Well i have, Yesterday evening i went to the pond by my house and threw out a bone colored popper, after casting it out, before I got a chance to move it a big bass boiled up on it, dove under, broke off the lure, Got the lure stuck in his mouth, and did at least 5 cartwheels or jumps across the pond in attempt to throw the lure and it took him at least 5 tries to get it out, he ended up throwing it and once it hit the water he hit it again and did not get hooked. Has anyone hads something like this happen to them before?

seriously? what a spazz. let me get this straight, when he finally threw it, he saw it hit the water, and hit it again? be funny if he just kept throwin it and then hittin it, forever stuck in a loop

Yeah, It was really funny to watch.............

ive seen smallies do it, however i do believe it was a diferent smallie that hit the lure the second time.

Definately something i've never seen. Must have been hungry our just stupid. :-?

seriously? what a spazz. let me get this straight, when he finally threw it, he saw it hit the water, and hit it again? be funny if he just kept throwin it and then hittin it, forever stuck in a loop

sounds more like a computer program than a bass .. read Crichton's Prey?

no, but I have had the same, "They threw it and went and hit it again" experience

Hahaha thats funny  . I havent seen a bass do that but i have been to ponds and seen little 8 or 9 inch bass doin all kinds of freestyle trying to catch dragonflies lol

I usually see them doing the electric slide up here

I saw it happen twice this year, and both times I didn.t even have a cast out.  They just jumped and did a few crazy flips and that was that.

Since he threw it, were you able to get your popper back?

I was smallie fishing up in NH and had a similar experience happen. I casted my popper out and caught wind which ended up in a nasty backlash. For about what seemed like 10 min of untangling that backlash, my buddy finally says, "Hey that fish just jumped for the 4th time, do you have a fish on your line". Turned out to be a 3.5 lbs smallie trying to throw my popper and I had no idea that was happening.

no, i couldn't get the popper back, It was out in the center of the pond........

I have had a similar experience with a top water frog. It's neat to see something like that happen.

I was smallie fishing up in NH and had a similar experience happen. I casted my popper out and caught wind which ended up in a nasty backlash. For about what seemed like 10 min of untangling that backlash, my buddy finally says, "Hey that fish just jumped for the 4th time, do you have a fish on your line". Turned out to be a 3.5 lbs smallie trying to throw my popper and I had no idea that was happening.

I had this exact thing happen to me 3 or 4 times when fishing smallies in NH. Must be something in the water up there. It did give me a good reason to untangle that backlash in a hurry though. 

no, i couldn't get the popper back, It was out in the center of the pond........

You just left it out there? There have been a few times that I jump in and swim out there to get my poppers and cranks back. Sometimes thats half the fun!  :D

A bass tried to crush a frog I threw next to a dead tree.It missed the frog and crashed so hard into the tree that it snapped a 1in diameter branch.No cartwheels but that had to hurt!By the way,the bass came back and crushed that poor frog around 10 seconds later.