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Originally Posted by Flaptail
Dennis, I stood with a gentlemen this past June on the end of a cement outlet down cape in that Truro country while he was live lining a live shad and as that shad was at our feet a bass about 25 pounds came up and in a micro second before our very eyes whacked the piss outa that shad in one good swipe of his tail then in another micro second while the shad lay paralized and twitching it whilrled around and took it head first. This all happend in broad daylight, the water was gin clear and the fish was no more then 2 feet under the surface maybe 3 feet out from the toes of my boots.
In all my years of fishing and all the tales told this was the very first and only time I have actually witnessed that happening.  |
Very similar situation happened to me one summer afternoon fishing a jetty in Western Long Island Sound back in the late 70s ... had a chunking rod out, and a spinning rod throwing jigs, etc. Caught a mackerel, pulled it in, cut off a few fins and hooked it up on my chunking rod ...
... the fish wouldn't swim away from the rocks, no matter what I tried to do, I was getting ticked off ...
... when all of a sudden, just two feet below me in the water, a striper of similar size 25 pound class swirled in, smacked the mackerel with it's tail, and then proceeded to inhale the bait as it was quivering and starting to sink ... I was so stunned, that it took me a while to set up on the fish that I felt I could have scooped up with a net if I was ready for it, it was that close ... crazy ... got to love those situations