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Two totally different scenarios. During the day, if a fish hits and misses a surface plug, you got a very good chance that fish will turn and try again. Pause a moment, twitch once or twice, and restart your retrieve. Follows, unfortunately, are a whole different issue. Those fish a sniffing and not aggressively eating. My success rate with fish over 15-20lbs that follow a plug more than a few seconds is very low. Nothing I do (including scents) seems to work. Once you can see them, they can see you, and the longer they follow the closer to the boat they get, and the farther away from their feeding location they end up. Nowadays, I sometimes try killing my retrieve early, letting the fish sink away before the boat spooks him, then throwing a different style plug (usually a pencil/spook/flaptail if I've been using a swimmer) back in the same spot. Better yet, mark the spot and return later in the day, a few hours often makes a huge difference.
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