Snake Versus Fisherman

Well, we already know Bill Dance doesn’t like snakes, but this guy is completely terrified of them! He gets out of the boat as fast as the snake gets in!

What would you do if a snake climbed into your boat while you were fishing?

Pro Bass Fisherman Catches Snake; Calls Wife

Pete Ponds, a professional Bass fisherman from Madison, Wisconson, was fishing with a friend when a moccasin swam close to the boat. Pete poked at it with his rod tip and ended up hooking in to the back of the snake with his favorite popper.

Now you’ve got a few choices here, but Pete is deathly afraid of snakes, so he did what any brave man would do in a time like this. He called his wife?

“I dragged that snake around about 20 minutes trying to get my hook loose or drown the snake. That didn’t work, and I wasn’t about to reach down there and try to get it,” he said. “So I did the only thing I knew to do. I called my wife, Kim, who was at home (on the bank at Caroline). She ain’t scared of snakes at all. She met us, reached down, grabbed the snake behind its head, got my Pop-R and let the snake go. Just like that.”

While I could write something funny about this situation it actually points out something that non-fanatics might consider strange. Why all this effort to get the snake off the lure? Why was it so important to keep the lure?

“Problem was, I wanted my Pop-R back. It’s the only one I had in that color.”

Whats the craziest thing you’ve ever done to get a lure back? I’ll bet it wasn’t calling your wife.

At the end of the day Pete is still a professional bass and is in the process of developing a new swiming jig that resembles a spinnerbait without the blades.

I fished with a standard flipping jig with a long 5″ double tail grub in a similar fashion for pike during our stay with Sportsman’s Lodge in Ontario. It even had filed down the sides of the head so it would swim better. The lure was effective and easy to fish through reeds and medium cover. Pete’s swimming jig will have a more fine tuned setup for bass, like a smaller hook, but will probably work great for pike too.