My best Bass

[bmuskin]

I had to start a post on this one. I need to get a good scale but I do have some measurements. I am going to call it upper 8 to 9 pounds. The scale said 8.8 to 9.5 depeding on which way it was held. The length was 24 inches and girth was right around 17 inches.

This is a subdivision pond that is near my house about 10 minutes away. I found out my neighbor owns a little piece in the back and he gave me permission to fish there. I have befriended some of the residents since and know everyone knows me and lets me fish. I even pick up other trash when I am there. Anyway I have caught a couple of 5's and a nice 6 from this and have hooked a couple of pretty nice ones. The pond is full of 7-12 inch dinks and the owners have told me to clean it up some and start eating some small bass. The pond is old as it was formed when the quarried there for the interstate connector.

I usually bass fish after work starting around 5 and on weekends when I go to coal strip pits and the like.

I went last night as my wife is out of town and fished for a couple of hours. the bite has slowed some since it cooled of here, but I had a few small ones I had caught on a wacky rigged Senko. I started working a buzz bait and some other top water to no avail. I kept looking over by a submerged log that looked like it dropped into a point. It looks so good you know there has to be a nice on in there. No way to walk to it so I tied on a 5/8 ounce Bass Oreno,(one of my oldest lures) cast to the log and caught some bark on the edge. I ripped it loose and twitched it and BANG. I knew it was a nice fish but the funny thing is it didn't fight nearly as hard as some of the 5's i have caught. It felt like I was pulling in a log at one point. As I mentioned no reliable scale to speak of but I got the measurements and know that it was my best bass ever. Hopefully I will see her next year!

[bmuskin]

22"L x 16"W x 13.5"D.

Size of the bag for reference.

[roadwarrior]

Our calculator (Tacklebox at the top of the page) says 24" X 17" = 9.6 lbs.

Nice fish, congratulations!

8-)

[rondef]

Congrats, thats a nice hawg you got there.  

[Rob.Atl]

so your saying that fish is 9 lbs... :-?

[roadwarrior]

so your saying that fish is 9 lbs... :-?

Posted a picture and measurements. Weighed the fish 8.8 - 9.5.

I punched it up on the calculator and it said 9.6. You can't always

tell the weight of a fish based on a picture, but that's certainly in

the ballpark.

8-)

[bmuskin]

I went to the strip pits below me awhile back caught a 7 pounder. I keep some from these areas cause no one ever fishes these carzy remote cut you way in places. Anyway I do not know exactly what it weighs but I know its my best ever, and its bigger than the 7 pound 4 ounce fish I weighed on a postal scale. Actually quite a bit bigger.

[JShrock07]

You have a nice honey hole!!!!

[Big-O]

Great job and great fish....

Big O

[Grey Wolf]

Great fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fishinfiend]

Nice fish. Don't tell anyone about those places. If you take them, make sure they are blindfolded on the ride over  ;D

[skillet]

REAL nice fish! The day I caught my PB, I also caught one that was pretty close to 4 1/2 lb. It cut-up a lot more than the larger fish ...

                                    As Ever,

                                     skillet

[rondef]

Thats one nice fishing hole.

[bmuskin]

Nice fish. Don't tell anyone about those places. If you take them, make sure they are blindfolded on the ride over ;D

Private pond around houses. No one else has permission other than landowners. I worked hard to get to fish this one and make sure I clean up and have even ran a brushcutter and cleaned up a lot to make sure I get to fish here.