topwaters

[life=outdoors92]

i am gettin anxious for a foggy sunrise topwater adventure. what are your guys's favorite topwater? i dont bass fish that much or heavily, but the storm chug bug seems to work best for me. Luhr Jehnsen PJ Pops use to be golden for me too

[Wayne Ek]

In order of confidence.

For Green fish:

Spook

Rage Shad

Buzz-bait

Devil's Horse

For Brown fish:

Chug Bug/Spit-n-King

Heddon Baby Torpedo

Spook Jr.

[delmuts]

Green fish;

Buzzbait

Buzz frog

Pop'r/ hula popper

Spook

Brown fish! I only wish we had a good place to fish them!

[thatoneguy]

Gold Jawbreaker spoon for the win. On Leech, it gets about 90% of my topwater casts.

[Raider4ever]

Green: Spook, Spro type frog, Pop-R, Hula Popper (Yeah I know. But, if you turn off the trolling motor and fish it right, it's dynamite), Black Jitterbug (nite-bite).

Brown: Heddon Torpedos, Skitter-Prop, Spook Jr, Pop-R.

Keep 'em comin'. I love buying top-waters.

[goblueM]

spook, buzz king jr, spro bronzeye,

and hard to beat a #2 yellow popper on the flyrod for smallies. my grandpa used to outfish me on that, even if i had live bait

[mainbutter]

I'm a fan of rapala skitter props. No one else I know has success with them, but I sure find plenty of takers. Prop style topwaters are one of the older lures out there, my grandpa's got a homemade one from when he was like, 10. I want to get it framed, would make a great showpiece in a wooden box w/glass pane

[life=outdoors92]

i'll add the jitterbug and hula popper as well. i have had most of my biggest fish on hula poppers. not always the biggest numbers, but they are usually in the 19-22 inch range

[Ray Esboldt]

Pop-R (largemouth and smallmouth)

Buzzer (largemouth and sometimes smallmouth)

Frog (largemouth)

Boy Howdy (smallmouth - stole that one from swampbuck)

[goblueM]

surprised to see so many popper style baits listed, i rarely see folks seeing them. for those that use them frequently, what is your favorite way to work them?

[Cecil]

Green Bass

Bobbys Perfect frog-Cicada color

Brown Bass

Lucky Craft Gunfish

[TR21HP]

Walkin' the dog with a zara spook or a Luckycraft Sammy. Nothing more exciting than a top water bite.

[Larson15]

+1

[TODDY]

I second Ray's list exactly with exception of Boy Howdy???? I'll google that one. And I use frogs A LOT for smallmouths.

Pop-R (largemouth and smallmouth)

Buzzer (largemouth and smallmouth)

Frog (largemouth and smallmouth)

goblueM,

As for poppers, fast eratic twitches with short pauses every 5 twitches or so to allow for a strike.

Sometimes as slow as cast it out and let the wake disappear, twitch, let wake disappear, repeat

Mostly experiment with retrieves until you find out what they want.

TODDY

[RickyBobby]

Spook

Buzzbait

Spro Frogs

Norman Weedwalker

[lovebigbluegills]

Spooks are my favorite topwater by far. I've caught many nice smallmouths on them.

[life=outdoors92]

i cast, and let it sit till the wakes disappear. then i do only 3 twitches before i let it pause again for the wakes to disappear. i change distances between those twitches with what works better for that morning.

if i am using a hula popper and its both real calm and foggy i will chug that bait as loud as i can go the first twitch or 2. then do normal ones.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Boy Howdy is very similar to a Smithwich devils horse.

[slipperybob]

PopR and Spooks are tried and true for me. I will mix it up with a Yozuri 3D Popper or Banana Boat. I will toss an Owner Gobo Popper when I feel I need a lower sitting profile on the water and less popping noise. Sammys are also good to mix things up for me.

[life=outdoors92]

I will mix it up with a Yozuri 3D Popper or Banana Boat.

when you're in a hurry, use yozuri

[delmuts]

I usually start out with a series of three to five quick pops, with a short or long pause, but there are times when all they want is a slow pop/pause retrieve.

[RK]

Hiya -

For LMB:

Jawbreaker spoon, Barney Spoon or PT Spoon

Buzzbait

Zara Spook

SMB

Skitter Walk

Yozuri 3D popper

Buzzbait

Devil's Horse/Boy Howdy (here I thought I was the only one who still used 'em - heh...)

Topwater tube

Cheers,

Rob Kimm

[EBass]

Largies:

Spro Frogs

Bull Ribbits

Buzzbaits

Smallies:

Buzzbaits

Rebel Pop-R

Rapala Skitter Prop

Bull Ribbits

Cool to see someone still using a devil's horse and I have 0 patience to walk a dog like a spook. I do have some, but I don't use them much.

[Juan Grande]

How do you fish Jawbreaker spoons on top? I would assume they sink so you either reel them in fast or fish them on top of pads?

[RK]

How do you fish Jawbreaker spoons on top? I would assume they sink so you either reel them in fast or fish them on top of pads?

They are actually pretty easy to fish on top. You can actually work them pretty slowly in fact. Keep your rod tip up and reel, and they pop up and sort of chug along on top. Twitch as you reel and you can kind of walk the dog with them even.

Just remember to set the hook off to the side. When you forget, miss a fish, and get nailed by the spoon, it stings...

Cheers,

Rob Kimm