favorite top water plug
 

There is nothing like a bass hitting a top water plug. Just woundering whats your vote for top water?? for me its the zara spook the new big wooden ones:love:

Pencil all the way...

Blitzseeker (Zara type plug), pencil (canal type).........

Zara spook type lure,danny boy with or with out skin, or canal special.

This past year I tried an Al Gag's "It's Alive" and it has become a favorite. You can fish it a bunch of ways.

Toss up......pencil/"Blitzseeker"!:fishin:

I like the "walk the dog" action of spooks, particularly the Tattoo 2 oz Sea Pup, and the lures a friend makes, Fishdoc's "John's Fatty", which gives a broad silhouette in darkness. At dawn the pencil popper prevails.

Pencil popper for sure. I started fishing the Jigsmith at the end of last year and it was definitely a fish finder. I'll be using it more this coming season based on the limited experience I had with it.

If I am throwing plugs, and not eels, it would be a Bernzy Surf Howdy all day long.........

Akespook Ultraglide

Surf Howdy

loaded cordell pencil

Needle on top leaving a wake

the small jigman//jigsmith spook ... pearl white is all you need ..

Spook,,,

"gotta fish" spooook amen

Superstrike popper or a Guppy pencil, or a Salty Sheriff

and the yozuri pencils are great as well

surf howdy absolutely

BigFish Blitzseekers and Gibbs pencils, but just starting to get into the Yo-Zuri Surface Cruisers.

Ah spooks are great. CCT polaris, its old and beat up but still #1 for polaris style.

Howdy, yellow white , is my favorite wooden and Youzuri hydro pencil is fine too

Jigman spook
or a howdy close second

howdy blue/gold

Any big 9-inch spook. Did well with my leadfoot this year, after watching capt. Corey from the Edge work a spook, it changed the way I worked them forever

can't choose one but always in my day bag:

super strike popper 2 3/8 oz.
surf asylum sleepwalker spook
yozuri pencil 2 oz.
mac pencil 3 oz.?
tattoo sea pup
surf howdy large and small
hab's 1 oz. squid popper
1.5 oz. troublemaker surfster

do tell. :uhuh:

Favorite is different than best

The best (easily) is on the top: Gibbs 2.75 pencil
My favorites (and the most fun to fish) below: Prof M version of Lido Flaptail/ Frech Banana copy

Prob. a CCC tackle pencil or polaris. God i love those. Yes Canalman please tell.

It was a rare sight to see a guy who spends 99% of the season on his boat telling his clients where to cast standing in the surf on a perfect late-May morning, but for anyone who knows Capt. Corey Pietreszek, he has proven himself as a master of the artificial bait. He was casting a yellow Tattoo Sea Spook, the big one, and looking over at his bait while working my own, I began to see that my lure looked incredibly fake.

He worked the bait in bursts that varied in intensity and length. His first few feet of the retrieve were erratic, drawing attention to the bait and from there he worked it with long pauses interrupted by slow swims and erratic, frantic bursts.

We didn't catch much that morning. But the next day, was rainy and I had the day off. I went down there with my leadfoot spook, (the only big spook I had handy at the time) and began working it with the image of a dying bunker in my head. I caught fish until my arms hurt, nothing huge mostly 14-17 pounds with a few 18-20.

There were two eye opening experiences that day, #1 probably 80% of the fish hit the plug while it was standing motionless, and I believe that your spook should sit flat on the water, nose slightly above the tail, not up and down like a pencil. #2 that when a bass nudged the bait or swirled on it, whipping the rod down toward the water while zipping a fast crank on the reel would make the plug leap, 1-3 leaps in succession followed by a short pause... BAM! I was able to recreate this scenario many times during the season, in the canal and all along the south coast. I never broke 30 on a spook this year, but I had my share of 15-25 pounders.

I always worked my spooks to look alive, never in a rehearsed pattern, but the chages in intensity, pauses and leaps, took it to the next level for me.

Why'd you have to make me tell that story, that was like writing a Penthouse Letter for fishermen, now I'll be staring at my rods all day frustrated! :laughs:

Is it spring yet?

-Dave