Favorite Topwater to throw

[ww2farmer]

Frog................I throw it year round, in a wide array of conditions. Waking cranks would be #2 probably, but buzzbaits are making a comeback for me though. I own few traditional treble hooked topwaters anymore.

[Ohitsmeagain]

Hollow Body Frog and Buzzbait

[jbw252]

Yo-Zuri Banana Boat lures & buzzbaits.

[Jar11591]

Rapala Skitter Walk

Storm Chug Bug

Megabass Pop Max

[Outdoor Zack]

Pop r

 

Magnum Pop r

 

Rebel poppin' frog

[Gundog]

Heddon Torpedo, Spit N Image & Rebel Pop R if its open water. Zoom Horny Toad or Senko (yea they can be used for top water) if I'm throwing it on top of weeds. 

[Columbia Craw]

Super Spook

[wdp]

Rapala Skitter Pop

Stanley Ribbit Frog

Zoom Horny Toad

 

Finally broke down & bought a whopper plopper. Looking forward to trying it this spring. 

[kbeeb374]

The original excalibur spit n image.  I only have 2 of the originals left but the current heddon ones work fine too.

I could throw my livetarget frogs all day without catching a fish and still have fun though.

[SwampLife]

-Buzz bait as long as it's black or white 

 

-Stanley ribbit 

 

- black Spro poppin frog 

[Bankbeater]

13 hours ago, Smallieseeker said:

Black jitterbug and a close second would be the rebel pop r!

Same here.  If the bass don't hit a jitterbug or a pop-r, they usually aren't coming up to the surface.

[budgetbassin]

Hollow body frog or buzzbait.

[Scarborough817]

hard to beat a buzzbait. it covers water, normally gets hit by the aggressive ones, it's pretty weedless, has a decent hookup ratio 

[J Francho]

PopMax in Python.

[NoahWatts]

River2Sea BullyWa2 

Evergreen Showerblow

Megabass PopMax

 

[Mumbly]

Super spook jr, buzzbait, torpedo and pop'r

["hamma"]

  bone colored Pop-R is number 1, then a G-finished, red head and white bodied baby sized spook, and a chrome and black scale finished torpedo,.... both come in a close second

 All with better hooks and o-rings if need be.

 But,...I like a j&p on pads too

[Blackhawk83]

Tough question but I would have to say the Jitterbug followed very closely by buzz bait and rebels pop-r.

[NCbassraider]

Live Target blue gill.  It's a fun bait to work and the hits are awesome.  I'm not a huge fan of straight retrieve baits.  I like to work a bait and feel like I'm enticing the bites rather than just reeling.

 

For best results I've found you have to turn the hooks up and use a froging rod.

[webertime]

Sammy

Super Spook

Shower Blow 105

Buzzjet

[craww]

Sammy 85 in MS American Shad. Casts like a dream and catches good quantity and quality of brown and green fish. 

 

Xrap-walk 14 in glass ghost. Discontinued, originally a saltwater bait. Basically a big one knocker spook that looks just like a large shad. Not big on the Xrap colors but glass ghost is perfect for topwaters. 

 

Reaction Innovations Swamp Donkey ( I bought a bunch for $2.00 a piece years ago).

 

 

Any 3/8 black buzz bait with decent components 

 

Scum frog. An underrated bait. Much more subtle and less likely to spook shallow fish than other frogs. Wish the hooks were better. I bend them out a bit with pliers.

 

Once or twice a season in late summer I break out the old crick hopper popper. The hooks are bad but it's a really fun bait when the time is right.

[dwh4784]

My favorite top water is a white Live Target field mouse. Love everything about that thing. I also like a Devil's Horse on windy days. That's gotta be the oldest, most chewed up lure in my box, it was my dad's actually. 

[bigfruits]

pop x, small frogs, and cavitron buzzbaits is most of my topwater fishing.

 

frogs are probably my favorite with the pop x close behind.

 

i just rcvd some Megabass Anthrax topwaters - looks like they will test my rod skills! I wonder if "Oh Ashota!" (1:39 mins) means what I think it does.