I caught a long, skinny, spawned out 4 lb'er yesterday, while throwing the Hud. While unhooking it, I noticed it was spitting some stuff up ? So, I turn it downward and give it a little shake.....

Crawdad claws.... Okay. And then I guess soft plastic brush hawgs are also an important food source in this lake :-) LOL

Not the first time I have seen bass spit up soft plastics, but not real common either.

Peace,

Fish

That's a cool picture.  Thanks for posting it.

Wow Chris you always catch huge bass I am just curious how big were those crawfish claws? How Big a crawdad do you think a bass will eat?

crawdad????!!!!! amn if i had my guess id say they were blue crab claws ;D

Wow Chris you always catch huge bass I am just curious how big were those crawfish claws? How Big a crawdad do you think a bass will eat?

Bass down here in some lakes along the coast eat on a regular basis a very large crawfish from the genera Macrobrachium, we call them LANGOSTINO ( like small lobsters ) or ACAMAYA, those grow quite large, I 've found fish with acamayas 8 inches long in their bellies, the intersting stuff is that they are not even big fish, 3-4 pounds.

Acamayas are wonderful to eat, needles to say we also place a couple of traps to ketch them or we buy them from the local commercial fishermen.

Thanks Raul

thats a cool pic. I caught a 16'' bass one time and he had two senkos in his stomach.

Giant river prawn, that 's the name in English Muddy.

that's a sweet beaver, by the way, and it looks pretty good to me.

Fry up some onions and mushrooms, add a dash of smelly jelly.

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.   Goooooooooooooood.

P.S. Aren't shakedowns illegal in California?

This crawdad, judging by the size of the claws, might have been 5" or 6", and yes, even smaller bass can eat a pretty big dad. Although when I am fishing for bass with live dads, I really prefer the small-clawed, thin-shelled females in the 2" to 3 1/2" range.

One time though, I was on the one trophy bass lake I know of up here in Nor Cal, where the big ones really like dads..... and I was down to the last few dads, which were WAY bigger than I prefer. So I put on this Lobster looking dad, and flip it out. The line does the tick, tick, tick, as the dad swims down.... Then WHACK ! A fish nails it before it even hits the bottom ! (kind of uncommon) Turns out to be a 12-6 trophy bass !

I was thinking about live Maine Lobsters for the next trip ! Just kidding :-)

Peace,

Fish

Cool pic, let's see the fish!

Didn't even bother with taking a picture of the fish. It would have had to be a lot bigger, and / or a lot prettier.

Don't worry, I'll photograph it's grandmother soon ;-)

Peace,

Fish