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    Quote Originally Posted by Fishfishwish View Post
    It's quite the blast when this happens. I've been lucky enough to pull in a few bass this way. I've also used larger bait hooks to hook up a smaller gill (I caught on the UL rig) on a bass rig and cast 'em back out. This has yielded a few large bass and several catfish.
    Man, I still throw out a small live bream under a bobber whenever I'm lookin' for some gill fillets...as have you, I've caught lots of very nice bass doing that. I've even had them chase and snag small gills when I'm fly fishing for bream...that's quite a treat to have a bass on the fly stick!
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    This one swallowed a nice size bluegill I had hooked up with on my 5’9” 3wt. flyrod .
    Took a little while to get her in .
    A few years back , while fishing a local water reservoir with a fishing buddy . He hooked a bluegill on a beetle spin and saw a nice bass come up and grab it . I told him to let it run so it would swallow the bluegill, but before I could get it out , he set the hook . He pulled the beetle spin out of the bluegill’s mouth and hooked the bass in the roof of the mouth .
    After a battle on four pound Silver Thread , he was able to land the bass that we estimate the weight at around six to seven pounds .
    A week later in the same area , I had caught a nice crappie on my float and fly rig and had a bass grab it . As soon as I felt a tug , I opened my bail and let her run long enough to swallow the crappie .
    With a 6’6” UL rod and four pound P-line I fought that bass for several minutes . It came out of the water twice and we could see the size of it clearly .
    After what seemed like an eternity I finally worked the bass up to the side of the boat and she looked exhausted. As I reached to land her , she dove under the boat toward the rear of the boat and broke off on my motor .
    My buddy and I just started at each other in disbelief. Then he said , “that bass was twice the size of mine “ . I said yep, I know .
    I had the bass of a lifetime on an ultralight spinning outfit and almost landed her .
    I’ve seen a lot of bass and this one had to be in the teens . Double digits for sure .
    And I had a witness .
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    Here’s a pic of my buddy bass
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    [QUOTE=gillchaser999;4175360]This one swallowed a nice size bluegill I had hooked up with on my 5’9” 3wt. flyrod .
    Took a little while to get her in .

    gillchaser999,

    Thanks for the pics and post, those are some hogs. I have the same 5'9" 3wt. flyrod as yours, and target panfish but you never know what's gonna happen. As a novice to fly gear, I was pretty surprised to have this one grab a bream killer I was throwing. Although he didn't grab a fish I was trying to land, and is small compared to the two you have shown, still fun.Name:  DSC00660.jpg
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