RoLo, snake lures are a not so secret tournament winning lure in South Florida.  I'll try to dig out the newspaper article written about the winner of the local open series.  These guys chuck those heavy lures all day long to get a few kicker fish.  I've done it in the warmer months in the glades canals and gotten bit by some nice fish.  I can't say that I've seen a live snake get eaten but snake lures do have a following around here.

 Well, as I wrote earlier on this thread, I have NEVER seen a post from anyone other than "affiliated persons"

stating they had caught a single fish on a snake bait. You my friend, are the first!

I have caught bass in Florida lakes with plastic snakes, the 18 inch type.  Not often, but it does happen. 

 

If you really want to have some fun, put one of those 18 inchers on a weighted line and let it sink to the bottom.  The snake is continually attacked when pulled along the bottom.  Pop, pop, pop...

 

 

 Well, as I wrote earlier on this thread, I have NEVER seen a post from anyone other than "affiliated persons"

stating they had caught a single fish on a snake bait. You my friend, are the first!

I've caught a lot of bass on the old Snatrix (sp?) and the Mann's Hardnose Snake, but I always fish them across the bottom like a regular worm and not across the surface like a snake. 

I've seen a small snake swimming over the surface weeds getting attacked constantly but never taken.

 

As far as eels go at night while fishing I shined my flash lite at the waters edge and noticed the eels right at the edge within inches from the shore feeding. I'm sure this is why the black rubber worm works so well.

 

I still have the packages of the "snakebait" curly snakes to this day. Of course the packages are loaded with dust too.

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No bass would be able to eat this thing!!! Hell even a large mammal would have a hard time turning this anaconda rattlesnake offspring into a meal lol

That's the biggest rattler I've ever seen! I haven't read the rest of this thread so I apologize if this has already been beaten to death.

WOW!!!...Now that is a one huge snake!

No, but I've seen a penguin blow up on a television set

 

What?  No Monty Python fans?

WOW!!!...Now that is a one huge snake!

 

It surely is, but just like a 12-lb bass, I'd much rather see it alive

On 3/24/2014 at 12:55 AM, Bluebasser86 said:

I've caught a bass with a snake sticking out of it's throat, but never seen one actually attacking one.

 

fishinthedacks' story reminded me of a bass my wife caught while we were fishing on a friends private lake in South Carolina. She was fighting a solid 3-4 pound fish to the boat when it spit up a large object, turned out to be about a foot long eel.

Seeing that prompted me to try a YUM Mightee worm weightless like a Senko, first cast with it;

I sell all my fishing gear and take up needlepoint the day I pull out a bass with a snake looking back at me. 

 

I followed a tiny rattle snake swimming once for about 30 minutes.  no..no excitement.

On 3/24/2014 at 6:02 AM, ksboy said:

Craziest thing I've seen was a coyote chase a deer into the water. I'm on my boat and heard a loud splash behind me, turnaround to see a deer swimming and a coyote standing on the bank with his tongue hanging out. Scared me!!!! Wish I had had the presence of mind to take a  pic.

No snakes, though.

I want to catch a bass big enough to eat the deer.

I haven't seen a bass catch a snake, but there is this.

6 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

I haven't seen a bass catch a snake, but there is this.

 

Now there's an ambitious fellow...this thread was actually a fun read and some of the pics still work although you seem to have to download them. I haven't seen this happen personally but one of my favorite lures is a zoom mag 2 and if you rig it so the 'j' of the hook lines up with the 'j' of the tail of the worm it looks like a baby snake swimming through the water. Pretty much my favorite worm to texas rig these days although I'll also still use an ultravibe speed worm sometimes.

In Ohio just outside Revenna I was fishing a cove in the big lake.  I saw a large snake crossing the cove.  I was closely watching it trying to figure out if it was a cotton mouth. I saw it get hit once and it sped up, making a bee line for the shore.  It got hit twice more on its journey by a big bass and safely shot up the shore line.  It was just too big for the bass to take.  Exciting to watch!👍

36 minutes ago, geo g said:

 I was closely watching it trying to figure out if it was a cotton mouth.

Not in OH. Contrary to popular opinion, they don't live this far north.

No.

However, I watched a small snake swim across a small river and waited for the big blowup. It never happened and the snake made it to the other side.

This told me not to use a topwater lure at that moment

Growing up we had a 7 acre farm pond.

Many water snakes occupied this pond and never once did I see a bass attack one, not even the small one's.

Little ducklings yes.

Never seen a bass blow up on a snake. I have seen a small Musky bit one in half. The Musky did not come back and eat either piece of the snake. 

Over the years I've seen numerous snakes swim by and I always watch with excitement hoping to see a big "blow up" but never happened. This is always disheartening and I start to think there are no fish anywhere in the vicinity. There is nothing in my tacklebox or no presentation in my skillset that could be nearly as natural and enticing as that friggin snake so what chance do I have at catching anything.😟

 

 

 

 

 

There is a newer video short out of a snake emerging from a bass' mouth that has about 8M views in the 8 days since it was posted, but got some reason I couldn't find it just now.

People, my wife and kids included, are reluctant to go outdoors with me during snake season. They call me a snake magnet and I have been bit 6 times in my life and 2 were venomous.

 

I fished this past Friday and saw at least 20 snakes swimming and four fall from trees near the shoreline.

 

In 2022 we hiked the Lost Dutchman/Superstitious Mtn in AZ, I got bit by a rattle snake and fell off a cliff. Fast forward to June of the same year and I was fishing a bass tournament and I hooked a good bass and it was coming right toward me. I couldn't keep up and reel fast enough. When I got it to the boat I reached down and lipped him and pulled him out of the water and it had a snake wrapped around him. It was a good 3 1/2' long but just a common water snake but it struck and bit me on the inside of my left elbow. I guess it was swimming to me to get away from the snake, LOL!

 

So I've never seen a bass blow up on a snake but I've seen the opposite where the snake tries to eat the fish.

On 5/10/2025 at 6:14 PM, Bird said:

 

Little ducklings yes.

This bass snatching a gosling is one of my favorite photos (I didn't take it). 

 

There was a story in the Florida sportsman magazine many years ago about a 19-20 pound bass being caught at Lake Tarpon on a 2-3 feet long live snake. This is completely from memory but I’ll try to find more on it.

Just checked and saw that the lake record was a 19 pounder caught on a live eel. That must be the same fish. 

On 3/24/2014 at 3:58 PM, porkleaker said:

I've caught bull frogs ... weedless frogs, they're evil cannibals. 

 

Yeah bull frogs will attack a SPRO like no other!

16 hours ago, NorthernBasser said:

This bass snatching a gosling is one of my favorite photos (I didn't take it). 

 

 

About 10 years ago at Lake of the Woods, someone in the cabin next to us found an enormous dead muskie on shore.  This thing looked like it was 50+ pounds.  It had a noticeable "bulge" in its throat right behind the gills.  A biologist from the DNR came and got it.  They found a full grown adult mallard duck in its throat that it choked on.  Imagine a muskie so big that it tried to eat a duck.  😳