rps Posted June 29, 2016 Author Posted June 29, 2016 1 hour ago, Champ188 said: Good job, Randy. Way to break in that new boat. I am trying my best. I fear a really good top water day may have to wait for fall. magicwormman 1
dan hufferd Posted June 30, 2016 Posted June 30, 2016 Wow ! Man that is great, very envious, and happy for you ! I guess the boat fishes well.
Walleyedmike Posted June 30, 2016 Posted June 30, 2016 Nice bag of 'eyes RPS. I'm thinking a TR limit is in your near future! WM dan hufferd 1
abkeenan Posted June 30, 2016 Posted June 30, 2016 14 hours ago, rps said: I am trying my best. I fear a really good top water day may have to wait for fall. I believe you are right. The dingy water conditions just never allowed for a topwater bite. All the rain, flooding and washout into the lake in December really put the kibosh on the topwater stuff. Same can be said for the jerkbait as well. Visibility just didn't set up for either one of those bites. Add in the RAPID warm up in water temps the last month and voila you have a fizzled out topwater bite. Seems like the water temps went from the 60s straight to the 80s skipping over the sweet spot for typical good topwater on TR from 65-75 degrees. Champ188 1
Quillback Posted June 30, 2016 Posted June 30, 2016 Top water bite depended on what end of the lake you were on. Mid-May this year up the White was the best top water bite I have ever seen in my 8 years of fishing up there. Once the shad started spawning, the bass went nuts. I'm hoping once fall rolls around, it will get going again. I remember last fall there was a brief, but good Whopper Plopper bite - I missed that one, grrrr...
abkeenan Posted June 30, 2016 Posted June 30, 2016 23 minutes ago, Quillback said: Top water bite depended on what end of the lake you were on. Mid-May this year up the White was the best top water bite I have ever seen in my 8 years of fishing up there. Once the shad started spawning, the bass went nuts. I'm hoping once fall rolls around, it will get going again. I remember last fall there was a brief, but good Whopper Plopper bite - I missed that one, grrrr... Funny how a lake can fish different depending on where you are. My comment before is only speaking for conditions near the dam areas. Up the White, James or Kings could be totally different (and is). I'll be looking forward to that fall plopper bite as well. I had some success 2 years ago on a buzzbait which is a fun bite. Plopper should be a better "Mouse Trap" (Bablerism) as I like the ability to stop it and let it sit which you obviously can't do with a buzzer.
Quillback Posted June 30, 2016 Posted June 30, 2016 Something I have noticed, is that I have hardly caught any brown fish on top this spring. Maybe that brownies being much more numerous up there by the dam, accounted for the poor TW bite up there. Could be that they need clear water to get going on top.
abkeenan Posted June 30, 2016 Posted June 30, 2016 14 minutes ago, Quillback said: Something I have noticed, is that I have hardly caught any brown fish on top this spring. Maybe that brownies being much more numerous up there by the dam, accounted for the poor TW bite up there. Could be that they need clear water to get going on top. Makes sense.
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