Skeletor the Largemouth Bass
Posted on August 15, 2008
It was fall of 2007, I had just made it back from Iraq. The son and I decided to take a ride to a pond on base and do some bass fishing. I have like to use top water baits like Hula Poppers or Buzz baits this time of year, and I was, with no success other than a few quick hits. However my son was killing the Bluegill and little largemouth bass with his beetle spin.
Well actually he wasn’t using a beetle spin in the traditional sense. We had removed the split tail body and placed a lime green rubber shade body on it. Worked like a charm, as always.
After about an hour I hear my son yell “Hey dad, what’s wrong with this fish?” I looked over and there is my son holding what seemed to be a largemouth bass head by the lip, but the fish had a skeleton for a body. It looked similar to something from a cartoon.
After further examination it seemed this largemouth bass at one time was more than likely around 3-4 libs easy, if not more. I base this on the size of his head. However the fish had swallowed a hook, which was caught in his thoat. The hook still had some line and a lead weight attached,, which hung about 2-3 inches out of his mouth.
The fish had been basically starving to death. My son decided to name him Skeletor since the rest of his body looked like nothing but bones covered with scaley skin. After examing skeletor the largemouth bass, I grabbed my clippers, reached down his big mouth and clipped the line as close to the hook as possible. There was no way to remove the hook as it was down in his throat with just the eye and part of the shank showing. We placed skeleto back in the water and watched him slowly swim away.
The likelyhood skeletor made it through the winter and lived long enough for the hook to rust and dissolve is very unlikely. He was so hungry at the time we cuaght him that, knowing he couldn’t swallow, he hit the beetle spin shad my son was throwing anyway.
That’s our story of Skeletor the Largemouth Bass.
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