Holy crap!

[Sphynx]

So, other than an outstanding night of fishing, I decided to listen to the baseball game on the radio (headset) down here tonight with a barley pop and a pipe, it's a fine evening, anyway, while watching the small fish hitting bugs and stuff on the surface I got to watch a mess of gulls and other river birds doing what they do, and a couple of water weasels hunting the general area I fish, that was pretty cool, but that's when "it" happened, these weasels aren't small, and something enormous took a massive shot at one, topwater bite for the ages, don't know if it was a bass, too dark to be sure, but there is a monster hunting this stretch of river, he messed up a weasel pretty bad judging by the cries I'm hearing, but it got away, now a salmon or steelhead are big enough to do it, but it was on the edge of a weed choked eddy and not anywhere I have ever heard of those fish being, and they don't really hunt for food on runs that way anyhow, which leaves 3 fish I know of in this river big enough to pull a stunt like that,.a monster sized bass might try it, an enormous catfish might too, but considering the end results my guess is I have a tiger Musky for a neighbor this evening, I think anything that could cause that kind of pain had teeth, and that would be unbelievable to get to at least see, preferably I will get a chance to give him a photo shoot either up close, or in his natural environs, maybe even catch it one day, but that made a generally not cool Saturday suddenly worth remembering for good reasons, God works in mysterious ways as the saying goes, totally would have made tonight worth it even if the fishing had been terrible. 

[GreenPig]

Nice. I'd show them a G - Rat.

[Fishes in trees]

Just a question, but how far from the ocean was this spot in the river.   I saw on Shark Week that Bull  Sharks give birth in fresh water and they've been known to stay in fresh water until they are several feet long - and sometimes they come into fresh water when they become adults and no one really knows why.   Anyway, there is another candidate for the action.

[Bankbeater]

Gator?

[Koz]

Alligator

[Sphynx]

Few hundred miles from the coast, and no gators on the Columbia to the best of my knowledge, though the times they are a-changin', I considered a juvenile bull shark, but I doubt it this far east of the Pacific, who knows though, definitely going to be keeping an eye peeled for anything that gives me an indication of what it could be

[ghost123123]

Otter?

[Sphynx]

1 hour ago, ghost123123 said:

Otter?

Maybe, but I don't know if otters eat anything but fish/shell dwellers, never looked into that

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, Sphynx said:

Maybe, but I don't know if otters eat anything but fish/shell dwellers, never looked into that

An otter will eat anything it can get into its mouth (well maybe not an Apple …….. but then again maybe an Apple if there’s an Apple tree on the river bank haha). They are quite a vicious carnivore 

 

now a sea otter, I have no clue. I imagine they are similar to river otters but just eat more and bigger prey items 

[GreenPig]

On 7/25/2021 at 1:47 PM, TnRiver46 said:

An otter will eat anything it can get into its mouth (well maybe not an Apple …….. but then again maybe an Apple if there’s an Apple tree on the river bank haha). They are quite a vicious carnivore 

 

now a sea otter, I have no clue. I imagine they are similar to river otters but just eat more and bigger prey items 

Otters are crazy. Had three come out of the water one more while duck hunting on the Chattahoochee River to run me out of their territory. I was standing in waist high grass in the dark and didn't want any new holes in my waders so I sent a couple 12 ga Hevi-Shots in their direction. My bud was hiding the boat during my volley. When he made it back he laughed til he cried at my hilarious story until I showed him the tracks of those jokers within a couple feet of me and coming in from multiple directions for the attack. Since that day they receive no quarter from me.