A few weeks ago, my friend Jeff and I went night fishing at a 55 acre private lake. This place is loaded with huge largemouth bass and we aimed to catch a few!
We started in the deep water near the dam and began trolling with diving crank baits.
We had only been fishing ten minutes or so and Jeff yells, "I got a big one on!'
He would fight it up to the boat and just before we could see it, a hude swirl would erupt jusy below the surface and it would take off and a make his reel scream as it pulled line out running!
He kept reeling and pulling and finally got it up near the boat and just as I snapped a picture and could see something big under the surface, it turned again and took off pulling out line!
He fought it in for the fourth time or so, and the big fish was finally tired out a little.
This thing is huge! We still don't know what it is at this point and begin looking for the fishing net. Guess what? No net!
Jeff fought him right up to the boat and we could finally see this monster clearly!
It's a huge carp! I have never heard of anyone catching a grass carp from it biting a bass lure!
I thought they were vegetarians and just ate grass.
I tried grabbing it with my hand so we could examine him closely for a moment, but he was strong and slippery and shook me right off!, drenching me pretty good!
We had a beach towel in the boat so I quickly wrapped it around the fish and tried to pick him up.
He must have rested by now because he exploded wetting me once again and escaped the towel, shook the bait out of his mouth and was gone!
We fished the rest of the night and caught a nice cooler full of large mouth bass. We kept them alive and took them first thing the next morning and released them in my small pond.
So we can catch them again!
Me with a 5 pounder a few weeks later.
My dad, 
I know there's a few big bass in there now!
