It’s time to clean the dust off those topwater plugs that have been sitting in your tackle box all winter. But before you use them make sure all the split rings and hooks are in good shape. Any defective hooks or split rings can easily be changed with the aid of split ring pliers. The pliers can be purchased for a couple of dollars through any of the major catalog suppliers such as Cables or Bass Pro Shops. They also carry replacement hooks and split rings. This small investment is a lot cheaper than buying new lures whenever something goes wrong with a lure. I even carry some replacement parts on the boat should something go wrong with one of my favorite lures. Now that you have your tackle in order it’s time to take it out and start using it.
I’ll usually start my day out around the crack of dawn casting a topwater or a sub surface lure until around 9AM. If it’s a cloudy day I’ll use it throughout the day. (Sub surface lures will swim just below the surface.) Let me regress for a second and tell you that when you buy an artificial lure to read the instructions on the box. It will give you ways to work the lure to make it more affective to entice a fish into eating it. I can tell you, and almost all fishermen will agree with me, that there is nothing more exciting in the world of fishing than watching a fish come up and exploding on a topwater bait. Second to that is watching a fish come out of nowhere to eat a sub surface lure. Also the time just before and at dusk is another good time to fish these lures.
Some of my favorite topwater lures are the MirrOlure Top Dog Jr., High Rollers Rip Roller and the Zarra Spook Puppy. When it comes to subsurface lures my all time favorite is the MirrOlure 17MR and their 7M series of lures. The 17MR and the 7M also work great during the middle of the day.
When it comes to fly fishing I also like to start the day with a floating fly line and a topwater fly or a lightly weighted fly (sub surface). While fishing the other morning I was casting a white subsurface fly that you could see 50 feet from the boat and follow it under the surface. It was very exciting to watch trout appear from know where to eat the fly and watch others come up to it, look at it and just swim away.
We’ve been having some great weather so get out and wet a line.
I’ll usually start my day out around the crack of dawn casting a topwater or a sub surface lure until around 9AM. If it’s a cloudy day I’ll use it throughout the day. (Sub surface lures will swim just below the surface.) Let me regress for a second and tell you that when you buy an artificial lure to read the instructions on the box. It will give you ways to work the lure to make it more affective to entice a fish into eating it. I can tell you, and almost all fishermen will agree with me, that there is nothing more exciting in the world of fishing than watching a fish come up and exploding on a topwater bait. Second to that is watching a fish come out of nowhere to eat a sub surface lure. Also the time just before and at dusk is another good time to fish these lures.
Some of my favorite topwater lures are the MirrOlure Top Dog Jr., High Rollers Rip Roller and the Zarra Spook Puppy. When it comes to subsurface lures my all time favorite is the MirrOlure 17MR and their 7M series of lures. The 17MR and the 7M also work great during the middle of the day.
When it comes to fly fishing I also like to start the day with a floating fly line and a topwater fly or a lightly weighted fly (sub surface). While fishing the other morning I was casting a white subsurface fly that you could see 50 feet from the boat and follow it under the surface. It was very exciting to watch trout appear from know where to eat the fly and watch others come up to it, look at it and just swim away.
We’ve been having some great weather so get out and wet a line.