Trophies

[Jacks Tackle]

Hi every one, I dont post here much, but love to read this board all the time. I use to fish bass every chance I would get and have caught some huge bass. Big in California when I was a teen ager and also some large Oregon bass. For sure it is a part of my life I miss alot now that I dont have nearly the time I did when I was younger.

Something about this board that I love to read is all the stories of your trophies and how the battle played out. Any one want to share the story of your biggest bass and maybe share a pic?

RB

[TTFishon]

http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq290/tedfishmon/100_2004.jpg (http://s456.photobucket.com/albums/qq290/tedfishmon/?action=view&current=100_2004.jpg) hope this works. I caught this fish back in 94 at about 4 in the morning using a purple auger tail rubber worm. She weighed 8 pounds 9 ounces. I'm a C&R bass fisherman so I felt really bad for keeping and mounting this fish. The best part is that I caught her in a pond that I taught myself how to fish in when I was a kid.

[Dave Smith]

WOW, TTFishon, that's a fatty!! This isn't my biggest fish, not even my biggest Oregon fish, but it comes with a good story that I probably never told on here: I spotted this fish sunbathing on a windy day and didn't think it was even six pounds. I wasn't going to try to catch her but there wasn't much else going on. After a few attemtps to get her to turn down on a jig and she didn't spook, I started to think she might be staging to spawn. I tried lot's of different things and finally got her to turn down on and attack a small swimbait. I set the hook and the fight was on. I got her to the boat and she was hooked on the outside of her gill plate and I saw that she was big. I weighed her and let her go and called my wife in dissapointment to tell her that I "almost" caught a big fish. I went back a few weeks later and found her and tried again- she would have none of it. Then a week later I couldn't find her but was throwing a huge swimbait to down trees about 200 yards from where I accidentally foul-hooked her. This big green monster swam out of the trees and followed behind my swimbait- I sped it up and she caught up with it right at the boat. I weighed her and found the mark on her gill-plate- it was the same fish!!
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g33/arcticstar/8-10Bass006.jpg

[fishlipper]

Not my biggest, but I did have a pic of this one at work. Shh don't tell anyone. he he he This was a great fight, and a really pretty fish. I caught this one out of a public pond that is tucked back out of the way. It was a fall fish that fell to a 7" brown worm t-rigged. Suprise, it was laying next to a down tree in the water.

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Big_Fish_1_9-9-06.JPG

[MXRacer105]

This was my biggest fish of the year.... caught on the Umpqua (early spring) on an Excaliber jerkbait, she absolutely nailed it. Only had a 0-75lbs scale in the sled (making it hard to get an exact weight), but she weighed somewhere around 6lbs. I will catch her again next spring and have my nice digital scale for the exact weight.

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/IMG_0657_15.JPG

In my 3 trips fishing for LMBs this year, I never hooked one of 2lbs.... still have time I guess.

Keep the pics coming, I love these "biggest fish of the year" threads....

[bad habit]

wow those are all very nice fish..I would love to catch a smallmouth that size, what a fight .. this fish here is close to my personal best, but I didnt weigh it at the time , and I was fishin by myself so the pics arent great. I threw my weightless senco into a little oasis on the backside of a submerged tree,the trees branches were sticking straight up and looked sharp.. this lady slammed my worm and towed me right towards the dangerzone into the tree. ended up wrappin around a couple of branches and somehow I avoided popping my pontoon.Im sure it was funny to see a guy with his pole in one hand and the other arm trying to oar out of the mess...somehow she unwrapped herself and she was mine .. took pics and let her go ..always fun.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/P6230452.JPG

[Super Fluke]

Over the past few years of bass fishing, my dad and I have got into three trophy fish. This year, my dad was fishing with his best friend, of 25 years, from New York when he caught an 8 pound 3 ounce largy. He hadn’t been at the lake for ten minuets when he hooked the monster on a spinner bait. It was a really nasty, windy day.
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r235/super-fluke/410110-R1-039-18_019.jpg
My dad is getting this fish mounted right now.
Another big largy that I caught was in 2007. We didn’t even start fishing until 10 am, because my dad had to go to work in the morning. In two casts, I caught a 7 pounder and then an 8 pound 1 ounce trophy. The date I caught it was 07/07/07, what a date for a trophy?
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r235/super-fluke/7-13-2007-2.jpg
I’m getting this fish mounted right now.
Here is my brother's bigget fish, he caught it the same day that I caught my 8 pound largy, it was 5 pounds 7 ounces.
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r235/super-fluke/Picture002.jpg
The best fish that I have caught was the state record smally. It was in May of 2005. I was umpiring that year, so before we went fishing I had to go a game to umpire and the game was canceled so we decided to go try Hagg for a little bit to see if we could catch any fish. We were fishing for about an hour when my dad hooked a fish and he handed off the rod like any good father would do to his 12 year old son. We caught the fish on a zoom super fluke. This was the only fish we ever kept because it was the state record.
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r235/super-fluke/Nicks_big_bass45.jpg
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r235/super-fluke/IMG_1049.jpg
This fish was mounted by Dave Smith.

I caught this monster today, 8 pounds 0 ounces. 10/19/08
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r235/super-fluke/1.jpg

[DJD]

It was mid October at Fern Ridge lake several years back; before the dam repair took place. I was fishing with one of my fishing buddies in his Lund on the now very shallow flat just south of the exposed roadbed that was old Royal ave. I had tossed a chartruse pumpkin Zoom lizard to one the hundreds of small exposed stumps now visible. My cast was right on target and landed on top of a stumphttp://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn12/DJD-ifish/August19bass7lb3oz.jpg no bigger around than the end of a baseball bat, in no more than 2 feet of water. I gave it a little twitch and it fell into the murky water, right into the maw of a waiting sow! She took off like a steelhead peeeling off about 25 yards of line in about 2 seconds. I remember trying to set my hook and the gears just slipping inside the reel; the fish left a boil the size of a washtub and took off again! I tried to set again and for the second time the gears just slipped! That big old sow boiled again and came out of the water and shook my lure, leaving me just shaking! All I had to do was just plant my thumb on the reel spool while I tried to set my hook and things might have been different; but I was pretty excited at the time. That was my biggest bass; no pics but I will never forget the ferocity of that strike or the sheer power and strength of that fish! Had to be a 10+ but I will never know for sure. I guess thats what we all love about the sport of bass fishing. If you want to see a big fish picture you will have to look at my august post! BTW, I never wanted to use that reel again so I gave it to my Dad!http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn12/DJD-ifish/August19bass7lb3oz.jpg

[Bassinator]

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/April_08_383.jpg
Wow this group has really caught some monsters. I caught this fish in the early spring on a Tried and True Jigs and boy was she a fun one. There is nothing like a hard fighting largy in the spring when your all bundled up. I caught this fish dead sticking next to a log for at least 30 seconds. I knew the fish weren't going to move off that cover for anything so I really left it on her nose. All I felt was a small tick and the fight was on. Can't wait till next spring.:excited:

[Mr6lbR]

Not my biggest fish but my best this year... so far. Caught her next to a rusty steel pole in about 4 feet of muddy water. That was back in March. No scale, 19.5 inches. Was by myself but I got a remote for the camera that came in pretty handy. Im just glad I got a decent picture.

[williamonica0214]

Wow great fish guys. I am new to oregon and would like to know hwere your getting all these bass. i mean the lakes not exact spots. and if you ever have an open seat please let me know. i would be glad to pay for gas and snacks

[XPO]

The Flukes encouraged me to post this from my 2007 Clear Lake trip. I was fishing with guide Larry Hemphill in dense weeds near a dock and wall. Pitched a 10# worm into a small hole in the weeds near a piling next to the wall. Sensed more than felt the pick up and then saw the line moving off. I set up and the fight was on. Other than the excitement of the moment, the thing that sticks in my mind was that the 8#11oz on the left actuall stripped drag on me. the smaller fish is about 5#. Randy Orton of Fish Tail Gallery in Bend is preparing the replica for me. It'll be on the wall in about two weeks.

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/Clear_Lake_CA.jpg

[TTFishon]

Wow great fish guys. I am new to oregon and would like to know hwere your getting all these bass. i mean the lakes not exact spots. and if you ever have an open seat please let me know. i would be glad to pay for gas and snacks

I caught mine in a pond in Eugene.

[hunter9]

2006 Sunset Lake bass
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t156/naichosaechao/1211082059.jpg

[jaxflyfish]

I caught a 21.5 inch smallmouth on the John Day in 2006 while flyfishing. The sweet part of this is that we had just launched the boat and two guys were going out of their way to tell me that using a hopper or any topwater fly at that time of year was a waste of time.

2nd cast, 20 feet downstream and in full view of the same guys I landed the biggest bass I have ever caught. I immediately released her after putting her up on the top of the cooler which had a measuring device built in.

NOt sure how big it was as far as weight goes....I have a pic around here somewhere...I will track it down and post it.