Ok, my wierd experience happened at Irvine Lake about 10 years ago when the TD Baits first came out. I was throwing a TD Pencil Popper and I threw the bait past a point. I turned my head and heard a splash and line started smokin off my chronarch. I was crappin my pants big time. That was until I noticed that my line was lifting up in the air and the familar sound of the terradactyl was echoing off the red clay cliffs. I had myself a keeper blue heron. Needless to say the fight did not last long.

So my other experience was at Tri-city Park in placentia, the DFG truck had just stocked and the trout mongers and cormorants were raping the place. I was throwing a 10 inch Slug-go and after I made my cast there was a huge toilet bowl flush ! It was on ! I was so stoked until my bass flew out of the water and grew wings and a black body and looked like a cormorant ! The darn bird had engulfed the slug-go and I had him hooked good on braided line. So I did what any polite fisherman in their right mind would do. I put the reel in free spool, allowing him to fly in the air. Upon midflight I engaged the reel and put my thumb on the spool and pointed the rod at the cormie. The bird got clotheslined in mid-air and made this god awful gacking noise and hit the water and did not move. I was lucky that my braid broke and made the noise of a 22 ! It freaked everyone out and I quietly left for fear of the bleeding heart liberals that exist in society today.