PB Bass Lure Thread

[Punkern8r]

What lure/bait did you catch your personal best Bass with?

 

I'll go first. I caught my personal best Largemouth Bass weighing 4lbs 7oz back in 06/2018 with a Zoom Ol' Monster Junebug Worm on a Texas Rig with a 3/16 oz bullet weight. 

 

Bonus points if you include a picture of the lure or your PB. I haven't been able to find the pictures I have of my PB otherwise I would include them on this post. Let's see them! 

[king fisher]

It's a tie 6th. Sense mini mag. Square bill and a Junebug Zoom Magnum Trick worm.  First bass caught on the square bill was 10.3 pounds weighed on a defective scale, the second bass caught on a worm was 10.8 pounds weighed on two trustworthy scales.  The first bass was shorter than the second, but had way bigger shoulders and I think was the biggest bass I have ever seen.  The second bass  was an inch longer, had recently spawned had a bloody tail, and was thin.  I think the first bass was bigger but have to go with an official weight, so the second bass is my PB at 10.8 pounds.   

[thediscochef]

vision 110
7lb10oz lake ray roberts 2022
the stump that turned out to be a fish

[WRB]

23 minutes ago, king fisher said:

It's a tie 6th. Sense mini mag. Square bill and a Junebug Zoom Magnum Trick worm.  First bass caught on the square bill was 10.3 pounds weighed on a defective scale, the second bass caught on a worm was 10.8 pounds weighed on two trustworthy scales.  The first bass was shorter than the second, but had way bigger shoulders and I think was the biggest bass I have ever seen.  The second bass  was an inch longer, had recently spawned had a bloody tail, and was thin.  I think the first bass was bigger but have to go with an official weight, so the second bass is my PB at 10.8 pounds.   

Upper bass is close to 14 lbs!

Tom

[Jar11591]

Super Fluke on a Scrounger head caught my PB 9lb 13oz bass in 2017. 

[scaleface]

[Punkern8r]

9 hours ago, king fisher said:

It's a tie 6th. Sense mini mag. Square bill and a Junebug Zoom Magnum Trick worm.  First bass caught on the square bill was 10.3 pounds weighed on a defective scale, the second bass caught on a worm was 10.8 pounds weighed on two trustworthy scales.  The first bass was shorter than the second, but had way bigger shoulders and I think was the biggest bass I have ever seen.  The second bass  was an inch longer, had recently spawned had a bloody tail, and was thin.  I think the first bass was bigger but have to go with an official weight, so the second bass is my PB at 10.8 pounds.   

Those are some giants!! Congrats!

[Pat Brown]

11 lb 5 oz (pic is my profile pic) on a Berkeley Power Worm 10.5" in motor oil red with a pegged 3/8 oz tungsten sinker and a offset worm hook on a mainlake point around 1 pm in mid July.

 

I've caught a lot of fish between 8 and 10.  Most of them on jigs, frogs and lipless crankbaits.

[VTFan]

KVD 1.5 squarebill, sexy shad color. 8 lb. 8 oz. 

[Mr. Aquarium]

8lbs 2 ounce Mass bass. Caught it April 3rd 2022 on a DS custom 8 inch glide bait. 
 

6lbs 9 ounce Mass bass caught it early May on a whopper plopper 90 smoke 

[Catt]

February 3rd 2007 was a nasty cold morning with Northwest winds at 15-20 mph, a slight misty rain falling, and temperatures in the middle 30's. After having launched out of Jack's 944 Marina I made the short (2 minutes) run to the mouth of Bull creek trying to stay out of the wind and some what warm. Having rounded the corner I dropped the trolling motor, picked up my Rat-L-Trap rod again with the thought in mind of keeping moving and staying warm. My third cast was into the mouth a cut leading to a boat shed which I knew had stumps on the west side, after turning the handle 4 or 5 time my trap stopped solid, I tell Pat d**n to close to the stumps so I push the trolling motor handle towards the mouth of the cut while stepping on the switch. At the exact same instance my line starts zinging towards deeper water rod all bowed up & drag slipping; I immediately scream at Pat get the net. By now the boat is moving off to my left the bass is moving off to my right and I'm nearly on my knees in front of the console with the upper third of the rod in the water. Pat net in hand is now on the front deck killed the trolling motor and with a swift motion netted the hawg; which ends up weighing in at 12 pounds 8 ounces.

 

 

[Don Harris]

Excuse the photo quality. It is a picture from an old phone. Caught it on a frog patterned Baby Torpedo. 

[king fisher]

10 hours ago, WRB said:

Upper bass is close to 14 lbs!

Tom

If any one would know how big a bass is it would be Tom.  I wish I had a good scale that day.  The wind was blowing 25 MPH when I caught the bass.  I didn't have a cell phone, but had a regular camera.  I tried to get a selfie with the camera, but it was difficult with the wind and no screen to look at.  After a couple failed attempts of taking a selfie, my kayak was blown to shore.  I decided to jump on to the bank with fish, lay it on the ground, place the tape on the bass take a quick picture and get the bass back in the water.  If only I had been more prepared I might have some good pictures and know for sure what my PB is.  The bass was never out of the water for more than 30 seconds.  I kept putting it back in the water in-between trying to get a weight and pictures.  It swam off as soon as I put it back in the lake.  I don't know how long a bass lives, but I sure would like to catch that bass again.

[Lottabass]

1.  8-0 Pit Boss

2.  8-4, Jig n frog

3.  8-3,  Jig n frog

Iowa hawgs!

 

[IcatchDinks]

Caught my PB largemouth last June on a T-rigged Green Pumpkin 4" Yum Dinger.

 

She was 22 inches long and weighed 4.29 lbs. 

 

Edited 19 hours ago by IcatchDinks
Accidentally told everyone the bait I used was a sewing machine.

[MassYak85]

I am cursed with tying PBs. For a loooong time I was stuck at 5.40 on the dot. I caught 3 fish at that weight on:

 

1) Green Pumpkin Wacky Rigged BPS Stickbait

2) Lethal Weapon Swim Jig

3) 9" Trout MS Slammer

 

I broke it on at 5-11 on a Bl8nkt Red Spinnerbait

 

Then I broke it again with a 6-4 using a brown 3pc PB Rat....only to tie it at 6-4 again, with a black 1pc Monka Crawler

[webertime]

7.2 lm. On a Fat Ika

6.1 sm. On a Speedcraw 

[OkobojiEagle]

Fun post to get me to reminisce.  I don't carry anything that will photograph when I fish, but I do remember many of my better sized catches and pretty much every one of them came on hair/hare jigs I tied.  4 - 20"+ smallmouth, 2 - 22" largemouth, 31" walleye, several (wonderful fighting) drum, 1 catfish I couldn't lift out of the water, and at least 4 musky that measured 42"+.  I remember the thrill each of them gave me.

 

I do collect and fish other lures as well, but that little jig category has out produced every other lure for size... by far; go figure.

 

Thank you Phil Schafer for teaching me how to tie your marabou, bucktail and rabbit zonker minnow pattern.  I  do miss our conversations...

 

oe

[Team9nine]

Bomber Fat ‘A’ in Firetiger
 

[WRB]

Don’t want to kill this thread!

<<<—-PB’ listed, lure Hair Jig “Anytime Anywhere” (black-purple-brown) w/ barn red pork trailer.

photo’s; PM email will send them.

Tom

[WaskaCrank12]

[WaskaCrank12]

Smallmouth Bass above was caught with a Megabass Griffon MR-X in GG Baby Bass color

My PB Largemouth was just shy of 20 inches and caught on a Netbaits Paca Chunk Sr. in Sun Gill color on a 1/16oz CORE Tackle Hover Rig (if I can find the pic I will post it)

**I have purchased a cheaper scale and will look at using that this coming season as it seems weight is preferred over measuring ?

[Mr. Aquarium]

4 hours ago, IcatchDinks said:

Caught my PB largemouth last June on a T-rigged Green Pumpkin 4" Yum Dinger.

 

She was 22 inches long and weighed 4.29 lbs. 

 

That’s a skinny fish. My 8-2 was 22 inches 

[Siebert Outdoors]

Heres the LM and the Smallie.   The LM is awhile back.  I didnt have a scale to weigh it.  The smallie was a little under 7 off a rage bug bama craw.

[Dwight Hottle]

My PB largemouth was caught on a SK 3/4 oz lipless 2-tap crank bait in silver/blue. My PB smallie was caught on a Smithwick rogue deep diver jerk bait in a discontinued color called tiger minnow.