Dream Catcher Guides 3 Favorite Top Water Techniques

Top water fishing is without question the most fun fishing in the world! There is nothing like seeing a largemouth, smallmouth or spotted bass come out of the water and strike a lure so violently! It'll make you jump, flinch and even scare you half to death if you're not ready for it. There are quite a few top water techniques we utilize here in the Smoky Mountains but today we will focus on Dream Catcher Guides Top 5.

#1 Buzz Frogs/ Whopper Plopper/ Hollow Body Poppin' Frogs:
Late Spring - Middle Fall: Water temp 65*-77*

When the bream spawn is over and you cruise down the banks and see schools of a hundred bream, bluegill and shell crackers we guarantee there will be packs of giants close by! The big bass will pack up in what we call a "wolf pack" and push these schools of bream down the banks. We will take a Reaction Innovation Trixie Shark, Keitech Noisy Flapper, R2S Whopper Plopper or a Spro Poppin' frog and run down the bank at a pretty fast pace until we run into a wolf pack and we'll destroy them!

#2 Wake Baits/ Bomber Long A:
Early Spring - Late Spring: Water temp 50*- 65*

You probably wouldn't believe it unless you saw it but some of the best top water fishing we do in the mountains is when it is 50* water! Those big smallmouth and largemouth push herring on to points early in the morning and if you have a slow (and I mean slowwww) retrieving wake bait like a Bomber Long A you can catch some big ones!

#3 Walking Baits/ Lucky Craft Sammy
Late Spring - Early Summer & Fall: Water Temp 55* -70*

Whether it is schooling fish, walking them over points or fan casting pockets and shore line, there is always a good fish or two that will inhale a walking bait. When it get's to be post spawn and those big females are ready to start eating again you can run these over points and pockets and put some quality sized fish in the boat! On lakes like Glenville or Chatuge you always have to keep one tied on because you never know when they will come up schooling!


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