Large mouth, not quite large enough

[SLP]

Gluttonous LA bass - YouTube

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I have a question for anyone who watched the video. Do you think that the bass would actually be trying to eat the other one, or was it just an act of aggression? I have a couple of large lures in my tackle box that I rarely use. I might have to give them more of a chance on occasions.

[twise7]

I saw this same thing on lake Guntersville two years ago. Oddly enough they were the same size bass as these. Anyway, when I witnessed this on Lake G the bass were in a feeding frenzy chasing shad. They looked like sharks darting through the top of the grass - I'd never seen anything like it. My guess was that one bass was trying to eat a few shad and the other bass was in the wrong spot at the wrong time. We pulled the two bass apart and they swam off.

[SLP]

Wow , I wonder if it is more common than you would think? You have to figure that for every one that someone like you or the guy in this video comes across and are able to separate, there has to be more that are never seen and likely die. At least I assume they would die if not helped. That's one of the oddest things I have seen, it must be some kind of instinctual reaction bite.