We got out this morning about 2am.  The bite was extremely slow, 1 fish in the boat, was caught on first cast of the night and 1.5 hrs have now passed without so much as a swipe at a topwater.  

As we moved into an area that has been very productive at night, a very cool chain of events happened.  First, reeling in the j-bug, not a hit in 1.5 hrs and then right at the boat, a monster swung at it, and almost sent Eric and I in the water out of pure surprise.  We were like "Whooooa".  2 casts later, another miss.  I leave the bug right where it is and follow with a trick stick.

WHAM!! BUT IT'S ON THE BUG!!   NOT THE ROD IN MY HAND!!!  

So after that cool catch, I release her as Eric is trying to make something out in the dark.  He says "what the hell is that?"  I release her and look and say, "Ducks.  4 babies and a momma"  No sooner were the words out when WHOOOSH  

3 babies and a momma!!

We actually saw a bass (no pike here) take a duck off the surface!!!!!  SO COOL!!

I've seen this before but it was a pike (original intro for In-Fisherman tv show)

So, from a total "ho-hum" night, in 5 minutes, we had a trip we will both remember forever.

Gotta love fishing!!

This was the one from the j-bug

LOL, the bait monkey is calling you....

http://www.persuaderamerican.com/baby-duck.html

Thats pretty wild Russ, I've not witnessed this yet, but have heard the tales before.  

Man, we were blown away.  We had to look at each other for like 5 seconds, almost in disbelief, to see if we had both seen that.

Don't be afraid of the night be afraid of what hunts in the night  

Don't be afraid of the night be afraid of what hunts in the night  

Yea,...me, Dirk,4-bizz, capt cali, matt5.0 and many, many more dark side stalkers,lol!  You might want to whisper those words to the fishes!

                                                                                                               and of course, the ducks

I accidently hooked a duck at night a few years back.  I don't know who was scared more, the duck or me.  I know I had hooked him, and he started squawking and flapping and flying off.  That scared me.  But then my line started stripping off my reel.  That got me excited.  At first I thought I had a nice bass...but realized that it was the duck pulling the line off.  I didn't know what to do, so in panic I tried to bite the line.  I found out that biting line dosn't work very well when it's screaming off the reel :-/  Some how or the other my line tightened up and broke (right at the bait).  I was using a torpedo, so, I guess you could say I torpedoed a duck :-?

I hate being hit right at the boat at night when its totally still and quiet.....

.....and I bet that little duck does too.

Never heard of a bass hitting a duck.  But I have seen duck lures for muskie...

When I was younger, I was bank fishing one day and ran across a Killdeer nest. The little ones scattered and one took to the water. I did not know they could swim, but this little booger was scootin across the water. Low and Behold, he made it about 5 feet from the bank when a bass came and sucked him down.

I was in shock, first that killdeer could swim, secondly, that a bass made a meal out of him!