Quote Originally Posted by hockey86 View Post
They are indeed eating machines. You can catch a tiny perch on a large bass minnow that barely fits in their mouth. I caught a couple on Sat. that literally had 2 or 3 small crappie minnows in it's mouth plus the one I was fishing with. I plan to start keeping them all and doing just like you and filleting the ones that I can.
I once saw a disturbance on the surface of a pond I lived on. Took my canoe out and discovered two bass locked together. The larger one - about 7 inches long had the head of another bass - about 5 inches long in his mouth and they were locked by the gill plates. I was able to separate them and the smaller one had wear marks across his head from the teeth of the other. Strange, but true!