Biggest 5 fish Limit in Tournament?

[TurnUpTheFishing]

Pretty sure the largest 5 bass record was 45lbs and some change.

[TR21HP]

Dean Rojas in January of 2001 - 45 lbs. 2 oz., 5 fish bag on Lake Toho in Florida.

[blakjack23]

I believe there was an 8-fish bag that went just over 40 lbs on Prior lake. I can't remember exactly when, but I think in the last few years.

[sicheneder]

lindbergs pt?

[TonkaBass]

I think it was 8 fish for 38 and change on prior...

26+ for 5! congrats to him! Got any pics?

[Deitz Dittrich]

lindbergs pt?

actually, no it wasnt.. which I also found hard to believe.. but there has been something like 12 tournaments over the last month out there.. With both Centers being so low, Green has really taken the brunt of the tournaments in the area.

[Fever]

Biggest 5 bag I've ever seen was 24.6 lbs on a small 210 acre southern Mn lake. Brother and I got 3rd with 18.2 lbs that day. I also saw a 22.3 lb bag come out of a west metro lake near Annandale on a day when partner and I got completely skunked. Seems to me the chances of a heavy 5 fish bag would be better if one were fishing specific deep rock and or rock and weed structure. Those fish would be congregated in that area. Yeah you could still catch big pigs shallow, no doubt, but they'd be spread out and therefore would require you to move quick, cover water, and get a bit lucky that some other shallow water fisherman hasn't either caught the fish or scared them off. I wish my league would do 5 fish instead of 3. My best 3 bass bag was 13.9 lbs and we let about 7 18 inch fish go as they couldn't top the other three in the well. I figure I'd have topped 20 lbs easy that day if we had a 5 bass bag.

[rangerforme]

The Lakefront on Prior back in 2002 it was an 8 fish limit for 39lbs. I bet those 5 best would have been really close.

[sicheneder]

last thursday we had a league night out on Green and TimmyD won with 18+lbs and 2nd was 17+lbs, but there was 6lber weighted in.

i can only think of 2 tournaments that were close to 26lbs.

Fishers of Men-MN West

Rush Lake

9/30/06

1 Zimmerman and Sandquist 5 24.67

Fishers of Men-OPEN

Lake Waconia

10/08/06

1 DEAN CAPRA and Brad Luetner 5 25.90

[turn_in_poachers]

this reminds me of an article I read in In-Fisherman about Sturgeon Bay smallie fishing:

"Local nightly tournaments are won with 14lbs....... for 2 fish."

[bass-o-matic]

My personal best in a tourney is 22.64. We would have had over 24 pounds if my partner hadn't dropped our 3rd 5 pounder. I know what it weighed because I had caught the fish the week before pre-fishing. Our 2 largest fish in the well during the tourney were both 5.75 and we didn't win big fish. Actually, we barely won the tourney, as 2nd place that day had 21.96 with a 6.36 kicker!

[CaptZ21]

This is a little off the mark but not too long after the Weds nighters on Tonka started I was at the weigh in waiting to see if I have big fish (lil over 5#) when a limit was brought in with the smallest fish being 5 3/4 and the big fish around 7 1/2 with 2 6 lbers to fill out the then 4 fish limit. It was over 25 lbs for 4, and I am thinking they culled a 5, but I was there and saw those 4 hawgs.

[Deitz Dittrich]

YIkes, that would be a sight to behold!!!! Sick!!! Awesome...!!!

Any idea who the anglers were?

[CaptZ21]

It was Raveling and Larry Reid.

[Cecil]

Yep!

[bassNspear]

it would be awesome to stick 100+ lbs in a tournament

[fishuhalik]

Yeah, a 20lb average would be pretty nice....

[HellaBass]

There was an 8 fish limit for 37.15lbs on Pelican last year, had a 7lb kicker, guessing their best 5 would have been in the 26lb conversation

I also remember something about a nearly 30lb bag coming from the river above Pokegama - Grand Rapids about 10 years ago

[Superduty]

You should have seen the big fish on pelican before the internet made it popular. In non tourney fishing trips, 25 lbs was nothing to accomplish in 3 or 4 hours. I heard about that bag. I'm surprised nobody has done better actually. Unfortunately, I think the best days are gone for pelican.

[TonkaBass]

I was out there when that bag came in... The thing that really makes you think is they had a couple 2 3/4 pounders in there too!

[luckycrank]

five today for 25.78

[hey__bob]

That bag today backs up the one from last year on the same lake that one was over 25# as well!

[luckycrank]

what tourney was that ?

[kg2]

Nice bag, Pat. Very, very impressive to see.

(PS lets keep these southern MN lakes a secret! lol)

[kg2]

I think Bob was referring to the same contest he had the same time last year (same circuit). I believe the weight was 24.4# from not quite the same lake. (Team Shetka/Hauer)