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Best top-water lure for sandbass?
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07/11/17 04:54 PM
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Paul70
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Can anyone give me suggestions on lures for the top-water bite?
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Re: Best top-water lure for sandbass?
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07/11/17 05:05 PM
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briancooper
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tiny torpedos - clear or silver. I have also caught them on small zara spooks. Most schoolies are focusing on smaller baits right now, so if you are throwing a huge top water, you are less likely to get bit. Matching the hatch is somewhat important even when targeting ferociously feeding fish.
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Re: Best top-water lure for sandbass?
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07/11/17 05:23 PM
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Stump jumper
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I like a Heddon Popr or similar. Of course when the bait is small it is hard to beat a "Sandie Dandie" or a popping cork with 2 jigs.
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Re: Best top-water lure for sandbass?
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07/11/17 05:53 PM
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oakpointaggie
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We called "Sandie Dandie" a Golly Whopper growing up.. best Sandbass lure IMO when they are on top. Coming in second would be a Hellbender trolling combo casted out. I almost never reel it in empty casting around schools.. You can chunk that Hellbender with the hellpet far!
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Re: Best top-water lure for sandbass?
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07/11/17 06:39 PM
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T- Gil
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Pop-R,by REBEL, is good. If you can find them, Near Nuthin, by Cotton Cordell is another of my favorites. The Near Nuthin is weighted in the rear, so you can cast it a mile. A quick, pumping retrieve makes it look like fleeing bait! Here is a link for image purposes only: http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-In-Box-Vinta...le/362033073677 If they are feeding on top, most of the time they will hit a Humdinger.
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TEAM HUMDINGER 1st teach a child to love God, teach him second to love Family, 3rd teach him to fish and hunt and by the time he is in his teens no dope dealer under the sun can teach him anything. CC "Una Stamus"
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Re: Best top-water lure for sandbass?
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07/11/17 09:27 PM
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Dad2rlkm
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Thanks for the link to the near nuthin. I just bought that one, lol. Haven't seen one of those in a long time.
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Re: Best top-water lure for sandbass?
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07/12/17 01:19 AM
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T- Gil
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Thanks for the link to the near nuthin. I just bought that one, lol. Haven't seen one of those in a long time. That's funny! I bought a half dozen or so about 10 years ago when I came across a lot of them. The upper right has caught its share!
TEAM HUMDINGER 1st teach a child to love God, teach him second to love Family, 3rd teach him to fish and hunt and by the time he is in his teens no dope dealer under the sun can teach him anything. CC "Una Stamus"
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Re: Best top-water lure for sandbass?
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07/12/17 01:27 PM
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Jamoke
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Re: Best top-water lure for sandbass?
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07/12/17 05:46 PM
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Re: Best top-water lure for sandbass?
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07/13/17 05:10 PM
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Another good one is a slab or Little George. Let the sink a little to get below the dinks and jig back to boat horizontally. I have also caught cats this way but closer to the bottom.
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Re: Best top-water lure for sandbass?
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07/13/17 06:15 PM
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Bass&More
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Re: Best top-water lure for sandbass?
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07/13/17 06:25 PM
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Ledeez
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Exactly what bass&more said!
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Re: Best top-water lure for sandbass?
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07/13/17 07:50 PM
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cob
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Clear Heddon Baby Torpedo. Take front hooks off and flatten barbs on rear hooks. Makes it much simpler to get them unhooked. Find surfacing schools and retrieve rapidly.
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Re: Best top-water lure for sandbass?
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07/13/17 11:24 PM
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Exactly what bass&more said! X3, that CC slab can be fished many ways.
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