Not sure if this is the best thread to post this on, but I saw something very strange the other day while fishing the Big Bass Bash. My fishing partner for the bash was my buddy Nick who lives down at the lake. Nick fished a practice day before I got there and noticed a totally weird phenomenon. He actually saw and caught bass on beds in October. Not joking…the opening day of the bash, we saw a 3 1/2 pound bass on a bed with a bloodied up tail in less than 2 feet of water. The fish had cleaned out a bed with his tail. We got close to the fish before we figured out what was going on, and the fish got spooked and went away.. we came back about 15 minutes later to see if we could catch the fish… Nick threw his bait in there (a small jig) and immediately caught the fish that weighed 3 1/2 pounds and we weighed it in.
It was almost like a fake spawn. I told this to another guy and she said that a guy weighed a really big bass in at Bull shoals or maybe Beaver last week that was about 6 1/2 pounds and he noticed that when the guy held up the fish for the picture it had a bloody tail…strange but true.