Bad hook set, and I caught a bird.

[BassFeverJohn]

12oz


Bad hook set.


First on a shakyhead!


Why me!?

Well, I caught the bird's nest anyway. A pretty bad one too. I had to cut out a lot of line, but I had more than enough left to fish.

I threw my buzzer out under a ceder tree on the bank and got a good strike, but missed the fish. So, I casted back over the same sot and pulled slower, and wham! Not a big bass, but these topwater strikes are violent. I love it!

However, I hooked the poor thing in the head. The hook got him through the eye, and came out the bone in his head. It ripped him open pretty good, and he lost the eye. I am very upset about this. He seemed ok, but I know that he could still succumb to stress, and/or infection.

The second one was my first on a shakyhead worm. Of course I was using my Creme worms for it. I have considered this lure before, but never tried it. I actually have mixed feelings about it. It seems to me that the strike/hookup ratio is quite low. I have lost every fish except one that I have hooked with this method. Including a big one tonight that I got on shore but came unhooked and flopped back into the lake before I could get to him. I don't plan to give up though. It is a fun way to fish, if not a little slow. I was using a Gammy skipgap with round jighead, and a watermelon red flake 6" worm.