Those big bass are hawgs! My largest on public waters in Alabama is 11.2, which was a laid out female. She would have been possibly 12+ full of eggs. Catch and release! When you can easily put your fist inside the fishes mouth you know you got a hoss. The one I caught headed around the boat and stayed in deep water. I just knew I lost her when she jumped. Glad I had 20lb braid on that day. What was really so memorable to me was I caught her on an old 25 year old Ugly stick rod and an old lure from over 40 years ago out of dad's old tackle box. I believe the price on the plastic lure was 11 cents. The largest I caught before that was 7lbs. The big one made the small one look like a baby bass. Just hard to describe seeing a bass that large close up! Brings back memories of the 7 pounder my dad netted for me over 40 years ago that I still have on the wall. Which for the small river the 7 pounder was just as much a record.