I caught a 4 pounder the other night on a split shot rig. Fishing with a BIG Bass Pro Shop 12" worm.  I let the fish have the worm for a while because the bite was just a very, very light tap.   After I fought him to the bank and lipped him and looked in his mouth, all I saw was line going into the gullet.....%$)(${IO!!....I thought I was going to do some damage trying to get to the 4/0 hook.  I gently started to pull the line to try to see the eye of the hook...the tip of the worm appeared!!! I pulled a little more...the rest of the worm comes out with the hook still embedded in the worm!!  The hook had never pierced through the worm into the fish!?!?!?

Wonders never cease in bass fishing.  I never had anything like this happen.  Have any of you???

Wow. Never with a fish that big.

I've set the hook hard on soft plastics and had little fish come flying in the boat that weren't hooked, but rather just holding on.

But to land a 4 pounder after a fight, that's new to me...

One of those moments you'll never forget and neither will I and I wasn't even there. I could never be that lucky. At some point in time I would have jerked the worm out before I would have gotten the fish to the boat.

thats pretty sweet man!

First time I have heard that.

I have had a bass take a bluegill and waited until he swallowed it but the bluegill came flying out of the bass' mouth during the fight.

I was fishing for catfish when this happened.  

I haven't, but when I was young my brother did.

We we're fishing for bluegill using red worms and bobbers.

He landed a solid 3" bass on the worm only ( that's 3 inches )

The little feller really wanted that worm bad.

He was just hanging onto the end of the worm with all his might.

Man those big ones sure put up a fight.

Brute

Nothing even close to that size.    But did bring in a bluegill on a swimming senko.  Watched it come up and bite the tail and just slowly reeled it in as it chewed on the tail and it didn't let go till I swung it over the boat.

I've played several bass back to the boat on a crankbait with the hooks removed (prefishing for a TX.) but never landed one like that.  That's wild, you must have been dead sticking the bait for a while.

Never had that happen to me, but sure have lost my fair share of bigg'uns when they shake the d#*m hook loose during a head shake.

I've played several bass back to the boat on a crankbait with the hooks removed (prefishing for a TX.) but never landed one like that. That's wild, you must have been dead sticking the bait for a while.

Sort of.  When the fish bit, I just let it have the bait for about a minute. It did not run with it, just sort of sat there and injested it. I had broken off a few on setting the hook that evening so I did not really set the hook hard, just a nice sweep to the side.  

I caught a keeper (15") largemouth on a mag rat-l-trap 3/4oz.  The trap was so big it just got wedged diagonally in his mouth and he couldn't throw it.

thats must be quite a hookset you've got  ;D

great story!

First time I've heard of that.Although nature is funny sometimes!

Check this out,,While fishing with crawdads for smallmouth my wife set the hook and pulled a sunfish out that was caught by the crawdads pincers(THAT "DAD" WAS NOT GONNA BE EATEN!)