The next time you think your crankbait is too big...

[DJD]

I was fishing a local creek years ago and hooked a smallmouth about 8" and while reeling it in (I could see it) another smallmouth tried to swallow my hooked one. It looked to be about 13" but it let go once I got it closer to the bank. Mean critters...

[birdstrike]

At green River Lake, a crappie on the line is a Muskie strike ready to happen. Had to change my shorts the fist time i reached down to grab my crappie and got a eyefull (and almost a handfull) of muskie!

[crappiepappy]

I've seen pretty much the same thing as the picture ... back when I was a kid, my Grandparents & I were on Herrington. My Grandpa netted a 4lb Bass with a 2lb bass in its mouth. We seperated the two and put them back. One of my first lessons in sportsmanship.
Many years later, fishing on Cumberland in the Fall ... my late fishing buddy and I were nailing KY's at the knobs, on topwater. Had a dink KY nail my bait, and when pulling him in .... BAM ... a Smallmouth came by and ripped him right off the hooks ... LOL !!
Two different times, buddies of mine and I were fishing Herrington, casting cranks for Bass ... and we ended up catching big Bluegill & Warmouth.

Fish will eat whatever they can get their mouths around, regardless of whether or not their stomachs will hold it ... LOL!! But, I think you are right, Todd ... he does seem to have bitten off more than he can chew !!

... cp

[Bassky]

I hate to admit this but last week I caught a 3" lm bass on a 4" crankbait. Me and my buddy laughed for a while on this one. Aggressive little fish!
Bassky

[riverrat12]

Some of the big cats I get out of the river have regurgitated 4 and 5# buffalo and carp it's amazing, and a bummer knowing you just lost that off your total weight. And some people still smirk when they see me using a 15in. whole skip for bait.....that's just an appetiser ..lol

[Mean Morone]

Thats a pretty cool picture right there. I saw a huge striper try to inhale a schoolie striper on lake cumberland once, that was something to see.

It's amazing to me being in the lure manufacture business that bass fisherman in different parts of the country think differently when it comes to the size of lures they use. We don't sell as many of our 4 inch Gizz 4's to bass fisherman up here, but down south these lures arent big enough for them. In Alabama, Texas and other southern states, that size lure is working well but up here we get requests for 1 inch crankbaits. We settled for a Gizz 3. It's hard to figure it out.