When I went fishing today at a local pond, I was in for a shock.  I started the day with a cast with my dry fly and a-just-a bubble rig off the pier, when, suddenly, I got a bite from a good sized sunfish.  Nothing out of the ordinary, just a sunfish.  I catch them all the time.  As I reeled it in, a very nice (big) sized bass swam after it and tried to suck it into it's massive mouth.  I quickly pulled the sunfish in, in an effort to avoid it from being eaten.  Aften that, I pretty much knew where the bass was, so I tied on a texas-rigged plastic worm my other fishing rod and tried to finesse it out of the weedy cover it was underneath.  The fish didn't even give it a passing glance.  I then tied on several other lures to see if they'd get a strike.  No such luck.  I was almost at the point of giving up when I decided to try one more thing.  I caught a small sunfish (5 or 6 inches) with my a-just-a bubble setup and hooked it through the lip with hook tied onto my other rod.  With a swift flick of my wrist, I flipped it to the spot where I last saw the bass.  I jerked the sunfish around for a minute or two before the fish struck.  Instictively, I set the hook, but my knot failed.

   After that I changed locations, but I didn't catch anything bigger than five inches.  Before it was time to leave, I decided to go try to catch that bass again.  I flipped my sunfish out to the area where I thought the bass was and, within a few seconds, I had I had hooked it.  I battled the fish and manuvered it through the thick surface vegetation as well as I possibly could, but the line managed to snap.  Fortunately, it snapped in an area where it was still within reach.  I grabbed the line and dragged the fish on to shore.  When I looked carefully at the fish, I was surprised to see that it still had both sunfish still lodged in its mouth.  These weren't little sunfish either.  Bother were around 6 inches long.  One of which was even still alive.   I took a few photos of the fish before releasing it.  It's amazing how that fish hadn't even swallowed the one fish before attacking another.

(please note both sunfish in the photo above)