One of my strangest ways I hooked into a bass

I had about 30 minutes to kill waiting for my son to finish a class so I headed to a nearby lake. 
 

Senko, nothing. Spinnerbait, nothing. Then one lure catches my eye. A small lipless metallic gold Cotton Cordell super spot, which is basically a rattle trap type of bait. 
 

It’s been quite sometime since I tossed any type of crankbait because I’ve been giving my attention to senkos and spinnerbaits these couple seasons such that I dedicated 3 casts just to develop a cadence and rhythm and yo-yo-ing, lol. 
 

Now that I was “ready” to fish it, I had to make a backhanded cast to avoid people on the dock. I over shot and my bait landed and caught onto the top of the dock rail. Funny and embarrassing but oh well. I freely let it drop it by hand and proceed to walk away from it with the bail open and rod hanging over dock. 
 

As I was walking and the bait was descending, my line got caught on the dock and that naturally tightened my line. Right at that moment, I felt bump, bump.  
 

The first bump was my lure hitting the bottom. You all know what that second bump is! I instinctively closed my bail with lightning speed and quickly pulled up the slack. Fish on! I said out loud my usual line, “Got’em,” and smiled. 

The bass was hooked in the center of the lower lip by only one tine of one treble. It could have been easily shaken off. Whew!

I lipped her, removed the lure and quickly to a photo.  
 

This is perhaps the strangest way I have caught a bass or any fish for that matter. It’s still a bit inconceivable that a hand-dropped rattle trap type of bait that gets taken the moment it hits the lake bottom. I guess it gives me new meaning to dead-sticking. 
 

Definitely a weird catch, but I’ll take it. ?

Rod: Shimano MH Compre

Reel: Shimano Symetre with 8# mono

This is the same rail the bait hooked itself on, lol. 
 

I seriously do not like selfies,  but in these situations, I am forced to take pictures like this.