Bowfin

Sounds like a really big pickerel (or a stray pike) to me. I've reared back on them and feel nothing on the other end. You can usually see the teeth marks on mono. Snakeheads, gars, and other things with teeth will usually give a bit of a tussle before departing with your lure.

4 hours ago, BassWhole! said:

Sounds like a really big pickerel (or a stray pike) to me. I've reared back on them and feel nothing on the other end. You can usually see the teeth marks on mono. Snakeheads, gars, and other things with teeth will usually give a bit of a tussle before departing with your lure.

We don’t have pickerel or pike down here.

On 1/3/2021 at 8:54 PM, MN Fisher said:

Bowfin are toothy enough - and they're related to Gar. That's probably what took it.

One of these Bowfin. Or...a Chain Pickerel. I didn't know we had em. Caught the Bowfin on a texas rigged worm!

27 minutes ago, Biglittle8 said:

One of these Bowfin. Or...a Chain Pickerel. I didn't know we had em. Caught the Bowfin on a texas rigged worm!

 

 

I big pickerel might take it - they rarely get that big though. I've had a pike bite off lipless and it was probably big enough to take a spinner.

Bowfin is out of focus, but ya, they can take just about any lure when they get bigger - nasty teeth on those.

It was... the Loch Ness Monster. ?

37 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Is that Nessy or did you get a shot of Champy?

That's Champy.