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Location: Maine Township, MN | What's the deepest (FOW) you've had a strike on topwater? |
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Location: Leech Lake, Walker MN | On top of a reef that topped out at 18ft surrounded by 85ft of water.The best one was in 3ft rollers and she just ate it I don't forget that stuff |
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Location: Racine, Wi | We commonly catch them over 70-90 feet of water out suspended. Usually on WTD baits, but have caught them on tail rotators as well out there. |
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | tuffy1 - 4/17/2013 8:16 AM
We commonly catch them over 70-90 feet of water out suspended. Usually on WTD baits, but have caught them on tail rotators as well out there.
Same experience here. WTD rule the roost as far as topwater suspendos go. Then globes and tail rotators. |
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Location: Maine Township, MN | How deep in the water column are you typically finding the fish suspending? Will a fish suspended 20' down over 80' eat a topwater? Or are these fish only a few feet down? |
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Location: Oconomowoc, WI | Another question for Joel and Travis...
Are you always throwing these baits over the top of marked baitfish or bigger arches? |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | 40ft on a wacker |
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | nocturnalmotors - 4/17/2013 1:43 PM
How deep in the water column are you typically finding the fish suspending? Will a fish suspended 20' down over 80' eat a topwater? Or are these fish only a few feet down?
oconesox - 4/17/2013 2:46 PM
Another question for Joel and Travis...
Are you always throwing these baits over the top of marked baitfish or bigger arches?
Best bet for the topwater eating suspendos is on the high riders. Say 10' down or shallower. Normally my best luck with topwaters is when I am not marking any baitfish or arches at all on the graph. The days where the lake appears to be void of life on the graph. These are the days the fish are riding extremely high and you NEED to be running in the top 4' of the water column. Topwater better be on someone's rod at this time.
All that said not all lakes have a good topwater suspendo bite. Some have very good ones. |
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Location: Racine, Wi | I pretty much agree with Travis. I use them usually early in the year out there when the fish are up high in the water column. When they are shallow out there, they usually destroy the baits (just clobber them without jumping out. The deeper ones (at least that's my thought) usually go airborn when eating them.
I usually don't see anything on the locator either, assuming the fish are way up high. If I'm marking fish and hooks, I'm usually fishing something different (crank, rubber, minnowbait).
Best time for me seems to be in May through June, with that bite tapering off in late June down here (SE Wisco). |
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