Bass eats baby alligator!!!

robert graham

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Re: Bass eats baby alligator!!!

I expect a largemouth bass will eat just about anything he can get in his mouth, turtles, frogs, young gators,other fish, etc....
 

j_martin

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Re: Bass eats baby alligator!!!

It's not uncommon to catch a 7 inch bass on a 6 inch plastic worm.
 

aspeck

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Re: Bass eats baby alligator!!!

Them hogs will eat anything that doesn't eat them first!
 

gonefishie

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That's awesome! :D Salamander, Water Dog, etc...I opened my friend's livewell last Sat. and found a half digested 5-6" catfish in there. Apparently, one of the bass that got a ride to the ramp puked it out while in the livewell. There's a youtube video of some kids toss a ground squirrel into a lilly pads bed. Well, you know the story.
 

RicMic

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Not surprised at all, I recently had a "discussion" on here with someone that worships the almighty largemouth and couldn't believe that in other parts of the world where the bass has been transplanted, its an ecological disaster. Did you hear about the guy a few years ago "lipping" a largemouth into the boat and getting bitten on the thumb? He didn't get bitten by the bass, but by the cottonmouth it had partially swallowed!
 

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That's awesome! :D Salamander, Water Dog, etc...I opened my friend's livewell last Sat. and found a half digested 5-6" catfish in there. Apparently, one of the bass that got a ride to the ramp puked it out while in the livewell. There's a youtube video of some kids toss a ground squirrel into a lilly pads bed. Well, you know the story.

post that link up for sure!
 

jay_merrill

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No big surprise there - LM Bass are very aggressive critters.



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rjn cajun

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I`m a hard core bass fisher and I caught a small mouth the other day with a snake in it`s throat. I`ve even seen large mouth jump out the water and grab baby ducks and geese. But a gator wow. Wish I could fish that lake.
 

gonefishie

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Re: Bass eats baby alligator!!!

Not surprised at all, I recently had a "discussion" on here with someone that worships the almighty largemouth and couldn't believe that in other parts of the world where the bass has been transplanted, its an ecological disaster. Did you hear about the guy a few years ago "lipping" a largemouth into the boat and getting bitten on the thumb? He didn't get bitten by the bass, but by the cottonmouth it had partially swallowed!

C'mon Ric, get over it! LM bass can't and won't be "an ecological disaster" and I would bet my paycheck on it. Unless you can show me a documented ecological disaster ANYWHERE that LM bass have been introduced into. Until then, you have no argument my friend.
 

ehenry

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A buddy and I were fishing one morning on a private lake and witnessed a large mouth grab a red wing black bird off of a lillie pad. I wasn't a baby bird either. This was a full grown bird that lit on the lillie pad. I wouldnt have believed it if I hadn't seen it first hand.
 

waterinthefuel

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Ok TX1961 the duck and frog videos you posted from youtube are bogus. The duck is fake and the frog isn't a frog eaten by a bass, it's a frog taking a fishing lure.
 

Tim Frank

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C'mon Ric, get over it! LM bass can't and won't be "an ecological disaster" and I would bet my paycheck on it. Unless you can show me a documented ecological disaster ANYWHERE that LM bass have been introduced into. Until then, you have no argument my friend.

Wow!
With all due respect, given the number of ecological disasters from the accidental, or purposeful (though misguided) introduction of non-indigenous species of wildlife it takes a certain level of arrogance to state that because you are unfamiliar with a specific-species disaster story that it could not and would not happen.

That seems to stem from even greater arrogance that we (humans) can do better than Mother Nature...:rolleyes:

I am familiar with at least four large mouth bass intros in North America which nearly wiped out resident trout populations....and a few more worldwide that were as much or more catastrophic.
These can be found documented in libraries and the internet....and are part of the teaching curriculum in many Biology programs in leading North American Universities....and there are scores more that I've never heard of....

You should do some research---or just Google some variant of "large mouth bass introduction disaster", before you play so loose and casual with your paycheque....;)

e.g. :
www.sciencecases.org/nature/nature_notes.asp
 

JAY 22

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i gotta tell you i lived in south lake tahoe for about 11 years. in tahoe the only native fish are trout and salmon. over the years people have been dumping fish tanks and caught fish in an area called the keys. the keys are an area around the lake that is part also of the marina. there the bass and sun fish have thrived, thus relinquishing the population of trout there. it may not be a disaster, especially cause i like to fish for bass. however the hippies sure dont like it
 

Tim Frank

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Well of course if bass are introduced to an ecosystem, devastate the natural species and take over, if you are a HUGE bass fishing fan you may not see it as a disaster....
 

Cudos

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Wow, rednecks, nothing better to do on a Sunday afternoon than sacrifice helpless creatures for their own sick amusement. That aside, yeah the bass is formidable species.
 

gonefishie

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Wow!
With all due respect, given the number of ecological disasters from the accidental, or purposeful (though misguided) introduction of non-indigenous species of wildlife it takes a certain level of arrogance to state that because you are unfamiliar with a specific-species disaster story that it could not and would not happen.

That seems to stem from even greater arrogance that we (humans) can do better than Mother Nature...:rolleyes:

I am familiar with at least four large mouth bass intros in North America which nearly wiped out resident trout populations....and a few more worldwide that were as much or more catastrophic.
These can be found documented in libraries and the internet....and are part of the teaching curriculum in many Biology programs in leading North American Universities....and there are scores more that I've never heard of....

You should do some research---or just Google some variant of "large mouth bass introduction disaster", before you play so loose and casual with your paycheque....;)

e.g. :
www.sciencecases.org/nature/nature_notes.asp

With all due respect to you too sir! I'm afraid your google-fu is quite weak this time because the search results are lame, especially the link you posted. If you know what Ric and I were discussing about you might have a different view. The disaster he referred to is the Asian biologists feared that bass will wipe out all native species in Asia. What you and others are talking about is how bass eaten up the trouts, just trouts in ponds. That's hardly a disaster. I guess it's all in how you consider what is a disaster. Like I've said before, bass are opportunistic and lazy. They will eat whatever is the most abundance and easy to catch. Trouts are apparently abundance and are easy prey in the waters that bass were introduced into.
 

Tim Frank

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Re: Bass eats baby alligator!!!

With all due respect to you too sir! I'm afraid your google-fu is quite weak this time because the search results are lame, especially the link you posted. If you know what Ric and I were discussing about you might have a different view. The disaster he referred to is the Asian biologists feared that bass will wipe out all native species in Asia. What you and others are talking about is how bass eaten up the trouts, just trouts in ponds. That's hardly a disaster. I guess it's all in how you consider what is a disaster. Like I've said before, bass are opportunistic and lazy. They will eat whatever is the most abundance and easy to catch. Trouts are apparently abundance and are easy prey in the waters that bass were introduced into.

I read both posts...and unless you were carrying on a PM discussion that was not included...the premise was that large-mouth bass as an introduced species can end up as invasive and be a real problem.
You dumped on that in a big way and challenged the poster for some examples.

There are many; and it underscores the danger of playing with the balance of nature, just because we can.

If you really want to put your pay cheque in play, if iboats does not have a policy against it, I call your bet.

It was a silly challenge for you to make, and I am not sure why you are finding it so irritating that was pointed out to you.

Your statement " Trouts are apparently abundance and are easy prey in the waters that bass were introduced into." clearly indicates that you really don't have a clue what the significance of all this really is.
 
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