Ive Ready About This...Now Ive Seen It...

[JRL]

Heres the scene:

Me on my kayak. My buddy on his Gheenoe. Both of us are drifting over a submerged culvert pipe fishing for speck with no luck.

On the lake also is a group of rowers, dont know what else to call them. They look like skulls but single seaters.

So this group of people (all northerners) all morning had been bothering us asking "what are you catching?"... We naturally lie, and in a friendly tone we say "salmon". They continue on without question.

No sooner did they get 200 yards past us one of them says "Holy cow this is the biggest fish Ive ever seen. It has a huge mouth!". I look and see a huge fish floating on the surface with about 5 rowers around it. So I head over to take a look.

Now prior to this we saw a bass in that same area smashing bait out of the water.

I pull up and sure enough its a bass. Hanging out of its mouth is what appears to be a large tail. The bass' gils were flared and stuck open so bad to where it couldnt move them to breath.

After opening its mouth this is what I saw:



After some carefull snipping of Bluegil fins, and about an hour in the live well, this 6lbs 6oz bass swam away to kill some gils another day.

First time Ive seen this, thought Id share.... And sorry no better pics, we tried not to handle it too much...didnt want her to die.