This last spring me and my buddy are working our way around a big main lake point with tons of trees under the water. He throws a 3:16 Wake Bait way out behind the boat and drags it along as I work my way across the point. We are both watching my bait that I had thrown out in front of the boat, I had a blow up but the fish missed and was sitting under it. We hear a HUGE splash behind us and think a MONSTER bass has taken his wake bait. Instead, when we turn around we see that a Bald Eagle has just nailed his bait. He hits free spool real fast and starts yelling "what do I do!" Luckily the Eagle drops his bait just as he was about to run out of line. I have no idea how he didn't get a hook in him.

Another time I was throwing swimbaits in the river for big stripers. It was getting pretty dark and I was about to pack it in when I get a massive hit. My line just starts screaming off my real and I have my drag cranked down! All of a sudden I hear something thrashing on top of the water and hissing? (pretty dark, hard to see) I'm really not sure at this point what I'm hearring, or what I have. My partner shines a light out in the river to see that there is an otter on the end of my line. I try to bring him in as close as possible before cutting the line. The last I saw of him he was running up the bank with my swimbait stuck in his face. Man I really felt bad about that one! I hope he survived that ordeal.

Hey! Was this subject supposed to be dumbest big bite you ever got from a FISH? Oh well, I have had plenty of those too.