Haven't seen a bass catch a lure, but I was fishing a buzzbait by a laydown once and a bass jumped up out of the middle and hit my buzzbait from ABOVE. I couldn't believe it.

Did you say; you no bite you no ride and threw it back?

I've had one blow up on a floating worm then jump up and get it on the way DOWN with the worm on top of a lily pad.

Also, saw a bass eat a blackbird nested on a pad that day.

I actually had this happen last weekend. I was tossing a TX-rigged Senko into the grass trolling really fast hitting one spot twice and moving on. The second toss on one spot the little dink caught it before it ever made it to the water. Obviously I didn't get him in, but I just had to laugh at how small he was vs. his aggressiveness.

twice. one caught a jerk bait during prespawn the other caught a white spinner bait in the fall both were only about 6 inches above the water and both were in a lake with 7-8 foot visibility. In that same lake, I saw a kingfisher get taken down as he was tipping his wings on the water. 12+ pounder must have seen him coming and jumped up and grabbed him. he took him under but the bird came back up. the fish grabbed him again and that was all she wrote. think about that next time you think your top water is too big.

Fishing Ute lake in New Mexico and had a square bill hanging off the side of the boat and a smallmoutb came up and got it.

Back when Fork had grass, had a 7lber knock a spook up into the air, followed it out of the water and then landed on it with her mouth open when it fell back into the water. She wanted that thing bad! Only myself and the guy that I was with saw it but I would have loved to have had a go-pro back then. Coolest experience of all of my fishing days.

I've had them grab the frog when its still skipping, roll casting into heavy cover and a nice 5 lb fish grabbed it on the 2nd of what would have been 3 or 4 skips and probably another 4 ft before it came to rest.

Awesome!

Had a one catch a Yellow Magic about 6 inches before it hit the water on Ray Bob.

last weekend I caught a crankbait and a c-rig!

well I obviously cant read!

I did have a night where twice I was throwing a yellow majic and bass caught it before it hit the water...pretty funny!

I know I've seen them hit it just the moment it lands. But one of the coolest things I saw and made me wonder exactly how much they see what's going on above the surface. Was one time on Martin Creek with 1Shot we saw 2 birds come flying in pretty fast, and were flying about a foot or less from the water. When a bass jumps out and hits one. I don't remember if it got it or not but it just amazed me as to how that fish could have seen them come down like that and time it so well.

Here lately, I haven't even been able to get them to catch one in the water much less out of it!

Once, and it was flippin' awesome! Several times I've had 'em right as my lure hit the water, but only once where it caught it mid air.