When bass blow up on a spook or frog, but miss it, they're like a musky following your lure. All squeeze the adrenal gland. What else gives the adrenal gland a good squeeze?

The sound of a decent bass sucking down a buzzbait in the dark.  With a good one, it's like submerging a sandcastle bucket straight down into the water.

 

A beaver tail slap or a spooked surface cruising musky that takes off right next to the boat in the dark will do that too (got the musky slap on Wednesday night).  Gets the heart pumping for a minute.

25 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

The sound of a decent bass sucking down a buzzbait in the dark.  With a good one, it's like submerging a sandcastle bucket straight down into the water.

 

A beaver tail slap or a spooked surface cruising musky that takes off right next to the boat in the dark will do that too (got the musky slap on Wednesday night).  Gets the heart pumping for a minute.

 

Those are good ones!

  A big girl following a glidebait in clear water can make your heart rate double. Sometimes they'll hit it with their mouth closed and that really test you.

When I push my pond prowler off the bank and the rope slips out of my hand!!!!

Forgetting to put the plug in.

The first time I read that @Lottabass caught 52 five-pounders in a woody pond down a half-mile dirt road in corn country in a single year. 

Drifting quietly on Lake Monroe on a calm early morning and having a gator come unglued around a foot away from the boat from under the water. Better laxative than anything on the market.

Fishing a bladed jig and getting slack knocked in your line by a big bass!

1 hour ago, pdxfisher said:

Fishing a bladed jig and getting slack knocked in your line by a big bass!

 

They sure can jolt us, huh?

Working a jig along the bottom and then feeling that one single bump. Then a second later the line starts moving on its own. 
 

Hooking myself is another one that will focus all the attention. 

When an aggressive beaver swims up to the boat and slams his tail.....in the dark.

 

There was a transmission shop just up the road, I thought someone threw one off the bridge. 😁

 

Raccoons fighting on a branch right above my head on a ink black night running trot lines. Thought I was going to meet my maker! 

A blue heron launching out of a tree overhead while fishing in the dark. Ranks right up there with those pesky beavers.

Carp launching itself into bottom of my kayak; or a large copperhead swimming right at my yak....or boat, even

An owl swooping down to grab my Pop-R. Twice.

Whoa, Reel Ess!

 

Reel Ess, I've told ya before and I'm gonna tell you again: You have the best avatar photo at Bass Resource. I can catch thick bass and Clayton catches even thicker, but your avatar bass makes our thickest bass look gaunt.