It Was A Hawg!

[BuffaloBass716]

I was fishing earlier this morning at my local river, when I noticed a huge bass just sitting close to shore. It was definitely the biggest bass I have ever seen! (mind you I live up north and the river isnt know for its largemouth) The bass had to be close to 24". While watching the bass, I hooked into a average sized bluegill, around 5" long and 3" tall, as soon as the sunfish started fighting, that bass can to life with explosive speed and power, chasing the bluegill around for nearly 2 minutes. I know bass feed on bream but to watch it in front of me in clear calm water was so awesome.  All the movement brought in smaller bass, they looked tiny compared to the bucket mouth.  The bass never ended up eating the fish, as the bluegill stopped fighing and swimming away, the bass stopped chasing and lost interest, and im sure he would have broke my line or the small hook would have bent so im kind of glad that that didnt happen. I was cool enough that I got to watch for a little while. The bass then swam away and I did release the exhausted bluegill unharmed.

 

Figured Id post this because I thought it was amazing.

 

Anyone else ever have something similar happen?

 

How much would you guys say a 24" bass weighs?

[MarkH024]

This is my PB bass.  It was 24" and roughly 7lbs based of measurements. This is a Wisconsin bass, so northern strain. Bass weights will vary between bodies of water and geographically.  Without actually having it out of the water and taking measurements by length and or on a scale, there's really no certainty. To be honest, I thought this fish was a DD bass...and it wasn't.

[Hyrule Bass]

i had something similar happen one day. was fishing a rebel crickhopper in a pond, and hooked a small bluegill. im like man, i dont wanna get my hands all fishy for that little thing, maybe it will free itself if i let it jerk around a couple minutes, i had yet to catch a fish this day. so while im watching it jerk around near the shore in clear water, a 4lb largemouth shoots out from under a small patch of algae on the shoreline and attacks the hooked bluegill. he went bananas over the bluegill, bit onto it, jumped out of the water into 2 or 3 tail walks, and then started swimming to deeper water, as my line tightened he felt the pressure and circled back towards shore and dove out of the water like superman towards me and the bank, while the fish is in midair i yank on my rod in a hookset fashion, i got to see the bluegill go down the basses throat as my crickhoppers small treble ripped out of the bluegills mouth and hooked into the basses mouth, it was a great tradeoff and was amazing to see, it absolutely blew my mind...

[AK-Jax86]

I had one in FL that was 24" and 7 but I was very thing for a FL bass that size. The record here is around 24" they are double digits down here

[AK-Jax86]

When my girlfriend wants to shiner fish I've seen that happen. I've seen bass toy with the shiner and then when it gets bored eat if. I've seen bass compete for them as well. I prefer artificial lures though when fishing for bass

[rmcguirk]

I was visitng a buddy in the Orlando area a number of years ago and we were messing around with a light flyrod in the retention pond near his house, catching tiny sunnies and letting them go.  As I'm bringing one of the little guys in, a nice bass smashed it right near the shore.  Amazingly, the tiny fly hook caught in the mouth of the bass and I was able the grab him.  He was only about 3 lbs, but it happened right in front of me.  Very, very cool. 

[Bluebasser86]

I caught one in February that was 24 inches and 7.51 pounds. A couple weeks later I caught one that was 21.5" and 7.76 pounds. This time of year they tend to be thinner but weight will very a lot at times depending on girth. If I was you I'd have a Mattlures bluegill being overnighted!