What's your most memorable bass?

[fresh2salttim]

Mine was my first 3+ pound bass because I was an ignorant kid with a vivid imagination that thought he had just landed a 10 pounder. I recon my young self hollered with joy for a good 5 minutes until I was out of breath. When I took the fish home my uncle had to ruin my parade by telling me that my fish would be lucky to be 3 1/2 pounds.

[king fisher]

[MediumMouthBass]

My 10lber wasnt a very memorable experience, it for sure was a life achievement for me. But there wasnt much of a fight and it was at the bank in under a minute....

 

My most memorable bass catch and most prized fishing story is this:

Several years ago i only fished for trout and panfish, i decided i would like to learn how to bass fish, i bought a few combos meant just for them and some baits too. Even taught myself how to use a baitcaster! I spent many hours a week for several months and caught nothing😌

One day my mom took me to a very big local lake and we bank fished for about 8 hours, once again caught 0 bass.... I was upset and thought maybe bass fishing just isnt for me, so later on i was able to convince her to take me to another local lake to fish for bluegills off the public deck.

I went to the car and removed all the bass gear and loaded it with light rods and a few panfish soft plastics. The area you can cast from this deck was 1-4' at most and only went out 20' and then there was nothing but weeds. It was now dark, and i was only going to cast my Walmart special broken off piece of plastic worm on a Trout Magnet jighead a few more times, and then i felt something! It pulled hard and my drag was screaming!!!! My light action Cherrywood was bending in every direction and this fish was dragging it all over, it finally got it within a few feet of us and i saw it was a bass, and just like that it buried itself in the weeds right in front of us.... We somehow were able to get it out and it was around 3lbs.

 

Took it home and cleaned it up, and my parents enjoyed it. That one bass forged my love for bass fishing and set me on the path im on now.

[fresh2salttim]

4 minutes ago, MediumMouthBass said:

My 10lber wasnt a very memorable experience, it for sure was a life achievement for me. But there wasnt much of a fight and it was at the bank in under a minute....

 

My most memorable bass catch and most prized fishing story is this:

Several years ago i only fished for trout and panfish, i decided i would like to learn how to bass fish, i bought a few combos meant just for them and some baits too. Even taught myself how to use a baitcaster! I spent many hours a week for several months and caught nothing😌

One day my mom took me to a very big local lake and we bank fished for about 8 hours, once again caught 0 bass.... I was upset and thought maybe bass fishing just isnt for me, so later on i was able to convince her to take me to another local lake to fish for bluegills off the public deck.

I went to the car and removed all the bass gear and loaded it with light rods and a few panfish soft plastics. The area you can cast from this deck was 1-4' at most and only went out 20' and then there was nothing but weeds. It was now dark, and i was only going to cast my Walmart special broken off piece of plastic worm on a Trout Magnet jighead a few more times, and then i felt something! It pulled hard and my drag was screaming!!!! My light action Cherrywood was bending in every direction and this fish was dragging it all over, it finally got it within a few feet of us and i saw it was a bass, and just like that it buried itself in the weeds right in front of us.... We somehow were able to get it out and it was around 3lbs.

 

Took it home and cleaned it up, and my parents enjoyed it. That one bass forged my love for bass fishing and set me on the path im on now.

 

Glad that fish was able to infect you with the bass bug.