what your biggest bass!!

[Breeze]

well guys I caught a 7lb lm a 3 and a 2 at gv all on a rapala floater.6 /18 what a sweet trip that was. 3ft of water at dock in the rain. my hair is still curly from that rain HELLO"

 

[MooseKnuckle]

Largemouth 10.2, Santee Cooper on a 1/4 oz. rattletrap. The 1st fish I caught in my first boat. 1992
Smallmouth 5.14 Tims Ford. Flipping minnows in Little Hurricane. 1989

Doing this made me realize, it's been a long time since I've caught a personal best of the freshwater variety. I did catch a 53 lb. Wahoo 2 years ago for my biggest fish caught, ever.

 

[reliable]

12.8 largemouth at Lake Baccarac this spring, also caught an 8.5, 8.7 and several over 7 the same day, all on a spook,
7.2 smallmouth, TN river off the golf course rocks in '98
34 lb stripe out of the savannah river, just killin time while visiting the in-laws several years ago

my 10 yr old son caught a 23" and a 22.5" bass out of our pond this spring, one on a bluegill, one on a 12" trout that we stock for winter time fun

 

[ole blue]

6.87lm below watts bar dam on sppiner bait
4.5sm above watts bar dam on pig n jig

 

[Liveliner]

I hate to have to admit this but the story on that big largemouth is really pretty sad. When I was a Teenager I lived on the property that is now the Battlefield Golf Coarse near the park. I would ride my bike all the way to Rock Springs, GA beyond Peavine Ridge where I fished a swampy lake owned by Carl Clark. The lake was full of big bass. You could see them swimming around the lilly pads and through the huge tree roots. These fish were very smart but I had figured them out. The sad part is that I would bring them home and eat them. I would release all the fish that I caught that were less than Eight pounds so they could grow up but I would take out the biggest ones.

That day I had ridden all the way from my home to the lake. I caught two big bass that I put on the stringer to bring home. The ride home was a nightmare. The road over the ridge from the lake was an old rutted out gravel road full of holes and loose gravel. I had a huge bass hanging from each end of the handle bars. As I would get moving the fish would get to swinging and start getting into the spokes. I crashed so many times that I had to basicly walk all the way home. Every time I would get close to a creek or any water, I would stop and soak the fish. At the corner of Old Ringgold Rd and Burning Bush Rd there was an old store called Beavers Store. I would stop there and weigh my fish on their produce scale. After about three hours of a long hot bike trip the Bass weighted 12lbs-3ozs and a little over 9lbs-+ozs. I had pictures of MANY big trophy Bass from those years. but over time the album got lost. Therefore proving it is impossible.

The big 6lbs-15ozs Kentucky Spot was given to Bud Hull through John Miles to be mounted and used as a promo display. It came from the same pond as all the other big Bass I took from there. I now wonder how many of those fat Eight Pound plus Bass were actually Spots. Mr Clark told me that the Bass were Kentucky Black Spotted Bass. I did know the differance. That is the main reason I broght the 7 lber to John Miles. It was to let him, Jim Rivers and Lee Hollyfield tell me if the fish in that pond were big Spotted Bass. "They were".

I am going to take my GPS and retrace the route of my old bike ride and get the milage. I may fish the old pond again. I had heard that the pond had nearly dryed up and some boys had netted all te fish out. That would really be sad.

 

[Carl]

Largemouth- 8.1 this spring, farm pond. Blue Jig

Smallmouth-8.1 Chickamauga on a homemade popper.

 

[Flippen*1]

13 lbs 7oz, CA Delta, back when I had a mulletemoSmile

 

[jason]

8lbs-2ozs on the Chick last Fall...1/2oz Cutthroat jig in bruised melon.

 

[jason]

Oooooops...that is my daughter with a "sunny" from Quaker Lake a few weeks ago

. Here it is....

 

[TennesseeTalker]

You gotta mighty nice fish .. AND some beautiful kids!!!

TT

 

[tndoe270]

7lb 14oz lm
No sm or spot to brag about but I do have a 200lb Halibut and it's tail on a board to show

 

[shsimons]

That pic of Jason is just incredible. Wow, what a picture.

I haven't really caught a BIG BASS, maybe 5 lbs?

 

[Corynichols_1]

10.11 Nickajack

 

[Fishheadspin]

8.33 LM Chickamauga
5.75 SM Chickamauga
4.25 Spot Neely Henry and Nickajack

all released.

 

[dunk]

FA i think you need to tell all your buddies where you hooked that one on the wall HA HA

come on guys get him to tell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oops forgot 8lb largehead watts bar 6#2 smallie from pickwick and last but not least 65# tenn. river smallmouth also from pickwick below wilson dam all released

 

[xroadsbasser]

Largemouth.....10.26 lbs from Guntersville in 1996 flippin the millfoil (no hydrilla then). Really miss that millfoil.
Smallmouth.....6.2 lbs on live shiner from Guntersville (Tennessee Section).

 

[Ronnie Garrison]

Got a 9-7 largemouth in a club tournament way back in 1991 on Jackson Lake - it hit a Suddeth crankbait.
4.27 pound spot in a club tournament on Lanier a few years ago on a spinnerbait.
Some 3 pound smallmouth in Wisconsin - gotta get up to Tennessee to fish for smallmouth!
Going to Wilson the end of this month with Jimmy Mason for my next Alabama Outdoor News article - maybe there?

 

[Bprice]

7 lb 2 oz Largemouth from Farm Pond</p>

3lb 8 oz Smallmouth from Watts Bar</p>

3lb 4 oz Coosa River Spot from Weiss</p>

2lb 9 oz Kentucky from Wheeler</p>

68 lb Blue Cat! </p>

 

[Fat Albert]

dunk - 7/7/2007 2:11 AM FA i think you need to tell all your buddies where you hooked that one on the wall HA HA come on guys get him to tell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! </p>



<font color="#ff0033">You just had to run that big mouth of yours...HUH????   AT least she did take a swipe at the deep Wee R and turned it over and I caught her in the butt... yes, in the butt.  MY, My,my what a fight.  took awhile to land her but I was proud....  So, there you are...big mouth.</font></p>

 

[Bill]

9 1/2 Lb Largemouth -Suwannee River
6 1/4 Lb Smallmouth below Chick.