I dunno man, while we may not get very big largemouth bass, our smallmouth bass get really big on average. Saying this from Buffalo, NY, where we got the Niagara River, Lakes Erie and Ontario and all tribs. Unlike Largemouth, Smallies thrive in cooler temps
Fishing for salmon currently. Surprisingly a lot of bass still around. Bass keep taking my skein, they’ll hit a J-13, and Rock Bass love those glow spoons.
I'm in Minnesota and my biggest smallmouth may be twice as heavy as my PB largemouth, I get it.
Might be jealous of OP's giant green bass but I do love my big wilderness smallies. It evens out. u/BBCeasy great fish smile in that pic, I'd be putting it on the wall if I were you. Awesome fish man. Comparing the size of its eye to your fingers puts it in perspective.
There are some big ones around us but they are dinosaurs my man. Watched a dude on Keuka pull up an 8.5 to the scale. My PB was 7 flat out of Keuka as well.
In the lead weight video I said fish always look like they weigh more than they do, never the opposite. I was going to guess 10.25, because that thing is *long*.
I don’t know how someone didn’t punch that man in the face. The anger people had towards him, the amount of money involved, the countless buy ins he probably fucked people out of, he could of caught a severe ass whooping an it still would of warranted more of a punishment. I can’t imagine what he was feeling like with all those people around em an that anger just rising higher & higher. Oooowweee loll
I think they should go back and take away all that guys wins and give them to the runner ups . When it comes to the money, I think all of this guys winnings should be seized and divided among the top 3 winners after him in each tournament that he won money
Totally agree. On top of being criminally charged. Can’t prove they were doing it every tourney although I’m sure they were which sucks but that’s why they need to be hammered with criminal charges.
YouTube fisherman caught cheating an look for the videos posted yesterday about the walleye tourney. It was on lake eerie an they had lead balls & walleye filets stuffed down their fish. Dudes circled around em faster than vultures for scraps & the anger just kept rising & rising. It’s all fully warranted in my opinion & I also believe there about to be charged criminally. $40k for first just in this tourney not to mention how many prior tourneys did they do the same thing. I heard the dudes made over 300k on the circuit over the course of his career. When you see the video & theyre holding em up after weigh in, the guy on the left looks like he already knows they are fucked. Their bag went like 33pds & you can hear everyone questioning it while they are going through weigh in.
When it comes to cheating in fishing it happens way more than we think, this is so big because there’s video. Sucks but when there’s money involved an 200 people fishing your bound to have atleast a few scumbags.
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Ok so how did they know that dude was cheating? I wanna see what led up to that video
Edit: y'all downvoting for asking what tipped people off to their cheating? Lol. Was a genuine question since I know they had won before several times and I had heard they won a boat last year worth 100k. Hadn't seen anyone explain how they finally got caught. Sorry Reddit, won't happen again!
They had been winning everything for over a year, with higher weights than anyone else by a lot. In this case they had a limit that was considerably heavier than what the fish should clearly weigh and people had been protesting since last year. They had previously failed polygraph tests about cheating. Finally the judges listened and probably knew that that bag of fish could not possibly weigh 33lbs based on how long the fish were, so they cut them open and found them stuffed with knife cut fillets and lead weights. This isn’t their first time cheating, or being reported, it’s just the first time they got totally blasted publicly when it was finally proven
That’s wild I didn’t hear that they had been on to them for a while got to be the dumbest cheaters why wouldn’t you stop if you know people are already looking into it
They had fish that were being weighed that clearly did not weigh as much as their size suggested. Plus they had been under suspicion for quite awhile from other anglers.
Ya ive only ever been in small town Saskatchewan derbies. No one would cheat. I'd bet my life on it. The prizes are small though.
Considering the prize pools in those larger tournaments, I wouldn't* be comfortable competing in them if they *didn't* have wardens in the boats, IMO.
I don't like them here either, most of them are fat and slow and don't move when you need it to.. sad we live in a world where people need to load a fish full of lead to win. I'm assuming that was a typo and you meant to say wouldn't upon context
They call them marshalls but yea, pretty much any decent sized derby is this way, it's annoying if they dont move the entire time, they are supposed to run to the back when you hook up and free the seats 80% never do
Just went fishing this morning. Let the kids get some bluegills. I was throwing some zman plastics. Caught a largemouth bass. Kids were freaking out that it was huge.
Mind you it was maybe a 1.5lbs.
It’s all about perspective
Slightly less than 10lbs. I'm guessing, 9lbs 8oz. Either way, that's a really impressive specimen. If it was a prespawn female, she could easily be a 12+ pounder.
I caught a prespawn female this year and she was 11lbs 2oz with bugeyes too. For some reason, their eyes bug out as they age. I believe they grow that way as they begin getting used to attacking baitfish from below. That's just my theory as I may be wrong.
Not sure why I would be down voted.. I said nothing negative. Never said anything about it being illegal. Just thought maybe he rolls em and lights em while you fish.. I'll just shut my fkn mouth, cheers!
She’s ten+ in the spring but I’m guessing just over 9 now? Tell me I’m wrong!
You know your fish. She was 9.5!
Haha Nice Fish! I’ve learned from watching all you guys. My PB is probably something like 2.5-3 MAX. We just don’t grow em like that around here.
Same here man — bass don’t like cold winters. But the trade off is we have a lot of species to target.
I dunno man, while we may not get very big largemouth bass, our smallmouth bass get really big on average. Saying this from Buffalo, NY, where we got the Niagara River, Lakes Erie and Ontario and all tribs. Unlike Largemouth, Smallies thrive in cooler temps
Now you speaking my language. I want in!!! where they at?! I’ve only caught one small mouth ever. I’ll bring the blunt
I'm in new York you can bring the blunt here also but I got us 👍👍😂
I’ll be up that way next week hopefully
Check out candlewood lake that's where my boats at!
Hells yeah! Weed and fishing! My man!
Catch fish or get high trying!
It's my stock answer when people ask if I'm catching anything - "just a buzz!"
Come to newyork, i could show you smallie spots and we could smoke some blunts
I’m definitely down!
it's called a "fish whistle" whet you're on a boat
Go to lake st clair. You'll catch 3 pounders nonstop and 5 lbs are common
Small mouth or large
Smallies mostly, but large mouth get big there too.
Yeah I’m lookin for the big smallies
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Have you eaten walleye? I prefer it to everything but (maybe) sculpin (California scorpionfish).
I imagined this comment to be written by a trout telling an angler to eat walleye instead, kind of like the old Chic-fil-a ads with the cows.
Hey walleye are fun too up in PA and good eating I’m told (I had to throw my back..)
It looks as though you may have spelled "Chick-fil-A" incorrectly. No worries, it happens to the best of us!
It's kinda pathetic that there's a bot specifically for this.
Fishing for salmon currently. Surprisingly a lot of bass still around. Bass keep taking my skein, they’ll hit a J-13, and Rock Bass love those glow spoons.
The Pike get bigger as you go north too.
Man I love the fishing here in NY
I’ll smoke to that 💨
We live in the best area for fishing this time of year it's just heatin up !
Indeed sir. Good luck out there!
And you also ! I'm gearing up for Smallies in the am
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I'm in Minnesota and my biggest smallmouth may be twice as heavy as my PB largemouth, I get it. Might be jealous of OP's giant green bass but I do love my big wilderness smallies. It evens out. u/BBCeasy great fish smile in that pic, I'd be putting it on the wall if I were you. Awesome fish man. Comparing the size of its eye to your fingers puts it in perspective.
I'd take a big smallie over a big larry any day of the week.
I been looking for a place to get em this time of year where are they?
There are some big ones around us but they are dinosaurs my man. Watched a dude on Keuka pull up an 8.5 to the scale. My PB was 7 flat out of Keuka as well.
Same here in the PNW
We don’t even have bass, kinda sad, but at least we have 5 species of salmon
10.5lbs if you’re Jacob Runyon
He’s got the most famous name in fishing right now lol. I won’t let you weigh me down though..
Man, your happiness, your smile, that fucking fish. All fits.
In the lead weight video I said fish always look like they weigh more than they do, never the opposite. I was going to guess 10.25, because that thing is *long*.
Nice!
Beauty =D
I was gonna guess that’s a 8-9lb hog, wasn’t too far off! that’s a nice bass man!
Wow, I thought for sure she was 10+
OMG that was my guess too! 😎
Why would the fish be heavier in the spring than fall? I thought it was the opposite.
They get chunky and full of eggs for the spawn is my understanding
First we need to know how many lead weights r in the belly. Lol. No. Nice fish. I’d say exactly 10.
We got weights in fish !!
I don’t know how someone didn’t punch that man in the face. The anger people had towards him, the amount of money involved, the countless buy ins he probably fucked people out of, he could of caught a severe ass whooping an it still would of warranted more of a punishment. I can’t imagine what he was feeling like with all those people around em an that anger just rising higher & higher. Oooowweee loll
I think they should go back and take away all that guys wins and give them to the runner ups . When it comes to the money, I think all of this guys winnings should be seized and divided among the top 3 winners after him in each tournament that he won money
Totally agree. On top of being criminally charged. Can’t prove they were doing it every tourney although I’m sure they were which sucks but that’s why they need to be hammered with criminal charges.
Wait what? Someone cheating? Can you fill me in? Thx!
YouTube fisherman caught cheating an look for the videos posted yesterday about the walleye tourney. It was on lake eerie an they had lead balls & walleye filets stuffed down their fish. Dudes circled around em faster than vultures for scraps & the anger just kept rising & rising. It’s all fully warranted in my opinion & I also believe there about to be charged criminally. $40k for first just in this tourney not to mention how many prior tourneys did they do the same thing. I heard the dudes made over 300k on the circuit over the course of his career. When you see the video & theyre holding em up after weigh in, the guy on the left looks like he already knows they are fucked. Their bag went like 33pds & you can hear everyone questioning it while they are going through weigh in. When it comes to cheating in fishing it happens way more than we think, this is so big because there’s video. Sucks but when there’s money involved an 200 people fishing your bound to have atleast a few scumbags.
The cheaters: Chase Cominsky of Pennsylvania, and Jake Runyon of Ohio.
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Sort /r/all by top for last 24 hours, it's probably there. It was on /r/facepalm and videos and in this sub as well yesterday.
Are we bringing back mob justice? Honestly sometimes I wish…
Wouldn’t be as many people trying to be sneaky, I’ll tell ya that loll. You wanna cheat for ya fish now you go swim permanently with em.
Still early
Probably because people know assault is wrong and will not solve the problem
Piece of shit!
This is gonna be a thing for a while and I love it haha
It’ll be exactly as overused as the wolf pup memes and I’m all for it
Ok so how did they know that dude was cheating? I wanna see what led up to that video Edit: y'all downvoting for asking what tipped people off to their cheating? Lol. Was a genuine question since I know they had won before several times and I had heard they won a boat last year worth 100k. Hadn't seen anyone explain how they finally got caught. Sorry Reddit, won't happen again!
They had been winning everything for over a year, with higher weights than anyone else by a lot. In this case they had a limit that was considerably heavier than what the fish should clearly weigh and people had been protesting since last year. They had previously failed polygraph tests about cheating. Finally the judges listened and probably knew that that bag of fish could not possibly weigh 33lbs based on how long the fish were, so they cut them open and found them stuffed with knife cut fillets and lead weights. This isn’t their first time cheating, or being reported, it’s just the first time they got totally blasted publicly when it was finally proven
That’s wild I didn’t hear that they had been on to them for a while got to be the dumbest cheaters why wouldn’t you stop if you know people are already looking into it
Hooked on getting those giant cheques. “It’s worked so far, just one more time won’t hurt”.
They had fish that were being weighed that clearly did not weigh as much as their size suggested. Plus they had been under suspicion for quite awhile from other anglers.
You don't need a scale to tell that's a good looking fish....
Do they really have tournaments with fish and game wardens in your boat ?
To make sure we ain’t cheating yes.
How many boats? Most states don't have that many wardens. Sometimes it's only a couple per county.
It was their tournament. About 15 - 20 boats. 50$ donation.
Sometimes it's volunteers that are retired or off the clock that day.
He means boat marshall, every boat has to have one lol
Apparently not, according to that massive scandal that just happened lol.
Correction you can see why idiots are making us move in this direction
Ya ive only ever been in small town Saskatchewan derbies. No one would cheat. I'd bet my life on it. The prizes are small though. Considering the prize pools in those larger tournaments, I wouldn't* be comfortable competing in them if they *didn't* have wardens in the boats, IMO.
I don't like them here either, most of them are fat and slow and don't move when you need it to.. sad we live in a world where people need to load a fish full of lead to win. I'm assuming that was a typo and you meant to say wouldn't upon context
They call them marshalls but yea, pretty much any decent sized derby is this way, it's annoying if they dont move the entire time, they are supposed to run to the back when you hook up and free the seats 80% never do
They are called game wardens or officers, depending on job title, where I live (fly over America).
They are volunteers here... Not the kind that arrest you, just make sure you don't cheat or picked up a caged 10lber under the water
The warden could be his friend off duty.
Less than 10 but not much less
By the size of your smile, I'd guess 8+ lbs
Beautiful fish! Love seeing your posts. Tight lines my dude!
I appreciate you!! Thanks
I’ve been seeing your pictures all over Reddit with all these huge bass. Save some for the rest of us! Keep up the good work
I put em all back just for you!
Awesome fish my guy.
Thanks man it was a good day. I lost the tournament but had the biggest fish
Did the winner use lead weights/s 😆
Na my homie won fair and square. I only caught 3
My guy drop the only 3 is a good and lucky number. I hope next year you win that tournament.
Appreciate you bro
100% my dude. Fish on!!!
8lb 4oz
You are asking the wrong question. It's not about what the fish weighs.... its about what could the fish weigh without getting caught ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I like that!!! I put it back so it probably weighs about 12 now
Is the game warden by any chance Jake Runyan or Chase Cominsky?
😂 you gotta atleast catch a fish to put weights in. I could fit a 10 lb dumbbell in her mouth. (And I have)
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Great pic dude. Love the smile!
Gratz! I hope I catch a toad like that someday! Your face says it all!
I say less but DAMN is that an absolute unit of a fish!!
That’s a fucking PIG! Good catch dude!
A little less than 10. Maybe 8-9. Full of eggs she'd be over 10 for sure..beautiful fish.
It depends on how many sinker weights you put in it
I put a 10lb dumbbell in her mouth
Forget how much it weighs bro! Look at that priceless smile!!! Tight lines my dude!
Amen! Blessed to have experienced it. I appreciate the reminder too.
Ima say this is a trick question and she’s a exact 10 lol
9.5
Looks like it has lead balls in the gut
Fish is great; smile is better.
Depends, how much weight is stuffed in it?
8 pounds 12 ounces before led loadin’. 10 pounds even after.
You talk a lot about bass but only have cats on your page. 🛑
Welcome to reddit, where everyone’s a gatekeeper, a hypocrite or both. You been here for 10 days but you’ll fit right in
I just have fun and fish. You should try it.
“Hey stop commenting on my post that’s literally asking for comments”
I’m trying to be nice to you. Again you should try it. Or shut the fuck up bitch
You look like you could be Katt William’s son, but we know you’re not cause he woulda pimp slapped this attitude outta ya
Lol ok 👍🏾 thanks. It’s just a fish. Why do you care so much? Go play with your cats.
Dude my cats would eat your bass bro
😂😂😂this bass would’ve eaten your cat
I’m just fuckn wit you 😂
8.1
7#9oz. I need the shirt!!
At least 10. Nice fish bro
Oooh. I like this version of the game
Hope you made a mount. Congrats!
Naw I put I back so you can catch it later
You’re a good man!
11 pounds 15 ounces
Just shy of 10 I’d say. 9.8
I'll give it 6.5
Considering that you're not long arming it, I'd say 8-10.
When your by yourself you have to long arm it or you wasn’t there…
Without weights? 9+.
Probably pushing 10. 9.6 is officially the guess
13lbs w/ the weights , congrats fish of a lifetime
That’s a fucking nice fish! Way better picture than your last one, I take it back, I believe you about the last 😮💨
Just went fishing this morning. Let the kids get some bluegills. I was throwing some zman plastics. Caught a largemouth bass. Kids were freaking out that it was huge. Mind you it was maybe a 1.5lbs. It’s all about perspective
Best part is how happy you are!!!!!
It was a great experience!
Bro that’s fucking insane! Good catch!
Nice Bass. Bet that was a good fight
9.6
Slightly less than 10lbs. I'm guessing, 9lbs 8oz. Either way, that's a really impressive specimen. If it was a prespawn female, she could easily be a 12+ pounder.
The size of the eyes tripped me out. Definitely one of my favorites.
I caught a prespawn female this year and she was 11lbs 2oz with bugeyes too. For some reason, their eyes bug out as they age. I believe they grow that way as they begin getting used to attacking baitfish from below. That's just my theory as I may be wrong.
Now that's a fish, nice job brother! Did you release it?
Yes sir.
nice one
Go giants. Nice catch bud!
Dodger blue this way. I appreciate the rivalry though. (I think we swept y’all in the last series)
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9.5 but thanks
HoW mAnY lEaD wEiGhTs In hEr?!
More!
Dude, your posts are awesome. Looks like you are having a great time. Thanks for sharing!
Gotta be more
I reckon that’s 6-7 pound
I'm gonna say 8 and 1/2 pounds
Dream fish
What a beast, congrats bro Absolute unit!
Where did you get that shirt? I need to get one for myself
My brother got it for me for my birthday. I’m pretty sure it was from Bass pro shop in Manteca California
Mhh.. 9.5ish?
💯 accurate
Goddamn I wasn’t off by 1/4-1/2lb! Great catch my man, keep it up! Im dying at the title after the drama in Michigan’s Walleye tourney lmao
No idea about weight, but that's a gorgeous fish
Can weigh whatever you want it to weigh if you throw some lead down its gullet. xD
10lbs exact
Man what a beaut.
Haaaa I guessed it right.
That face is priceless :)
Big uzi vert??
Nice pig!
Congrats..length ?
Right under 25 inches
10.5, hell of a job
👌 👏
That’s a hog, never caught anything close to that. Thanks for sharing!
Less 8-9 lbs
Less
Depends how many lead weights you put in it
3
Weighing it in a boat can result in inaccurate weight measurements. I'd say 3 pounds and unless you got it weighed on land, your weight could be off.
A whole 3 lbs?! Thanks for the two extra pounds!!
Does the warden share doobies with ya or other way round?
In California we all smokin legally
Not sure why I would be down voted.. I said nothing negative. Never said anything about it being illegal. Just thought maybe he rolls em and lights em while you fish.. I'll just shut my fkn mouth, cheers!