what was your biggest northeast bass of 2009

[Bass Hole]

here's mine 9 1/2 caught on a flipping tube.

[RobbyZ5001]

OF COURSE MR. RI WITH A 9.5 POUND PIG WOULD START THIS THREAD! My big fish on the year and lifetime is a 6.5 lb largie shown in user picture.

[Needemp]

7.6 caught out of Waterloo, IL in the Spring. Caught her on a LC RC DD 2.5 deflecting off of rip rap. It is my current avatar picture

[Shane J]

This girl. 5:00am on a Rage Tail Shad (gr.pumpkin/chart). 7lbs, 10oz, also my PB.

[Bass Hole]

OF COURSE MR. RI WITH A 9.5 POUND PIG WOULD START THIS THREAD! My big fish on the year and lifetime is a 6.5 lb largie shown in user picture.

aw come on now.....lol   ;D ;D ;D

[Tin]

OF COURSE MR. RI WITH A 9.5 POUND PIG WOULD START THIS THREAD! My big fish on the year and lifetime is a 6.5 lb largie shown in user picture.

aw come on now.....lol ;D ;D ;D

It is amazing what down-rigging snagging hooks can do. lol

[SPEEDBEAD.]

6lb 4oz  caught fishing a Mattlures Hardgill off the edges of bluegill spawning beds.

[J Francho]

6-8, 3/4 Outcast RT Jig in blue/black with a black Zoom Super Chunk trailer.

Just prespawn, 3rd pitch to a laydown.

[fmoore]

Never got a weight on her. Caught flipping pads with a chigger craw in July.

[little_stephen]

my biggest so far too....

sorry for the crappy picture quality.    I shore fish. so i reeled this girl in..... standing on a half sunken log in a field of 5inch deep mud & silt muck..... got ahold of her, tossed my rod to solid ground. pulled out my phone and snapped a pitcure while nearly falling off my log.

Got her a few weeks after ice out. on a fliping jig with a big beaver bait trailer.

she was up shallow on a brutal day chasing bluegill & shinners i guess. found her holding tight next to a thick post in a series of support stakes up shallow.

my best attempt to measure her figgured about 18inches. she was fat & B-E-A-Utiful!

cold day.... only in the upper 40s. bluebird sky. cold front. windy! with chop so bad i almost got knocked off my log a few times. and the sun was just setting behind the tree line when she bit!

[basser89]

22inches, 6lbs 9oz (the one in my avatar) caught on a texas rigged BPS Triple Ripple lizard, prespawn.

[MaineBassMan]

My father's biggest smallmouth for the season was this 5 pound even. He caught it in a tourneymant too and It took lunker for the day.

My biggest smallmouth was a pair that weighed 4 lbs 5 oz caught on the same day.

Actually I just remembered that I caught three that weigh 4 lbs 5 oz

My biggest largemouth was only 5lbs 2oz this season, weird fishing season. I actually caught two largies that weighed this much. They could of been twins. Caught a lot of nice 4 pounders though.

The other 5 lbs 2 oz largemouth

[little_stephen]

Thats a nice october smallie!

I really need to go target the football smallies up on lake erie. Ive got no reason not to....the lakes 40mins away from my new place and Ive got the gear to do it now. just gotta find a charter.

[Bass Junkie]

  Approx. 5lbs, caught on the smallest Heddon Torpedo availible. No lie. Caught one right after the spawn that was around 41/2 lbs, but skinny as a rail. Prespawn or a month later she would've hit 6lbs......

[nashua fisherman]

me and the wife. fish were caught before we had a scale.

[Crestliner2008]

I fish mainly for smallmouths as some of you know. Here are a couple of my better fish of this past season:

Rough calculations indicate about 125 - 130 smallies were CPR'd by me in 2009. Most between 2 1/2 - 4 3/4 pounds. I've yet to break the 5 pound mark however, but I know the reservoir I fish has given up several in the 6+ range.

And yes, I do dabble in largemouths occaisionally:

[MALTESE FALCON]

These are my four best of '09:

1-6lb-4oz largemouth, caught on a Rattle Head Spinnerbait, on 5/4/09 at 11:55 A.M.

2-6lb-1oz smallmouth, caught on Rattlin Rapala (Red Craw), on 5/29/09 at 9:30 A.M.

3-6lb even smallmouth, caught on a Rattle Head Spinnerbait, on 8/25/09 at 8:20 A.M.

4-6lb-5oz smallmouth, caught on an XCalibur Xr50 (Pearl Melon), on 9/5/09 at 7:35 A.M.

My wife lost one at the boat, that had to be in the seven pound range. I keep lecturing to her about those wimpy hook sets.

Falcon

[zero limit]

The best for me was LM about 3&1/2 maybe 4#. for my 1st. back fishing after 9-10yrs.

[Jepu]

Didnt weigh either fish, both were approximately 4.5-4.75lbs

[riverfisher]

4.65 SMB

[wagn]

Largest this years was 7lbs 1oz.

Largest last year was exactly 7lbs 1oz.

I sense a pattern here :-?

[Shane J]

Hey, Wagn, you catch those two 7-1s at the same place? That's funny, though, I also caught a 7-1 this year (and a 7-0 at the same place). Heckuva bass, bro!

[seyone]

here's mine 9 1/2 caught on a flippin tube.

WOW I didn't know RI grew bass that big. Great fish!

[MDbassinmike]

Didn't have a scale with me! >  I will only say it was over 7lbs, because I have a 7 mounted and it was bigger than mine.  Anybody want to guess what it weighed?

Caught on the Potomac, in the grass, on a frog.

[Bass Hole]

here's mine 9 1/2 caught on a flippin tube.

WOW I didn't know RI grew bass that big. Great fish!

Thanks

The lake it came from has given up 4 fish over 9 lbs in the past five years.