After Stripe post i looked up some old pics.

Last one is the best i was in the sixth grade, fish came from my Grandfathers place.

Back when when men were men and hats were.....BIG! Nice fish BTW.

Way to go bailey. Some sure nough hogs from the past.👍

Dang. What was the weight on the fat girl in your right hand?

Cool pics!

Great pics!

Love seeing pics from back in the day. Nice catches

It was a good day, June 7 1989, mine was 11lbs and 8 my buddies was 9.7 and 5.5, buddy had his line broke two or three times. I think we caught 18 that day.

You don't see those any more.
Too much catch and release going on.

You guys didn't look like you were dressed for the eighties.

Belly on all four of those fish look like they are pre-spawn and ready to go on bed. Where'd you catch them and are you sure they were caught in June and not earlier in the spring? Pretty fish.

I caught several like that in my late teens when i used to pond fish all the time. Those were some good times. I guess its been 20-25yrs since i caught a bass over 6lb. There was a couple years there when i caught a bunch of them though. Using cheap walmarks spinning rods and reels at that, and 10lb stren mono. Black culprit worm or bubble gum trick worm, or a shad rap rapala. I spent most of my senior year fishing.

Those are some fine fish

Abolt caught them at Natchez state park lake, They had built the lake 5 years before and it had just opened that January, at that time my bass was the tenth biggest caught but it only lasted bout a week, this is where the Ms state record came from in 1992. I could not have told you the date but my wife had written it on the back of the photos.

This is a pre spawn one from February of that year.

And one more for the fans of the big hats!

Nice fish

Awesome pics 👍