Early morning bassin'
 

rode my bike to the pond today and arrived at 7. started off with a black scum frog with good results. caught 3 bass on it, and missed about 5 hits bc i am not experienced with topwater fishing. so the first one was basically the first topwater bass i ever caught.
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the topwater action slowed down around 9 so i finished off the day with a black texas rigged weightless worm and picked off 2 more fish. all of them were around 1-2 pounds. a nice day even though i was bit by mosquitos and rained on.

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Not too shabby, crusty. The more you fish with topwaters, the more you'll love it!

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AGREED. Glad you gave topwater another try, it's very exciting and there are times it will FLAT OUT slam the fish. I have done well into October with topwaters so you still have some time to keep on using them.

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nice work kid i love topwaters and keep at it you'll get the hang the more you fish em biggest issue with me always was letting them eat it before setting the hook like a maniac!

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I still make that mistake too sometimes but ya just can't help it when there's that much excitement involved.

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nahh, affter the explosions i actually waited a good 3-4 seconds, when the line got tight, before setting the hook. i swear to god i didnt set the hook immediatley. they still wouldnt get hooked. and the ones i did catch were barley hooked on the outer lips.

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3-4 seconds might a little too long actually. But still, 3 for 8 isn't all that bad for your first time with topwaters.

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Once your hooked on top water action all the rest is just a dream

a top water explosion, even if a miss, is better than all rest

Personally, I get more of a rush from the top water bite...just seeing the bite...wanna hook up, but if not that's ok...next lily pad

Ultimate...15 + lb blues on top water plugs....agressive:cool: