Either Super Spook or One Knocker. Both in bone color

 

Spook, spook junior. One knocker

Skitter walk and skitter walk junior.

Trout Support Lure is deadly on top when they start knocking and missing your top waters. When they miss pause and fish it finesse style just under service and they cannot let it swim away.

 

When they're blowing up and missing, try having a second fisherman throw the Trout Support lure right behind. Rather than me telling a long story, just try it yourself.

For this time of the year, I love this Skitterwalk jr. unless conditions just necessitate something heavier and/or noisier.

 

I couldn't buy a strike on top last Saturday. I hope you have better success.

 

Bone one knocker, baby redfish spook jr, pink skitterwalks (big and small) boom. When it comes to tops I think it has more to do with the action and sound than color.

 

I am not sure you'll get much of a topwater bite right now. I am taking some with me this weekend, but will have more Corkys, slow sinkers and some TSL Grasswalkers.

But for topwaters, I do like the One-Knockers and Baby Spooks, Bone, and Redfish patterns are my faves, but some Pink is always in my tackle box. Under certain conditions (choppy, dirty water or I know I am in a pig pen), I will also launch a SuperSpook.

 

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I am not sure you'll get much of a topwater bite right now. I am taking some with me this weekend, but will have more Corkys, slow sinkers and some TSL Grasswalkers.

But for topwaters, I do like the One-Knockers and Baby Spooks, Bone, and Redfish patterns are my faves, but some Pink is always in my tackle box. Under certain conditions (choppy, dirty water or I know I am in a pig pen), I will also launch a SuperSpook.

orange or pink skitter walk. any skitterwalk, it is my favorite and the only top water I throw. and i throw a top 90% of the time i fish. the top water bite is on big time right now and has been for a while.

 

If I only had to pick one, I have had more action on the Bone One Knocker.

 

One knocker pink or bone. TopDog Jr would be my second choice. Topwater bite has been really good the last week. Fish are shallow (thigh to knee depth) on the middle coast. Pink was working really good but Saturday bone seemed to work better under same conditions. Go figure. Don't be afraid to throw one right now.

 

Go to lately has been black back gold side skitterwalk sorta of a Texas roach color, but always have a pink back silver side skitterwalk and bone super spook jr in my wade box at all times.


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Skitterwalk for sure
Got a new frog color I'm gonna try.

See you in Baffin...Tobin...lol

 

When you guys say one knocker, are you talking about a Heddon Saltwater One Knocker Spook?

 

Yes

 

Nothing beats a bone color Heddon one knocker spook! I tear up the trout/redfish with them, and also the bass! Matter in fact, I'm heading up to Houston County Lake in the morning, and that spook is my favorite lure for up there. Even mid day, they tear it up!

 

An old Jumpin' Minnow in a realistic mullet pattern. Even catch diving seagulls on these.

 

First walk-the-dog, topwater bait I ever threw and probably caught my first hundred topwater fish on that lure in Bone. Still have 3 or 4 of them.

 

She dog, I prefer to throw a top in rougher conditions. Haven’t caught a whole lot with the new skitter v and matrix top. Gonna have to add new hooks to my spook jr’s.

 

You guys that tout the Spook Jrs.....I learned last Fall on a 32 inch snook, that the trebles are not thru wired. I got the fish to net and luckily had to remove 2 hooks, but the tail hook was not connected to the plug anymore. I was only using 8 lb. mono, so undue stress was not the cause. Just a heads up. I can't speak for the super spooks or one-knockers, but being bigger, I hope the hooks are a little better anchored into the plug.

 

Yes, most I know replace the hooks on Spook Jrs before they ever get them wet.

 

Lot of one knocker fans. When do you use them over the SSjr?

And to the OP, not sure where you are fishing, my buddy who fishes in rockport does better on she dogs vs SSjr or oneknockers.

 

The one knocker is my go to. I'll use jr. in really calm shallow in spring and summer. The rest of the time I'm throwing the onekocker. I'll throw the one knocker shallow too is there is some wave action.

3 most consistent baits in my wade box,... fat boy, one knocker, TSL. add a jr. and a rat tail and I can wade 11 months with that box.

 

I keep it pretty simple with topwaters....I carry big ones and small ones. And they are either bone or black. If the water is relatively calm, clean, and/or skinny I start with the Jr size. If the water is choppy, murky, and/or deep I start with a bigger one. Color wise I go with what my gut is telling me. I used to only use black in dirty water but have had enough epic trips on black in gin clear water to know better.

A couple exceptions to this are as follows.....
1. I always carry one big obnoxious topwater that is loud for chocolate milk conditions.
2. For very skinny gin clear water on a calm day I throw a very small topwater called a zip'n piggy. I don't think they are made any more which is a shame. I've caught some real beast on it in water less than 12". I ordered a couple dozen about 10 yrs ago and I'm glad I did.
3. In the fall I'll work in some 808 (Halloween color)

Has anyone noticed the fish in certain bay systems seem to prefer one type of topwater over another? For example, if I'm in POC/west matty spooks rein supreme. If I'm in east matty, it's skitterwalk time. Not saying the others won't work but my success rate is very different.

 

Has anyone noticed the fish in certain bay systems seem to prefer one type of topwater over another? For example, if I'm in POC/west matty spooks rein supreme. If I'm in east matty, it's skitterwalk time. Not saying the others won't work but my success rate is very different.

I think it has more to do with what bait they are keying on, like shad over mullet, but even then that's a stretch. it's just an opportunity for them. If you put a topwater infront of them and they are in an aggressive enough move, even in 6-8 feet of water.. they'll eat it. SkitterWalks seem to work pretty well out over deep water, she dogs in dirty or rough water, superspooks when they are on Big Bait, or want a big bait. jr.s during the spring and summer. I have a small bass pro pencil that's great around glass minnows for some reason.. it's erratic. One knocker is my favorite all around.. bone or bone diamond get's it done more times than not, but the trout pattern and the oakie shad are solid. And yes, while not a topwater, the TSL - Grasswalker walks right under the surface and they'll eat it.. especially like the others have said..

I'm having a guy paint a one off one-knocker pink top / white belly for me.. LOL.

 

Favorite all time pattern in either full size or jr. Have more of these with big teeth marks or missing paint than any other in my box.

 

Spook Junior in chartreuse never fails me unless there aren't any fish where I'm fishing. Never had a hook pull out of one either and I've caught some big reds on them.

I always change the treble hooks out for single hooks to help with the grass.

Tobin's Grass Walker is an excellent bait as well and has become one of my favorite lures.

Skitterwalk bone and chartreuse is another favorite. I don't usually fish a large bait like the Super Spook in the summer but I do in the winter.

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bone spook jr and bone/chrtse/hologrm skitterwalk

 

Bone Flash One Knocker
Chart Back and silver sides chart belly
One knocker

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Pink/Chrome skitterwalk for me. I have more confidence in it than any other lure in my box.

 

I catch a south Texas limit in one throw with this one...:spineyes:

 

I'll play by the rules and only pick one. Chrome belly/ blue top She dog

 

Amen for the Ghost Skitterwalk for sure!!!!

 

Spook Jr and Skitterwalk. Both bone.