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| Been hearing that people tend to put them away when night fishing. Whats the reason? Also, how late in the evening do you throw them? Jon |
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| I will not use them when fishing with others in my boat at night because it can be very dangerous on missed hook sets because you have no idea where the bait is headed if your not paying attention what direction your hook set is. Fishing solo I will though. |
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Location: Madison, WI | Poor hook up percentage. It's easier for the fish to follow and blow up on a straight retrieve bait than one zig zagging. |
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Location: Racine, Wi | They definitely can an ddo eat the wtd baits at night. As mentioned above, if you swing and miss on them, you may have a bait flying back at you or your partner, but that's the case with any topwater bait. We've had very good success with Weagles at night as they tend to sit in the water so it makes for better hookups verses the head bobber wtds like the jackpot who tend to hop more out of the water.
You don't always have to work them slow either. I have seen them eat a fast worked wtd at night a few times now. I'm way too lazy to work that hard, but if you aren't as lazy as I am, you can work them fast if they aren't eating the slow to mid speed retrieve. |
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| I have used the walk the dog at night as well. Get one that sits very low in the water to help with the hook up. I myself like a slow wtd retrieve. Try out the Snub Nose from F.B Outdoors. This bait has worked good at night and sits very low in the water.
Hope this helps. |
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| I have never used a WTD at night before. Always thought that getting the fish hooked up would be difficult because the fish can't even see the bait at night and majority of time will miss it. I have a hard enough time getting the fish to hook up on my weagle in the day time! |
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Location: Central WI | If you are keeping the lure low in the water, then why not just fish a phantom or similar lure. Still within the top of the water column and it has to be easier to see for the fish plus not worrying about a flying lure on a missed hookup. Just a thought that ends with the same result. |
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Location: Racine, Wi | I think that the topwater is making more noise even sitting lower in the water, and is pushing more water then a glider would. I don't fish many gliders to begin with, but that may be an option if you need to go subsurface, but I'm not sure how much water a glider pushes, which I tihnk is a key component at night. |
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walk the dog topwater at night