Large Lip Bass

Pulled this snagle lip out of Patterson Lake in Diamond Springs. electric motor only private lake, wonder what got a hold of it!

I have seen hatchery trout with snub faces but never a bass,thats a fish for the memory bank,hard to top a catch like that. Did you release it to pass on the survival gene??

I did release it. A local yelled if I was catch-and-releasing and after I saw that I said hell-ya! Must be all that mine tallings as the lake is in the heart of the mother lode.

Thats the ugliest bass I've ever seen!  

Major cleft pallet, some one call Dr. 90210

I say hannible lector got to the poor thing. WOW!!! What a fish man. He's a trooper to, i mean to compete for food with half a face? Its official, Ur post just blew my mind

Ew! Ugly! lol

Poor dude. A face only a mother could love.

I caught one like that two times three months apart.  The second time he went into the fish tank.  That bass had quite a personality. 

Is there a nuclear plant near by?

Very funny Craig!