Sorry to be a pain in the *** but being new to fishing top water lures, I need some additional insight as to colors. Can anyone recommend some specific colors/designs no fisherman should be without. Is it best to have an assortment of light and dark colors, shiny, etc…?
Don’t worry, I’ll never be a real threat to the fish population, just want to improve my fishing performance and try some new techniques. Top water fishing looks fun and exciting when that fish hits that lure from underneath.
I have good luck with red/white and black/silver super spook jr. As long as the lure is worked properly in the right conditions you will catch fish. When the bite is hot I sometimes think I could throw a dog turd with a hook in it and they would bite it.
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Chartreuse Mirrolure TopDog. Bigger the plug bigger the fish, if you get on a school, cast a little furter out and the bigger ones will be there. Topwater fishing is the most addicting thing I’ve ever done. Once you start catching fish, you will want to cast forever.
As far as colors; chartreuse is the primary “go-to” for trotsies, but last week it was outfished by smoke colored 4" swimming mullet gulp. 1/4oz white jighead.
I’ve never given too much concern to spook color. They seem to hit any of them. My concern is that it’s hard too hook fish on a spook. They jump all over the spooks, but the hookset ratio is tough in my experience. So, I throw flukes instead. Toss them with a 4-0, unweighted worm hook, and they’ll work the surface pretty well. Try it; I dare you.
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I personally am more confident in natural colors so I believe that anything with silver and black, silver and white or silver, black and white is a good choice. I’ve never seen a chartruse finger mullet or menhaden. Certain stained water may call for unnatural colors as such. On the other hand, when there is a thousand menhaden within casting distance, something that looks different is likely a good choice. The zara spook jr. is a good one. It’s noisy and walks really well. Captain Tom turned me on to the Sebile slim stick. That thing has a loud click like a top dog, isn’t shaped like a hot dog like the zaras and sits a little lower in the water so perhaps it gets more hookups. I haven’t proven that however. If the fish are aggressive enough to be crashing the top, they will probably hit any color. No pain, that is what this site is for.
Good Luck! O.C.
Have you ever looked up at something on the surface from underwater? I know im not a fish, I know… but all you see is a sihlouette. Is that the same for fish?
