Saw quite a few snakes out this week. All were water snakes, thank God.

One evening I saw one swimming across the pond and the bass were hitting it like crazy!! It was almost scarey how hard they were hitting it. It sounded like cement bocks were beig thrown in the water from about 10 ft high! My only thought was they were either trying to kill it(to kill it) or hitting it hard enough to get it out of the water. I doubt they could eat it as it was about 4 ft long but i guess with bass you just never know. It was an amazing sight and sound. I will admit it scared me.
It could also have been the snakes scared some very large carp that are in the pond too and caused the noise.