Show your biggest bag.

[Swamp Girl]

Please show your biggest bag. By "your biggest bag," I mean your five biggest bass in aggregate caught by just you on the same day, morning, or evening. If you have a total weight, please share that too. Here are my five biggest, caught last October 23rd in the morning. I didn't weigh or measure any of these because it was a challenging morning with darkness, mud, fog, and shallow flats where I unintentionally beached my canoe several times. I'm guessing they weigh more than 25 pounds because they were long and thick.

 

Again, I didn't weigh nor measure them because I was really busy catching bass in shallow, weedy water and I paddled about six miles, fighting the wind one way and twisting up and down a tricky river. I'm not even sure that the five below were my five biggest as I caught other big ones that morning, but they represent:

 

 

I'm adding a sixth that morning because it might be bigger than the fifth above. I'm guessing that bass five and six are both four-pounders, smaller than the others.:

 

 

[TnRiver46]

[Harold H]

Aint nobody beatin this guys bag:

 

 

 

 

[king fisher]

May 13 2023.

7.6   7.9  8.2  8.9  10.1

pictures in order small to big

[Swamp Girl]

@Harold H: I contributed to Butch's bag because his bass clearly ate my bass on their way to becoming Gigantisaurases.

 

@king fisher: Your recent bag got me thinking about my bag!

[Harold H]

1 minute ago, Swamp Girl said:

@Harold H: I contributed to Butch's bag because his bass clearly ate my bass on their way to becoming Gigantisaurases.

 

@king fisher: Your recent bag got me thinking about my bag!

Butch was in California, can't catch monsters like that if they're not around, haha. But at least he caught them actually fishing unlike that scumbag Mike Long that deceived the bass world for years and was finally caught snagging bass with a big treble hook

6 minutes ago, king fisher said:

May 13 2023.

7.6   7.9  8.2  8.9  10.1

pictures in order small to big

Bro, those are nice bass. When they have that white ring around their eyes, they've been around a while

[Bird]

9 minutes ago, king fisher said:

May 13 2023.

7.6   7.9  8.2  8.9  10.1

pictures in order small to big

Didn't realize we had someone on this site with a 5 fish bag like that, wow 😮 

[Swamp Girl]

4 minutes ago, Harold H said:

Butch was in California, can't catch monsters like that if they're not around, haha.

 

I'm pretty sure I couldn't catch bass like that if they were in Maine! That's not next level. That's next-next-next level!

 

Just now, Bird said:

Didn't realize we had someone on this site with a 5 fish bag like that, wow 😮 

 

Remember he is the kingfisher.

[A-Jay]

I fish exclusively for smallmouth Bass.

Early season (Apr/May) is my best time frame for size.

While late summer  (Aug/Sept) is pretty darn good as well.

My best 5 bags for the last few years are listed below.

Video of each trip is included)

 

I weigh my fish on an Accu-Cull digital scale. 

 

  06 May 2020 had a 26 lb bag

https://youtu.be/yfnYSE-HjIE?feature=shared

 

  02 May 2022 had a 27.92 lbs Bag (included 2 over 6 lbs)

https://youtu.be/o9xew3tWuuU?feature=shared

 

  13 Apr 2021 (my wife's birthday)  had a 28.16 lb bag

https://youtu.be/zIqCmH_52IQ?feature=shared

 

 22 Apr 2024 Had a 28.88 Lb bag (included one over 7 lbs.)

https://youtu.be/562lRx7sKgs?feature=shared

 

14 May 2019 and my Best bag to date went 29. 7 lb 

https://youtu.be/3OXnPQs0bqQ?feature=shared

 

I'll be trying hard be break into that elusive Dirty 30 club this year.

A-Jay

 

 

 

[Harold H]

Those are epic smallmouth bags. I've never caught a smallmouth, going to make that a goal this year. I watch NDYak angler on Youtuble and he hammers some nice smallmouth, but he's in an untapped part of the country as well

[casts_by_fly]

I’ll have to look tomorrow for pictures. My

biggest bag is labeled “glad- rubbish”. Not far behind is “hefty”. 

[N Florida Mike]

You’d think I would have done better because of where I live, but in recent years the best I’ve done is 15-16 pounds. That day ( really just 4 hours), I caught 3 four pounders, and a couple 2s.

I really didn’t keep track of it back in the day.

[Columbia Craw]

My biggest 5 came at Clear Lake.  No pictures.  8.15, 7.13, 7.11, 6.11 and 6.3 what ever that comes too.  All largemouth.  I had a 25 plus bag of smallmouth from Glenn’s favorite body of water. All on a Deep Little N and caught in less than 45 minutes.  Best hour of bass fishing in my life. 

[Swamp Girl]

18 minutes ago, Columbia Craw said:

My biggest 5 came at Clear Lake.  No pictures.  8.15, 7.13, 7.11, 6.11 and 6.3 what ever that comes too.  All largemouth.  I had a 25 plus bag of smallmouth from Glenn’s favorite body of water. All on a Deep Little N and caught in less than 45 minutes.  Best hour of bass fishing in my life. 

 

Wow! 35 pounds of largemouth and 25 pounds of smallmouth...in 45 minutes!!!

[WRB]

Can’t show no photos catch and release quickly.

5 bass limit at Castiac 62+ lbs.

Need to look at my notebook book for details and date.

Tom

[Choporoz]

All in one football field size area, one bait, one short period of time.  No idea if these were 5 biggest...

It was fast and furious and I didn't take pics of a lot of them.  After weighing a couple 5+, I quit weighing them, too.  Didn't want to waste a minute while they were cooperating.

[Swamp Girl]

My goodness, you guys sure have wrangled some narwhal whales, just grabbed them by the horns and wrassled them aboard!

[Munkin]

Best I have done in a tournament was 24-7. Best overall would be either one March day fishing a local spot where I caught my PB 8.2 along with a 6.3, 6.5, and a couple others that I didn't bother weighing because fishing was on fire. Other was at Trap Pond in Delaware one July evening where they were on a Zoom toad. Didn't have a scale with me but I caught 9 fish that went over 5lbs and I would bet money the best 5 went 30lbs.

 

Allen

[Swamp Girl]

1 hour ago, Munkin said:

Best I have done in a tournament was 24-7. Best overall would be either one March day fishing a local spot where I caught my PB 8.2 along with a 6.3, 6.5, and a couple others that I didn't bother weighing because fishing was on fire. Other was at Trap Pond in Delaware one July evening where they were on a Zoom toad. Didn't have a scale with me but I caught 9 fish that went over 5lbs and I would bet money the best 5 went 30lbs.

 

Allen

 

You've sure had some great days. Thanks for sharing!

[gim]

I put together two 20+ pound bags of bass the same week in October 2023.

 

One was a largemouth bag and the other was a smallmouth version, just days apart.

 

I’ll have to dig up some photos later. These are northern tier bass. Not Mexican or Florida or Texas versions.

[Swamp Girl]

18 minutes ago, gim said:

I’ll have to dig up some photos later.

 

Please do!

 

22 minutes ago, gim said:

These are northern tier bass. Not Mexican or Florida or Texas versions.

 

As I've said several times, In-Fisherman believes a northern tier lmb's weight is equivalent to 1.5 times that weight in a southern bass. They also believe that northern smallies equal southern smallies. So, your 20+ northern lmb bag is equal to a 30+ southern lmb bag, while your 20+ northern smallmouth bag is equal to a 20+ southern smallmouth bass, which is still worthy of Irish dancing.

 

 

I don't know if the In-Fisherman staff is right, but they have caught a few big bass, in the north and the south, both lmb and smb. And being mostly from Minnesota, I'm certain they understand the challenges of landing big lmb that far north.

[BrianMDTX]

••Reminder set for first post in “smallest bag” thread•• 😂

[Munkin]

On 3/22/2025 at 8:10 AM, BrianMDTX said:

••Reminder set for first post in “smallest bag” thread•• 😂

 

I may have the record for that? Open tournament of like 50 boats and I got first with a five fish limit weighing in at a whopping 4lbs 6oz! 😁 Second place was 3 something for 2 fish and I was the only boat to bring in a limit. This is probably my favorite tournament win of all time. Complete grind all day which I only caught 6 keepers with the largest measuring 13" exactly. Culled one fish for less than a 2oz upgrade in 8 hours. 

 

Allen 

[IYAOYAS]

I haven't had 5 that weighed as much as these three did. 6'9, 3'12, and 1'2 pounds