[blackdog]

The early fall can bring unusual behavior in muskee. They will tend to pound large objects they normally would eye up first before hitting. I don't know if it's a feeding frenzy thing knowing winter is coming or if it's a territorial thing? I was once fishing rock bass in swifwater over a spillway and was chatting with a guy who had gotten in a spat with his wife and grabbed his salt water surf rod and like ten inch long lure which was comically huge for fresh water and was just practicing his casting, pitching it fifty yards from bank to bank. He pitched it on top of some lillypads and it landed with a "Splat and sat on top. Out of nowhere came a monsterous muskee that took the lillypad and lure with one huge leap. It took the guy over an hour to bring it in. It wouldn't fit in his trunk head to tail. It had to go thirty to fourty pounds.

Bluefish will do the same thing when frenzy feeding in schools. They would hit a coffe mug if it were in the water.

[No Blue States]

Awesome story. Sounds like the rigs I surf fish with or use below the dams for stripers.
I bet he forgot about his wife spat!

[GopherIt]

I saw a guy catch a pelican with a spinner, below Jackson Lake Dam, WY, this summer. He was furious cuz his wife left the video camera in the cabin, fearing no one would believe him. So if you run into a guy that claims that story, believe him!