Bass should have kept its big mouth shut
I snapped this photo last weekend at Glimmerglass State Park on Lake Otsego near Cooperstown, NY. The bass had washed up on shore, dead as a dead bass can be. The fish made a big mistake when it tried to swallow a sunfish in one big gulp. It was either very greedy or just plain lazy, and it paid the supreme price. The sunfish didn't fare any better.
The moral to this story, of course, is don't bite off more than you can chew. Or don't try to swallow a big fish whole.
I took this photo as I was leaving a picnic. Two guys were showing off the fishes to passersby. About an hour later as I drove away from Cooperstown I wished I had offered them $50 for the fish, packed them in ice, shipped them home and sold them to Ripley's Believe it or Not. I think I could have fetched a good price.
You can post this photo on your own website or email it to your friends. As you can see, I put an ad for my website on the pic. So go ahead make the bass and the sunfish famous. And my website, too.
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posted by Chuck Woodbury at
6/03/2009 05:11:00 PM
6 Comments:
Pretty fishy Chuck. Largemouth bass are voracious. I have seen this before along with a boiling twisting turning battle when a large snake got too close during feeding time. The most amazing though was watching a huge bass grab a red-winged blackbird off of a limb that was bobbing just above the water. Now you see it now you don't.
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Rex Alexander, at 4:58 AM, June 06, 2009
WE've all heard of, "it's a dog eat dog world", well apparently that applies to fish as well!
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fultim'r dave, at 6:28 AM, June 06, 2009
Your pic of big bass trying to swallow a smaller fish, brings to mind a picture that my wife has of a big bass that trid to swallow 2 (two) smaller fish and also tried to swallow our friends artifical lure at the same time. That was how he was hooked and caught.
Dick Irwin Leesburg, FL
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Dick Irwin, at 7:20 AM, June 06, 2009
Actually this is quite common. I have discovered several through my life like this. Some where still alive struggling on the top of the water.
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UncleDan, at 7:50 AM, June 06, 2009
I was fishing off shore up by Port Angeles off Ediz Hook when I caught a ling cod that was fair size. I had it almost to the boat when another huge ling cod hit it and swallowed most of it whole. we did get them in the boat and got two for one :)
Bebop in San Jose, CA
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Anonymous, at 9:35 AM, June 06, 2009
Just the way I like my Bass. Sunny side UP!
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Anonymous, at 6:42 AM, June 08, 2009
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