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Title: wierd encounter
Post by: miket. on Jun 28, 2008, 11:14 AM
i was fishing for trout last week and did nail quite a few . i was fighting this rainbow that was 16 or 18 inches long .as my fight  got close to me, this large mouthed bass must of been a 9 pound er or so just snick in and sucked this trout down. i fought it for a good 10 or 15 minutes and the bass spit the trout out. she just inhaled my trout with nothing to show for it except a half inch of the trouts tail fin. any experiences like this happen to anyone else?
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Post by: skunker on Jun 28, 2008, 11:32 AM
Funny thing is that happened to me today... After reeling a 9-10in fallsfish in I decided to make a joke and say hey look bait and I cast that fish not far (10ft or so) and then this monster smallie came up and nailed it on top.  I tried getting the hook in him but the smallie was just holding onto the fallsfish.  Spit it out and the fallsfish was still able to swim away with no marks or damage.  Was exciting.
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Post by: twintrades on Jun 28, 2008, 11:49 AM
 :D Nice

We live on a lake in northern wisconsin. 3-4 yrs ago i was fishing for som pannies andwas reeling in one. Behind it was a huge white mouth ( talken about 5 ft from the boat) Slamed shut behind it. Musky on! Mind you i had an ultra light and 3 lb test. 5 min fight, brought the musky up to the boat, put the net in the water and the d**n thing spit it out!!

They shure do a lot of damage on a poor panfish.
Title: Re: wierd encounter
Post by: miket. on Jun 28, 2008, 02:12 PM
if i had my camera with me  i could of got some nice pics because this all happened with in two feet from me.
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Post by: JKneibel on Jul 02, 2008, 09:24 PM
Quite a few years ago my dad and I were bass fishing on a lake near our cabin in Baldwin, MI.  We were using nightcrawlers on a single bait hook catching bass after bass.  Honestly it was getting a little mundane.  They were all about 12 inches.  Well, finally i got one on the line that was 'big'.  It was probably a 16-17 incher.  As i got it near the boat, the biggest northern pike i have ever seen came up and swallowed that bass up to its gills.  I was freaking out.  I fought the pike for about 5 minutes really gingerly.  We forgot the net that day, so when my dad tried to grab the pike, it pulled real hard and skinned the bass from its head to its tail.  That pike was, no like, probably close to 50 inches.  Its pretty exciting when a big fish takes one that you are already fighting.
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Post by: sperrin on Jul 03, 2008, 08:25 AM
I've heard alot of stories of Northern Pike doing that but its never happened to me....sounds like a pretty exciting time definitly! Great stories guys....  ;D

Stevo
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Post by: jjf on Jul 03, 2008, 08:48 AM
had a similar thing happen to me last week  but with an 9-10 brown trout (stockie) my guess is that the large mouth bass was 5-6 lbs . He put the death grip on the trout. I played with the 2 of theme for a while..pretty cool..Going after a 16/18 inch bow is no joke :o
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Post by: MickeyFinn on Jul 04, 2008, 08:36 PM
Ice fishing I caught a 15lb Northern that inhaled a 19 inch pickeral that triped the flag, it smashed it right at the hole, I really couldn't believe it at first. Luckly 2 of the points on the treble were on the outside of the pickerals jaw and caught just enough of the Pikes mouth.
Title: Re: wierd encounter
Post by: MasterAngler on Jul 04, 2008, 10:05 PM
I've seen this happen lots in the north, guiding for trophy pike.  They regularly hit small walleye and northerns we are reeling in, and sometimes we land both.  Big pike even swim up beside the boat and attack our stringer of shore lunch walleyes. 
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Post by: mud_n_fun on Jul 05, 2008, 12:00 AM
You musat have spawned something because I have never had this happen in my life.  But two days after reading this I was realing in a 5" gill on a ice rod and a 20" large mouch seated chasing it. I left the gill in the water and sure enough he took it. After nly 10 secs though he spit it out,  Then about  30 min later he did the same thing. That was one hungry bass. Never did land him though,
Title: Re: wierd encounter
Post by: TimmyWill on Jul 07, 2008, 11:29 AM
I was reeling in a white perch and all of a sudden a mushie grabbed it right next to the boat and was only on for a few secondes and it let go the perch had a huge bite mark in it.
Title: Re: wierd encounter
Post by: miket. on Jul 28, 2008, 07:25 PM
i think it has a lot to do wit the spawn. it must of came in right over the spawning bed and the bass just wasn"t having it. i say this because in the exact same spot i seen the bass a couple more times and she even gave chase a couple more times. now i go over to the same exact spot and (nothing). i thought it was odd that a bass having no teeth would even mess with a trout which is loaded with em.
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Post by: iProzac1982 on Aug 13, 2008, 09:40 AM
Reminds me of the time by buddy had on a 8" smallie and while reeling it in a 16-18" brook trout just hammered this fish, he stopped reeling and watched. By the time the trout had finished with the bass it was laying on bottom with most of its scales missing. I think the trout saw that it's competitor was in trouble and pounced on him.
Title: Re: wierd encounter
Post by: jjf on Aug 13, 2008, 04:50 PM
Reminds me of the time by buddy had on a 8" smallie and while reeling it in a 16-18" brook trout just hammered this fish, he stopped reeling and watched. By the time the trout had finished with the bass it was laying on bottom with most of its scales missing. I think the trout saw that it's competitor was in trouble and pounced on him.
good for that brookie :flex:
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Post by: lfishon on Aug 13, 2008, 08:28 PM
we were bull head fishing and wile i was reeling in a bull head a babby snapper  tryed to snag it up. my buddy teased it and got it eventually and had it in a aquarium for about a year and a half before turning it loose in the swamp
pretty kewl deal he would eat all the left over bait fish . we have had the turttles clean a stringer full of fish wile we sat right there  .
Title: Re: wierd encounter
Post by: miket. on Aug 14, 2008, 06:41 AM
yep, i don"t keep anything for the tank anymore. i did one year and thought the wife was gonna kill me when i got home from work, i put a bass in my tank that was very small which in turn sucked down about 5 hundred dollars of the wifes expensive fish. now i am divorced!!! now when i see her i always ask her "you wanna eat" the bass had to be released .
Title: Re: wierd encounter
Post by: Goonloon on Aug 16, 2008, 11:15 PM
hey miket,

that must have been a really cool thing to watch...funny uz i took my mum out fishing for the first time just the other day and this happened........




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Title: Re: wierd encounter
Post by: miket. on Aug 17, 2008, 06:57 AM
it was cool to watch except now like i said i am divorced.
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Post by: fish_finder on Aug 21, 2008, 05:58 AM
A few years ago my dad and I were fishing this beautiful lake that is full or both brook trout and big browns. I was fishing a worm and jig on a slip float in shallow water and hooked a small brookie about 5 inches long. When i was bringing it in there was a big wake and a splash, a huge brown had come up and attacked the smalll brookies and cleaned him off my hook...definetly made my heart pound, i fished that same spot all day long trying to catch that brown but i guess he was full ;D 
Title: Re: wierd encounter
Post by: miket. on Sep 06, 2008, 09:43 PM
way to go fish finder, i am gonna start video taping my fishing trips so when things do happen, i will be ready.
Title: Re: wierd encounter
Post by: fishermantim4 on Feb 27, 2009, 01:15 PM
i took my girl friend out on the boat for her first time last summer drifting in the mouth of the niagara river hoping to catch a couple walleye. i let her use my good drifting pole, she had a fish on then the pole almost doubled over, i get the net out ready to net something, when i watched the fish come to the boat it spit out the 20" sheephead and swam away, it was by far the biggest pike or musky that i have ever seen, the sheephead wasnt as lucky as the pike. with teeth marks halfway up it we threw it back and it didnt swim away
Title: Re: wierd encounter
Post by: miket. on Mar 05, 2009, 05:27 AM
i took my girl friend out on the boat for her first time last summer drifting in the mouth of the niagara river hoping to catch a couple walleye. i let her use my good drifting pole, she had a fish on then the pole almost doubled over, i get the net out ready to net something, when i watched the fish come to the boat it spit out the 20" sheephead and swam away, it was by far the biggest pike or musky that i have ever seen, the sheephead wasnt as lucky as the pike. with teeth marks halfway up it we threw it back and it didnt swim away
:clapping:nice!
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Post by: we3jeepers on Mar 10, 2009, 07:44 AM
that would be cool!!!
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Post by: Marcus on Mar 12, 2009, 05:02 PM
That is cool . A couple of years ago on Erie we were trolling for walleyes and were doing well. My grandfather had a 17-18" eye on and brought it in close to the boat I was ready to net it when this big white mouth opened and the walleye disappeared. The fish pulled drag at a screaming and unstoppable rate for a few minutes eventually my grandfather tightened the drag and decided it is time to get this fish in. He fought it for a while and we saw it once. I assumed musky, but I was wrong it was a laker. We did not land that fish but it was HUGE it ended up spitting the walleye which had all the hooks buried in it . It was exciting definately a nice change from just reeling in boots (walleye). Also back in NH on a couple of occasions I have seen 20-22" tiger trout hit 10-12" stockie browns they are a vicious fish.
Title: Re: wierd encounter
Post by: miket. on Mar 12, 2009, 08:30 PM
nice, i love it when you get to see something like that live and right in front of you!
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Post by: stingdave9119 on Mar 12, 2009, 10:32 PM
this summer while i was canoeing down on silver lake i came across a pike roughly 30inches in length that had a walley around 20+ stuck in its mouth and both were eventually dead. its amazing what they will try to eat
Title: Re: wierd encounter
Post by: miket. on Mar 13, 2009, 08:31 AM
i guess if your hungry, you gotta eat! its pretty amazing though>
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Post by: leavnsorlips on Mar 13, 2009, 12:41 PM
i have had several instances such as this happen to me. most commonly when bluegill or perch fishin, but one that i will never forget is from a trip to minnesota. my dad and i were bluegill fishin and it was not unusual to be fightin a gill and all of a sudden wham! a northern would nail one. well this one pesky northern actually set up camp right under the boat and would come out and nail just about every gill we brought up. he actually cleared the water and absolutely shredded one as i was tryin to hurry and lift it into the boat! after dealin with this dude attackin us for a little while i decided to run a bluegill colored crankbait up to this guy and sure nuf he ate it! he only weighed bout 4 lbs but he had the attitude of a monster!!!
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Post by: burck17 on Feb 25, 2016, 12:29 AM
In Washington state on the Columbia river it is common for sealions to steal your salmon... Very frustrating because a lot of the time that will be your only fish all day. Also because they are huge and have capsized boats jumping on board trying to get to ppls fish.

Also crappie fishing in Washington I saw a crappie with about 3 inches of perch hanging out its mouth still took my jig... I had to pull the perch out so he could survive and both fish swam off...

Last story like this for me is I caught a pike in north Dakota about 30 inches on a big daredevil that had a about 20 inch pike with the hole tail sticking out of its mouth... When the one in its mouth got removed we found it was already about half digested.