I’d like to schedule a program for next spring on Top Water Fishing. I know a lot of you like to throw lures when it’s the right time of year and thought that maybe one of you felt good enough about your knowledge of fishing top water to share a presentation with the club. If not you, who might you recommend? Please send me a PM or give me a call at (980) 721-6434 if you have any ideas.
Shawn
Do you actually mean “topwater” or just artificial baits in general used to cast for stripers? Topwater I think of Sammies, spooks, and other walk-the-dog type baits…then you have the chuggers like Striper Delights or Creek Chub Knuckle Heads, or the pencil poppers, and Super Strike Littleneck Popper…and then the prop baits like the Bagleys BangoLure twin spin, Smithwick Devils Horse and the Arbogast Dasher…
other artificial “soft plastic” baits like the fluke or double fluke rigs are killers this time of the year…not necessarily a topwater bait but a slow sinking twitchbait…the Yum Money Minnows are good striper catchers…and the Creme Lit’l Fishie is also a popular fish catcher.
obviously bucktails are a popular bait for casting, especially below tailraces or in heavy current… the bucktail and ice fly is a popular combo on Lake Murray…or the wildly popular Alabama Rig with bucktails. My buddies at West Point Lake in Georgia are catching several fish in the teens and over 20 lbs right now on Alabama Rigs…They got into the A-rig fishing last year about this time and this year they are doing it again…
cant leave out the Bomber Long A’s or the Cordele Red Fins…these baits are very popular on Lake Lanier and have a cult-like following of fisherman that like to “wake” these baits day or night in the spring and fall when water temps are 60- 70 degrees…
Its beneficial to check out the lures made popular by the surf casters in the Northeast. Obviously they are designed for big fish and casting long distances…I can add to this post later…gotta run…
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If you’ve had fun catching fish on the transom bait, you are welcome…
I’ve spent about 85% of my life’s wages on fishing, the rest I just wasted…
Shawn, looks like you found your speaker
Wellcraft V-20 sportfish with a 200 Evinrude
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Originally posted by steelytomShawn, looks like you found your speaker
Wellcraft V-20 sportfish with a 200 Evinrude
I second that motion …
it’s my Wife’s fault we HAVE to fish now!!!
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I starting laughing time I read the last two comments. I was thinking the same thing yesterday when I first read Woody’s reponse.
Woody you done waded up in it now… 
David Padgett
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I don’t mind doing the presentation. I have done a lot of surfcasting metal for stripers. I usually keep a spinning rod rigged with a super spook for casting to breaking fish while I’m live bait fishing. I don’t go out to strictly cast for them much any more but I can certainly share whats worked best for me and what other anglers I know have had success with. Different situations require different technigues. Casting to schooling fish, casting into boils below a tailrace, casting out into the surf, casting up on main lake points to find fish, all require different presentations and sometimes extremely different rods and reels. The surfcasters have some really high tech gear. They can routinely cast over 700 feet. “Big Lou” McEachern had the world record at 817 ft. He once threw a sinker over the Houston Astrodome.lol
Here’s a nice fish with a Bomber Long A in his jaw…
Here are my buddies on West Point with some of the fish they have been catching recently on Alabama rigs:
They are working on some video of the Alabama rigs in action. These are the same guys that video’d me with the 26 lb Christmas striper at Hartwell a couple of years ago…
Team Shad Up & Fish
If you’ve had fun catching fish on the transom bait, you are welcome…
I’ve spent about 85% of my life’s wages on fishing, the rest I just wasted…