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Interesting question and one that I continually play with in my mind on the boat as I fish. I have tried every way possible and I gotta say it seems like one of those things that depends on the day and condition. I've teased big bass LITERALLY to the side of the boat. To the point where you can't retrieve any more and you got the rod tip IN the water and they're still looking at it. I think it was last year or the year before I had a 30+ pound fish LITERALLY bounce off the side of the boat I had him in so close.
Personally I've never understood this and I am a TOTAL topwater junkie. I hate fishing sub surface and sometimes will curtail my fishing until the topwater bite is going. Each and every time I've seen this it never ever seems to follow any kind of reasonable pattern. One day you can pause and then twitch, the next day you can speed up, and the next day you can mix it up any way you want. I've seen fish turn away and seen em take the lure on the next twitch. I guess that's why I like it so much.
I agree with what George said here too, that's one thing that always seems to work is throwing something just a little bit different.
One day I was fishing Nashwena and had a 28 lb bass hit a popper that was just sitting there on top, while I was looking in the other direction a a big bloofish blitz about 1/4 mile away. Must have been following and I never seen it or he just came up and whacked it, in any event after I cleaned my drawers from the explosion 20' from the boat I landed a nice fish.
Good thread.
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