BASS - I mean BIG BASS!!!

[Bow_Hunter]

Any one out there into BASS fishing?

Let's hear from you.

How big?
When?
Where?
Lure used?

Details!!!!!

[SalmonSlayer]

What: Large Mouth Bass
How big: 3.5 lbs
When: August 1999
Where: Pipestone Lake
How deep: Surface
Lure: DEEP Diving Rapala with rattles.
Color: Bright chrome belly with Metallic blue top.
Method Used: Cast heavy lure right next to shore (or as close as you dare get). Slowly pull lure away from shore without causing the lure to dig. Then pause. Then jerk, pause, jerk, pause, jerk, pause long, 5 or 6 cranks of reel to cause lure to dig. Let lure surface. and repeat process.

This fish hit on the second jerk/pause sequence in about 2 ft of water. Sorry, no pictures. Camera left at home and released him.

How bout you...any favorite methods?

ben

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Keepin on

[trout]

My biggest came from a borrow pit next to I-94 in Marysville.I caught it on 6# test with a black rubber worm.At the time I was showing my buddy how to fish a worm to avoid the weeds.He was so mad that I caught the fish in his spot.The fish was going to get mounted but my sister tossed it out.

[Bow_Hunter]

I have caught many over 5 pounds but here is the stats on the biggest I have caught.

Lake Orion
July 20, 1995
8:30 PM (about)
Caught on a dark purple KE Bass Stopper
5 lbs 12 Oz.
Caught in 6 feet of water next to a weed bed.

I caught 8 Bass over 2 lbs. that night. I have never had another night like that in me life. There were three of us fishing and we caught and released over 50 Bass that night.

Talk about being in the right place at the right time!!!

[Steve]

Seems like that's how it is lots of times. You have to be in exactly the right place at the right time. Chances are when you go back out to that spot again, even at the same time of year, you won't repeat the feat. That's what keeps us coming back I guess.

[rob]

Originally posted by Bow_Hunter:
Any one out there into BASS fishing?

Let's hear from you.

How big?
When?
Where?
Lure used?

Details!!!!!

[rob]

hi how we doing today ok I got a bass a few years ago that was 8.4 on lake east of big rapids mi got it about frst of june on top water bait pop-R and have got a lot 5 and 6 pounder off this lake in the years have fished this lake for a long time know it real good. I like to chat with anyone that like to bass fish. so email me if would like to chat about bass fishing see ya all later
Rob

[mchuber]

How big: 3.13 pound Smallmouth Bass
When: Oct. 1999
Where: Schoolhouse Lake, Waterford, Oakland County.
Lure: Berkley Power Worm, Nightcrawler Color

Details: Not much to say, I was fishing the edge of the dying weeds with the Power worm and out of the weeds this smallie shot out grabed the worm and it was off to the races.

I was surprised that with the cooler water, this fish jumped 3 huge leaps before being landed. A few pictures were taken and the fish was returned to the water.

Needless to say, I was shaken and needed to regain my composure before I went back to fishing. That was my largest Smallmouth I have ever caught (No I haven't hooked into the any bruisers in Lake St. Clair yet)


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My life is good . . .
Fishing helps make it that way

Max
Waterford MI

[DAVER]

My personal best smallmouth is 19" 5.5 lbs
Largemouth 21" 6.75 lbs Thanks for asking.

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Stay on top. DAVE

[Cobra]

Best Largemouth- 8lb 9oz, 25 1/2", slow rolling a 3/4 oz spinnerbait in 15' of water while trying to catch pike on openning day of bass season in 1992, Kalamazoo county. Caught a 40" Northern 2 casts later. Best Smallmouth- 6lb 4oz 22 1/4" flipping a jig and pig for largemouth in downed trees , August 1996, in Barry county. All were released.

[Seldom]

My best came in 4/12/82- 7lb15oz largemouth, Gladwin Co. MI. 11:30 pm with a 1/4oz Strike King, blk tandem spinerbait with a 6" blk Mr.Twister trailer. He's on the wall!

[Seldom]

Sorry I forgot to add to my previos post-
I'm 53 and grew up in a bass fishing family when bass fishing was not near a popular as it is today. We started with stainless steel baitcasters & stainless steel rods. And ALL surface lures except maybe the old Shannon Spinner oncew in a while.
Over the years I've only weighed the one fish that I described in the previous post and that was the only bass of that size I've ever killed. I have caught 9 exceeding 20" and 4 over 22" and released all of them after measuring.