Wake Bait Questions

[innova]

How early do you start throwing you wake baits (water temp) and what are the perfect pre-pawn conditions? Any and all help is appreciated.

[J-Doc]

I'd like to know this myself. I'd say 60 degrees and up? (Guessing)

[Feathers and Fins]

I will throw them at the same time I throw top-water poppers, and that is when I see fish pushing the surface or busting bait on the surface. Let the fish tell you what they want.

[J-Doc]

Well a topwater bite is kinda obvious. :-)

If they are biting in top, lots of surface baits can work but not all will work at the same time/condition. Sometimes smaller topwater plugs will get the bite and sometimes the larger baits will get the bites.

[Jerry Rapp]

just curious, has anyone ever come up with a Wake Bait Rig? Just thinking if you had two dummies up front and then three with hooks trailing behind. Then you would have a mini school of wakers.

[Old plug]

I do not know anything. about them. Only real experience I have had resulted in having a good sized Owl try to repeatedly take it away from me.

[Feathers and Fins]

Its all about reading the water. I have had great surface bites in the middle of winter and never saw the hard core boils people think of when they think of top water, what I may have seen was subtle push of water that indicated a large school of fish chasing bait, or seen bait disturbing the surface. It is subtle things that tell me about the fish.

Best thing I could say is read books on surfing, surf-fishing and open ocean fishing. Not the ones so much with pictures of fish but the ones that teach about reading the water how they found those fish. Youtube has some nice videos also.

[Pepe]

Mid April 2012 we saw some beds but no bass on them. Cloudy skies, just a bit of wind with water about 60 and no hint of surface action. We started the day by throwing a wake bait and it worked all day. Lily followed with a fluke and seemed to catch every fish that missed my wake bait. Nothing real big but great fun.

[Moswimb8slinger]

Almost all my winter bass this year were taken with a 6" Strike King King Kong in Gizzard Shad color from late october into the middle of January when the minus zero weather hit and really knocked down the water temp. But the lowest watet temp i caught them in was roughly 39-41. I also had some on the BBZ1 jr. (Floater and Slow Sink) And River2Sea S-waver 168 (Slow Sink) in a gizzard shad color also, most of those fish were in less than 15 fow.

The shad kill hasn't helped anything but the A-rig bite. I can't wait for that to be over with

[Champ188]

If you get mad at your best Red Fin and want to punish it, go find a big brown girl on a bed, swim it over the top of her and watch what happens. Your Fin will never speak to you again.