Copperheads In Bass' Mouths???

[StinkyBass]

I got a facebook post from a family member in INDIANA telling me to be careful. I did a little google searching and didn't see much around this area and didn't feel it was that credible like the other posts say...

[Darren.]

Snakes are a hobby for my sons and me. I've seen

plenty while out fishing. Never caught a bass with

one *visible* in its gullet, but I have no doubts snakes

are on the menu.

 

And that pic of the head peeking out - not a Copperhead.

Agree that it looks more like a garter, or even a young

water snake.

 

I need to find video I took of an encounter with a Cotton

Mouth while dock fishing many years back. Awesome

and scary.

[Choporoz]

Never heard of that. But check this out; Man catches 10 lb bass on Brazos R with a live rattlesnake for bait.

 

http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/gallery/fishing/bass-fishing/2009/09/kayak-fishing-guide-catches-10-pound-largemouth-bass-liv

Thanks for that.  Interesting....I was with the guy until this part "… and dropped it into the forward foot well of his kayak."

Certifiable.

[F14A-B]

Wow! That's a grandiose statement right there.

28 copperhead bites, via the mouth of a black bass? I digress...

[einscodek]

Do Florida bass eat baby gators???

Yes

[Crankinstein]

I promise some good fish on my new ABT Baby Wake snake...I threw it on Saturday just to see the action and it's absolutely sick! A beast will come soon enough it better for what I paid!! Lol

 

When you catch one please make a post about it here, I'm very interested in that lure and I'd like to hear some feedback about it. Something about unique wake baits/topwaters that always brings out the inner bait monkey in me. My local lake has a lot of active water snakes in the spring so I'd be curious how it would work.

[stkbassn]

You got it. As soon as I get out and give it an honest effort I'll be sure to let you know. I was extremely impressed with the action of it. It looks so good in the water. I actually bought the bigger one first and didn't like it...it kept rolling over on me. Not sure if it was me or the bait but the baby wake in 8 inch doesn't do that. Nice steady retrieve and it's doin it's thing it's pricey but I'm so glad I bought it. I highly recommend the megabass eeler too. I love mine. More subtle and it dives a little ...straight retrieve or jerk it to make it erratic. Great bait, not too pricey at 20-30...check ebay, Russ *** is who I got mine from. Looks like the paint is starting to chip a little but no biggie.

Stu

[Surfcaster]

Copperheads and rattlesnakes are pit vipers just like cottonmouths and swim just like cottonmouths.  It is not uncommon to see them swimming in Badin Lake and Lake Tillery in the Uwharrie region of NC which has a lot of copperheads and timber rattlesnakes.   If bass will eat a 12" Jellyworm, they would likely eat a 12" live snake.

[geo g]

Big bass will eat baby gators, baby snakes, and baby water birds.  At the Miramar dump lake I saw a baby duck disappear in an explosion of water.  There were 8 of them that day, two weeks later only 3.

[StinkyBass]

I promise some good fish on my new ABT Baby Wake snake...I threw it on Saturday just to see the action and it's absolutely sick! A beast will come soon enough it better for what I paid!! Lol

[StinkyBass]

Wow! $90?! That lure costs more than some of my rods! I can see why eBay would be a good place to buy one of these. I watched a video of a baby wake snake, you're right, it looks great in the water! Just don't snag and lose it, might as well have thrown your wallet in... Nice lure though, I'd like to see a video post of a bass nailing it

[Penguino]

have seen some type of snakes swimming on the top of my local lake... but never seen a bass actually try to eat one lol

[Bass newb]

Lol@op for falling for that story.

[bigbill]

Do Florida bass eat baby gators???

If you go to you tube pike and muskies eat baby anything gators too.

Go out at midnight and flash a light at the waters edge. It's full of freshwater eels. That's why the bass are feeding at the shoreline. Snakes, eels, plastic worms what ever.

[roadwarrior]

I don't think the habitats of pike and muskies overlap with gators. 

[Sam]

Spoke to my friend at the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and he said what we all know, this is a hoax.

 

He knows of no one being bitten by any type of snake in any bass' mouth anywhere in the country.

 

It is a hoax that is going around the Internet.

 

 

[Bluebasser86]

I don't think the habitats of pike and muskies overlap with gators. 

Pickerel could probably handle a baby gator and live in the same places. 

[imagine29028]

Cottonmouths are all over the Southeast....they love water. Dad told me stories of having his 357 on the deck of his boat while fishing Currituck Sound in NC....when the wind dies they'd sun themselves on the water and get attracted to the glitter on his boat. They arent afraid to get near the boat or possibly try to even get in the boat.

He said he only had tok draw the gun once or twice.

[hawgenvy]

I get bit pretty regular by about 28 mosquitoes when I'm lippin' bass. But I guess that doesn't count.

 

When I was a kid I used to fish with live lizards (anoles) that I caught behind my house. They'd be 4 or 5 inches long. I'd scotch tape a little hook to its poor little white belly, and let the lizard wiggle around near the surface of some small canal, and WHAM! a fish every time, usually in the first millisecond that I'd pitch it out. Wonder if that's legal? I suppose it is. Well, now I'm too slow to catch them lizards anyhow.

[Sam]

Cottonmouths are all over the Southeast....they love water. Dad told me stories of having his 357 on the deck of his boat while fishing Currituck Sound in NC....when the wind dies they'd sun themselves on the water and get attracted to the glitter on his boat. They arent afraid to get near the boat or possibly try to even get in the boat.

He said he only had tok draw the gun once or twice.

 

GLITTER ON THE BOAT!!!!

 

My boat is a red glitter Ranger that sparkles like a diamond.

 

We have cottonmouths and copperheads in my area and you are telling me that the cottonmouths like glitter on the boats.

 

Now I just got to go on the Appomattox River to see how many I can attract.

[AverageFisherman]

I'm new here, and realize this is an old thread. I figured it was relevant.

 

Edited September 6, 2016 by T-Boo
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[Darren.]

5 minutes ago, T-Boo said:

I'm new here, and realize this is an old thread. I figured it was relevant. 

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Welcome aboard!

Snakes are definitely on the menu for bass, of
that I've never had a doubt. But the claims made
of all the bites and such, not buying it. Great pic
but I had to grab the URL out of the code, so...

Here's your pic, reposted for you: 

[davecon]

Many years ago while fishing a local reservoir I decided to bring home a few bass to eat. Actually the wife decided I would bring home a few bass, but I digress.

Long story short, was using I believe a Culprit ribbon tail worm (can't remember the manufacturer for sure but do remember for sure ribbon tail). It was solid black. 

Got home and was cleaning the bass and in one little guy about 15 inches long I cut the stomach open and there were about 10 little black snakes, all about 8 inches long. Talk about matching the hatch !

Not sure if I've ever caught any other bass with snakes in them as I rarely keep any bass.

On a side note, over forty years ago (boy I'm getting old) there was a local tackle shop that also sold live bait, usually shiners, minnows, crickets, and earthworms. The standard fare for these parts. On occasion the shop would get live eels. They were relatively expensive but I have never seen anything that caught bass anywhere near as good. It was amazing. You would run a weedless hook with the wire weed guard through the lower and upper part of his snout. Cast the thing out and retrieve it like you would a plastic worm, just much slower. Those little things squirmed and writhed like nothing I've ever seen. You could catch as many as 12 or 15 bass on the thing before it croaked. Usually the eels were 10 inches or so and surprisingly skinny. You could keep the eels alive for a long time by just putting them in a 5 gallon bucket with some damp Spanish moss. Hardest part of fishing with them was getting them out of the bucket and holding them while inserting the hook. You've probably heard the saying slippery as an eel. Well let me tell you they were slippery. Had to use an old terry cloth towel or something similar just to hold on to them.

While we are at it, another bit of worthless information . Years ago there was a small outfit here in Florida, I think it was a one man operation. Anyway, he made a plastic lure similar to a worm, that was molded in the shape of a baby gator. Was a pretty good likeness. I tried one small pack of them. Didn't work for me. Don't know if the fella is still around or not.

And that ends today's worthless information and trivia.

[AverageFisherman]

Just FYI, but that pic I posted was taken 9/04/16. The bass was caught in the Sabine River (LA/ TX). 

[geo g]

25 people sounds a little high for the odds involved.  I have seen a picture of a baby water moccasin that was regurgitated after a 3 pound bass was caught.  The snake was partially digested but you could tell by the head it was a cotton mouth.  Bass do feed on snakes, and anything else they can fit in their mouth, including baby gators!