Saw Something on Harris Yesterday I Have Never Seen Before

Charles and I pre-fished Harris on Friday and found a cove with lots of fish for the Saturday tournament. We decided to fish two-hook rigs with minnows. We went right to that cove on Saturday and immediately started catching fish. Somewhere around mid-morning Charles hollered for me to come to the back of the boat. Numerous times during the morning we had double hook-ups. Charles said this one was different and to come look.

What I saw was amazing. Both crappie were around 7" long and as he got them up near the surface, a huge large-mouth bass grabbed the lower one and proceeded to play tug-of-war. I grabbed the net to see if I could scoop him up, but I sure wished now I had grabbed my camera. That bass did not want to let go and kept on pulling. When I got close-by with the net, he finally let go and eased back down into the deeper water. It was a sight we will never forget--staring at that monster doing all he could to pull that crappie off the hook and into his mouth.

YES ,WE DID IT MANY TIMES,2 TIMES WITH BREAM,WITH CRAPPIE AND LAST YEAR UNBEIVEABLE WITH A 12 IN CATFISH,WIFE SAID THAT WAS TOO CROUSOM,LIKE TO MADE HER SICK,I JUST LAUGH,FISH ENOUGH AND NO TELLING WHAT U MIGHT SEE.ON TIME BROTHER AND I WAS BASS FISHING WITH ARTIFICAL WORMS AND A BASS GRAB HIS AND HE LET IT RUN AND HE GRAB MINE AND I SET THE HOOK ,WELL BOTH OF US HAD THE SAME FISH

That is a great story. Reminds me of a trip I made to a Tennessee pay-to-fish lake. A rather large black lady was cane pole fishing from the bank. She was catching shellcracker. One time she pulled one in and a large bigmouth grabbed her fish, but dropped back into the lake as she hefted it in. That lady swooped down on that fish with her substantial skirt and netted that bass, which weighed four or five pounds!

now that would have been something to see,
a few years back i was reeling in a 11'' crappie along the surface when a huge bass blew up on it, it knocked that crappie a good foot out of the water and when it came back down the bass engulfed it and swam away, since i still had a hook in the crappie and a dog in this fight i feed the fish line a a bit, reeled down and set the hook, i felt the fish for about 10 seconds then it got loose, i reeled in a frazzled 11' crappie, all his fins where messed up and lhe was missing alot of scales, but was still alive, i unhooked him and let him go and watched him quickly swim off, oh if fish could only talk.

We were longlining on Jordan a couple years ago and Zach was bringing a crappie in across the top and an Osprey swooped in and grabbed it at the edge of the boat. Zach was flying it like a kite for a few seconds before the bird let go. LOL
Mike

Take a kid outdoors!

This got me to thinking about the same thing I did.About 40 years ago in my grandfathers pond we were fishing off the dam with long cane poles,,my cork went under and me being a young lad back then was Probally slow on picking it up,,but when I did I had a bass and brim,,had the brim on the hook and the bass had the brim,he let go but I got a good look at him.

Thanks for the stories guys. Interesting to see it has happened to other folks.

the first time i took my now fiance fishing with me, the very first crappie she hooked was a 6" fish. as she kept it on the surface, a 5-6 lb bass was doing the same thing. I approached with the net, and the bass just sat there trying to pull it off the hook....i very easily scooped up the bass in the net before the bass realized what just happened.

Needless to say my fiance now things fishing is always that easy!

I almost caught a sea gull this past weekend fishing live shrimp under a popping cork, the shrimp came up to the top and the gull picked it up out of the water, but luckily it didnt get the hook.

Almost the same thing happened to us on saltwater once. We were pulling a cigar minnow across the surface and an albatross (?) grabbed it. Zach flew it in like a kite and we got it in the boat and unhooked it. LOL
Mike

Take a kid outdoors!

I DID CATCH A SEA GULL ON A FLOATING WORM ,HE PICK IT UP AND GOT TANGLE IN LINE,WELL HE PUT UP A FUSS WHILE I GOT HIM LOOSE;HAD BIRDS TO TAKE MY BAIT MANY TIMES BUT THE ONLY TIME I HAD TO UNTANGLE ONE,HAD A SNAKE TO GRAB IT ONE TIME GLAD HE LET GOT. IN SANTEE HAD A GATOR ON HOOK IN HIS SCALE AND HE WAS LETTING ME EASY PULL HIM IN ,I GOT SCARED WHEN HE WAS GETTING CLOSE TO BOAT AND SPEED UP TM AND SNATCH HOOK OFF HIM,HE WAS BIG AND TOO CLOSE

YIKES!!!!
I also got too close to a gator while bream fishing swamps on the coast; not a good experience.

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Originally Posted by genec

I DID CATCH A SEA GULL ON A FLOATING WORM ,HE PICK IT UP AND GOT TANGLE IN LINE,WELL HE PUT UP A FUSS WHILE I GOT HIM LOOSE;HAD BIRDS TO TAKE MY BAIT MANY TIMES BUT THE ONLY TIME I HAD TO UNTANGLE ONE,HAD A SNAKE TO GRAB IT ONE TIME GLAD HE LET GOT. IN SANTEE HAD A GATOR ON HOOK IN HIS SCALE AND HE WAS LETTING ME EASY PULL HIM IN ,I GOT SCARED WHEN HE WAS GETTING CLOSE TO BOAT AND SPEED UP TM AND SNATCH HOOK OFF HIM,HE WAS BIG AND TOO CLOSE

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we were fishing lake hickory few years back just going up the bank throwing jigs for crappie Rick cast his jig close to the bank a half grown duck saw the jig under the water and made a dive for it the hook went through the top of its bill and Rick was reeling him in when he got to the boat it made a hissing sound while Rick was tryin to unhook it and here came what we figured was its mama and she was ready to fight she was beating the side of the boat, Rick and the little duck with her wings and quack cussing us up a storm Rick said get this bi--h off me so I started to slapin her with the end of my pole well Rick got the little duck loose it went straight to the bank up in the grass and set down with the mama raisein h-ll at it all the way. That was the funniest thing I ever saw we still laugh about that mainly because Rick was using a roadrunner jig and they say that a roadrunner will catch anything on TV!!!!!:Rofl

I was bass fishing in the Ohio River out of the back of my buddies boat. Still a rookie, I made an errant cast and sent my artificial worm ashore. It landed behind some bushes in a downed tree. I reeled up the slack and tried to pull the worm through the downed tree and in doing so, I realized something was pulling back. I told my buddy and he thought I was nuts so I had him pull gently pull and sure enough something on the other end was pulling back. We carefully followed the line through the bushes and into the dead tree and there it was, a water snake had my artificial wormin it's mouth and was trying to eat it. Needless to say, we let him have it!

This past summer i was in the back yard practicing dock shooting when a hawk grabbed my jig while it was in the air.Luckily he didn't get the hook.