Things You Have Seen/heard Of Bass Eating

[FrogTastic]

Hey all, I was wondering what things people have seen bass eat. Not normal things, like shad or crawfish, but things that are more unusual, like sunfish/perch, catfish, snakes, frogs, etc. 

 

Coolest thing I ever saw was a bass literally jump onto land in the swamp while chasing a frog. I put him back in the water, amazed. 

[scaleface]

I can remember  a snake , turtle, and a mouse in different bass I've caught .

[Delaware Valley Tackle]

Snakes, rodents, birds, surprisingly large baitfish, bugs

[troutbum1]

I remember reading a long long time ago in Out door life. A guy catches a bass, lands it , picks it up buy the lips, and gets bit by a baby water mococine . Bass had just eaten the snake. fisherman survived. That had to be in the 60's.

[tennsopher]

I was fishing with a friend of mine and he caught one about 3 and a half with a baby alligator in its mouth.It was partially digested.

[Scott F]

I've seen bass try to eat spinner baits, plastic worms, wooden crank baits, metal spoons, all kinds of crazy stuff!

[Master Bait'r]

I've seen one slurp a duckling but that's all I've got.

[BassinLou]

I have seen bass go after low flying dragon flies. 

[Bluebasser86]

I caught one with a baby turtle in it's throat, one with a bird tail and feet sticking out of it's throat, and I had a Table Rock spot throw up a still live salamander.

[FloridaFishinFool]

One day I was fishing Hopkins Prairie in the Ocala National Forest and I saw this bird land on a cattail about 8 inches above the water line and a bass jumped out of the water trying to eat the bird but missed it.

[Fin Stalker]

I've seen bass try to eat spinner baits, plastic worms, wooden crank baits, metal spoons, all kinds of crazy stuff!

 

One in every group.

[Senko lover]

This is a fishing related item, but I once read Shaw Grigsby saying that a bass once jumped out of the air and engulfed his buzzbait before it hit the water. I thought that was pretty awesome.

[livetofish28]

December 2013 I witnessed the biggest bass I have ever seen (looked to be over 10lbs it dwarfed my 8#) blow up out of the water and grab an adult duck that was swimming about 10 ft from me while I was catfishing darn thing landed on my line that was out haha. It was down right insane

Tight lines

Andrew

[scaleface]

December 2013 I witnessed the biggest bass I have ever seen (looked to be over 10lbs it dwarfed my 8#) blow up out of the water and grab an adult duck that was swimming about 10 ft from me while I was catfishing darn thing landed on my line that was out haha. It was down right insane

Tight lines

Andrew

I saw a duck disappear in the middle of a lake once. It never did come back up. Dont know what got it .

[livetofish28]

I saw a duck disappear in the middle of a lake once. It never did come back up. Dont know what got it .

Alligator haha bass will typically blow the living crap out of it (in my experience) and you would have seen something lol

Tight lines

Andrew

[flyfisher]

Was watching a fishing show this past weekend and they caught a 4lb bass that had a tail sticking out of it's mouth....they pulled out a 14" crappie.

[Bankbeater]

Caught a bass using catfish dough bait one time. I have caught cats on crankbaits, but this was a first for me.

[corn-on-the-rob]

Nothing too absurd for me but I caught maybe a two pound bass in the fall two years ago and when I landed him about a dozen LIVE 1/2 inch shad/minnows exploded out of his mouth and were flopping around the boat. Must have been swimming around with his mouth open vacuuming up everything in sight!

[Bluebasser86]

I've caught a lot of bass on chunks of cutbait while bass fishing for catfish. One of my biggest I've ever caught out of one lake was on a bluegill head I was dragging along a deep weed edge.