"go-bassn" wrote in message
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Do you guys throw topwater lures in tournaments? I try my darndest to
avoid them, and only do it when I'm convinced nothing else will work.
Nothing frustrates me more during competition than seeing a fish try to
eat my lure & missing, or worse yet "dropping" a fish. My feeling is that
the encounter/boated fish ratio is just far too weak with topwater baits.

Your feelings?

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Warren

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2004 NJ B.A.S.S. Federation State Champions



I'll use buzzbaits/rats when necessary. Other than that, for largemouth
I'll go with a surgically sharpened Rapala F-11G (their original balsa
stickbait) worked at, or very near the top in the early spring period.