On one occasion I saw a 3 ft snake of some sort, 70 ft from shore, attacked from underneath . Lots of splashing for 5-7 seconds, don't know what had it in 15' of water. but whatever had it got a nice protein boost to it's diet. Hoping one of my 16" Walleye or 6 lb CC , maybe a turtle , whatever saved me a .22 LR cartridge. Years ago, "Lazy Ike " had a plastic bait , 7-8" worm with a spoon bill head , pretty much a nightmare on bottom because of design, but when fished faster on the surface it caught most everything, it looked like a small snake , Bass and large crappie hammered it.
