Quade's well-received post got me wondering what everyone's personal best bass is?
My best is an 11-pound, 9-ounce hog that I caught on a topwater plug in 1975. My personal best on fly weighed 6.5 pounds and was caught in The Everglades.
What's your biggest bass
Quade's well-received post got me wondering what everyone's personal best bass is?
My best is an 11-pound, 9-ounce hog that I caught on a topwater plug in 1975. My personal best on fly weighed 6.5 pounds and was caught in The Everglades.
Last edited by SteveGibson; 09-30-2009 at 10:38 PM.
Steve
Nothing that big, but last summer, I caught a 6.5 lb, 22" largemouth on a purple X-rap. It was a heck of a fight, and luckily I was in a canoe with my buddy so I got pics and everything. Pulled us halfway across the small river we were fishing!
Biggest ever was a farm pond largemouth that was 5-1/2 to 6 pounds on a Hula Popper. Biggest on a fly rod was a 3 pound or so fish on a beadhead leech.
Caught a 2-1/2 pound fish a couple weeks ago on an all black size 12 FEB hopper. That's the biggest fish on a small fly for me so far.
6 pound 13 ounce smallmouth on 1/8oz leadhead and watermelon colored 3 inch grub many years ago.
19" smallmouth on a leech pattern with fly rod this year. (weight unknown)
Warren
Fly fishing and fly tying are two things that I do, and when I am doing them, they are the only 2 things I think about. They clear my mind.
my largest ever was a 11.5 on a hand line with a cricket on a hook. back in my scouting days
11.13 lm, 8.3 sm.
Steve
I caught a 25.1 inch very egg laden LM bass on a few years ago on a fly pre spawn. I estmated it at 10 lbs based on averages for our area.
In our area( Central Oklahoma) a Large mouth bass of 20 inches weighs about 5 lbs every inch after that adds on average 1 lb.
It is amazing how close it is when checked against digital scales
I live in the land of giant bass but have yet to score a double digit fish. But then when the big uns are most vulnerable in late winter and early spring I tend to be fishing the salty brine. My best are 8lb on hardware and 6lb on the fly.
As a kid I caught a egg loaded female pre-spawn that was 22" and a hair over 7 lbs on a spinner bait.
Haven't caught any bass on a fly yet.
Since moving to Wyoming, I caught a nice 17" 3 lb LM earlier this summer.
Paul
My largest was a 4 pound 4 ounce fish caught while baitcasting a blue super lizzy to the weed edge and letting it drop. That was in 1974. My biggest on a fly rod was a small mouth taken in the Spokane River on a red humpy. That was 2 summers ago. It would not have moved the scales as much as 1 ounce. It was less than 2". It's surprising sometimes how large an offering that bass can get their mouth around.
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