was out scouting the other day, when all hell broke loose, full on day time blitz conditions, got to a good rock and started throwing a big pencil, managed two fish 35 and 34" on topwater, then a lot of short hits, switched to a bucktail hoping to pull some bigger fish from under the blitzing fish and to my surprise only got dinks 18-24" fish, went back to topwater and got fish another 34"

anyone ever experienced a similar situation?

in the past when I've gone with the same tactics its yielded bigger fish

i even threw bigger profile baits, heavy swim shad, wood plugs, magic swimmer and all got love from smaller fish.

Normally that's a good strategy. This time of year though anything can happen...like day time Blitzes , huge schools of big fish busting on top , hundreds of rats going by for hours , double bass hook ups , a bass and a blue at one time.

That's why the fall is such fun! :)

I'll add to what Saltheart said... good plan, those sized fish still mix fairly well...it's eaiser for the smaller fish to let the mediums do the killing and herding.. but they are still enegetic enough and are in large enough numbers to run with them... once those fish get into the mid 20's and beyond... they are far less likely to run together... they might be in front or behind.. maybe underneith... but rarely together...emphasis on rarely... in the fall.. as was already stated.. almost anything is possible....everybody's eating and most are not partial whom they dine with..

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I've found at times the larger fish are behind the blitz lazily picking up
the scraps.

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I've always heard the bigger fish hang out underneath, slurping down the scraps. I cannot vouch for that, because since I love topwater action so much, I can never bring myself to take off my popping plug and switch to anything else. I always say "next time I see fish busting on top, I'm fishing deep", but I cannot ever bring myself to do it. When I see the boils I say "I know what I swore I'd do, but I'll do it next time". Kind of like dieting..."Let me just eat pizza today, I'll start my diet tomorrow"

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