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Cigar Minnow
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| What do yall think is the best top water bait for reds and specks? Thanks for any advice
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Cigar Minnow
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| I've used a lot of top water baits but my favorite is the super spook jr. in the bone color or the white with a red head. To improve my hook up ratio I replace the hooks on the spook with #2 gamakatsu hooks.
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White Marlin
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My favorite is a Zara II in silver flash with a rattle.
AKA "Jiggin Junkie"
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Snapper
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| I like the gold and orange skitterwalk (rapala)
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Snapper
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gold clark spoons for the reds. 27mr mirror lure for the specks.
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Cigar Minnow
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| Mirro Lure Top Dog Jr., green back with black spots.
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Trigger
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Well for walk the dog style baits I love the Heddon Spook Jr. in Mullet color, and for popers I like the Rebel Pop R 7 in black and white.
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Skitterwalk and Top Dog Jr
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Mako 284 w/twin 250 verados
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true-king (6/28/2009)
Skitterwalk and Top Dog JrYou are crazy! Super Spook Jr...you get so much more action out of that light body...
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Grouper
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red/white pop-r. I used to be a zara spook guy but I'll fish the pop-r and will catch more fish than someone on my boat throwing a zara spook. In my opinion the pop-r is more versatile.
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Snapper
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guys i think this topic should be on presentation. we all have our go to lures,its just that some are better with different artificials. but normally goes without saying that bigger baits produce bigger fish. the spook is a great example. big body and can make quite the ruckus and wake. but i cant seem to work one as well as i can a mirror lure. i guess its all in the eye of the angler. Capt. Ollie
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Snapper
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STORM CHUG BUG!!!
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Snapper
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mullet colred top dog for the reds, red head white body for specks... goes for skitterwalks too
THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR ALL OF GOD'S CREATURES...... RIGHT NEXT TO THE MASHED POTATOES!!!!I am... the anti-PETA
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Grouper
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I've never caught a trout over 5#s on anything other than a Zara Spook. Chug bugs sure get alot of strikes.
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| Bite-a-Bait, top walker, silver and black.
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Grouper
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superspook
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Snapper
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I've caught some big ones on chug bugs including one about 8 lbs
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Cigar Minnow
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| I use my Mirrolure top dog in black so fish can see the silhouette against the blue sky
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Cigar Minnow
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All great lures mentioned thus far. I am partial to Bill Me's Storm Chug Bug because I've also caught and released hundreds of largemouth bass with the smaller version. Alot of this lure stuff is developing technique that "fools" fish into thinking they are attacking a fleeing or vulnerable baitfish. I'll experiment if fish are present (that's the other factor) and normally find some techinique that induces a strike. Then the fun begins...................
Keep chuckin, they'll make a mistake.
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| WOW. How has nobody mentioned the "She Dog"?! That is simply the best speckled trout topwater there is. SO noisy and even a 3 year old could walk the dog with it. For redfish, I seem to have the most strikes on a white skitterwalk. And contrary to a few of you guys, I've never caught a fish on a Storm Chug Bug. But, I guess I just haven't fished it enough. Good to see you guys like it, I have lots of them, I guess I'll just need to use them more and see if I can improve my record with it.
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Another great bait that isn't a true "topwater" is the Rapala X-Rap. It's a floater/crankbait with a little lip on it. You can walk the dog with it and keep it in the top 6 inches of water. I actually have a good friend who breaks the lip in half or third so it dives less and I've seen TONS of fish blow up on that thing. Very erratic action with a lot of hard strikes.
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Cigar Minnow
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Oliver you are a nut.Now get to work!
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Ruby Red Lip
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| Imo the skitter walk is easiest to walk but seems the spook gets more strikes.
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Redfish i perfer the zara spook. The bigger the better. For trout they seem to like the spittin image. It has a loud rattle and walks the dog fairly well.
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I got my first topwater redfish the other day on a red & white zara super spook . Upgrade the hooks. Two of mine were bent by a 25" red . Bluefish like it too.
 
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the trout love the pink skider walk.
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| I WORE THE SPECKS OUT ON A NEW PEARL WHITE X-RAP THE OTHER NITE, BUT I WOULD BE SCARED TO HOOK UP ON A BIG RED WITH THOSE SMALL HOOKS. FOR THE REDS I LIKE MY MIRRO-MULLET GREEN BACK, SILVER, WHITE.
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