Hypothesis: regarding small mouth bass and salmon fishing

[lizardman]

went out yesterday and had five take downs using bobber and eggs, but no hook set. A couple hours later a kid next to me using a similar set up landed a nice 2.5-3 pound Small Mouth Bass.

I am thinking maybe it was bass giving me a takedown, but upon setting the hook I was ripping out the lip.

Hmmmmm.....



The weather changed and there were no more bites for a couple hours so I packed it in for another day.


Dave

 

[Throbbit _Shane]

Smallies have tough mouths, even with a really strong hook set I doubt you'll rip there lips. Could be other species down there?

 

[the_intimidator03]

tons of species in the watershed Lizardman is fishing, suckers, carp, REAL catfish, sturgeon, smallmouth and largemouth bass etc.

 

[lizardman]

tons of species in the watershed Lizardman is fishing, suckers, carp, REAL catfish, sturgeon, smallmouth and largemouth bass etc.

Exactly. It could be suckers, but I don't think I was deep enough to be on the bottom, could be a catfish opening its mouth and letting go as soon as it felt resistance. One of my friends pulled a 29 or so inch flathead catfish out Wednesday night.


Dave

 

[wozniasm]

Smallies have tough mouths, even with a really strong hook set I doubt you'll rip there lips. Could be other species down there?

I agree with Shane. There's no way you can rip it out of a bass. they're way too tough.