What do you consider a good Michigan largemouth?

[cr]

I got it also

[skeeterman190]

 Also got it!! u funy !!! haha those might be 3 -skeeterman-

[Skulley]

I am willing to bet there is a 10lb smallie swimming around in Lake Erie somewhere?   I thought all you guys on this site were serious.  Silly me.........what was I thinkin'!!!!   

BD           

[Cheetam]

I thought all you guys on this site were serious.  Silly me.........what was I thinkin'!!!!   

BD           

Us?  Serious?  Are you serious?   

[bassmandan]

randy vandam caught a 9-8 out of erie, so a 10lb is out there somewhere

[macbass]

But the one randy caught in erie died on the way home. he was going to put it in his aquarium but now it is on his wall. I have caught 6 fish in michigan over 6 pounds numerous 5s> but havent caught one over 5 in 3 years. these were all from one lake in northern michigan. Martiny flooding.

[bassmandan]

i didnt say it would be alive haha thats an old fish, but if a fish like that grew in erie there is a chance that a 10lb smallie could exist out there

[macbass]

you are right and from the gene pool there should be more out there. I also heard a rumor this was a few years ago that the DNR was doing lake shockings checking fish and shocked a large mouth out of Wabasis lake that was over 10lbs but that was a rumor.

[skeeterman190]

 I would verture to say that there are at least a few out on erie over 10! big water grow big fish so much to fish she could be anywhere! i think the next world record could come from there! although the southern impoundments have a larger growing season?? it has been a long while since the record was caught.-skeeterman-

[cr]

My partner caught a 6.1 largemouth in Ford lake last year , a lake that is not known as a lake with big fish in it ,IMO, and it looked like a monster . I still haven't caught a largemouth over 5 , but I did catch a 6.42 smallie in the SC river this summer and it didn't look as big as the 6.1 largemouth . I think about all the private lakes that don't get fished as hard as the public ones and I'm sure theres huge fish out there somewhere . But a ten lb largemouth ? I don't know .

[Cheetam]

My partner caught a 6.1 largemouth in Ford lake last year , a lake that is not known as a lake with big fish in it ,IMO, and it looked like a monster . I still haven't caught a largemouth over 5 , but I did catch a 6.42 smallie in the SC river this summer and it didn't look as big as the 6.1 largemouth . I think about all the private lakes that don't get fished as hard as the public ones and I'm sure theres huge fish out there somewhere . But a ten lb largemouth ? I don't know .

You're right about the private lakes and ponds Charles.  My two biggest largemouth have been caught out of a private pond (one @ 26 inches -not weighed, and one 6lb 15 oz).  The owner of the pond has caught a lot of fish over 5 lbs from the pond and has caught a couple over 6.  The 6 lb 15 oz fish I caught there this year was huge!  I couldn't imagine what a 10lb fish would look like...

[chrisvmo]

I have caught several over 5 on Long Reyerson lake in Fremont! It is a private lake. They stocked it with perch the last few years I think this helped the bass. I caught a 6.7 pound smallie out of the Grand Traverse bay this spring as well.

[Got Fish??]

  I would say any fish over 4lbs is a good michigan large mouth. For those who say that big largemouth are far and few? I have put 10 largemouth 4lbs and larger in my boat in the last two weeks.Lake Erie ROCKS!

[skeeterman190]

 Im sure ERIE ROCKS. But who really cares i hope this man make good on some promises. I think were all screwed... thank god for the minority vote that have no clue what they are voting for!!! -skeeterman- im sure im way out of place on this one but come on gimmie a break are u serious??

[skeeterman190]

 I hope we can all fish next year but i doubt it!! hopefullly im wrong??? but i think im not!!!!!!!!!!!!! goood luck... this world is DONE!!!!!!!!!! -skeeterman- hey i might be the a hole but oh well ill be right.

[skeeterman190]

I LOVE GLB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#################

[Durand Dan]

And we take you back to the topic at hand

This is the link to the Master Angler Awards on the DNR site. At quick glanc, I see onw 10lb fish, several 9lb and quite a few 7 and 8's since 1994. Most are listed in inches, so it is hard to guess how much they weighted.

http://www.michigandnr.com/MasterAngler/MasterAngler.asp

[djkimmel]

I thought there was a picture over in the Grand Rapids area of a young boy who caught a 10 pound largemouth last summer?

Years back, a 10-pound largemouth, also caught by a young boy, was taken out of Diamond Lake... before the dam blew out. I do not doubt that one at all, picture or no picture. I've talked to a few big bass hunters in Michigan who have some tales to tell including a 12 pound bass that was supposedly caught and then lost out of a canoe on a lake that has one verified 9-4 largemouth from it previously.

I'll have to start tracking down some of these guys again... haven't checked in in a while. All I know, is I lika   da   catcha    all of the bass (but especially 3.5 pounds and above... especially in a tournament ).

[skeeterman190]

 Yeah dont mind me i had to many .....um pops last night...

[bassmandan]

lawl, i got lost on how you went on to the election from 10lb bassies, makes sense now