with a Core 101 Mg spooled with that old wiry Sufix fluorocarbon, on a Rapala Scatter Rap Crank. 

 

Here's that combo:

Edited April 28, 2024 by JohnFromLisbon
Found and old picture of it

[F14A-B]

Well I shot the lure pic in jpeg but this site won’t allow the upload, says file size to big still.. this IS the only sight where this is a problem. Oh well.. 

[Bird]

All I remember was it was in the late 80's on spinning tackle, 5" Culprit worm.

The reel was more than likely a Shimano.

 

 

[T-Billy]

LM-  7' MH Berkley Lightning rod, Abu 4601, 20# Invisx. Jig & Craw.

SM- 7'6" MH BPS Pro Qualifier, Browning Citori, 30# 832. Chatterbait.

[steve carpenter]

Showing my age. Fenwick telescoping fiber glass flipping rod and ambassador 5000 red reel . Monofilament line. Blaack jig and pork rind.

[F14A-B]

Haha, figured it out, here they are from my story above. Recovered topwater prop bait.. moral of this fishing story and posting picture difficulties is never surrender 🤣

[BlakeMolone]

Shimano slx and a medium action berkley lightning rod with 10lb big game. Caught so many fish on that set up over the last few years.

[geo g]

In south Florida with all our heavy cover I am using a MH 7’ bait caster rod with 15 pound floro or a similar bait caster with 50 pound braid for heavy cover pitching, 90% of the time.
 

The day I caught my PB we struggled all morning to just catch a few small bass.  Around noon on a Cristal clear day, I decided to change tactics and go with my only spinning combo.  A 6’7 spinning Rod with a Shimano Sahara reel with 8 pound mono, and fish the outside weed edges.  I suddenly saw a commotion next to a steep bank  in two feet of water, and immediately threw my weightless zoom fluke into the swell.

 

The bite happened quick, and lucky for me the fish decided to run out into deep water instead of into the weed fields.  I got her to the side of the boat and was amazed at her mouth.  She was 27.5 inches long, and 11.5 pounds.  40 years of fishing all over south Florida, and to this day is my personal best, taken on a very difficult day of fishing, on my lightest rod and reel, using the lightest line I use.  How Sweet It Was!

[WRB]

My 1st giant bass was 18.6 lbs caught at lake Casitas on a hair jig/pork trailer custom Lamiglas 6’10” MHF rod and Abu 4500C w/12# TrileneXT in 1981

The last 4, 17.4 from Casitas on hair jig and 17.4 and 17.6 new PB 19.3 Lamiglas 6’10” MHF w/ Daiwa HTiA103 reel, 10 & 12 lb BG line in 1990-1993 lake Castiac.

Tom

[Mike L]

Fenwick MH/F Techna AV

Shimano Curado 200 E7

16# Sniper

7” Culprit Red Shad Fat Max Ribbon tail

3/16 oz unpegged 

 

Stick Marsh

March 6, 2018

8:24 am

72 deg

Light NW winds

Partly cloudy skies 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

[Functional]

1/4oz chatterbait mini max in spot remover

Zoom split tail trailer in glimmer blue

12# trilene XL

Lews Speed Spool MB

Dobyns Sierra Micro 7' MH/F

 

Caught April 2nd

Sunny clear sky around 9am

A whisp of wind in less than 5' of water

 

[Skunkmaster-k]

My largemouth peanut butter is 9lbs and I caught it on a weightless purple worm using a light wire 3/0 offset worm hook tied to 8# mono spooled on a 55$ Lews ML combo I bought at WalMart. 

Maybe it was 10# mono. Who cares. 

[Swamp Girl]

You guys amaze me. I caught my PB about ten days ago and I don't know what rod and reel I used. It was a spinning reel with a MH rod. Probably 30 lb. braid. 

[Steveo-1969]

LM PB (23”) - 7’ MHF black Carbonlite baitcaster w/ black Carbonlite reel. 15# fluoro. 1/2 ounce SK Structure jig and Rage Bug.

 

SM PB (21 3/4”) - custom baitcaster made by @Delaware Valley Tackle  10# Sufix Advance mono. 3/16 ounce SK Bitsy Bug jig in Blue Craw with SK Baby Rage Craw trailer.

[Hook2Jaw]

My biggest largemouth was 10 pounds and 6 ounces, caught on a MHF Abu Garcia Promax combo with 12# Berkley Vanish with a Booyah Bankroll Jig in Money trailered with a YUM Craw Chunk 3.75 in Craw.  That was a private pond.

 

My biggest public water largemouth was nine and a half pounds, 25" long, and was caught on a Daiwa Tatula 100 snugged onto a Daiwa Tatula XT 7' MLR with 10# Yozuri Topknot Mainline Fluorocarbon tied to a Sexy Blueback Herring Strike King 3XD.

 

My personal best spotted bass, 19", didn't weigh, was caught on a Daiwa Tatula 100 on a 13 Fate Chrome 6'7" MF with 15# Berkley Big Game tied to a Berkley Drift Walker 110 in Ghost Shad.

[F14A-B]

I’m seeing a lot of trilene users on here, it’s a solid choice for sure I have spools and spools of it. 
 

I remember the hook I used from my post above, Tru- Turn in 4/0 

[flatcreek]

7ft Cabelas medium spinning rod

 abu revo reel

10 pound 832 braid

7ft 8pound test Sufix Mono leader tied on a Uni to Uni connection knot

Zoom 4 inch Lizard Junebug on 1/8 oz ball head jig

[PaulVE64]

On 4/28/2024 at 3:39 PM, alonerankin2 said:

Well I shot the lure pic in jpeg but this site won’t allow the upload, says file size to big still.. this IS the only sight where this is a problem. Oh well.. 

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20 hours ago, WRB said:

My 1st giant bass was 18.6 lbs caught at lake Casitas on a hair jig/pork trailer custom Lamiglas 6’10” MHF rod and Abu 4500C w/12# TrileneXT in 1981

The last 4, 17.4 from Casitas on hair jig and 17.4 and 27.6 new PB 19.3 Lamiglas 6’10” MHF w/ Daiwa HTiA103 reel, 10 & 12 lb BG line in 1990-1993 lake Castiac.

Tom

OMG those pigs were on hair jigs?

[FishTank]

10lb 2oz.  A 6' ML St. Croix Avid and a Shimano Stradic 2500 on 6lb FC with a weightless Zoom Lizard. 

[WRB]

19 hours ago, PaulVE64 said:

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OMG those pigs were on hair jigs?

My Viper head jig is 7/16oz w/ Gamakatsu 5/0 hook tied w/bucktail, a real bass hair jig,  not crappie jig!

Tom