Posted on 05/29/2021 2:10:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A man fishing on an a New Brunswick, Canada, river noticed some unusual activity in the water and ended up rescuing a red squirrel struggling with some bass.
Matt Myers said he was fishing for striped bass on the Miramichi River when he saw a group of bass splashing at the surface of the water.
"I was watching some splashing and all of a sudden I looked to the side and I thought 'What is that in the middle of this spawning activity?'" Myers told CBC News.
He said he initially thought the bass were attacking a stick, but he then realized they were nipping at an animal.
"Lo and behold, it's this poor little red squirrel in the middle of all this spawning activity," Myers said. "The bass appeared to be coming up and nipping at it."
Myers used his paddle to scoop the squirrel up onto his kayak and gave it a ride back to shore.
He said the fish had likely confused the squirrel's splashing for a female preparing to lay her eggs.
"I don't think they were trying to eat it," Myers said.
I fry them up and then slow cook them in a mulligan. Talk about good eating.
I like fluffy tails, man. And pomegranates are a pain to eat.
“What’s the frequency, Kenneth ? “
Seriously!? WOW!!
You have to admit though, better than Biden and crew.
Red squirrels will kill yo @ss dead, my FRiend.
any squirrel that gets its ass kicked by a bass deserved to be removed from the circle of life.
I caught a nice fat trout and when I cleaned it I found a family of Shrews
Like yer attic
This will kill them and sometimes you.
We’ve been using the wrong Bass lures all this time?
I’ve seen largemouth bass strike baby ducks.
I was laying in my hammock one day, and I see this red squirrel walking along the top of the fence towards me, and he knew I was there perhaps five feet away, and kept pausing, staring at me, chattering, twitching his tail, but...I didn’t move a muscle.
So, he’s up there doing that annoying red squirrel thing, and I snapped my fingers.
If you had stuck him in a 105 mm howitzer shell and fired it, it wouldn’t have disappeared from view any faster than that squirrel did!
For aggressiveness per square cm of flesh, they must rank up there with chickadees and honey badgers!
Fuzzy-tailed rat.
Fixed it for ya!
As far as I'm concerned squirrels are just fuzzy-tailed rats.
It’s almost impossible to tell a squirrel from a rabbit when it’s fried on a plate.
You should give Justin Wilson(RIP) a Credit!
His Bass was a Gator. ;^}
Saw a largemouth bass take a ducking. Later, I saw momma duck get taken by a snapping turtle. Head came off first.
Haha! Yes. Rodentia, literally.
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