A Topwater Explosion, especially close to the boat, really buries the needle on my Thrill Meter!

Roger

Especially when they come out of the water after it!

Topwater?

Maybe its topwater when i see a bass look like a torpedo after my topnocker. :

Spinnerbait?

While wearing my polarized glasses I can see the flash as they strike my spinnerbaits. :

Carolina Rig?

I rig up a Senko on a carolina rig and wait as it falls to see a nibble. :

Splitshot rig?

I'm a line watcher with a black worm tied on in the weeds.  Pulling a 3lb + bass out of the weeds  :

I like it all and more ;D

If you ain't fishing you should be 8-)

Big bass slamming a jerkbait is my #1.

;D ;D ;D

I can understand why people like a topwater bite, but I think anyone who has a 5 lb+ Smallmouth hit a jerkbait with the power that almost (and in some cases does, if you are not paying attention) rips the rod from your hands would put a jerkbait bite right up there (if not above) a topwater bite.

x3

When you stroke your big spoon and see the line tick, or when you feel like you are going through molasses on the upstroke.  I also like a football jig strike of any kind.

TOPWATER bite for me.I love to see a bass blow up a buzzbait and make all kind of ruckus.

I love a strike on soft plastics, the "tick" tick", then your adrenilane starts pumping through your blood, and your brain is waiting for the electric impusle for when the line shoots out, and bammm!!! you set the hook!!! I recently started topwater and I got to say its exciting!

     Any strike, with a good hook set, just can't beat it!!!

hands down....

TOPWATER!

...just cant beat it.

I love the top water bite but there's something about when you pitch a plastic or jig into a bush and feel that THUMP! set the hook and the bush just explodes and the bass is snagged up in there! It's like being in hand to hand combat with the bass! ;D

that first second when my crankbait rod loads up and every fish feels like he could pass for a 5 lber- only to be disappointed.

Number 1 would be top-bait even though ive never had one blow up on it. Number 2 would be worm. I love the feeling when your line zips out and then the nice hard hook set. I had one the other day came about 1.5 feet out of the water after the worm as soon as the worm hit the water! First for me...I was like  

I love them all, but what really lights my fire, is when one of those ill-tempered smallies pounds my crankbait.

Falcon

Of course I love the toilet bow flush of a big bass hitting my rage shad on top but my favorite is definitely when I'm burning a crankbait through a school of bass and I feel the hard "thud" when the bass hits my lure. The thud is so hard you can tell which direction the bass was coming from and then the feel of dead weight as almost like you're dragging a tree limb back before it starts fighting for real. I love that split second when the wobble is replaced with the feeling that your lure found a black hole or worm hole or some other type of star trekie hole!

I love that split second when the wobble is replaced with the feeling that your lure found a black hole or worm hole or some other type of star trekie hole!

Thats funny right there and a good way of puttting it into perspective.

Feeling that tug on a soft bait is unbeatable.  Especially when it's a big one.

My favorite is when deadsticking at night when you goto lift you rod and can't feel anything so you crank like a mofo just for a chance to set the hook. They ALL feel huge!! Sometimes they are. I call it the smart bite!!

For right now I'd have to say a soft plastic bite. I love the anticipation when that line starts to twitch and starts moving out, than the hard hookset. I also really  like when fish hit a fast moving crank, especially when they slam it.

top water explosion on a frog

nothing can beat frog fishing !!! specially when you have paused it and your eyes wander off the frog cause your checking the next possible location to cast to , then WHAM , you see and feel the explosion and force you self to hesitate for a second then set the hook and feel the monster pulling back ..... dang , i want to go throw some frogs !!!!  

Awesome stuff guys!  Doesn't reading all these posts make ya realize just how much fun catching a LMB really is?!

I read every post and put myself in your position, thinking about those little moments you all mentioned and was just chukling because I know the feeling.  I'm so psyched to go fishing now and hook into a nice one I almost can't stand it.  

All the posts from the frog tossers really got me amped to go huck a Kermit into the thick stuff and watch what happens. ::licking my chops::

Topwater. Been having really good fortune with a black jointed jitterbug. Fish in very early am (still dark), all you can hear is glub, glub, glub, WHOOSH. Very exciting.  

I love to fish jigs.....nothing better than feeling that little tick and watching your line just take off!  Or waking a spinnerbait just under the surface and seeing that giant wave come up right before the strike.....especially when that wave comes from the side because you just know they are going to kill it!  Those two are my favorites, but they ALL get the blood pumping!

Topwater is still my favorite, but I am with bass akwards in that I love seeing my line shoot away when a fat bass inhales my soft plastic. Any bass strike rocks though.

I love whenever a big 'ol bass picks up a soft plastic and just starts to swim away. It adds to the element of surprise to me, the big girl doesn't even know whats about to happen to her.

Its tough to beat a good topwater explosion but..

I agree with Bass_Akwards. I love a good plastic worm bite. Its not even so much the actual bite but its the hook set. I love getting ready and then realy stepping into a good hard hookset.

Amen. Reeling up the slack and stepping back as you lay it in is probably my favorite too. I also like when you're working a jig and you go to bump it off the bottom and the line is slack, and a piggy is swimming away with it

I've gained a new appreciation for soft lures.  I've just started fishing them about a month ago.  The feel of you picking it up, a little twitch, then tick tick tick line swimming off, then hook set.....

But I still love fising spinner baits right under the surface.  Bettle spins either right under the surface or fishing it deep.  Also buzz baits, seeing the wake, hearing the explosion, and feeling the weight of the fish then hook set.  

I love any kind of fishing as long as  I'm catching fish