Re: Top Water - Still ???

Bob,

Here in Wisconsin we get a flurry like that all the time with the White
Bass, not largemouth (at least in the Winnebago chain).  I will throw
anything from a blade bait (also white twister tail 3" to a 1", white hair
jig under a float, soft jerk bait, hard jerkbait, 1" to 4" tube jig, or #5
to #13 floating rapala) to a buzzbait, point being, I think any shad
imitation would work in a feeding frenzy..  I usually let the size of the
shad dictate the bait I throw.  Also water clarity , will determine the
color I throw.
I wish I had more experience with schooling largemouth, but I have never
been fortunate enough to run into a school.  I think your bait selection was
right on, maybe the feeding school was not that large and you got hits from
the few fish that were there.  Here on Winnebago there could be a thousand
or more white bass just going nuts, but you catch 20 of them and you are
happy.  So figure there are only 20 largemouth there and you took 2 shots
from 2 of those fish.  Not to bad if you think about it.  In the fall it
doesn't take a whole lot to get the shad nervous, they are constantly being
ambushed and hammered by multiple species.  So one fish zooming towards them
can make several schools scatter.
Just a few thoughts from me.

good luck,

Chris Rennert
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> My last two outings I still got a hit or two on topwater.  No.  Nothing
> spectacular, but a hit or two.  I can't seem to hook up though.
>
> Saturday I went out and explored a little.  Didn't really fish.  Just
> checked out some water I hadn't been on before.  About 11:30 I ran back to
> the dock at Squaw Lake were I picked up my wife and kids, and another kid
> who had spent the night at the house.  I ran them up the river to Fisher's
> Landing and we had lunch.
>
> While I was waiting at the dock on Squaw Lake I saw schools of shad right
up
> against my boat two or three times, and some scattered top water minnow
> action around the area.
>
> I switched back and forth between throwing a topwater, a jerk bait, and a
> spinner bait.  I didn't catch anything, but I got two solid hits on the
> topwater by one decent fish.  Maybe 15 inches or so.
>
> The first school of shad I saw went right under my boat, and I could see
two
> stripers slashing through the school below me.
>
> With that much minnow action and obvious feeding fish what would you have
> thrown?
>
>
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