Tim Carlisle Loc: AL

Wife and I went to Walter F George (Lake Eufaula, AL/GA) where she caught this bass on a creek chub live minnow in Lilly pads in 2 feet of water. The fish had a three pound head and length but only weighed 2.18 lbs. Look close at the picture of it's tail half and you will see two indentions (scars) from where it was bitten and has since healed up. I assume it was a gator that tried to eat it, but it somehow escaped that fate.

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

Congrats to your wife Tim, that's a nice Bass. Congrats to the Bass as well, for escaping the gator. Thanks for sharing.

ranger632 Loc: Near Yosemite Park Ca.

Nice bass, maybe need a bigger boat

Grizzly 17 Loc: South central Pa

Nice Tim.
One strange looking bass.
Also agree with bigger boat 👍🤣🤣🎣

ranger632 Loc: Near Yosemite Park Ca.

hueey Loc: Lake Fork Tx

Great picture and congratulations to the wife
Many times here on Lake Fork we catch fish that have scars on their sides, usually both sides from the comorants.
We have flocks here that have over a 1000 birds in them along with pelicans.
Talked with a Sabine River Representative about the birds and he informed me that they consume 1 to 2 pounds of fish a day.
It’s spawning season here for all species and the flocks of birds are very active. Have them come in our cove a couple of times a week.
Both birds are protected so can’t shoot or harass them
Not harassing them but myself and neighbors have target practice a couple of times a week.

Tim Carlisle Loc: AL

Lol! Cheryl thanks you for the congrats. My old Ranger 374v is plenty big in the presence of water lizards. Fishing in close proximity to alligators in normal on Lake Eufaula. Later in the day, we had moved out on a Chattahoochee river bank and passed within 30 feet of a 10 footer that was sunning on the bank. Right around the corner from where that fish was caught is a creek that runs from up in the national wildlife refuge at Lakepoint. Years ago I passed by one that was laying on a sandbar way up that creek in my 16 foot Bomber boat I owned back then. The gator was longer than my boat and had a head as big as a 30 gallon garbage can. We passed within 30 feet of it and it never budged.
The only time a gator ever acted aggressively towards me was in that same creek I was fishing towards the back of a slough, and about a 10 footer back at the end where there was some thic reeds started swirling and acting agressively at me. I do not know if ti had a nest back in that grass or because it was injured. The end of its tail was red and raw appearing to be injured. I got out of there pdq. Here are a couple of 10 or 12 footers I saw last year in that same creek.

Tim Carlisle Loc: AL

Hueey, it is possible a bird could have done the damage when the fish was smaller. That hole we fish in that picture we I call "the eagle's nest" because there is a fish osprey nesting platform on a pole on the bank right there. As with Lake Fork, there are water birds of all kinds that frequent Lake Eufaula, especially there at the wildlife refuge.

Whitey Loc: Southeast ohio

I was down at my pond earlier and found a 1lb bass dead on the bank with I perfect hole behind its head. I see blue herons around sometimes just not sure why it didn't eat the bass. Maybe Hoss the doggie scared it off. Y'all be careful around those gators 😳

ranger632 Loc: Near Yosemite Park Ca.

Nothing to worry about, I have been told all you have to do is rub their belly and they will go to sleep

Tim Carlisle Loc: AL

Yep!

NJ219bands Loc: New Jersey

Nice 👍

hueey Loc: Lake Fork Tx

I agree, it's just a gripe of mine about the cormorants & how much fry & bait fish they consume.

We watch eagles & ospreys swoop down and pick a fish out of the water here in our cove. As usual happens when your not ready to record.

hueey Loc: Lake Fork Tx

Do like TARZEN did, jump on their back and wrestle them :

Tim Carlisle Loc: AL

Hueey, they do consume a lot of bait fish. I think I have read that Asian fishermen capture cormorant, and use them to fish with. They tie a line to one of their legs and a loose noose around their necks so that they cannot completely swallow the fish they catch. After they have been swimming and fishing a while they reel the birds in and squeeze the fish they have caught out of their throats.
As for all that gator wrestling, I will leave that to Troy on "Swamp People".