Was out tonight. Just before dark i started throwing a rebel popper into small calm holes (4-10ft dia.) in the slop looking for a bit of last min action. I had made it through a few holes catching some runts. I was movin fast down the edge from hole to hole looking for that one good smack to end the night. I came up on a spot that was no more than maybe 6 feet in dia. 15 or so yards from the deeper edge of the slop (snot thick) and in maybe 4ft of water at most. ‘Smack,’ i get a-bit better pop and start draggin’ it through the garabage. Turns out to be a 17 1/8″ eye. I was more than slightly bewildered. Growing up on a lake and being a bass man, i have caught my share of random walleyes (from 6″ers on 7″ power worms, to a 27″er between a dock and lift on a spinner bait). But this definately beats them all. Picture? who’d believe a popper in a walleyes mouth any ways. But it got me thinkin of the randoms that i have caught over the past year.
So no pic of the eye, but the first two are a bass i got pitchin’ jigs for eyes,’ not quite sure whats up with the blodges, but if you look close it has some cool perch orientated bars over the back. The last is a pic of a perch i got on hard water, which had one fully functional eye on one side and a flesh hole on the other side with just a tab of black. I’ve seen completely milked over eyes before (without any thing resembling a wound) but never an absences of eye before.
What have you guys randomly gotten’ before, Stories or Pics?? lets see some goofy