Caught a bass the same size as my bait

[coachfozz]

I was fishing a berkley jointed surge wake bait and this little bass was hungry.  

[Smells like fish]

He has the look of regret on his face lol

 

Edit: and in his face. I look just like that on thanksgiving day and the day after and the day after that 

[Log Catcher]

I caught a 6" bass on a 6" lizard.

[JustinCT]

Happens to me more times than I'd like to admit.  Some bass I've caught are even smaller than the bait.

[DanielG]

Not with bass but pickerel will try and swallow things larger than they are. They're mean.

[RoLo]

 

When I lived in the northeast, that was the unseemly trait of yellow perch.

On countless occasions, a yellow perch would hit a lure about 80% its length.

Is that conceit or imagination?  

 

Roger

[Smells like fish]

For the fish loving nerd something interesting to look up is the Black Swallower fish. It can swallow twice its length and ten times its mass.   

[Bluebasser86]

Happens all the time. This one was last week, my only Slammer bite of the day, on my first cast of the day with it.

[Mobasser]

I caught a 4" bass on a full size Zara Spook one time. Sometimes, those little bass will hit almost anything.

[Armtx77]

14 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Happens all the time. This one was last week, my only Slammer bite of the day, on my first cast of the day with it.

It is this type of thing that leads me to believe that the poats about "line visibility" and "lure colors" just don't matter that much.

 

That is like trying to naw the filet off the cow, while the cow is still alive.