In a tournament where there are musky in the lake, NEVER, bass, from my
experience, are quite shy about there willingness to take topwaters where
the El Jumbino live. Where there are pike, forget it! You will be wasting
time taking pike off your hooks. Depends on the time of season and
water temps. This time of year? If it was to cloud over quickly and you
think the weather pattern is about to change and you think they might move
up to feed, every third cast might be a good idea? If bass are at the top
of the foodchain then I might throw one, but on second thought when I am
driving home after the tournament I would have to ask myself, wot were ya
thinkin' man? Then I would say, well, you did have those four six pounders
after all, didn't ya? Then I would say, well I tried everything.
When you're on the winners stand tell 'em you got them in the thirty foot
with a chug-bug ;-) What is it about top waters that get us to use them,
they sometimes work. No guts no glory! (agreement big time with you here
Warren) One tournament, last year on a day two, while only in lunker hopes,
I spent an hour using a top water because I saw a bass jump a couple of
times in a good spot where I know big ones live.
If you hate to lose fish, like me, then I would use a smaller, slow sinking
soft plastic like a salty, garlic, pheromoned up, Dupont packed, light
flashing, scent enhanced, rattling, red bellied, metal flaked, with a
forkated tail, on ten pound floro carb, double wacky rigged fluke/senco near
some cover or structure. Oh and don't forget to sharpen your hooks and fish
it slow!
--
Steve ;-)




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