All anglers know largemouth bass have an impressive appetite. They are more than willing to eat anything and everything, so long as it fits in their massive mouth. But it turns out there are times when even a largemouth bites off more than it can chew. That is if largemouth bass chewed their prey. You know what we're getting at here. This fantastic viral underwater footage shows an incredible scene in slow motion. In the video, the world's dumbest baitfish makes the unfortunate decision to swim directly between a hungry largemouth and a smallmouth bass. The two predators close on the minnow at the same time. They're on a collision course, and there's no way to avoid what happens next as the largemouth literally and unintentionally gets a mouthful of the smallmouth.
While we're sure this isn't the first time, this has happened in nature, what are the odds of capturing the scene on video? While neither predatory gamefish seems hurt after the encounter, it's hard to say which species got the better end of this encounter. It looked to us like the smallmouth got the baitfish. It was just a hair closer and slightly quicker. But the largemouth may have gotten the last laugh with that bite to the head of the smallmouth. We're sure it didn't hurt the smallmouth, but it was probably quite the surprise for that fish. Was it just us, or did it look like the largemouth was genuinely angry after this encounter? Maybe that's just the way they always look.
While most anglers will agree the largemouth has the greater appetite, the smallmouth is the better fighter. Knowing that it's hard for us to say which fish may have come out on top had they decided to have a real fight over this incident. Either way, it's cool to see these two popular game fish interacting.
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