Mine is very simple and probably happened to a lot of us. Had a fish on that my pardner and I both guessed at 9-10. Was fishing out of a little bass buster with no net in the boat. Got her up to the boat and my pardner started to lip her. She must have seen his hand because when he was about 6" away, she shook one more time, threw the hook and said bye-bye. (Numerous expletives deleted)!!!!! LOL

I don't want to say I'm fishing retarded, but only after losing 3 fish I've estimated all to be 9+, with no net in the bass buster, I now have one (and now I'm catching dinks)!!!!!

IT IS MAY 1ST 2012. MY WIFE AND I ARE FISHING BURCH CREEK ON FORK.MY WIFE HAS A OLD POP R ON AND ME A TRAP.I THOUGHT A TREE HAD FALLEN IN THE WATER I TURNED AND SEE A BIG BOW IN WIFES ROD. LOOK INTO THE LAKE AND UP THIS BASS COMES. IT WEIGHED AROUND 15 TO 16 POUNDS. LOOK AND THE POP R IS OUT OF SIGHT IN THE FISHES MOUTH. THE POP R HAS BRAND NEW OWNERS TREBLE HOOKS AND THE LINE IS NWE 15 LB BIG CAME.IAM READY WITH THE NET, AND THINKING THIS IS THE DAY AFTER S.A.L. AND ABOUT THEN LINE PARTED. THAT WHOLE SPOOL OF BIG GAME WAS BAD.

I took 2nd in a 2007 BASS Open on Texoma years back when Brian Clark won. I was on the fish to win. Had a kicker on day 3 and was leading. Came in one fish shy and had lost a 3lber on the final day. Saw the fish's back way up shallow and cast my senko up to her. Saw the fish turn and hit by bait but was facing me. Wouldnt turn so I set hook and she swam fast right at me and came off just a few feet in front of the boat. The fish coming off cost me 40k+. Put that in your pipe and smoke it for the last 7 yrs. 2nd is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick I guess.

Caught an 11 half at falcon on a deep crank back in 2011. Well same day I hooked another giant on same crank that I absolutely never had a chance with. Buddy and I had found a ditch with hardwood trees in the bottom in 20' with brush all over the sides in 10-12' and it had a huge school in it. We had already caught probably 25 over 4# out of this ditch when I hooked what I figured was a alligator gar until it came up and jumped. She jumped 4 times on the end of a LONG cast and ended up throwing the crank. My PB is a 12.54 and then thAt 11 I had caught that same day and this fish was bigger than both of those. My buddy saw it all happen and he actually set down in the boat for a minute to collect himself also. He told me that was the biggest bass he has ever laid his eyes on be it in an aquarium or alive. I don't wanna guess how big because I honestly don't have a clue. Just absolute giant. To this day that crankbait is hanging on a mount in my living room having never been tied on another rod after that trip. Our best 5 fish that day weighed 47.5# roughly, sure would've been nice to break 50!

5 years ago on O.H. Ivie I was throwing a 7inch hollow bellow swim bait in and around the grass probably 4ft deep. My rod loaded up and then it just felt like a log I tried to turn her and get her out of the grass but she striker some drag and buried her sled in grass. Shortly after that she broke off. All I know is this fish felt like a tank and never have me a shot to land her

Mine was just a month or so ago at Fork with my dad. It was one of those nasty weather days where you might only catch a fish or two, but they're likely to be big. We decided to call it a day with no bites and were passing under a bridge on the way back to the ramp. Giguring the main lake bite might be better than the creek channel bite we'd been chasing all day, we decided to toss some jigs up on the end of the bridge. I had 50# braid on my Dobyns DX745 jig rod and felt the thump, set the hook and the fish almost completely pulled the rod out of my hands. About 4-5 seconds into the fight, he broke my braid off. I've had a number of 6-8 pound fish at Fork (my PB was a 9-12 on Ray Roberts) and this fish was much more powerful than anything I'd ever had on the line. Mystified and upset, I tied another jig on and proceeded to flip it to the corner of the bridge, only to have the line snap during the cast. This is 50# braid, mind you, and we haven't had a bite. I was mad as all get out and my dad was cracking up laughing. After some investigation, I saw one of my guide inserts was cracked and I can only assume that my line was getting caught in there and getting cut.

It's just unfortunate that the biggest bass I ever had on got cut on the guide of a the most expensive rod that I've ever owned and probably only used a couple dozen times. $10 later, I had the guide fixed, but that fish will haunt me forever. A Fork bridge fish in the winter that almost took the rod out of my hands. Could've been 8. Could've been 15. We'll never know, unless someone catches one with a pb&j jig and 20 feet of braid still in his mouth and weighs him for me.

Mine was in the early 90's on lake Belton during a 3 fish tournament. I had a 6-7 pound small mouth to the boat. (my biggest to date is 4 lbs) My partners net had blown out of the boat 2 days prior, he was trying to lip the fish for what seemed like an eternity. Somehow the hook came out and we watcher her slowly swim away. Had we known he could have just put his hand under her belly and lifted. To make thing worse I lost a 6 lb largemouth an hour later. At that point we though a 3lber back in the lake and went home. Worst day of fishing ever.

Caught my old PB on a cold February day last year of 7.71.... Once she was landed I did a victory dance on the front deck.... But the dance ended fast when I did a spin move and my partners keys went flying into the lake. Best and worst moment of my life.

I was fishing the 2013 Berkley Big Bass event on Fork and i hooked a fish on a sebile bull crank and i thought it was a nice slot until it jumped. She was easily an over and DD. Fought her until she wrapped me on a stump right next to the boat. Me and my partner saw her flashing around the stump as we tried to un wrap her. All of a sudden the flashing stopped. I untangled the line and the crank only to find 2 prongs on the back treble had ben straightened out. If i would have landed her im 100% sure i would have won a new boat and a had a new PB. Also during the 2013 Skeeter Owner's Tournament on Fork i caught a fish that was 16 and less that 1/8 of an inch. just a hair over 16. The fish weighed 3.57lbs. That would have a been a boat if she was just a tad shorter.

On Fork a couple years ago, hooked up a good fish but she broke me off under a dock. Backed off and retied, when I pulled back in between the dock this huge fish came up in front of the trolling motor and slowly swam down along side of the boat and then just backed off and looked at me and the boat, I thought she was daring me to get the water so she could kick my butt for sore mouthing her. Was only a couple of docks down from mine, the wife came out and asked how I was doing, so I trolled up to our dock and had her get in, went back to where the big girl was and as soon as we pulled in, she came back up swam up and down the boat and just hung around close enough that we could have almost netted her, threw lures at her but she wouldn't even glance at them. My PB is 11.8, this ole girl was much bigger. Think maybe she might have been a share lunker that was released, she certainly wasn't afraid of us or the boat. Went out the next morning before daylight to try and get her to bite one more time, but never saw her again.

keep them coming�.

Yea Bisset, Cause of the big fish huh. But you know I fished those clear water lakes with hardly any grass or brush in them for years. Theres nothin to hide your line. Also, your baits have a different action with lighter line. I don't know if those are good reasons or not, but I always caught more fish with light line.

Man, you guys have some giants in Texas! I live in Ks and a big one here is a 6 pounder. I was fishing in the fall 2 years ago with my cousin. We were throwing square bills to rip rap catching everything. White bass, wipers and some largemouth. I was throwing a char/black KVD 1.5. I got bit, swept the rod and the fish started bull dogging and I saw it flash. I could see that it had a green tint like a largemouth. I knew it was a good one too. The fish rolled on the surface and broke me off. I was using 12lb floro but we have zebra muscles here and you have to retie a lot when cranking rocks. I estimated this fish to be around 5 pounds. This happened on a sunday. I went back out thursday and was fishing the same corner of a rock jetty. This time I was throwing a bone/orange colored 3/8 oz chug bug. I saw a silhouette come up and smoke my bait. I set the hook and it pulled some drag. I got it's head turned towards the boat and she came out of the water like a rocket. She jumped about 2 feet out of the water. When she came out of the water, the chug bug went flying out of her mouth and I could see a bright chartreuse/black square bill in the side of her face that she took from me a few days before. I got a better look at her and she was around 7lbs or so. I caught a 5.5 the day before and she wasn't nearly as big as the one that kicked my butt TWICE!

Probably have to be that time I lost that hawg up in Birch a few years back. Would have been a state record easy. Broke me off right at the boat. I seen some big fish and I swear she had to be at least 20 pounds!

Mine was @ Birch Creek on Fork. Deep cranked up what was possibly my first DD fish in about 25 feet of water, when it hit it immediately ran to the surface and did a water clearing leap . There was a tree half way between me and the fish and I had to beat the fish to it. I was on the trolling motor going as fast as it would go and cranking for all I had and she still beat me to the tree and almost immediately broke me off.....It was by far the biggest LMB I had ever connected with.......to this day I still let that eat on me when I think about it and really I don't think there was a thing I could have done to change the outcome.....