What is your all time favorite top water? 2024
Cak920 reply :
Just for fun what is everyone’s favorite topwater lure/lures?
my personal favorites
1. Heddon pop’n’image
2. Sexy dawg jr
3.megabass popmax Not proven to me yet but looking forward to testing this one out more this summer.
scaleface reply :
Original Lunker Lure .
Munkin reply :
LC Gunfish or Sammy
Allen
Cak920 reply :
On 2/25/2018 at 5:03 AM, Munkin said:LC Gunfish or Sammy
Allen
Never used one of those. Looking at LC website it looks like a similar lure to the megabass popmax. Might have to try one. I like LC crankbaits
Dens228 reply :
1. Booyah Pad Crasher
2. Booyah Pad Crasher
3. Booyah Pad Crasher
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8. Whopper Plopper 110
Munkin reply :
On 2/25/2018 at 5:06 AM, Cak920 said:Never used one of those. Looking at LC website it looks like a similar lure to the megabass popmax. Might have to try one. I like LC crankbaits
Both are walking baits but the Gunfish has a popR style mouth.
Allen
Cak920 reply :
On 2/25/2018 at 5:12 AM, Munkin said:Both are walking baits but the Gunfish has a popR style mouth.
Allen
I seen it has the chamber and tail weight like the popmax has. Guessing It spits more than the popmax if it has a pop r style mouth?
Gundog reply :
Oddly enough, its a 6 inch worm. I've probably caught more bass on a worm run over shallow grass and pads than any other bait. Its the best lure on hot summer mornings. Only problem is the pickerel like it too.
Kyhokie reply :
Whopper. Plopper. Close second would be spro frog.
kickerfish1 reply :
Top topwater lures of all time:
1. Excalibur Zell Rowland Pop-R
2. Storm Chug bug
3. Excalibur super spook
4. Spro Frog
5. Whopper Plopper 110 - Quickly shooting up the list.
Riazuli reply :
I grew up on the jitterbug, so that would have to be my all-time favorite. After that is booyah poppin pad crasher and lunkhunt popping frogs, which were my biggest producers this last summer. I'm also a big fan of spooks, and just started using whopper ploppers...I'd have to say the whopper plopper is my favorite now in terms of action/versatility.
WRB reply :
Smithwick Buck N Brawl and Pa Scooter. ( single rear prop)
Musky Wooden Jitterbug
Micheal and Splash-It ( Pop-R)
Wooden Lunker Punker
Wooden Sammy, Zip N Zigy and Vixen. ( walking lures)
Tom
RPreeb reply :
As usual I don't have a lot to bring to the table on this since I only started trying a little bass fishing last year after a 55 year hiatus, but the topwater that I've caught the most on would have been the Hula Popper back in the early 60's. My best recent success for topwater is a BPS brand which doesn't seem to be available any more, with the slit just back of the lip for water to squirt out of. (I bought these about 6 years ago for fishing salt water tide channels for mutton snapper in the Bahamas, and glad I got 6 of each) I caught my first bass in more than 50 years on the one in the top right of this photo at a little lake lake outside of Eldora, IA called Pine Lake, and I caught several more from a couple of small ponds here near my house.
Cak920 reply :
On 2/25/2018 at 6:23 AM, RPreeb said:As usual I don't have a lot to bring to the table on this since I only started trying a little bass fishing last year after a 55 year hiatus, but the topwater that I've caught the most on would have been the Hula Popper back in the early 60's. My best recent success for topwater is a BPS brand which doesn't seem to be available any more, with the slit just back of the lip for water to squirt out of. (I bought these about 6 years ago for fishing salt water tide channels for mutton snapper in the Bahamas, and glad I got 6 of each) I caught my first bass in more than 50 years on the one in the top right of this photo at a little lake lake outside of Eldora, IA called Pine Lake, and I caught several more from a couple of small ponds here near my house.
That had to be a great feeling! Welcome back to the sport.
Mike L reply :
Pop R
Spook
Rage Trixie Shark
Speed worm
Mike
RyneB reply :
super spook jr. It has made me more money than any other bait I own.
Smallieseeker reply :
Super spook or Evergreen Jt with Zoom horny toad being a close second
Log Catcher reply :
1 Rebel pop-r
2 Jitterbug
3 LC Sammy
Oklahoma Mike reply :
For many, many years it was a Cavitron buzzbait. But the Jackall Pompadour has moved into my number one spot. Honorable mention to the Sammy and the Pop-Max.
Cak920 reply :
On 2/25/2018 at 9:54 AM, Oklahoma Mike said:For many, many years it was a Cavitron buzzbait. But the Jackall Pompadour has moved into my number one spot. Honorable mention to the Sammy and the Pop-Max.
See a lot of people like buzzbaits. I’ve never caught a fish on one. Might have to give them another try
crypt reply :
Spook
Pop-r
Buzzbait
RyneB reply :
On 2/25/2018 at 10:09 AM, Cak920 said:See a lot of people like buzzbaits. I’ve never caught a fish on one. Might have to give them another try
get yourself a black 1/4 oz Cavitron buzzbait.
WI_Angler1989 reply :
1) Heddon Super Spook Jr (saltwater version) in Red Head
2) 3/8 black Cavitron Buzzbait
3) Rebel Pop-R
(Honorable mention) Whopper Plopper. I had success with mine last year, but didn't fish it a ton. So it's hard to be a favorite. Although it was a lot of fun.
Munkin reply :
On 2/25/2018 at 11:35 AM, RyneB said:get yourself a black 1/4 oz Cavitron buzzbait.
Black and white are the only 2 colors that I carry.
Allen
FCPhil reply :
1. Ima Skimmer (with just the belly treble attached)
2. Whopper plopper 110
Munkin reply :
On 2/25/2018 at 6:11 AM, WRB said:Smithwick Buck N Brawl and Pa Scooter. ( single rear prop)
Musky Wooden Jitterbug
Micheal and Splash-It ( Pop-R)
Wooden Lunker Punker
Wooden Sammy, Zip N Zigy and Vixen. ( walking lures)
Tom
I always wondered about the wooden Sammy? How does it perform compared to its plastic counterpart?
Allen
WRB reply :
It's a weighted balsa wood and very active lure.
Tom
Bluebasser86 reply :
Black buzzbait, don't really care what kind if it's just a general "What's your favorite", question. If I was going to be more specific, a 1/2oz black Cavitron with the red or black blade, or a 3/4oz Crock-O-Gator, black on black. I can cover lots of water, they're good around cover, big fish love them.
kingmotorboat reply :
Well since I'm up late on call I'll throw my 2 cents in, smithwick devil's horse. The strikes I had on that gave me chills
mattkenzer reply :
Yamamoto Baits
Shibuki Popper
Black Bone
1/2 oz.
3"
greentrout reply :
blongfishing reply :
Lucky Craft Sammy.
it will probably change because I always find new baits because I fish topwater 10 months out of the year. I usually always end up going back to the Sammy.
Yakalong reply :
Pop r
whopper plopper
one of these are always tied on
Deeare reply :
I still like the old school topwaters!
Hula popper
black jitterbug
heddon torpedo
zell_pop1 reply :
1-1/4 cavitron buzzbait in black early morning
2-1/4 Lucky Craft G-Spash popper in chartreuse shad
snake95 reply :
Rapala Skitterwalk
Heddon One knocker spook
Rebel Magnum Pop R
But there are so many others that I could pick for top 3.
I've caught more and bigger bass on the DSG Banshee buzzbait than any others.
I really liked Gundog's response: trickworms are just awesome topwater lures.
Cak920 reply :
On 2/25/2018 at 11:35 AM, RyneB said:get yourself a black 1/4 oz Cavitron buzzbait.
Picked one up today. Can’t wait to give it a try. To bad I gotta wait till may here.
Chefster reply :
Bubble walker
vixen
cavitron buzzbait
super fluke.
In no particular order.
RPreeb reply :
On 2/26/2018 at 4:49 AM, Cak920 said:Picked one up today. Can’t wait to give it a try. To bad I gotta wait till may here.
A quick off topic... does Wisconsin still have the bass fishing prohibition during spawn? I know they did back in the 50's and 60's when I spent my summers there.
Cak920 reply :
On 2/26/2018 at 4:52 AM, RPreeb said:A quick off topic... does Wisconsin still have the bass fishing prohibition during spawn? I know they did back in the 50's and 60's when I spent my summers there.
Statewide season starts may 5th but the northern part of the state it is catch and release only till mid June
Cak920 reply :
You guys prefer plain buzz bait or add a trailer?
MIbassyaker reply :
The heddon tiny torpedo in "black Shiner":
kingmotorboat reply :
What would be y'all's cavitron suggestions for murky today river
MIbassyaker reply :
On 2/26/2018 at 5:31 AM, kingmotorboat said:What would be y'all's cavitron suggestions for murky today river
3/8oz black skirt, black blade.
On 2/25/2018 at 10:09 AM, Cak920 said:See a lot of people like buzzbaits. I’ve never caught a fish on one. Might have to give them another try
This was me 2 years ago. I started bringing one with me tied on everywhere I went, and committed to making it the first thing I threw, and to throwing it longer before giving up for something else. Like magic, I started catching bass. And then I caught some more. And more. And more...
kingmotorboat reply :
I usually fish buzzbaits, a strike king one. Results have been mixed but looks like the cavitron may offer something different
Cak920 reply :
On 2/26/2018 at 5:50 AM, kingmotorboat said:I usually fish buzzbaits, a strike king one. Results have been mixed but looks like the cavitron may offer something different
Do you use a trailer on the buzzbait?
burrows reply :
Rebel pop r
eyedabassman reply :
Jitterbug, spittin image, pop-R!
Bankbeater reply :
Jitterbug and a pop-r.
BassWhole! reply :
I really like a popper, but sometimes a frog or buzzbait.
RyneB reply :
On 2/26/2018 at 5:14 AM, Cak920 said:You guys prefer plain buzz bait or add a trailer?
it's personal preference and what you have confidence in. I personally don't add a trailer, I always had a trailer hook though. my buddy throws a white zoom horny toad on a black buzzbait and swears by it.
the reel ess reply :
1. Spook, Spook Jr with the rattle
2. Topwater frog (Booyah Pad Crasher and Popping Pad Crasher)
3. Pop R
4. Chug Bug
5. Torpedo (caught 50 bass on it once)
6. Buzzbait
Honorary mentions: Rats, toads, Hula Popper & Jitterbug. And I have two Whopper Ploppers I haven't gotten a chance to use yet.
I know that's not one, but I love topwaters so much I'd take fewer fish on topwater rather than more on other baits.
Cak920 reply :
On 2/26/2018 at 10:29 AM, the reel ess said:1. Spook, Spook Jr with the rattle
2. Topwater frog (Booyah Pad Crasher and Popping Pad Crasher)
3. Pop R
4. Chug Bug
5. Torpedo (caught 50 bass on it once)
6. Buzzbait
Honorary mentions: Rats, toads, Hula Popper & Jitterbug. And I have two Whopper Ploppers I haven't gotten a chance to use yet.
I know that's not one, but I love topwaters so much I'd take fewer fish on topwater rather than more on other baits.
I know what you mean. 1 bass exploding on a topwater makes my day.
OCdockskipper reply :
Zara puppy
Djamesbond3 reply :
Homemade buzzbait. I know a guy that makes them and sells them to me real cheap. Idk what it is but whether its at Guntersville where I go once or twice a year or on the rivers down here on the Gulf Coast where I live, it out fishes my Whopper Ploppers or any store bought buzzbait I buy.
On 2/26/2018 at 10:16 AM, RyneB said:it's personal preference and what you have confidence in. I personally don't add a trailer, I always had a trailer hook though. my buddy throws a white zoom horny toad on a black buzzbait and swears by it.
I am the same way man. for some reason I catch more without a trailer and I concur with the trailer hook. Just fished a tournament this past weekend and got third primarily with a buzzbait. Probably half of them were hooked with the trailer hook only. Its a must for me unless Im fishing across heavy cover. Then unfortunately I just deal with the misses
bagofdonuts reply :
Another buzzbait vote - i like jacob wheeler's buzzbait and always have a trailer on it (rage tail cut r, if i have some).
NYWayfarer reply :
Heddon Super Spook Jr. Once you learn how to walk the dog you feel a real sense of accomplishment.
Close second would be the Whopper Plopper for fish catching numbers and versatility.
iceintheveins reply :
Cavitron buzzbait.
Honorable mentions: Rapala Skitterpop, Strike King Rage Shad, Heddon Super Spook Jr, Booyah Boss Pop, Various Hollow Bodied frogs
evilcatfish reply :
In no particular order, my treble hook topwater preferences: Lunker punker, chug bug, ms slammer, gunfish, giant dog x, pop max.
J Francho reply :
Sammy 115 or Popmax.
bobbyg reply :
Easily accessible . . . Arbogast - Hula Popper
Can't find anywhere, but have 1 left and it is awesome. . .Hydrilla Gorilla Buzzbait - the loudest topwater lure, I have ever heard, it drives fish crazy!!!!
Bobby Uhrig reply :
Primus reply :
Some of my favorites ....
Got em Coach Floating Bluegill bait
Floating Matt lures Hard gill
7" & 9" MS Slammer
316 Wake JR.
R.I. Vixen
3" Zell Rowland Xcalibur Popper
1/4 OZ Yellow Magic Popper
Lucky Craft Gunfish
Whopper Plopper 130
drscholl14 reply :
Heddon Super Spook all day long.
Comfortably Numb reply :
Ima Roumba is one of my favorites.
Whopper Plopper 90 did well last year.
PopMax
Strike King Wake Shad
Spro Rat 40
Sammy100
Koz reply :
On 2/26/2018 at 10:29 AM, the reel ess said:And I have two Whopper Ploppers I haven't gotten a chance to use yet.
How does that happen? When I get a new lure it's always the first thing out of my bag the next time I go fishing. For me it's like being a kid on Christmas morning!
RB 77 reply :
On 2/25/2018 at 5:03 AM, Munkin said:LC Gunfish or Sammy
Allen
Yup!
Fishin Dad reply :
On 3/1/2018 at 9:59 PM, Koz said:How does that happen? When I get a new lure it's always the first thing out of my bag the next time I go fishing. For me it's like being a kid on Christmas morning!
For we poor saps living in Minnesota, we buy our lures in the frozen tundra time of year and just drool over them until the middle of May when we can fish again. Taking 6 months off during the winter is horrible. Count your blessings in South Carolina!! I am jealous!!
RPreeb reply :
On 3/1/2018 at 11:30 PM, Fishin Dad said:For we poor saps living in Minnesota, we buy our lures in the frozen tundra time of year and just drool over them until the middle of May when we can fish again. Taking 6 months off during the winter is horrible. Count your blessings in South Carolina!! I am jealous!!
Yeah... Hard for one to be the first when there are 30 that have never seen water. 
I have a rod and reel that have never been used, and yesterday when I was out looking around, the water was still mostly too hard to fish. The great weather in the next few days may change that.
Cak920 reply :
On 3/1/2018 at 11:30 PM, Fishin Dad said:For we poor saps living in Minnesota, we buy our lures in the frozen tundra time of year and just drool over them until the middle of May when we can fish again. Taking 6 months off during the winter is horrible. Count your blessings in South Carolina!! I am jealous!!
On 3/2/2018 at 12:03 AM, RPreeb said:Yeah... Hard for one to be the first when there are 30 that have never seen water.
I know the feeling. I have my 2 best rods I bought last fall and only took out once and haven’t caught a fish on them yet. And probably 15 new lures just waiting till may to try them out.
Koz reply :
On 3/1/2018 at 11:30 PM, Fishin Dad said:For we poor saps living in Minnesota, we buy our lures in the frozen tundra time of year and just drool over them until the middle of May when we can fish again.
Well then, that makes perfect sense. Then again, the few times I went out this winter the fishing was so slow here the lagoons may as well have been frozen over. 
tcbass reply :
On 2/25/2018 at 9:54 AM, Oklahoma Mike said:For many, many years it was a Cavitron buzzbait. But the Jackall Pompadour has moved into my number one spot. Honorable mention to the Sammy and the Pop-Max.
Hace you ever used a Whopper Plopper?
Oklahoma Mike reply :
On 3/2/2018 at 1:22 PM, tcbass said:
Hace you ever used a Whopper Plopper?
Yes, and I prefer the Pompadour.
bowhunter63 reply :
Pop r
New River Addiction reply :
When it gets dark outside nothing beats the gurgling of a big black Jitterbug! When the sun is out I throw Super Spooks or Pop R's. All time favorite is a Jitterbug though.
Topwaterdude reply :
Spook
Pickle_Power reply :
All time favorite is the Storm Chug Bug. My 2nd largest fish blasted a Sammy so that bait has some sentimental value.
FishingGeekTX reply :
Today it's a buzzbait.
- cover water fast with a long cast, straight retrieve
- can be a fairly soft gurgle to loud commotion.
- can have added clacking/knocking..sometimes added with a tweak of the lure whlie fishing
- can skim over weeds in many cases where trebles can't play
- durable, no soft plastics to destroy
scaleface reply :
I havent changed my pick , its still a buzzbait and has been for decades but Toads have really been good to me lately . This lake i have fished forever , for the past two years has had a chara algae explosion and i've had to change tactics . The backs of some coves are completely choked out and those toads over the top of mats and in sparser areas have been getting hammered .
bassh8er reply :
I’ll be the first to say it, Xcalibur Spit’n Image.
I can only find them on eBay now but I’m pretty stocked up on them.
crypt reply :
Spook
long island basser reply :
Hollow body frog.
greentrout reply :
redux ...
SlappinKraken reply :
Bobby's perfect hollow body frog. Great hookup ratio and long lasting.
Mobasser reply :
Lunker Lure buzzbait, Storm Chug Bug, and original Zara Spook
papajoe222 reply :
And the winner is (drum roll) the Zara Spook! It is for me anyways.
BTW Cak920, you asked for our favorite and then listed more than one of your own. Very confusing for us mentally challenged seniors.
superkamikazee reply :
Teckel Sprinker (it basically a Whopper plopper that plays better around weeds)
Live Target hollow body frog (my hook up ratio has gone up tremendously vs even when I used the booyah pad crasher)
Whopper plopper 90 (it just catches fish)
I've been fishing small lakes with a ton of vegetation lately, so I've been primarily using the hollow body frog, and the Teckel when there's some gaps in the muck I can reel across.
JediAmoeba reply :
Top Raider - I had one these long before the Whopper plopper was even thought of and the metal prop besides making a better sound is easier to clean up when grass tangles on it.
Heartland reply :
Spook
S.B. Shorty
Sammy
W.P.
Topwaterdog reply :
Frawgg
BassWhole! reply :
Popper, buzzbait, wakebait, in that order.
schplurg reply :
Any brand of popper. I don't find one works (gets strikes) any better than the rest. I only have one year experience but I've caught most topwater with Bass Pro Shops branded poppers. I even got a few on a Walmart popper.
I think if I got a small tree twig and put hooks on it I'd catch a topwater bass. I don't care much what color they are either, though I'm going to experiment some time with that.
CrankFate reply :
Balsa Crank
Dorado reply :
Black Jitterbug, followed by a Livetarget Hollow Sunfish
anderb54 reply :
PH Custom Walkin' P... Soooooo money
r83srock reply :
A frog of some variety, a pop-r, and a buzzbait
smithy97 reply :
1 - Megabass Popmax in secret gill, caught my PB this year. Can be walked, popped, or chugged
2 - Live Target Frog (55 size) in any colour that has an orange or yellow belly
3 - Heddon Chug'n Spook Jr in Bone. Caught TONS of fish on my original one and still going strong, never had to use my back up one yet. Its a bait that doesn't get talked about very much. Swap the hooks to some Gammy round bends and you've got a workhorse topwater bait for life.
I have 2 whopper ploppers that never get used because I can't bring myself to throw any bait other than these haha!
punch reply :
On 6/30/2019 at 2:18 AM, greentrout said:redux ...
YES! The baby bass chug bug. I've caught more fish on this thing over the years than any other topwater. It's a winner.
greentrout reply :
the most viscous strikes of any topwater i've ever used ...
good fishing ...
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