Not too long ago I was fishing a retention pond near where I live. A plethora of lilly pads grows in the shallow end. Somewhat stupidly, I tied a silver floating rapala onto my spinning gear and tossed it in the pockets between the pads. A nice bass engulfed it and quickly headed for cover. As you've probably already anticipated, it immediately wrapped me around some pads and broke me off. Lamenting the loss of a nice bass and one of my most productive lures, I retied and continued to fish. A few minutes later a friend arrived and I told him the same story I'm telling you. Anyway, just as i was finishing, I noticed a bass swimming up to the surface. "Look!" I pointed, "There it is now." Right on cue, the bass broke the surface, shook his head vigorously, and tossed my bait out of his mouth. After a couple of casts, I was able to snag my Rapala and recover it. It's not often a bass is so generous as to give me back my lure! Now if I can only persuade one to grant me 3 wishes!

Thats pretty wild that he came back and threw the lure out at you.

Haha thats hilarious.  I guess he didn't want that thing jammed in his face anymore and decided to give it back lol.

It's nice to have a witness for these sorts of things.

i've got a similar one, I was fishing, and the bass breaks off my worm. Im upset, and after like 1 min. just staring, he jumps out of the water and throws the worm at me.

Was it a Mann's jelly worm?  Maybe he wanted strawberry instead of grape. ;D

i've got a similar one, I was fishing, and the bass breaks off my worm. Im upset, and after like 1 min. just staring, he jumps out of the water and throws the worm at me.

Haha reminds me when the same thing happened to me when I was a kid. I was desperate to catch my first bass and my efforts were limited to a small farm pond. Well one day I finally get a hit on a spinnerbait and my excitement is short lived when the fish breaks off. This is before I knew to check my line for nicks and retie often.

So I'm standing there feeling blue and tying on a new lure when that stinkin bass jumps in the air, shakes her head and unceremoniously deposits my spinnerbait on the grass mat in front of me :'(