New Top Water You Want To Try ?

[tcbass]

2 hours ago, kbeeb374 said:

After having some moderate success with prop baits last season I am excited to try my new sprinker frog and whopper ploppers.  I know the WP's will work because I watched a guy fishing right behind me catching fish I was missing.. and I like the sprinker for the weedless nature when I am in pads and grass.. at least that is my hope for this season.

 

I'd stay away from the Sprinker Teckel Frog. I got a few blow ups and only got a pike to eat it. Caught a lot more on the homemade one. 

 

If you want to try a Weedless Whopper Plopper you might want to make your own or try the new Booyah Toadrunner.

[ChrisD46]

8 hours ago, Koz said:

 

For me the Whopper Plopper (110 size) is hit and miss. On some lagoons they just crush it on almost every cast. On other lagoons I can throw it all day long and not get one strike. This even happens with lagoons that are in the same neighborhood and interconnected via the stormwater system.

 

On some lagoons it gets hit on the pop and stop and others on a straight retrieve.

 

What I'm getting at is that if you throw the Whopper Plopper somewhere and it's a complete bust don't give up on it and bury it in your tackle box. Try it at every location you fish and find out where it works.

It could be it just wasn't the day for a WP110 (or perhaps even a top water bait at all ?) ... So many cool lures at all depths to try and so little time ?.

[KayakFish107]

I received a whopper plopper 110 as a gift and don’t even have a rod to throw it on, so maybe I can switch it out for a 90. Still excited to throw it!

[Munkin]

The shower blows I bought last year that I haven't had a chance to use.

 

Allen

[Bigbruce]

1 hour ago, KayakFish107 said:

I received a whopper plopper 110 as a gift and don’t even have a rod to throw it on, so maybe I can switch it out for a 90. Still excited to throw it!

Used the 90 for the first time today and it is the best top water I’ve ever used. I caught about a dozen bass in around two hours time. I did have some misses and issues when I ran it threw weeds. I’m a believer now.

[KayakFish107]

27 minutes ago, Bigbruce said:

Used the 90 for the first time today and it is the best top water I’ve ever used. I caught about a dozen bass in around two hours time. I did have some misses and issues when I ran it threw weeds. I’m a believer now.

That’s good to know! Opener is this Saturday so I’m pretty excited, first baitcaster as well! I’ll probably try tossing the 110 on my Tournament ZX just to see how it goes, but probably should try and get a 90 instead 

[Bigbruce]

10 minutes ago, KayakFish107 said:

That’s good to know! Opener is this Saturday so I’m pretty excited, first baitcaster as well! I’ll probably try tossing the 110 on my Tournament ZX just to see how it goes, but probably should try and get a 90 instead 

I bought the 90 as I use lighter line and rods with my bait caster. I also used it on a small pond in a training area on a military installation. Let me know how the 110 performs and what body of water you used it on. Nothing like seeing them hit a top water lure.

[ChrisD46]

On ‎5‎/‎3‎/‎2018 at 10:07 PM, Bigbruce said:

Used the 90 for the first time today and it is the best top water I’ve ever used. I caught about a dozen bass in around two hours time. I did have some misses and issues when I ran it threw weeds. I’m a believer now.

Did you use a straight retrieve on the 90 ?

[Bluebasser86]

On 5/3/2018 at 7:39 PM, Munkin said:

The shower blows I bought last year that I haven't had a chance to use.

 

Allen

They're a really nice bait. Wish I would have tried one a lot sooner. 

[Bigbruce]

10 hours ago, ChrisD46 said:

Did you use a straight retrieve on the 90 ?

All my hits came off a straight retrieve. No luck when I stopped it or walked the dog.

[yosef]

I don’t have the highest hopes for it but grabbed a couple dragonfly’s from lunkerhunt to give them a shot this year. Bass love the real dragonflies on my lake so hoping I can get lucky with them 

[Deeare]

I need to throw a buzzbait more.   Bought a few cavitron this winter that I'm going to try.   

[Darren.]

On a whim the other evening, around 7pm, I decided

a buzzbait was what I needed to throw. Have thrown

it before and caught nothing, so it has sat in my box

for well over a year, unused, at least I think it's been

that long.

 

So I threw it on a spinning setup Thursday at 7. Good

time, evening. First hit was a hit and miss, but dang

it felt good to see a topwater strike.

 

Decided to troll it. Then stopped and as I was reeling 

it in BANG! 3 pounds exactly on my Boga Grip!!

 

Exhilarating! The moral of the story for me is, buzzbaits

are good and buzzbaits will be in my arsenal this year.

[kbeeb374]

On ‎5‎/‎6‎/‎2018 at 9:47 AM, Darren. said:

Exhilarating! The moral of the story for me is, buzzbaits

are good and buzzbaits will be in my arsenal this year.

Yeah I have had brand new cavitrons sitting in the box waiting to be used.  they are getting rigged for sure this year.

[dsqui]

Ever green one bug popper will be added this year.  From what I've read it's a cross be tween a Rico and a splash it so should mix in nice and have a little more subtle plunk with little more splash to work with 

[fishballer06]

There's too many complicated topwaters out there today. I've simplified my topwater approach. 

 

Cavitron

Frog

 

If they don't eat those, they're probably not eating topwater. But that doesn't mean that I won't bust out a Skitter Pop or a Spook style bait before giving up. 

 

I bought the Storm Cover Pop last fall. It's a decent bait but certainly not going to replace my other go to poppers.

[Glaucus]

On 5/3/2018 at 7:30 AM, Koz said:

 

For me the Whopper Plopper (110 size) is hit and miss. On some lagoons they just crush it on almost every cast. On other lagoons I can throw it all day long and not get one strike. This even happens with lagoons that are in the same neighborhood and interconnected via the stormwater system.

 

On some lagoons it gets hit on the pop and stop and others on a straight retrieve.

 

What I'm getting at is that if you throw the Whopper Plopper somewhere and it's a complete bust don't give up on it and bury it in your tackle box. Try it at every location you fish and find out where it works.

I've had bluegill smack the 110 on the initial plop. It's weird.

[Bankbeater]

I'm going to stick to my old confidence baits. Pop-r, jitterbug, props, and frogs.

[Koz]

16 hours ago, Glaucus said:

I've had bluegill smack the 110 on the initial plop. It's weird.

I once caught an 7" pumpkinseed on a 3" swimbait. My guess is that the panfish was ticked off and was trying to nip the tail of the swimbait and got hooked. There's no way a little panfish with that tiny mouth could be trying to eat a bait that size.

[J Francho]

Whopper Flopper. 

 

I'll be using my typical TW baits: a one eyed Sammy 115 in the color "all scraped off," and a PopMax in "hook rash python."

[Choporoz]

Aside from frogs and matted vegetation areas, I don't think I caught a single top-water fish all of last year.  Not for lack of trying.  But I have started to get it in my head that fish in my waters don't want to come up for much; especially if it isn't within a half hour of sunrise or sunset...I pretty much stopped throwing anything on top.  But, I'm inspired by this thread and will commit to some buzzing and plopping next couple times out.

[tcbass]

2 hours ago, Choporoz said:

Aside from frogs and matted vegetation areas, I don't think I caught a single top-water fish all of last year.  Not for lack of trying.  But I have started to get it in my head that fish in my waters don't want to come up for much; especially if it isn't within a half hour of sunrise or sunset...I pretty much stopped throwing anything on top.  But, I'm inspired by this thread and will commit to some buzzing and plopping next couple times out.

 

I'd say it's certain times of the year but I've caught topwater bass most of the year during daytime hours on almost every lake I've ever fished. Certain lakes were definitely better than others though.

 

I will say if a lake has an aggressive topwater bite, it will have it over a lot of the lake, I've found.

[Junger]

Not my intended species, but I'm liking the Jackal Binksy so far. Walks really easy, sputters at low speeds, and can pop very subtly.

 

[Looch]

the Lane changer 150 is like a finesse topwater, caught a couple smallmouth on it and lost a nice pike but I'm not crazy about it, doesn't create enough disturbance, in real shallow calm water though it works well.

 

Anyone use the big mistake and top notch yet?

 

I bought the turtle with props but haven't caught anything with it yet. I just wanted a turtle lure I think lol

[NYWayfarer]

I have been trying old classic lures lately (Beetle Spin, Buzz Plug) so I purchased a Rebel Frog-R

 

I will be trying it for the first time this weekend.