Wiggle Warts And Tree Tops

[jolicious]

I have seen references on here sometimes to fishing warts through tree tops on Table Rock. Please indulge a few questions:

Is this where the boat is in 50' feet of water or so, and the warts are fished through tree tops that are 8'-10' beneath the surface?

Or, is this brought thought tree tops that cane be seen above water in 20' kind of deal?

Thank y'all for your perspectives

[merc1997 Bo]

i will do both. as we all know, bass are not always on the bottom. of course here on table rock, it is getting harder all the time to find a piece of timber that still has any limbs left on it. bass will still suspend around a pole sometimes, but not as well as trees with limbs.

bo

[Champ188]

i will do both. as we all know, bass are not always on the bottom. of course here on table rock, it is getting harder all the time to find a piece of timber that still has any limbs left on it. bass will still suspend around a pole sometimes, but not as well as trees with limbs.

bo

Got that right, bo. My good post-spawn Redfin trees are dwindling by the year.

[rps]

I may well have fished more warts in tree tops than anyone on this forum. The reasons are: the wart is my favorite walleye trolling bait, I troll for walleye quite often, I run 10/2 braid to troll, warts with 250 feet of 10/2 braid will run 25 to 26 feet deep, and walleye frequently suspend in brush and tree tops. Warts have a great advantage in those situations -> they hang up far less often than any other deep diver I troll. Something about the design and hook position causes them to deflect or flip over limbs more often than not.

While I don't write about it often, I normally catch as many or more bass than walleye using the trolled wart. I tend not to report this because when I fish bass, I count and report bass; when I fish walleye, I count and report walleye. My largest TR bass (almost 24 inches and very fat, close to 9 pounds) came while trolling a wart in the trees on the bluff where the Kings River flows into the White.

One of trhe applications for the new Rockcrawler (if it resmbles the wart in avoiding hangs) will be to fish the numerous tree tops that exist 10 to 20 feet below normal pool (and there are many).

[J-Doc]

Trust rps Joe.

He is the "Obie Won Kenobi" of trolling walleye. And we catch just as many bass trolling as we do other species. Sometimes more. Bass are sometimes easier to catch.

I have not tried the wart for that depth but I need to give it a try.

[kjackson]

A side note on the Wiggle Wart-- way back in the day, I complained to the company spokesperson about the hooks on the Wart series. The hooks were smaller than what were used on comparable baits by a fair margin. They also had an extreme beak on the point--that is the points curved in. I asked why, and her response was tha the hooks Storm used were that way so, "they will come through wood better." Given that I was using the Wart family for salmon and steelhead, I changed hooks...

[Champ188]

Interesting to hear all of the applications for this venerable bait (the Wiggle Wart). Look forward to hearing how the Rock Crawler performs for you guys who will be trolling it. I bet it will be a killer.

[J-Doc]

I was actually looking to cast it! Lol :-)

[rps]

I ordered a phantom green, phantom brown, and a red craw. If it has the same searching action and hits 10 to 12 feet, it will reach a lot of water that needs a workover. As a side note, every year I catch one or more walleye while bass fishing with a wart.

[dtrs5kprs]

Trees you can't see for the most part, or brush pile tops. Have done it, but not sure it is better than any other way we have of catching them, and probably less efficient than some.