If you follow the world of professional bass fishing, Seth Feider is arguably the most likeable guy in the business.
A Minnesota native who grew up hammering bass on Lake Minnetonka, Seth won the Bassmaster Angler of the Year in 2021, a top 5 finish in 2019, and still fishes the Bassmaster Elite Series where he’s become a fan favorite.
An old soul at heart, Seth is quite the character, and really informative for anyone who is looking for some tips on bass fishing. Whether it’s drop shotting for smallmouth up north, or flipping thick grass with a jig, you learn a lot about catching bass watching his videos.
But to really capture the essence of his personality, just listen to him recall the time he nearly broke his back falling out of a tree stand. In a conversation with Dave Mercer, Seth got into all kinds of things, including the never-ending debate on forward facing sonar, but this part had me dying.
Seth sets the scene:
“I was way back in on some public… I had a cell phone, but not with me… one of those Nokia ones. I was up in the tree stand and it was creaking around and I don’t know why I took my safety strap off but I did. I was getting down for the day and there was a big limb coming out right above my tree stand so I grabbed on to that and I had my feet on the end of my stand, jumping up and down to seat it into the tree a little more… they have way nicer stuff now… I’m jumping up and down and my stand gave way and I fell like 23-25 feet.
I fell on my back with my rattling horns, landed on those, luckily they didn’t puncture me. Really just ended up knocking the wind out of me but it’s scary as sh*t when you hit the ground all by yourself in the middle of the woods, no cell phone. For two minutes I thought I had broken my back and was gonna die there in the woods, and no one was eve gonna find me.”
At first it sounds like he was just lucky to make that fall without serious injury, but as it turns out, the injuries might’ve been a little more serious than he thought:
“The worst ordeal was after about a week, I still hadn’t taken a sh*t, I knew something was wrong. And you know, I’m not going to go to a doctor so I go to White Castle, crush like a 20-pack, or 30-pack of White Castles and I’m like ‘I’m either gonna explode and die or shit my brains out.’
So it did the trick.. I sh*t out a little rock hard… it clinked when it hit the bottom of the toilet it was so hard, it was like a clump of blood but it was like blackish red… and I’ve been fine ever since.”
Just some run of the mill internal bleeding… nothing a little White Castle can’t flush out.
If you’ve never had White Castle, those magical little sliders will clean you out in a hurry. Don’t get me wrong, they’re delicious, but if you’re older than about 22 years old, you’re body just isn’t made for that anymore.
If you know, you know…
Here’s the full episode:
