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...