Watched ethal smoke a shad on top at BPS in Springfield in June 88 probably close to 20lbs!

They call me "Netman"........

Biggest I have seen or held was my PB 12.44 Lake Aquilla March 19, 1997 .
My Buddy had hooked this fish 3 times in week before and could not get her out of the timber.
when I hooked her she swam out away from the trees for some reason , but im sure glad she did.

Ethel.
She was about 18 lbs. when I saw her.

Mine is nothing compared to these stories you guys are posting. I have been coming down to Fork from MN on a family guys trip for the last 4 years now. The years previous to 2017 I had never seen anything bigger than my 6lb 12oz PB from MN. Last year I saw an absolute giant in the back of Dale Creek. I don't have the experience at all with fish of this caliber to properly estimate the size of this fish in the water, but this was hands down the biggest bass I had ever seen. I think I can safely say this fish was 10+. It was simply so much bigger than anything I had ever seen in my life. Needless to say I will be coming back to Fork or an other TX lake every spring for the rest of my life. I can't even imagine what it is like to catch one of these giants. Just seeing this beast had me shaking like crazy. It was like seeing that monster buck on opening morning.

We saw that fish in the afternoon of the last day and we came back to the area 2 or 3 times, but only saw her the one time.

Hopefully this is the year I break my PB with a straight up Texas Stud!

according to the guide she was around 17 lb

Biggest was one I caught in an acre stock pond. Even though it probably didn't weigh over 10 lbs it was 28".

Saw one on a bed on fork in 03 that was considerably bigger than the 2 10s we caught that day. I'd guess high teens. Lost one on Fork 6 or 8 years ago that I think was mid teens. Watched her eat the jig, watched her jump 3 times trying to throw it after the LFT fluorohybrid snapped.

Could have been Jim Taylor. He caught a 15.88 at Fork on 2/17/1990.

Crazy reading some of these stories!

Watched a guy in the boat near us haul in a 12.9 on Choke Canyon in 2012; I know the weight as he didn't have a scale and we did.
...always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

So, you didn't land it? When AH was peaking, we would go out there usually a week at a time. We would pull up to a giant cedar and look into the crystal clear and see some unbelievable sized giants. There was no way you could get to them, though. Some of the funnest bed fishing I've done was on AH. Many a day we would catch 10-15 fish a day that would bust 7lb mark. Biggest was 10.2 during AH heyday. The good ole' days have since went long gone....

I fished with a guy (cant remember his name off the top of my head) who guided during the spawn. I am not great at determining size of fish but he found one on a bed and we worked her for 8 hours. He is the guy that caught tree DD's in 45 minutes on one bank and he said he felt like she was between 13 and 15 easily. Never seen a bed fish act like she did. She nosed up on it for two hours and I finally got her to eat it. She inhaled the whole lure in her mouth, very calmly turned around and start swimming away from us. I reeled down and set the hook and somehow it came right out. Immediately threw back in and she would nose right up to it but never did bite again. She did that for 6 more hours.

Fish on ive, 3 of us in the boat. One guy with 8 fish over ten, and his dad who has idk how many over 10 but had a 12 for pb.

Fish bit my buddies bait on a long cast fought it about half way in. Jumped ans his dad and both looked at each other wide eyed and slacked jawed... ive never seen a teener other than in an aquarium, but both those guys said that fish DWARFED the 12lber... fish jumped again and worm and weight SHOT out, it was like she threw it at us... all 3 of us just sat down in shock... biggest single fish ive seen.


Now i was in the crowd when Kombs set the single day record for FLW. In total i think we saw 11 or 12 fish over 10 weighed in that day

Was it TTUFisherman, Curtis Norrod?