New PB Bass on weird bait, and first topwater fish!

[JigNgrub1997]

Before 20-minutes of fishing had been through, I hooked a small one on a 1/4oz chartreuse buzzbait. This is my first topwater fish. Here's a pic or two, it's was 12-inches and maybe close to a pound. Looks smaller in pics, lol.

It looks as though it's bleeding out of it's gill. But it was really bleeding out of it's tongue/mouth, the blood was dripping out of it's mouth and exited out of it's gill. He was released unharmed.

Now the weird thing. I had a rod out with dough-bait on it for Catfish, and I get a tug. I set the hook and hooked into what I thought was a Carp, but it turned out to be an 18" Bass, about 3 or 3 1/4lbs. Wasn't too much of a fight with saltwater gear...

[JigNgrub1997]

Here's the larger Bass..

[CMorg]

Them deep hooked ones I think usually die. I could be wrong. I normally have problems when its windy and the senko bite is light with deep hook sets , as I dont notice the bite fast enough. I usually dont bother with taking the hook out , as it will do more damage , I just cut the line, remove the bait and release.

[bamabassman]

cmorg i have found that if oyu unhook em quick and get em back in the water quickly, they have amuch better to survive. i might be wrong though.

now...............NICE fish man. congrats to ya!

[florida fisher]

nice fish man keep on fishin'

[james86]

Nice catch.

[keithdog]

Those are some good looking bass man! That bass that ate the catfish bait must not have an ounce of class though, hahaha

[JigNgrub1997]

I'm almost sure it lived, as I didn't see anything floating. But I may have been wrong...I'd rather have one that was going to die with a hook out of it then one that is going to die with a Buzzbait in it's mouth.

Thanks guys. Yeah the Bass on dough-bait was weird..

[Cavs1123]

Nice fish dude!

[CMorg]

I didnt suggest you should leave a buzzbait in its mouth. I said what I do with senko worm fishing and deep hooksets. None the less , I read recently in a BassTimes that the majority of bass that die actually sink instead of float.

In the supplied link , 4th paragraph it states that fish often float days later. http://www.texs.com/bass_mortality_study/study.htm

The last two paragraphs in this link are interesting.
http://www.bassdozer.com/articles/ma...k_in_out.shtml

[gonefishin3]

Originally Posted by CMorg

Them deep hooked ones I think usually die. I could be wrong. I normally have problems when its windy and the senko bite is light with deep hook sets , as I dont notice the bite fast enough. I usually dont bother with taking the hook out , as it will do more damage , I just cut the line, remove the bait and release.

past 5-6 times i went out thats all i catch my fish on...

[BassinNC]

Good lookin fish man,

[screwballl]

as long as there is a tug on the line then its all fun