I was at the local spot yesterday, and threw on a crank bait made a few long casts, then all of a sudden felt dead weight.  I was like, oh my, this is going to be a good one.  When I finally was able to see what was on the end of my line, I noticed this.  I sure hated that I hooked it liked this, this seemed kind of painful as when I pulled it out of the water, the mouth was wide open.  Heal up well lil feller

Must have been a slow bass. Don't worry about it looking painful, he didn't feel a thing.

It happens from time to time.

It's fine, this happens a lot. He'll be alright.

ya, bass should be just fine....

had a couple in the past like that myself.

Any bait with trebles is gonna eventually hook a bass outside of the mouth. I have caught bass with a treble through the eyeball!!

Jeez, that hook got tore up!

This has happened to me, too.

Fish swam off like nothing happened.  

This has happened to me, too.

Fish swam off like nothing happened.

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Happens quite often with cranks, jerks, and topwaters.

For some odd reason that happens alot to me when I am fishing lipless cranks.  Anyway, the fish will be fine man, I'm sure of it... don't sweat it.  

You'll get a lota tail slaps that imbed the trebles into their sides while topwater fishing.  I"ve had them pop the bait 2 or 3' off the top of the water trying to kill it before.