Cool Fishing Story

[VinnieT]

Hi everyone, just wanted to share a cool story of my uncles. One time when my uncle was bass fishing with minnows, a small sunfish bit the hook. As he was quickly reeling it in, a huge bass bit the sunfish, and when my uncle pulled in the fish, you could see the sunfish in the mouth of the bass, and the minnow in the mouth of the sunfish. Food chain at its best! Just thought that was a cool fishing story to tell.

[rmcguirk]

Nice. About 15 years ago I was playing around with a fly rod at one of those Florida retention ponds. I hooked a tiny sunfish on a small fly and as I was playing him in, a 4lb bass smashed it almost right at the bank. Somehow, the tiny fly hook held and I was able to grab him. Always something new when fishing.

[CPBassFishing]

I have a food chain story just like that. I was reeling in a tiny bluegill when a 12 inch bass smashed it, and then a 100 lb snapping turtle bit the bass in half. (We call that turtle Old Man Jenkins, he has been in the pond for years and he is easily 100 years old, 100 lbs, and 4 feet around.)

[CoBass]

One of the ponds I fish has a large population of small bass along with some larger fish up to about 4 lbs. One of the larger fish learned that the little struggling fish being pulled to the shore were easy pickings. He would hang out behind a small rock pile about 10 feet off the shore and attack any of the smaller fish that got hooked. He got pretty good at ripping them off the hook without getting caught. That same fish got at least 10 dinks from me before he finally made a mistake and I got him.

He was a pretty smart fish. After the first time he hit, I threw every baby bass colored bait I had at that rock pile and he never hit one of them but it was almost impossible to get a live, hooked fish past him without him getting a hold of it.

[VinnieT]

I have a food chain story just like that. I was reeling in a tiny bluegill when a 12 inch bass smashed it, and then a 100 lb snapping turtle bit the bass in half. (We call that turtle Old Man Jenkins, he has been in the pond for years and he is easily 100 years old, 100 lbs, and 4 feet around.)

Yeah, at my local pond in the Poconos, we also have a huge turtle, and when my friend and I go Crappie fishing, he hides around the dock, bites our Crappies, and sometimes he even gets accidentally hooked!

[Bluebasser86]

I was fighting a 10-12 inch bass in on a jerkbait two years ago in a strip pit when a bass that was probably a DD engulfed the entire bass from behind up past it's eyes. Basically the only thing sticking out was it's mouth and my bait She spit it out and swam away and wouldn't eat any of the big swimbaits I tried tossing around for the next hour or so.

[Nitrofreak]

HHHMMMMM, kinda makes you think about the erratic action you need when using your baits huh!...just sayin !!

[CPBassFishing]

One of the ponds I fish has a large population of small bass along with some larger fish up to about 4 lbs. One of the larger fish learned that the little struggling fish being pulled to the shore were easy pickings. He would hang out behind a small rock pile about 10 feet off the shore and attack any of the smaller fish that got hooked. He got pretty good at ripping them off the hook without getting caught. That same fish got at least 10 dinks from me before he finally made a mistake and I got him.

He was a pretty smart fish. After the first time he hit, I threw every baby bass colored bait I had at that rock pile and he never hit one of them but it was almost impossible to get a live, hooked fish past him without him getting a hold of it.

that's when you break out a jerkbait.