Spook

All time favorite is the Storm Chug Bug.  My 2nd largest fish blasted a Sammy so that bait has some sentimental value.

Today it's a buzzbait.

- cover water fast with a long cast, straight retrieve

- can be a fairly soft gurgle to loud commotion.

- can have added clacking/knocking..sometimes added with a tweak of the lure whlie fishing

- can skim over weeds in many cases where trebles can't play

- durable, no soft plastics to destroy

 

 

 

 

I havent changed my pick , its still a buzzbait and has been for decades but Toads have really been good to me lately . This lake i have fished forever , for the past two years has had a chara algae explosion and i've had to change tactics . The backs of some coves are completely choked out and those toads over the top of mats and in sparser areas have been getting hammered .

I’ll be the first to say it, Xcalibur Spit’n Image.

 

I can only find them on eBay now but I’m pretty stocked up on them.

Spook

Hollow body frog.

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Bobby's perfect hollow body frog. Great hookup ratio and long lasting.

Lunker Lure buzzbait, Storm Chug Bug, and original Zara Spook

And the winner is (drum roll) the Zara Spook! It is for me anyways. 

BTW Cak920, you asked for our favorite and then listed more than one of your own.  Very confusing for us mentally challenged seniors.

Teckel Sprinker (it basically a Whopper plopper that plays better around weeds)

 

Live Target hollow body frog (my hook up ratio has gone up tremendously vs even when I used the booyah pad crasher)

 

Whopper plopper 90 (it just catches fish)

 

I've been fishing small lakes with a ton of vegetation lately, so I've been primarily using the hollow body frog, and the Teckel when there's some gaps in the muck I can reel across. 

Top Raider - I had one these long before the Whopper plopper was even thought of and the metal prop besides making a better sound is easier to clean up when grass tangles on it.

Spook

S.B. Shorty

Sammy

W.P.

Frawgg

Popper, buzzbait, wakebait, in that order.

Any brand of popper. I don't find one works (gets strikes) any better than the rest. I only have one year experience but I've caught most topwater with Bass Pro Shops branded poppers. I even got a few on a Walmart popper.

 

I think if I got a small tree twig and put hooks on it I'd catch a topwater bass. I don't care much what color they are either, though I'm going to experiment some time with that.

Balsa Crank

Black Jitterbug, followed by a Livetarget Hollow Sunfish

PH Custom Walkin' P... Soooooo money

A frog of some variety, a pop-r, and a buzzbait 

1 - Megabass Popmax in secret gill, caught my PB this year. Can be walked, popped, or chugged

2 - Live Target Frog (55 size) in any colour that has an orange or yellow belly

3 - Heddon Chug'n Spook Jr in Bone. Caught TONS of fish on my original one and still going strong, never had to use my back up one yet. Its a bait that doesn't get talked about very much. Swap the hooks to some Gammy round bends and you've got a workhorse topwater bait for life. 

I have 2 whopper ploppers that never get used because I can't bring myself to throw any bait other than these haha! 

On 6/29/2019 at 1:18 PM, greentrout said:

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YES! The baby bass chug bug. I've caught more fish on this thing over the years than any other topwater. It's a winner. 

the most viscous strikes of any topwater i've ever used ...

 

good fishing ...