Ever gone out to fish the morning topwater bite and get to your spot, see fish feeding on the surface, think to yourself "It's going to be a great day..." then proceed to get skunked? Yeah, me too, infuriating, they win today, was an awesome sunrise though, and it was well worth the trip, can't wait to go again. 

I think there’s a Jimmy Buffett song something like -

 

“Trying to Reason...

With Topwater Season”

 

Many highs and lows, but with risk comes reward, just not always when you think - -

Yah, can't count on anything in this hobby, there's days you do everything wrong and they bite anyway, and other days you do everything you know your supposed to be doing and they just don't want to play, guess the fish gotta win every now and then.

I had white bass blowing up all over around my boat almost everywhere I went Friday morning. Managed to catch a whopping 2 of them and neither one was bigger than 8". Not sure what they wanted, but it wasn't anything I was offering them.

12 hours ago, Sphynx said:

Ever gone out to fish the morning topwater bite and get to your spot, see fish feeding on the surface, think to yourself "It's going to be a great day..." then proceed to get skunked? Yeah, me too, infuriating, they win today, was an awesome sunrise though, and it was well worth the trip, can't wait to go again. 

Nope never happened to me...not sure what your problem is

 

 

 

P.S.

 

I'm a Liar

26 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I had white bass blowing up all over around my boat almost everywhere I went Friday morning. Managed to catch a whopping 2 of them and neither one was bigger than 8". Not sure what they wanted, but it wasn't anything I was offering them.

Yeah, they were doing me filthy this morning, blowing up where I had been last cast in the middle of the next cast and all of it, if bass had middle fingers the whole pond was giving me both of them straight up with not a care in the world how I felt about it...one of these days I WILL get a whopper plopper fish, just not today lol.

 

24 minutes ago, DitchPanda said:

Nope never happened to me...not sure what your problem is

 

 

 

P.S.

 

I'm a Liar

LOL

Sometimes those fish that are busting the water are not the fish species we want (believe) them to be .

Very, very possible it was salmon or steelhead, bit loud for that, in my experience they usually slurp and don't bust the way a bass will, but then I'm sure enough people have experience to the contrary that I wouldn't call it a hard fast rule

On 8/2/2020 at 11:26 PM, Sphynx said:

Very, very possible it was salmon or steelhead, bit loud for that, in my experience they usually slurp and don't bust the way a bass will, but then I'm sure enough people have experience to the contrary that I wouldn't call it a hard fast rule

Your location states West Central LOUSIANA. I grew up in Franklin Parish and had no idea there were salmon or steelhead within 1,000 miles of La.....  I'm assuming you were fishing up north somewhere...

1 hour ago, Big Rick said:

Your location states West Central LOUSIANA. I grew up in Franklin Parish and had no idea there were salmon or steelhead within 1,000 miles of La.....  I'm assuming you were fishing up north somewhere...

Yeah, in Washington state lol, I am a trucker for a living, so I tend to get around