favorite topwater (prop bait)?

[Fish&Fowl]

Top Raider. We caught 3 muskies within an hour while night fishing once last year. Two were on my Top Raider and one on a creeper. That was enough to move the TR into #1 for me.

[Musky Buck]

Thanks Scoot, I know they have a place and time and you guys know how some like me are a creature of habit. It's a vibe thing. I will gun that super humper again and hope I can get a theory with it.

[setterguy]

Started throwing the mag low rider last year and love it.

[Musky Buck]

Should have read a bit closer Scoot, dozens of muskies in the past few years, would you give me a demo ? JK

[b1gf1sh1]

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I've caught dozens of muskies in the past few years from mid-July to mid-Aug on prop baits

i've got a few ''general'' rules i use for ''when'' i should throw a prop. i'll share a few more off the wall ones that i ''believe'' work. could just be i'm getting lucky, but they give me confidence so i use them.

when i see a log/deadfall on shore near the waters edge(within 100 feet) that snakes, field mice, weasles or other swimmers live or hunt. that area probably has swimmers so it has fish in the area used to that so they are looking for that. i also look for man made junk piles, or just something like a old mattress or an old door or whatever. and sheds close to shore, all that kind of stuff.

and i look for recently flooded grasslands or flooded earthen points. long expanses of fields, and if it's september. september is traditionally the ''hot'' month and i don't dissagree one bit based on my experiences and the logics behind it. but i fish props all year. i bet i get a muskie May 23'rd. i'm hoping i get one on a top prop. to date i've never caught one on a top prop opening day. but i get another try this year.