What's the craziest thing you've found in a bass?

[greggt4736]

I went to a private pond yesterday and had a good day. The wife and I combined for 38 fish in 4 hours. I had no intentions of keeping any fish. Ended up throat/gill hooking one that bled a lot and decided to keep it. I cleaned it and found a crushed lizard in its throat. Wish I would've taken a picture but decided to throw it away quickly because there was a half digested lizard on my finger. That got me thinking, what's the craziest thing the bass resource family has found inside a bass? 

[Bluebasser86]

I had a fat spotted bass throw up a live salamander into the bottom of the boat on Table Rock once. Only time I've ever seen a salamander outside of a pet store, they've got nasty tempers, even towards someone who just saved their life. 

When I was growing up fishing was for food first. I caught a 2-3 pound bass that my grandma cleaned and found a mouse inside (she's scared to death of mice). 

My wife caught 2 on the same day that each threw up 12-15 inch long eels while she was fighting them.

[papajoe222]

I've cleaned a number of river fish with beer bottle caps in their stomachs.  Made me wonder what they'd been drinking. 

[Airman4754]

This last week a caught a pound LMB and was getting ready to toss it back when I noticed a hook eye was sticking out of its under side. 

Inspecting it further it was sticking out of its rectum. So I carefully maneuvered it out of there and let the fish go. Turns out it was a 1/0 EWG worm hook. 

The question I still can't answer is how that hook got there. The easy answer is it swallowed it, but how in the hell did a 12" fish pass something that large without its insides getting destroyed? The fish was totally healthy. 

[geo g]

Several week ago I went to Loxahatchee and hooked a two pound bass that broke me off in the heavy weeds.  He had my #3 Gama hook in his mouth and jumped three times trying to rid itself of the hook.  Several hours later I passed through the same area again and caught a two pounder with my #3 Gama hook and a foot of Floro line attached.  The odds of me catching that same bass still in a mood to eat with a hook attached was astronomical!!!! 

[lo n slo]

last week we had a spot throw up a small blue/green whacky worm, whacky ring, hook, all in tact. it came out center first, almost like a breach puke, if you will. i kept the ring.

[aprestonSEK]

Caught a two pounder with a 16" snake one time. 

[soflabasser]

A couple days ago I caught a bass that had somebody else's red EWG 4/0 in good condition sticking from its cheek.I took this hook off and released the bass.

[stkbassn]

On 4/10/2016 at 8:54 AM, papajoe222 said:

I've cleaned a number of river fish with beer bottle caps in their stomachs.  Made me wonder what they'd been drinking. 

I have a feeling every fish I've ever caught was drunk !

[awohlwend]

I was fishing a small pond in college that had a huge cedar tree sunk in the middle, half of it sticking out of the water. I was fishing a shallow crankbait around the edges of the tree and caught a bass close to 5lbs. It had 2 feet sticking out of its mouth. Reached in and pulled and out came a partially digested, adult black bird. The fish must have jumped out of the water and grabbed the black bird off the cedar. I have never seen a black bird land on water so I'm not sure how else the bass got to it. Had a picture a while back but can't find it now. 

[Kevin22]

Bullet weights. 

[spartyon8]

23 hours ago, geo g said:

Several week ago I went to Loxahatchee and hooked a two pound bass that broke me off in the heavy weeds.  He had my #3 Gama hook in his mouth and jumped three times trying to rid itself of the hook.  Several hours later I passed through the same area again and caught a two pounder with my #3 Gama hook and a foot of Floro line attached.  The odds of me catching that same bass still in a mood to eat with a hook attached was astronomical!!!! 

My uncle broke off in a laydown to which I immediately threw in the exact same spot. The result, the same fish with my uncles tube still in its mouth.

[IndianaFinesse]

I once caught a channel catfish with four ewg worm hooks in it's mouth.  I was bass fishing with two of my brothers a number of years ago with zoom utails Texas rigged when one of them hooked big cat that broke off when it rolled next to the tube we were fishing out of (after it dragged him around a bit).  A few minutes later my other brother hooked another big cat that broke his line to.  No one else hooked it that day, but I came back the next day and after it dragged me around for the fifteen minute fight,  I finally caught it and opened its mouth to find four different hooks in it, my brothers two hooks, my hook, and another fisherman's hook!  I was extremely pleased with getting our expensive owner hooks back and catching my pb channel cat that weighed seventeen pounds.

[NJSalt]

Just yesterday I was throwing a dropshot around in a pond and got a bite, set the hook, and, and missed the fish. Put a Roboworm back on and made the same cast and instantly got bit. 

When I landed the fish i looked down into its mouth and saw a few brown circular objects that looked kind of like snails. As I'm looking, this fish begins to regurgitate 2 Senkos AND the Roboworm that he just bit off the cast before. Glad to see he was able to get these out of his system and wish I would have got it on video.

[blckshirt98]

13 hours ago, aprestonSEK said:

Caught a two pounder with a 16" snake one time. 

As in you hooked a 16" snake onto a hook and used it as bait?!

For me it was having a dropshot rig break off at the braid/fluoro join, then re-casting to the same spot after re-tying, and catch that exact same fish, complete with my dropshot rig hooked in it's mouth.

[geo g]

2 hours ago, NJSalt said:

Just yesterday I was throwing a dropshot around in a pond and got a bite, set the hook, and, and missed the fish. Put a Roboworm back on and made the same cast and instantly got bit. 

When I landed the fish i looked down into its mouth and saw a few brown circular objects that looked kind of like snails. As I'm looking, this fish begins to regurgitate 2 Senkos AND the Roboworm that he just bit off the cast before. Glad to see he was able to get these out of his system and wish I would have got it on video.

Glad you got the plastics out of that fish.  Those plastics swell when left in the fish and will most likely block the digestive system.  Its a slow death from starvation.  That is why I never throw used baits in the water, and pick up any baits I see while fishing the banks.  

[NJSalt]

3 minutes ago, geo g said:

Glad you got those out of that fish.  Those plastics swell when left in the fish and will most likely block the digestive system.  Its a slow death from starvation.  That is why I never throw used baits in the water, and pick up any baits I see while fishing the banks.  

I do the exact same thing. I've been collecting them in a big bag to melt down into stickbaits

[88mm]

I found an caught an inception bass once with another bass inside of it. 

[VAHunter]

I have found the following in a bass' stomach over the years:

Rat, mouse, bird, duck, lizard, snake, turtle, and a myriad of plastic lures.

[BassThumb]

Lots and lots of regurgitated soft-plastic baits. 

It's just crazy to me that some so-called anglers actually throw this stuff into the lake, like its a garbage can. 

I do understand that it's not all intentional, though. Some baits fly off.