On 9/21/2015 at 10:52 PM, Fisher-O-men said:

Do Florida bass eat baby gators???

Yes

 

On 9/23/2015 at 6:42 AM, StinkyBass said:

Wow! $90?! That lure costs more than some of my rods! I can see why eBay would be a good place to buy one of these. I watched a video of a baby wake snake, you're right, it looks great in the water! Just don't snag and lose it, might as well have thrown your wallet in... Nice lure though, I'd like to see a video post of a bass nailing it

LOL at thrown your wallet in, that cracked me up. and seriously though, i dont care who is backing it and who made it and all that, as long as i can catch bass on a 5 dollar pack of plastic worms i will never spend $90 on a lure, outrageous

Red Bear,

I agree with you 100 % !

As long as people keep buying those high dollar lures companies will make them.

My situation is a little different - I fish for snook more then bass and believe me, most snook fishermen don't have any "old favorite lures".

Snook will either take them away from you or literally destroy them. Then there's the occasional by catch of tarpon. They are pretty tough on tackle too, even the juvi's that are "only" 40 to 60 pounds.

Needless to say I go thru a lot of lures and simply can't afford to see a 50 dollar bill leaving with some upset fish.

The less expensive lures work just fine, thank you very much.

On 9/21/2015 at 8:05 PM, Sam said:

Thanks guys.

Sounds a little far-fetched to me, too.

I have seen copperheads crawling along the bank and sunning on rocks but I don't think I have ever see them swimming.

I think my friend is having a joke pulled on him.

If there was only one bite while landing a bass then the VDG&IF would have released a warning and the bite would have gone viral on the Internet.

Will let you all know what my VDG&IF friend tells me.

Sam..I just moved in two years ago and on my first trip last Fall with my Grandson to Hunting Run Reservoir, while he fished on the dock, I was checking out a footpath around to the right. I heard what I thought was fish jumping in the water, or the noise a carp would make ahead of me just off the bank. Checking further I saw two snakes floating on top of the water. They were the color and size of copperheads, and they were coiled up with their heads cocked back to strike each other, then behind that a full coil, then the rest of their bodies protruding them in the water. They would swim up to each other, then spring forward but I could not tell if they were biting each other but they wrapped their bodies around each other for a few seconds and then separate, then do it ll over again. I watched them for awhile till one of them noticed me and when I started to leave it kept trying to swim ahead of me and I thought it was trying to come up on the bank ahead of me. Needless to say, I made some pretty quick moves till I was sure that I had won the race. My understanding is that water snakes swim with only their heads above water. I don't know much about snakes, but that about did it for me!

17 hours ago, keeganzpapa said:

Sam..I just moved in two years ago and on my first trip last Fall with my Grandson to Hunting Run Reservoir, while he fished on the dock, I was checking out a footpath around to the right. I heard what I thought was fish jumping in the water, or the noise a carp would make ahead of me just off the bank. Checking further I saw two snakes floating on top of the water. They were the color and size of copperheads, and they were coiled up with their heads cocked back to strike each other, then behind that a full coil, then the rest of their bodies protruding them in the water. They would swim up to each other, then spring forward but I could not tell if they were biting each other but they wrapped their bodies around each other for a few seconds and then separate, then do it ll over again. I watched them for awhile till one of them noticed me and when I started to leave it kept trying to swim ahead of me and I thought it was trying to come up on the bank ahead of me. Needless to say, I made some pretty quick moves till I was sure that I had won the race. My understanding is that water snakes swim with only their heads above water. I don't know much about snakes, but that about did it for me!

Wow. Maybe the were mating. I have seen copperheads along the bank and on rocks and at my house in Bon Air by Bosher's Dam but never in the water. I have seen water moccasins on the Appomattox River.

You had a close call, especially when you realize that snakes are anti-social so to have one try to intercept you is chilling, to say the least.

Much more likely to be a cottonmouth in its mouth or, even more likely still, a common water snake. Large-mouth bass are a common predator of the cottonmouth snake, sometimes referred to as a water moccasin, which is closely related to the copperhead snake.

I have heard these stories before.  As for snakes in the water I see them in the everglades every once in a while.  I have seen a rattlesnakes once in Ga in a lake.  It kept heading for the boat instead of land and we started the big motor to keep our distance.  After reading an article years ago, I always look first before putting a thumb in a bass mouth!