biggest fish

[LEECH21]

My biggest largemouth came out of Waconia in August of 2004. She went 22" and around 7 1/2 pounds. She was really fat! The pic is in my avatar to the left. Was taken on a muskie inhaler while muskie fishing. Great bonus fish!

My biggest smallie was 20.5 inches taken on a jointed shad rap.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Happy B-day Leech21....

[Captain B.R.K]

Happy Birthday!

Biggest largie for me is 5.5lb and it was caught on a black jig w/ 7" black berkley power tail.

Can't seem to get any closer to 6lbs, maybe I need to follow you guys around more closely

[LEECH21]

Thanks fellas!

B.R.K.....I'm heading up your way tonight to hit the downtown area. Should be a lot of fun. Hopefully I can remember it!

[matthothand]

Best bass for me is 22 inches for both largemouth and smallmouth. Count me in on the 300 club for the season. Started with a bang by boating over 200 fish on opener weekend. Atleast 25 of those fish were over 19 inches. One of the perks of fishing the duluth area is that nobody really fishes the largemouth bass very hard and if you get on a good bite you get it all to yourself.

[comicdog]

Opening day for Walleye and Pike in North Minnesota. 21" fatty on a 5" Pike Minnow. No weight but it was a big healthy fish. Hope to catch it again before the season ends.

[PLfisherman]

my biggest largemouth was seven pounds caught on a white and chartruce spinner bait the second day after opener last year. my biggest smallmouth was 22.5 inches and 6 lbs 13 ounces caught on mille lacs in august on a fire tiger shallow running crank bait made by flammin lure. it is still the biggest smallie i have ever seen. I will try and put the picture up here.

[ChuckN]

This is my best...didn't measure or weigh (caught in the moment to get her swimming again). Fat piggie guessed over 6 lbs.

Largest smallie...20"

[matthothand]

After this morning I've climbed over 200 smallies for the season...still working on that 7 pounder though. Nice fish Chuck!

[Deitz Dittrich]

lol.. I have caught 1 smallie this season so far.. LMAO

[Trucker Jim]

My largest was a 6lb 10oz'r. My second largest was a 6lb 8oz'r. Caught on a Baby Brush Hog green pumpkin Texas rigged. The second time on a 6"black lizard Carolina rigged. The neatest thing about that was that it was the same fish on two different occasions. Catch and release pays off! The reason I know was that it had a scar on it that I recognized, and caught it within yards of where I caught it the first time. The weight was true, I verifed my scales accuracy at the meat market. Also, what was very cool was that it was on a metro lake.

I have a conversion chart on length = weight. The following is from it.

12"=1.0lbs

13"=1.3

14"=1.7

15"=2.1

16"=2.5

17"=3.0

18"=3.6

19"=4.2

20"=5.0

21"=5.7

22"=6.6

23"=7.6

Of course, these are estimates depending on many different factors, but I've found it to be close.

[Royce Aardahl]

I got this in an email, some guy got it up by Brainerd I hear. Maybe a new record?? What a PIG!

[RobertELee]

I don't know, kinda looks like photoshop to me. If it is a real picture HOLY COW WHAT A MONSTER, looks like it ate a softball!

[fishermn]

My biggest was only about 5 lbs, dont recall the measuremnts though...

I've only boated around 50 so far this year, but I didnt start looking for the bass until after the 4th of July. The walleyes had all my attention before that!

Anyone else notice that the fishing this year has been exceptional? Maybe I have just been lucky, but I have done well every time out this year.

Matt from Duluth, I agree, its awesome, very little Bass comepetion around here!

[Hotspotter]

My biggest was an asterisk.

Just over 22", crappy scale said over 7 1/2 lbs, caught it crappie fishing in the spring on a bobber/minnow. She was a female full of spawn. I was 14 or so, and I've never since seen a bass with as big a gut. It looked sick.

Joel

[Lunker]

Biggest largemouth, hair over 21". Caught on a miniature buzzbait on a MPLS lake.

Biggest smallmouth 19" this spring on the Wisconsin river. Caught on a big red-tailed chub.

[tubejigger]

Largie: 21.75, 15.5 girth Florida rigged blue fleck lizard

Smallie: 19.5, black with red fleck tube on a metro lake that supposedly doesnt have smallies in it.

Walleye: 32inch - first time walleye fishing in 5+ years, haven't walleye fished since...leaving on a high note!

Musky: 45 inch on Tonka, Black and Red bucktail, 3rd fish of the night...same lure.

What's the 300 club?..300 bass in a season? I need to start counting.

[ChuckN]

Might as well bump this back up.

A recent trip to Rainy Lake (MN side) produced this pig. Those smallies are huge in that lake. Caught several others.

[LEECH21]

Nice fish!

What's the length on that beauty?

[ChuckN]

Oops, just over 19". I guessed 21" before the stick and I got sticker shock. lol

[Mark Christianson]

Thats becoming a habit for you Chuck. Better get some glasses bud..

(Contact Us Please) nice fish!

But, I hate to rain on your parade....

[ChuckN]

AH!! Nice! Now, you are free of the curse.

[Huskiedevle]

Biggest largemouth bass was 5 lbs.12 oz.,caught out of Medicine Lake on a purple 6 inch plastic worm.Biggest smallie was 6 lbs. on a jigging Rapala,caught out of Cenaiko Lake, while ice fishing.

[Flaco651]

Biggest Smallie: 19'' on a Tube jig in the St. Croix.

Biggest Largemouth: 22'' 6lb. 12oz on a black spinnerbait just after dark Sept. 2005 on a 8 acre pond in Dakota county.

A lot of the time to skip traffic on the bigger lakes, I will just take my River Ridge custom canoe and fish the ponds and smaller lakes throughout Dakota county and leave the boat at home. I usually do really well on these spots. A lot of these spots have good sized fish and even good average sizes.

[friendlyfisher]

My biggest is a 21 1/2" That was just over 6lbs. Caught slow rolling a spinnerbait in the fall.

I did see and measure personally a 24" largie on the same lake last year. It was a MONSTER that was under 8 lbs. It was in the middle of the summer and very skinny. To bad it was not in the fall or it would of given the record a run for its money.