What could have bitten this 3lb bass in half?

I was fishing squaw creek yesterday and we came upon this bass still trying to swim...it was bitten in half? My first thought was alligator but don't they hibernate ( maybe not on a power plant lake)? Alligator gar or big [censored] turtle?? What's your guess??

Hit with a prop. is my guess.

Prop?

River otter? Though I think they usually eat the organs and head first. Aluminum Propeller? That makes the most sense to me, given the fish is still in the water. That's a first for me to see.

Squatch

That's why no swimming is allowed...

Alligator.

alligator have seen them in the winter on squaw

Bank fisherman

Tourney guy trimmed the tail to make it an under.

Ha .. That's funny....

Why would anything trying to eat it not finish it's meal?

Going to vote prop

LMFAO!! That's pretty good.

I'd have to guess prop too.

Fishkillers name might be literal?

Chupacabras do that all the time. It's a signature kill.

Yup, me too

The alligators in Squaw defiantly swim around in that warm water all winter long. Prop sounds plausible. Possibly fish & turtles gnawing on that fish for a while. Probable didn't start as a. "Half fish" and will continue to get shorter as the day go on. Turtles will gnaw on it until its gone.

Big foot.

Prop?

Gator

Giant squid.

Nuclear mutant man eating tilapia is my guess.

Looks like a pound and a halfer to me.

who knows...

Giant alligator gar?

Gar

People, this is Texas...Chupacabra...

I was hungry

Chuck Norris set the hook on that bad boy.

Obama! He seems to want half of everything else I make or have.

Most likely guess.

pretty pointy nose for a bass...gar eat other gar all the time

We will never know