Do you guys think a bass can survive with one eye? I was fishing a spinnerbait around some grass and a good sized jackfish smashed it and I landed him and the hook was through his mouth and out his eye, I got the hook out and he swam off but then maybe 10 cast later it happened with a one or two pound bass. In his mouth and out his eye, I got it out as gently as I could but his eye was messed up but he also swam off good...
I don't see why they couldn't live with one eye but maybe the stress from losing it could kill them.