The hand-sized bluegill put up a determined fight as I pulled it toward the boat. When the battling panfish reached the surface, the water exploded as a heavyweight bass slammed into the hooked fish. All of a sudden the water was churning around the hapless bluegill as four bass in the 4- to 6-pound range took turns smacking at the sunfish.
One of the bass actually inhaled the bluegill, and I briefly fought the fish until it let go of the battered bream. I tried to reel in the bluegill as quickly as possible so that I could cast a lure to the pack of bass, but by the time I landed the stunned sunfish, the bass had disappeared. My dad and I threw a variety of bluegill-imitating lures for the next half hour in that area but never got a bite.
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