Never seen that before..................

I vote heart attack...

More evidence of the MYTH that bass taste terrible. Glad you cleaned it and enjoyed it. Stuff happens, that's fishing. I've had them jump and hit the side of the boat dead as a rock, it happens. That's just another reason why everyone needs to learn to clean and cook fish, even if you are a 100% C&R bass fisherman.

Bass are delicious if you know how to cook them. Beer batter them and roll them in corn meal and wow....tasty as can be. Can't believe more people don't eat them.

Sounds like some type of spine/lower cranial trauma. That size hook and that gap can do that. How deep was it? Ruling out a busted swim bladder from a fast reel in from deep water. If she tried to swim down as you set the hook, the angle would've been perfect to hit the tail of the spinal cord. Either way 1 / 1,000,000 shot.

I have caught many thousands of fish and never had something like that happen. That is certainly a freaky thing.

Sounds like some type of spine/lower cranial trauma. That size hook and that gap can do that. How deep was it? Ruling out a busted swim bladder from a fast reel in from deep water. If she tried to swim down as you set the hook, the angle would've been perfect to hit the tail of the spinal cord. Either way 1 / 1,000,000 shot.

Shallow water so not SB problem.  Hook was deep so I am opting for the spinal/cranial trauma.

Happens when the hook point goes into the brain through the roof of the mouth.

Tom

Craziness...

On 6/18/2014 at 8:32 PM, Zoff said:

Guys... I was getting a little fishing in today when I hooked what ended up being a 6 pounder.  I was using a shakeyhead with 4/0 wide gap and finess worm.  Got a good bite and swim-off... set the hook and though I missed it and hung a stick.  Dead weight reel in.  When I got it in it was dead as a doornail.  Can somebody tell me why and is this a common thing?  First time for me. 

Maybe it was just super stunned. Look at one of the last comments about this one bass that was thought to be dead but jumped around out of the livewell.

7 minutes ago, Evan Lip Ripper said:

Maybe it was just super stunned. Look at one of the last comments about this one bass that was thought to be dead but jumped around out of the livewell.

 

IT happened 3 YEARS AGO, btw, TC hasn't been around for like 2 years.

Maybe he had a heart attack.

Ive never had a fish die on the hookset.

I did hit a bass with the oars one time when I was rowing but at least he was swimming around in circles not dead.

I scooped him up and invited him home for dinner.Figured he would drown eventually anyway swimming around and around like that.

 

Maybe that stick he thought he snagged, was a 'dead' bass   

 

Roger

On 6/19/2014 at 7:40 AM, Fish Murderer 71 said:

FISH KILLER!!!!  JK... In all my years of fishing, I've never heard of this nor seen it.   I know I've blinded in one eye a bunch of fish, makes me feel bad for the fish...  Did you take it home and fillet it?  No sense in wasting it...

 

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2 hours ago, RoLo said:

 

Maybe that stick that you thought you snagged, was an already dead bass   

 

Roger

Then he probably would have snagged it.

I've ripped a few jaws off and set a lot in the eye but thats strange don't let it bother you.

never seen that before what a shame ,nice fish. those things are good grilled tho just put on aluminum foil rub in olive oil add lemon pepper and grill until it flakes apart. yum yum!  

On 6/19/2014 at 10:22 AM, Kevin22 said:

 

 

More evidence of the MYTH that bass taste terrible. Glad you cleaned it and enjoyed it. Stuff happens, that's fishing. I've had them jump and hit the side of the boat dead as a rock, it happens. That's just another reason why everyone needs to learn to clean and cook fish, even if you are a 100% C&R bass fisherman. 

I dont eat fish but know a bunch of country boys around me that will eat anything.  Have yet to have to use this method but will feel little or nothing as i know it went to feed a family that could use all the help they can get!!!

I only heard it happening one other time by Chuck Norris  .

3 minutes ago, scaleface said:

I only heard it happening one other time by Chuck Norris  .

Good one!

On 6/19/2014 at 7:00 AM, Zoff said:

Yup... got two very nice fillets and served them up about 3 hours after I killed it.  Very fresh!!!!  Gave it a drizzle of Olive Oil... a sprinkling ot salt, pepper, rosemary, basil, and garlic.  With skin on... seared it on the skin side until it was cooked over half way through.  Throw a splash of lemon juice on top.  Flip it over just to complete the cooking.  AWESOME!!!!!

Hey... stop it. i haven't had lunch yet.

Killing a bass by hooking it through the roof of the mouth into the brain isn't common but it happens. I have done this a few times using 5/0 jig hooks and the bass isn't totally lifeless but the die quickly by the time you remove the hook.

Tom

On 6/19/2014 at 7:50 AM, slonezp said:

A tongue hooked fish won't die instantly. Could take hours to bleed out.

They bleed out rather quickly.  For a fishes size, they have a very small amount of blood.

Several years ago in the everglades I killed a 6 1/2 bass in a tournament - hook on the frog was driven into  the roof of his mouth - I figured it hit her brain or something she was dead when I got her to the boat.

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On 6/19/2014 at 6:27 PM, mcgreggor57 said:

I vote heart attack...

It's very possible.  I know that I get a heart attack anytime I hook a fish that large (rarely).

I too have caught a fish that ran off with the bait and came in dead as a door nail.  I was using a senko and a #4 EWG Gama hook.  I hooked the fish through the top of the mouth and I believe directly into the brain or brain stem.  That fish was gone as soon as I set the hook.  RIP little buddy!!!!!!!!