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 Re: How did you catch your biggest bass?
[Re: sacklunch]
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08/12/16 08:38 PM
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bronco71
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Mine was many years ago on a small lake in the National Grasslands near Decatur, Tx on a hot June day. A friend and I were in a canoe around 1pm and hadn't caught anything for quite a while. I had a soft body Pop Top lure tied on and had cast to the edge of the cattails, I let it sit as we drifted away and I was turned talking to my friend in the back of the boat discussing whether to leave or not. My lure had floated out about 15 yds from the cattails and I had a lot of loose line out. It had been in the water at least 5 minutes. His eyes got big and jaw dropped and I turned to see a big mouth engulf my lure. I tried to set the hook but with the loose line I just managed to jerk the pole hitting my lip and busting it open. I got the loose line reeled in and the fish was still on....set the hook and got it in the boat. It was just under 7lbs....but this was 40 years ago. Haven't seriously fished much due to work and family but recently retired and plan to beat that record....hopefully!
1987 Nitro MX185/Mercury Black Max 150 (needs lots of work, put motor on nephew's boat)
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Re: How did you catch your biggest bass?
[Re: sacklunch]
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08/12/16 08:42 PM
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sacklunch
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Interesting stories, guys and gals! Keep 'em coming!
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Re: How did you catch your biggest bass?
[Re: Chasin Hogs]
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08/12/16 08:55 PM
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Chris Borden
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9.5 at sqauw on a tree we threw at 100 times.
Broke my pb twice that day. Had another
pushing 9 if it wasn't 9. 100 casts? That must have given you anxiety fishing that slow!  is that y'all's 29lb day?
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Re: How did you catch your biggest bass?
[Re: bronco71]
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08/12/16 09:17 PM
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Jake Shannon(Skeet4Life)
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Mine was many years ago on a small lake in the National Grasslands near Decatur, Tx on a hot June day. A friend and I were in a canoe around 1pm and hadn't caught anything for quite a while. I had a soft body Pop Top lure tied on and had cast to the edge of the cattails, I let it sit as we drifted away and I was turned talking to my friend in the back of the boat discussing whether to leave or not. My lure had floated out about 15 yds from the cattails and I had a lot of loose line out. It had been in the water at least 5 minutes. His eyes got big and jaw dropped and I turned to see a big mouth engulf my lure. I tried to set the hook but with the loose line I just managed to jerk the pole hitting my lip and busting it open. I got the loose line reeled in and the fish was still on....set the hook and got it in the boat. It was just under 7lbs....but this was 40 years ago. Haven't seriously fished much due to work and family but recently retired and plan to beat that record....hopefully! Congrats on retirement! Hope you break that record!
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Re: How did you catch your biggest bass?
[Re: sacklunch]
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08/12/16 09:23 PM
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Dubee
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My biggest was on a horny toad 2nd biggest on a spook in skeeter owners tourny.
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Re: How did you catch your biggest bass?
[Re: Chris Borden]
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08/12/16 09:26 PM
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Chasin Hogs
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9.5 at sqauw on a tree we threw at 100 times.
Broke my pb twice that day. Had another
pushing 9 if it wasn't 9. 100 casts? That must have given you anxiety fishing that slow! is that y'all's 29lb day? HAHA. Yea it was. We stayed there all day and caught it in the last 20 minutes.
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Re: How did you catch your biggest bass?
[Re: sacklunch]
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08/12/16 10:55 PM
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SteezMacQueen
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My biggest, and personal best, was a 12lb 9 oz on a private tank in Red Oak, Texas. I caught it on a SK frog dragging it over mats. Fun day, as I just returned home an hour earlier from fishing a Red tourney at San Luis Pass near Galveston. I really bombed in the tourney. Very bad. I got home and just wanted to catch a few bass and releive the stress. It actually kinda scared me when it happened. It exploded through the 1" thick mat like JAWS! Man...my heart was racing. In 30 plus years of fishing, I've never had a fish catch me off guard like that. It really kinda scared the [censored] out of me. Lol.
I have caught quite a few over 10 and a few dozen of them in the 8-10 pound range.
The biggest was the frog. The other DDs were all jig fish. Most of the 8-10's were a mix of jigs, Biffle bugs, and Senkos.
I have lost my potential personal twice now on Joe Pool....both of those disasters were on Biffle Bugs.
Eat. Sleep. Fish.
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Re: How did you catch your biggest bass?
[Re: sacklunch]
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08/12/16 11:09 PM
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Ken A.
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January 7, 2012 I was fishing with a good friend and I caught a 15.0 on a Booyah jig in about 12' of water at Camelot Bell. I had on 65# braid with a 7' heavy action Shimano Crucial rod and an old gold Shimano Chronarch. As she swam by the boat I got a good look at her and I screamed at Mike, "Don't miss her, that's a 14 pounder!!!" She was 27" long with a 23" girth. I managed to get my phone outta my pocket and hand it to my bud so he could shoot video. He got the video rolling just as Mike Frazier grabbed her. We were both screaming like little girls when she came in the boat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pIF17PJajo She was the first 15 pounder caught from The Bell but there have been quite a few since. She was the lake record for all of about two months then my friend Dr JL busted it with a 15.50. It was an awesome day to watch my friend catch two 7's and two 8's.
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Re: How did you catch your biggest bass?
[Re: sacklunch]
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08/12/16 11:10 PM
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Brent S
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During spawn at Lake Arlington. Caught one that weighed 9 lbs. Quarter ounce tungsten, plum rage craw, 3 ft of water.
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Re: How did you catch your biggest bass?
[Re: sacklunch]
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08/12/16 11:16 PM
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bush hog
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Crappie fishing on Pinkston. 6 pound line, 1/8 oz. jig and 10 ft. B&M crappie pole. 
To whom much is given, much is required.
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Re: How did you catch your biggest bass?
[Re: sacklunch]
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08/12/16 11:26 PM
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Randy Harrell
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Lake Gilmer, February 2009, air temp 36, water temp 48, drizzling rain, North wind around 5, jig on creek channel, 15 ft water, 9lbs 12 oz. I was not in a tournament, but my stringer would have been in right at 30. I had a 6, 2 - 5s, and a 4. 
Last edited by Randy Harrell; 08/12/16 11:32 PM.
Set the hook first, ask questions later!!!
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Re: How did you catch your biggest bass?
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08/12/16 11:38 PM
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Chris B
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 Caught her on a Talon jig with a chartreuse pepper lake fork baby creature trailer in the hay grass on Toledo Bend.
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Re: How did you catch your biggest bass?
[Re: sacklunch]
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08/12/16 11:40 PM
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papamark
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I have several DD up to 14.9 caught in Florida, but the one I will always remember is my SAL that was 13.11 caught in Feb 2013. Was crappie fishing with my son, when the crappie quit biting. I picked up a crappie swim bait, tossed it out maybe 10 feet from the boat, twitched it twice and saw her roll on it. Set the hook and when my son netted her I wasn't sure how big she was, but when I took her out of then net I knew she was over 10, but her on the scales she was 13.14
A day I will never forger cause it was with my son.
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Re: How did you catch your biggest bass?
[Re: Chasin Hogs]
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08/12/16 11:49 PM
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Chris Borden
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9.5 at sqauw on a tree we threw at 100 times.
Broke my pb twice that day. Had another
pushing 9 if it wasn't 9. 100 casts? That must have given you anxiety fishing that slow! is that y'all's 29lb day? HAHA. Yea it was. We stayed there all day and caught it in the last 20 minutes. Awesome day for sure. Days like that are what keeps us coming back.
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Re: How did you catch your biggest bass?
[Re: sacklunch]
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08/13/16 12:16 AM
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Der Vorsteher
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PB was a 8.5 on an old crank phone in the San Saba River in Menard on my granddad's farm.
J/K
8.5 on Fork. Flipped a t rigged blue fleck worm under a dock Popes. It was in summer and it was the only fish we caught that day.
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