Top Water Bite

[Bitethis]

I have been waiting for top water bite to start. I have read and seen a couple successful experiences so far this last couple weeks, so I assume it is here. LOVE IT!!!

Bait preferences aside, what is some of the water terrain you look for? Or is it just looking for shad popping the surface, with bass crushing them, and cast there? Deep water, shallow water, flats, pea gravel, chunk rock, stand ups? What is it you look for when throwing TWB's?

[Quillback]

I know some gravel points, that when the top water bite starts, will have fish on them doing the top water thing until late in the summer. Early morning is best. Evening are probably good, but that's getting close to my bed time. Need this wind to calm down a bit.

[balsabee]

For post spawners I look for gravel points and bluff ends with timber.

[dtrs5kprs]

Gravel close to the lake or on the main lake, bluff ends , runout points, and bait. Clouds, good clarity, are very useful. Wood helps, but does not have to be stuff you can see, or even trees. Think over brushpiles.

Chuggers around docks can be an option also. Back on the bank behind them, in slips, along walkways. The prop baits will work there too, when there are gills around.

[Champ188]

Remember the old Conway-and-Loretta song After the Fire Is Gone? The first line is "Love is where you find it." That's the post-spawn TW bite on Table Rock. Some will stay in the bigger spawning pockets until it gets lizard hot. Others will start showing up on gravel/chunk rock points at the mouths of the pockets. Still others will be on the bluff ends.

Get out there "Babler early" -- before daylight -- and cover as much water as you can in order to find them, then work that pattern until it dies on you. Some mornings that will be 7:30, others they may keep going till 9 or 10. Clouds help. A little wind (but not too much) isn't a bad thing either. Just keep your eyes and ears open.

[abkeenan]

Remember the old Conway-and-Loretta song After the Fire Is Gone? The first line is "Love is where you find it." That's the post-spawn TW bite on Table Rock. Some will stay in the bigger spawning pockets until it gets lizard hot. Others will start showing up on gravel/chunk rock points at the mouths of the pockets. Still others will be on the bluff ends.

Get out there "Babler early" -- before daylight -- and cover as much water as you can in order to find them, then work that pattern until it dies on you. Some mornings that will be 7:30, others they may keep going till 9 or 10. Clouds help. A little wind (but not too much) isn't a bad thing either. Just keep your eyes and ears open.

Yep. In my experience in the dam area around this time of year best to be out on the lake around 5:30am looking for fish activity on the surface. Fish will tell you where they are and most often times the bite only lasts til about 8AM at best. Sometimes it will last a little longer if there is cloud cover and usually once the sun gets up around 7AM the party is over and time to switch to sub surface crank or swimmer or a bottom contact bait in the same area.

[gitnby]

Remember the old Conway-and-Loretta song After the Fire Is Gone? The first line is "Love is where you find it." That's the post-spawn TW bite on Table Rock. Some will stay in the bigger spawning pockets until it gets lizard hot. Others will start showing up on gravel/chunk rock points at the mouths of the pockets. Still others will be on the bluff ends.

Get out there "Babler early" -- before daylight -- and cover as much water as you can in order to find them, then work that pattern until it dies on you. Some mornings that will be 7:30, others they may keep going till 9 or 10. Clouds help. A little wind (but not too much) isn't a bad thing either. Just keep your eyes and ears open.

" After the Fire Is Gone", "Love is where you find it." "Lizard hot", "Babler early"? Love it!

If metaphors were keeper bass, you almost got a limit in one post?

Just need a kicker, now.

The early TW bite is "On like Donkey Kong"?

[Bitethis]

Thanks guys, input is appreciated! I will be doing most my fishing around 6pm to dark, so I am hoping for some possible TW action within that time frame.

[dtrs5kprs]

Thanks guys, input is appreciated! I will be doing most my fishing around 6pm to dark, so I am hoping for some possible TW action within that time frame.

Always seems like that is a little tougher than the morning TW bite, on just about any lake bigger than county CA size.