Carp Attack!

While fishing Presque Isle from shore Saturday I caught a medium size bass. When I was reeling him in, even though he felt small, I could see a tremendous commotion at the end of my line, making me rethink the size of the bass I had on. When I pulled the bass up close enought to see clearly, there were three very large Carp attempting to attack the bass. Once close enought to see me the carp broke off and swam away. This happened several times that day. Has anybody run into aggresive Carp like these before. I always pictured them swimming along the bottom looking for food.

New type of carp the are introducing; cross between a carp a snakehead and a grey wolf...WF

No, but I saw a woman the other day that evidently had a run in with them, she had a huge bite on her neck...

  Sight fishin' the river for gold carp they seemed to always follow the fish to within 'bout 10' from shore.

crappy

I've had carp nibble on my line before. Maybe you reeling in the line might have caught their attention and they saw it as food. Most likely, they noticed the lurer or the baited hook in the bass's mouth and made attempts to catch it. When ocean fishing, I've also had small sharks (dog fish) come up and nip the tail of hooked fish.