Personal Best Largemouth Bass - 6/1/2022

[Ghost]

After all these years fishing, and the last 20 or so years; bass fishing. I've finally caught a double digit largemouth bass!

Caught a 10 lb bass past 8pm using a discontinued Bass Pro Shops, The Egg shallow crankbait in crawfish pattern. Used my light baitcast setup with 15lb/4lb Power Pro line.

I saw a bass jump out of the water and casted past that spot a couple times. The second time I felt a thump on my line and realized it must be the bass I saw jump out of the water. Since I was using fairly light line, I had my drag loose enough for the bass to run, and did it run! I felt the line coming off the reel and knew it was a good sized bass. It jumped a few times and just kept wishing it won't pop off, and in the early twilight I saw it was big! I didn't horse that bass but played it till it was tired enough to get to shore.

I didn't have my scale on me since I was using my light setup and tackle, I've caught smaller bass which is what I was happy to catch. This bass is a game changer. I did catch a 7 to 8 lb bass last week, so I knew this bass was much bigger and I was right.


There were this couple I asked to take a pic of me but they said no, cuz they don't like seeing that. You can say I was miffed...stupid tree huggers! Yeah, I was whoopin' and jones'n while I was taking my time reeling that bass in.

The bass was so big that I couldn't take a proper selfie and the one pic with just the bass does no justice to how big it really was.

I released the bass after I moved it in the water a few times and made sure it was okay. This has been a great year fishing. Caught that 7 to 8 lber last week, caught numerous bass from dinks to 4 lbers, and also my first brown trout a few weeks ago when I was at Michigan. And now a double digit bass!

[MountainMan 83]

Awesome fish! I felt the excitement just from reading your story!

[Cal]

Congrats!!

[goldrod]

CONGRATULATIONS
on your first DD BASS

Great story teller too. The tree huggers don’t get stickers by their names

[hoohoorjoo]

Awesome, congrats!

[DirtyD64]

So wait, you were running 15lb PowerPro with 4lb leader??? That is light. What rod was it? What reel/spool?

[Ghost]

15lb straight braid. Meant that it's 15 lb braid with 4lb diameter mono. I was using my BFS setup on a medium light casting rod.

[QUAKEnSHAKE]

Im happy for you hope to join the club some day

[dhottle]

Congrats on your new PB. Weighing a PB is the only way to know for sure it is actually a DD.

[Cristo]

Big congrats Nice nice specimens!

[Preston]

Awesome story and pics. Sounds crazy fun. I'm confused though. It's a 10lber, but you didn't have a scale to check?

[Johnny A]

Job well done!

[Cracker]

Great job! Especially catching that bass on a 15lb PE line.
Where did you catch it? In Indiana?

[MK49]

Congrats. Dream on, buddy.