Favorite topwater pattern 2025

BassBandit35 reply :

For a topwater lures like walkers, poppers, chuggers or propbaits what is your favorite color pattern for early - mid summer?

I know shad has to be one of em. How about baby bass or bluegill, better in spring?

CFFF 1.5 reply :

I prefer prop baits, specifically the smithwick devil's horse. I throw this bait all year. It is tied on to one of my poles everytime I go fishing. Pattern doesn't matter the bass will almost always hit this lure. There is a guy down here in florida called topwater charlie and this is the only bait he fishes.

mattm reply :

IMO, color matters very little. Less in topwater than anyother application.

Mobydick reply :

I usually throw these 3 baits.

Zara Spook - baby bass

Heddon split'n image - bluegill

rapala skitter pop - shad

I will catch fish on at least 1 of them usually.

Ian

Muddy reply :

Jitterbug, 5/80unce. Over coon-tail or hydrilla beds that the weed tops are a few feet below the water. Working the bug parallel to the shore line

J Francho reply :

Spook, Gunfish, Sammy, Jitterbug, Spitin' Image, Devil Horse, whatever they are biting I like. Baby bass, chrome, Aurora, Chart. Shad.

fourbizz reply :

Read the fn post people. He asked what color you like best.

My favorite three are

Trout

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Chartreuse Shad

BassBandit35 reply :

Yeah at least some answers were given to original question better than talking to the wall

daviscw reply :

I like anything black.

SuskyDude reply :

Far as I can figure, it really doesn't matter with topwater. Its gonna look black to them from below no matter what color it is.

Just to be safe, I like anything with a white belly in the day, black at night. But any color will most likely do.

Catt reply :

Bone

bmadd reply :

I agree with Catt. Bone is by far my most productive topwater color.

T-Bone reply :

Pop-R in silver and black. Can't beat the basic colors. ;D

Simp reply :

Chug Bugs with a orange bottom are great for me in spring/early summer.

roadwarrior reply :

The color green in general, Baby Bass or Frog patterns in particular.

It's hard for me to to comment on other colors. I own at least ten

different colored Spooks for example, but except for pool testing when

they were first purchased, nine have never been wet!

CWB reply :

I tend to stay with natural colors like shad, perch etc.

Most if the water I fish is Gin clear.

Primus reply :

Most of my topwaters and I throw a wide variety of them have a transluscent bottom (for clear water/ clear skies), a chrome bottom or are white with the occasional black Jitterbug for night fishing.

mrbassky reply :

Anything with a white belly. That can imitate a shad, frog, shiner, even small bluegill.

Davo reply :

I recall having consistent results with a white Heddon Tiny Torpedo with a red head. This caught several types of bass in early spring all the way through mid-summer when fished early in the morning. Highly reflective finishes (chrome with black back) and Natural Finishes seemed to work best the rest of the day and much farther into the year at least through late fall. I know this isn't a pattern but I've had good luck with broken back rapala's with natural finishes very recently

Davo

DADto4 reply :

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Chug Bugs with a orange bottom are great for me in spring/early summer.

Agreed, good lure, I look for white or orange bellies on all topwater lures

smallieking reply :

Dont overlook buzzbaits either. they produce for me in early summer. i like white the best

Bassboss reply :

walkers 8-)

BARON49_Northern NY reply :

My goto topwater is a baby bass colored PopR. One thing I do change on them is to remove the stock rear hook and replace it with a red feathered replacement hook for the X-raps.

simplejoe reply :

The one top water lure that I use a lot is Heddon torpedo it's a old fashion lure that I seem to always catch fish with spring till fall. I use Buzz baits a lot at night something loud to get a reaction strike. I love them explosive top water strikes. I mostly stick with black or shad color but, this past summer I was trying different colors and for some reason in the lakes and reservoirs I stuck to black but in the ponds and rivers I was getting more strikes off of white or more natural looking colors.

farmpond1 reply :

Bright colors for rainy or overcast days, white or silver for clear/blue-sky days, and black or dark hues for nighttime. (The same principle applies to muddy, stained, or clear water). Or whatever you feel confident with.

TournyFish001 reply :

I fish a lot of clear water- the transparent baits work well for me- ghost minnow or anything on the lighter side

BassBandit35 reply :

Thanks yall. Lot of good suggestion.

Got my FLW Outdoors magazine in today. One article talks about this same subject. It stated that the only color that matters is on the bottom of the lure. White or Clear, and Black is the best choice.

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