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June 04, 2009
Bass Wins In Cock Fight
An email was waiting for me yesterday after lunch with some photos from my friend Cliff Watts, an ER doctor here in town. He's a rabid steelheader and inventor of the Kilowatt fly. Apparently he and John Barr - the famous fly tier and bass aficionado were fly fishing some gravel pits just north and east of Boulder, Co. when Cliff hooked this glutenous fish the other day.
To his surprise a bird's tail feathers and feet were sticking out of it's throat. Look closely and you see what I'm talking about. Now, I've seen fish with other fish halfway down their gullets, and my buddy once saw a pike take down a couple of ducklings, but this is one for the books! This little piggy wasn't even done swallowing a bird and went back for seconds. Perhaps this will knock some sense into Deeter that bass do not have glass jaws.
My question is how'd the fish do it? Knock the bird off the branch? Did it fall out of a nest into the water? Take it down mid flight? Can anyone beat this fish tale? Come on... give me something weird.
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When I was a kid on "Disney Sunday Night". They did a "nature" show one night. On the show there was a snake(can't remember what kind) chasing a mouse, well the mouse headed for a creek and tried to cross, snake followed. All of a sudden mouse disappears in a swelll.
Snake relizes something is up, turns to retreat to bank when he disappears. Ol' Walt come's on(narrator) saying the Lg.Mouth Bass of North America is a VERY voracious eater. That was the same year "Jaws" came out, lucky I learned to swim before that.(lol)
we used to fish an old farm pond packed full of bass,bream and catfish. there was a big ol catfish in the pond we called catfish hunter we hooked him a few times seen him swin the bank dozens of times i mean this catfish would snap poles like wigs and one day my buddy and i seen him jump out the water by a beaver dam and grab a black bird off a small hanging branch.if someone told me about that i would have never believed you but i saw it with my own eyes.
I watched a bass take a bird off a tree branch hanging over the water.
I've pulled mice and other fish from bass before, but never a bird... That is awesome.
I forgot - I pulled about a 14" long half-eaten garter snake from the mouth of a largemouth bass one time too. The bass was almost 4 pounds. I guess that is how they get so big huh??
"Gary the sparrow knew this wendnesday would not be his day, as all the worms were gone(darn baitchuckers). So he flew across the pond to get some dragonflies. One swoop, one dragonfly, one KABLOOSH and CHOMP. That was all I saw."
My depiction of the incident.
The bass pleads guilty.
The sick side of me's favorite thing is ducklings getting gobbled by pike, snapping turtles, and muskies. Don't let your small pets swim in musky or giant pike country. There are stories...
Whoa. Last week I caught a LM that had the pincers of a crawdad sticking out of it's gullet. The first thing I thought was "what a pig." But he's got nothin' on that fish above.
A friend of mine ( who is a avid bass fisherman) has seen bass eat birds twice. He said a bird will land on a low overhanging limb near the water and the bass will jump out of the water to catch the bird. He fishes with little bird lures sometimes.
That is pretty weird, just goes to show that bass will eat about anything. About time to come out with a "fake bird lure", sold in soft plastic and maybe crankbait. haha. I guess his stomach did not have time to tell him that he was full...
I was in Canada on a Fly-In fishing trip, we were out on the lake and i was only about 9 or 10, my dad had been telling me since we didnt have a shower in the cabin that i would have to shower in the lake, i said no problem. that evening we went back out on the water for the evening bite and saw what i think was a muskrat or maybe a small beaver crossing the water in front of us, next thing i know i seen a massive boil and the head of a northern pike or musky come up and take the critter down. i had second thoughts about taking a bath in the water after that! it was a neat experience though.
I once found a chevy in a Pike. No really I've found snakes, baby rabbits and other rodents tails sticking out, but never a bird.
a buddy of mine cought a 15lb northern with a young muskrat in its gut before . i cought a 14 inch brook trout with a small grass snake in it before so much for matching the hatch with him .
kudos to your buddy, Deeter. Impressive. Two days ago, I watched a 8 lb cuda take a 10" mangrove snapper. I watched him engulf the tail on his second bite. Greedy bastard took our plug two casts later. That afternoon we had cuda fingers for appetizers. The bass and the bird is really good
what kind of bird was it? how big?
Ostrich. Huge.
man shane thats one big bass to be eating ostrich i think i will pass on swimming there
Outstanding!!! I've seen plenty of fish inside other fish before but never a bird!! First time for everything!!
homnivorous!!!! bass eat anything from other fish,crustaceans,frogs,small mammals (including bats),snakes,insects,tuna sandwiches,to birds and even lures.
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"Gary the sparrow knew this wendnesday would not be his day, as all the worms were gone(darn baitchuckers). So he flew across the pond to get some dragonflies. One swoop, one dragonfly, one KABLOOSH and CHOMP. That was all I saw."
My depiction of the incident.
The bass pleads guilty.
That is pretty weird, just goes to show that bass will eat about anything. About time to come out with a "fake bird lure", sold in soft plastic and maybe crankbait. haha. I guess his stomach did not have time to tell him that he was full...
I was in Canada on a Fly-In fishing trip, we were out on the lake and i was only about 9 or 10, my dad had been telling me since we didnt have a shower in the cabin that i would have to shower in the lake, i said no problem. that evening we went back out on the water for the evening bite and saw what i think was a muskrat or maybe a small beaver crossing the water in front of us, next thing i know i seen a massive boil and the head of a northern pike or musky come up and take the critter down. i had second thoughts about taking a bath in the water after that! it was a neat experience though.
I once found a chevy in a Pike. No really I've found snakes, baby rabbits and other rodents tails sticking out, but never a bird.
a buddy of mine cought a 15lb northern with a young muskrat in its gut before . i cought a 14 inch brook trout with a small grass snake in it before so much for matching the hatch with him .
kudos to your buddy, Deeter. Impressive. Two days ago, I watched a 8 lb cuda take a 10" mangrove snapper. I watched him engulf the tail on his second bite. Greedy bastard took our plug two casts later. That afternoon we had cuda fingers for appetizers. The bass and the bird is really good
Ostrich. Huge.
When I was a kid on "Disney Sunday Night". They did a "nature" show one night. On the show there was a snake(can't remember what kind) chasing a mouse, well the mouse headed for a creek and tried to cross, snake followed. All of a sudden mouse disappears in a swelll.
Snake relizes something is up, turns to retreat to bank when he disappears. Ol' Walt come's on(narrator) saying the Lg.Mouth Bass of North America is a VERY voracious eater. That was the same year "Jaws" came out, lucky I learned to swim before that.(lol)
we used to fish an old farm pond packed full of bass,bream and catfish. there was a big ol catfish in the pond we called catfish hunter we hooked him a few times seen him swin the bank dozens of times i mean this catfish would snap poles like wigs and one day my buddy and i seen him jump out the water by a beaver dam and grab a black bird off a small hanging branch.if someone told me about that i would have never believed you but i saw it with my own eyes.
I watched a bass take a bird off a tree branch hanging over the water.
I've pulled mice and other fish from bass before, but never a bird... That is awesome.
I forgot - I pulled about a 14" long half-eaten garter snake from the mouth of a largemouth bass one time too. The bass was almost 4 pounds. I guess that is how they get so big huh??
The sick side of me's favorite thing is ducklings getting gobbled by pike, snapping turtles, and muskies. Don't let your small pets swim in musky or giant pike country. There are stories...
Whoa. Last week I caught a LM that had the pincers of a crawdad sticking out of it's gullet. The first thing I thought was "what a pig." But he's got nothin' on that fish above.
A friend of mine ( who is a avid bass fisherman) has seen bass eat birds twice. He said a bird will land on a low overhanging limb near the water and the bass will jump out of the water to catch the bird. He fishes with little bird lures sometimes.
what kind of bird was it? how big?
man shane thats one big bass to be eating ostrich i think i will pass on swimming there
Outstanding!!! I've seen plenty of fish inside other fish before but never a bird!! First time for everything!!
homnivorous!!!! bass eat anything from other fish,crustaceans,frogs,small mammals (including bats),snakes,insects,tuna sandwiches,to birds and even lures.
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