Lunker Bass

[Lightninrod]

What a fantastic BASS Daniel!!!  You are right in being proud of her! 8-)

Living in middle GA, just about 60 miles from where the WR was caught........  10 lbs is my lower limit for a lunker and I still haven't achieved that goal.

Dan

[Red]

well i am not from TX, but i live here now....and if 10lbs is the standard for lunkers...man o man do i have a ways to go!  my PB is 4.1.....me and my bud look forward to catchin something over 2lbs.....that has happened very rarely lately.....i have caught 4-5 in the 3lb range and the 4.1.....99% of the rest of the fish i catch are under a pound to 1.5 lbs.....but....i also only fish two private stock tanks and some golf course tanks....from shore.....my goal for next year is to have a boat and hit some other lakes...and hopefully break the 5lb mark.....so my standards might not be what texas standards are....but if i catch me a 5lber...thats hawg!!

Cliff

[Catt]

LMB: 10 lbs is a hawg but it takes 13 lbs to be a ShareLunker; my PB is 12 lb 8 oz

SMB: Texas top 50 the smallest is 6.13; my PB is 0.0 :-[

Spot: Texas record is 5 lbs 8.96 oz; my PB is 2.5 lbs :

[heyvern]

Hey you'll, I'm a trance plant from IN. to TN. Came here to catch heavy LMB. Went back to IN. a week ago and fished a couple of new ponds ( around 6 or 7 yrs. old) and guess what, 8 fish in two days of fishing that were measured and weighted. 2 were PB, a 6.8 lb. & the one in the photo 7.1 lb. all on a wacky worm (sweet potato pie)and 8lb. test line, the other 4 went from a little under 4 lbs. to 5.10 lbs.

I don't know about lunkers but boy they were sure fun and they will really stretch your line.

Have a good one, I sure did.

 Sorry I can't get the photo to download??????

[Branuss04]

It really depends on what state. Here, I don't consider a lunker to be anything under 10lbs. 7's, 8's, 9's are nice quality fish, but they're not lunkers in my mind.

With so many quality fish here in cali, I got to agree.  Except maybe bring the "nice quality fish" mark down to around 5 1/2 so my P.B. can count as a nice quality fish.

[fishingfrenzy]

Here in NJ, 5 pounds is considered a trophy by a lot of people.  Our state record is just shy of 11 pounds.  This year, we've got two 7 pounders, two 6 pounders, and maybe five 5 pounders.  Thats just with people I've fished with.  My biggest for this year was maybe 5.8 pounds, thats the biggest i can remember.  Next year, hopefully we'll break the 8 pound mark and possibly go for a double digit :  

[Guest avid]

The Texas standard for LM lunkers is Double Digits, 10lbs.  

ditto for Florida.

[BackOnTheWater]

I live in SE TN, and we have quite a few reservoirs in the area. Each res tends to have different sizes and numbers of the different species.

I fish Lake Chickamauga more than anywhere else. A lot of the tourneys here have a big fish pot, and as a general rule the "big fish" must be at least:

LM- 8

SM- 6

Spot-5

My PB: LM- 7, SM- 4, Spot- 4. I have seen local photos of LM 8-10 lbs, SM 5-7 lbs, and 4-5 lb spots. We have a zillion LM 2-3 lb, you catch them all day long. And below the dam in the river, (technically Lake Nickajack) we are eat up with KY spots ...so many that there is no minimum length to "keep" and next spring there will be no quantity limit either...we want to get rid of all those little buggars...I rarely take fish home for the neighbors, but I hear that dem spots is good eatin'!

[Jimzee]

I'll say in WV a lunker for LMB would be 8 - 9 lbs.  SMB would be 6 - 7 lbs.  Spot would be 2 - 3 lbs.

10 lb. LMB  bass are not that rare here in the mountain state but I have yet to catch one.  :-[