Your biggest Bass in 2018 + Location

Last weekend I caught northern bass weighing 8lbs in the Lake St. Clair, Michigan near Detroit, now what is your best catch this so far this year?

10.08 lewisville

My 8.12 on eagle mountain looks a little bigger

8lb. on a Tater Hog Father right here in Tx. (a couple of minutes later partner caught a 10 on similar glide bait)

Did you take a picture of the 8#'r?

12.4 on Lake Fork

8 lber on Rainbow Road. Caught it with a blue shell.

Is that what you used to catch the 8 lb.r? Live bait? Cause that's a 2.5- 3 maybe ^^^^^^.

10.38 January
Athens Tx

Just 3 9's this year. This one was the biggest at 9.95 lbs.

8.5 in Dookie Creek on Lake Grapevine.

These 2 I caught on ray Robert's in April. I have no idea what they weighed but i would love some speculation! They were both toads

8.60 Caught it right in the lip...

11.73 Caught at an East Texas lake on 5/20 at 10:49am

Got 2 right at 8 on Amistad this year

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A 10.4 on Purtis Creek in April

It has been a horrible year for me as far as big fish go! Biggest I've caught all year was a 7 pounder...out a dang pond! I haven't put anything over 6 pounds in my boat this year!

7lb on a square bill on Skiatook in OK.

This is awesome!

11.31 Purtis

9.89 lewisville.

8.01 lbs. Ray Hubbard has some big girls.

9 and change on Fork during the Bass Champs tournament...unfortunately just shy of 24" long. Texas Rigged Gene Larew Rattlin' Crawler in Blackberry/Sapphire

All the edited pictures crack me up. There are no secrets in fishing any more. And it won't even matter if these fish we all caught months ago during the Winter and Spring.

9.81 Falcon

East Texas didnt weigh the first one but 7 pounds on a frog on the next one

8 something on Fork.

9 on RR, Bandit SB Pearl Splatter Back.

10.50 lake weatherford

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Let's not question the OP. He might be 8'6" with hands that can palm a wrecking ball...

Caught a couple heavy 7's on Athens a few weeks ago. Frog in less than 2ft of water, in the far end of a channel lined with boat houses. Behind the little lilly pads....around clumps of matted grass.

8.92lb Amistad

The OP has to be trolling lol. Mine is like 7lb 10z or something like that from Lake Tyler in March or early April on a frog.

9.32. Toledo Bend

7.91. Lake Bridgeport 5.20.18. I'll have to see if I still have a pic somewhere.

8.4 lbs on O.H. Ivie (on left, 6.4 lbs on right)

Second Largest I've ever caught

7.24

8.25#, Falcon 5/30 caught at noon on a 6XD [img]http://texasfishingforum.com/forums/pics...7_8024892139102[/img]

Could you be a little more specific kind sir ?

9.96 Lake Conroe 2nd day of the Big Bass Tour. She was the top hourly fish for that hour!

9.1
Benbrook
April
Less than a foot of h20.

green lillypads......KVD sexy frog.

Thanks Steez, I'm on my way.

8.77 on Lewisville

7.88. Lake Palestine

7.89 new pb on fork in march 3rd cast after 1st launch and driving the gas motor to the first dock I wanted to start on.

That's OK, that don't look like St. Claire neither

6-2-18
Prefishing for SOT on Fork, I caught a 10.14 on a c-rig then an 8.22 on a 10XD, both were overs, show up the next weekend for the SOT and we weighed in an under that took 7th on an hour and I caught a 23.5".

I know where that is! I'm going out there tomorrow and camping on your spot!!

Rough crowd here...

You can’t fool this crowd!

That one is very obviously not an 8 lb.'r ^^^^^^^^

Biggest so far 19 inch 4 lbs 2 oz smallie out of Canyon off the bank. Read somewhere where an 18" smallie is considered trophy size down south, so I guess I caught a trophy smallmouth.

a smallmouth period, here in Texas, is pretty cool.

10.00lbs, Medina Lake

I’m going to st Clair next weekend and I can not wait to get there! I’ve never caught a smallmouth before, hopefully the weather cooperates

It's northern bass guys. Totally different from a southern fish. VERY old dense fish from all that cold up there. That fish is probably 20 years old and it's bones age like tree rings. That all stacks up over time for added weight. Easy 8.

I'm stuck up north for a few more months. Been a tough year bass wise, 5lbs is probably my heaviest YTD. (Mind you the season has only been open for 2 months). I did catch a donkey musky last weekend. My selfie game is not good.

That is a freaking dinosaur man..

Glad you finally learned how to take selfies!

11.10 lbs OH Ivie. Wish I could get the pic to upload....

No way, Josh.

What you don't buy my old dense bone theory Chris? 8lbs maybe if the bones were made out of lead. Sorry, I couldn't help myself with making up that yarn... The OP started it.

I haven't got to fish much until recently so this is my biggest as of 2018. Will fish much more come fall, traditionally for me that's when I catch my bigger fish.

This was caught on Santuit located on cape cod. White swim jig with paddle tail swimbait. Threw up on the bank next to a large log. Swam it down the log and half way this fish hammered it. Little over 7 pounds, big fish for up here.

7.47 in our club's open @ Ray Hubbard in April

Jan. 1, 2018, Monticello at the big bridge on a 6xd

Thank goodness Josh. There was so many things wrong with your post, but bit my tongue. I thought you were serious.

9.47 on Lewisville. Finch Nasty Vicktory Jig. Anchored my largest individual tournament bag at 25 lbs. Got 5 bites that day.

Get off my water!!

9.78 Ray Hubbard

8lbs in April on Grapevine.

7-10, private pond.

Well.....here's a good one from today. Athens lake. On a frog. 100 yards from the boat ramp. With 15 minutes to spare.

One fish. Was good enough for big bass and 2nd.

You da man Steez. Easy money.

^^^^^

Man! You have no idea. This one was barely 8. 5 minutes before this one, my partner lost a true GIANT. Easy DD. I was done...spent....hot....exasperated.....frustrated....you name it. He lost that one, and we got to see it. It motivated me to not give up. Then WHAM! This one absolutely blew up on the frog through some dense pads. It came all the way out of the water and made my part easy. Both hooks in the roof of the mouth. It was a long day of catching nothing but slots. 17",18"19".....

Got second because I couldn't catch one little fish. Only needed ounces for the whole shebang.

9.93 couple weeks ago on cleburne

thats the photo of the 5lb one, the 8lb bass escaped before I took a photo haha, nice pictures guys, so 12lbs is the biggest bass so far on here

12LB 13oz March , brush hog , CB , some say it's cheating but I say it's the best money I've ever spent.

GOOD LAWD!

9.01 on Fork back in April.

Nine pounds and change from Baccarac earlier this year on a 7" Senko. Great memories!

My biggest was about 8.7 ounces on Lake Worth. Anyone who has ever been to that lake will know from the pictures EXACTLY where I caught it... from that dock right behind me in that picture. If you don't know.. I'll give you the exact location... I have checked back 50 times since then.. he is not there anymore lol.

Anyway, that is also my PB...

You sure that isn't about 15? You may be the first to undersize a fish.

7lb 2 oz. Neighbors farm pond Swim jig. 1/2 oz. back in March.

Tight lines, keep safe and good luck.

Thad Rains

Multiple 1.8’s to 2.5’s.

Biggest I caught this weekend 6.3 north part of Ray Roberts
Deep cranking in 24fow. Caught an 8lber at Falcon in Feb also deep cranking in 24fow

I think that’s a little bigger than 8.7 ounces

2 at best.

10.18 Jan 1 first cast Stickmarsh

Nice fanny pack

That's a tactical fanny pack, sir.

10.09 Medina Lake

7.20 Lake Tawakoni

Looks like crotch protection

Got a 6-14 yesterday up here in Cape Cod and my best smallmouth this year.

Solid Cod piece.

Mass. has the most unbelievable state record (outside of Georgia)

15lb 7oz 100% northern strain caught in 1975. No other bass caught in Massachusetts has weighed anywhere close.

I would put the top fish in the 6.5lb range and the bottom looks slightly bigger. They are both fat and healthy for sure!

Id have to double check but I think it was caught ice fishing.

Sure that's not one of those assault fanny packs?

Wrong color for assault fanny pack

9.77 flipping bushes on Rayburn.

10+ on Fork back in April weigh with Boga grips so just with end a 1/4 pound

9.4 Comedero April....

To the OP, this is what a LSC smallmouth looks like (6 pounds):

And a Detroit River early season smallmouth (6.5 pounds)

And a Lake Fork largemouth (9 pounds):

8.5 Joe Pool Lake late April

I have to ask! What is CB??

Camelot Bell

Hahaha..it stands for....."if ya have to ask, you can't afford it".

Great fish Doc. I am pretty sure you hold the lake record for WP so far.

Congrats again!!

10.50 CB in March

NOT TRUE !!!!! No fish in that lake lol

Maybe 2.8lvs

My biggest bass? Ha! Not worth talking about.