 Gunfish signature to make sure the fish can read on what type of bait it is When the fish comes up and it's about to hit the baits got to read that it's a gunfish Like I like pizza and Johnny over here might like a cheeseburger So like he'll come up and I'll read that that says gunfish and he might turn away You know, but if he really likes gunfish is he gonna whack the crap out of What's going on people no off from kicking their bass TV here with another video and this is tackle Tuesday number six You guys are requesting top water You guys are going crazy your wine top water you have on comedy top water I just couldn't get to it last week. I did top water frogs last week, but this week We're gonna go over all the top waters. So I'm gonna go from spooks to gunfishes the poppers Chugbugs all the styles. I'm gonna talk about when to throw the right colors where to throw that style of bait Routing we're gonna set up the line everything. I use Also, a little quick thing on Instagram when you guys are sending me messages and stuff when you send me DMs I Get an average or around probably 50 a day and Then on YouTube I get probably 150 comments a day I try to get back to all you guys So on Instagram you have to go back and you have to you you hit the pending Request and you have to hit the little check buttons So I went through and I hit all the check buttons. I believe I have like 70 something Request because I didn't check it like a day or something So I went and checked them all and then I hit the back button I try to scroll down and there was only like 10 DMs like 10 new ones So I guess I guess it only goes by 10s like it doesn't save the other ones So if I didn't reply to you or I didn't read the message. I'm not ignoring you I just want you guys to know that just want to throw that out there. I guess it leads after 10 That's really stupid, but couldn't help it So let's go ahead and hop into the video before I board the crap out of you because I'm sure you guys already knocked out Just sleeping so let's go ahead hop into the video. So Where should we start I did something a little bit different. I'll lay it out pretty much like one of each top water I do have um, I mean some just a couple different colors boxes back here full of top water But let's go ahead and start off with the gunfish If you guys haven't done the gunfish right there unless there's a little natural color This is white on the bottom. I mean so much with the top and the sides doesn't matter too much It's most of us on the bottom guys because that's what the fish are looking at He's got that little gunfish signature To make sure the fish can read on what type of bait it is when the fish comes up and it's about to hit the bait It's got to read that it's a gunfish Like I like pizza and Johnny over here my like a cheeseburger So like he'll come up and I'll read that that says gunfish and he might turn away You know, but if he really likes gunfish is he's gonna whack the crap out I'm totally kidding guys. You guys got zoomed into that. Um Well, what is a gunfish it pretty much has like the popper style chug bug ish style Lip to it. So it's gonna be popping a little bit of water But it's a bigger profile because if I take a popper right here poppers pretty small As you can tell they have about same Style head or lip to it whatever you guys want to call it It's a bigger profile You can sling it out their way further you can work it faster You can work it faster and it's gonna stay in motion the popper if you try to work it too fast It's gonna kind of flop around too much. So that's what I really like about this It's kind of like a popper and a spook built in the one. So it's a really great bait when that water is calm It's a little bit of waves. I'm not too like crazy windy and stuff really great bait to throw Um Let's hop into the Sammy Sammy is pretty much like a spook to this has more of a form body spook just like a freaking piece of plastic I don't understand fish love it though But this one's a little bit different it's a little rounded It's as you can tell it's kind of curved a little bit. So it's gonna walk a little bit easier I really like this bait for the fact that I can't get it out There's not like a popper where it's too small, but it's not super big like a spook So if you're wanting like a little smaller bait, I would definitely go with a Sammy and the only thing about these guys All these base. I'm showing you is these are some pretty expensive baits It hurts to throw a freaking 15 to 25 dollar lure out of fish knowing that some striper could come up and break you off drives me crazy Next one is a repo man similar to a spook. I'm just got some good rattling action to it I really like a repo man Not too much of a difference between this and the spook. I'm spooks obviously got a bigger profile Throw it up to a spook Let's say I didn't get one out Spook has a bigger profile Head shaped a little bit different. So this is a coast across the water a little bit easier. I Mean spook is just straight up straightforward plain bait Here's the bigger style. This is the smaller one. There's a bigger one right there Just depending on How fast you're gonna work it how far you're wanting to get it out there? I personally like I mean there is gonna be times where I'm gonna fish the smaller one But if I could if it would really wouldn't matter and I could just pick one I would definitely pick the bigger one just cuz I can get that bait out there Sam fishing brush on the new I mean, I'm really needing to get that bait off I don't want to pull up on the brush and just be throwing 15 foot in front of me I want to be able to launch that bait and most of the time you're gonna be on braided line That's what I do. So you can really get that bait out there. Anyways Here's another one of the same. He's except that one's in Chrome and let's go ahead and talk about the colors When I would use the colors and why it really varies For the most part, I only use three colors chrome white chrome white and More of a clearest color like this You can kind of see through it We have other ones that are you can actually see through it. It's perfectly clear um in the Sun I Like to use the chrome color and reflects into the water fish can see better when it's cloudy a little bit overcast I like to use a white one or the bone colors like this It's really great and like cloudy stuff like that and it all depends what the fish is wanting that day as well It doesn't always depend on the conditions like that But also on what the fish are wanting for an example I go out there and I fish a mega bass jerk bait a lot on linear. I love throwing that jerk bait One day to be killing that white in the Sun Imagine that's just remember that I said the chrome in the Sun. That's that's a good key But I may be throwing that white in the Sun in that natural Chromeish color in the clouds it just it just all depends what the fish are really keen on what the fish are want But I'm just a little quick tip. I like throw a chrome in the Sun More bone color in the clouds. That's just what I like to do Definitely go try it out. It's a good tip. So say you go out there one morning Sun just in that water really good Try you a chrome colored top water bait and let me know how it is guys Let me know if that tip really helps next time you go on the water Here's a little river to see popper in the thing the thing that I'll or pop our however. You guys want to see it popper pop our Pop our however you want to see Here's just a white popper What I really like about this river to see one is it has a bigger profile as Compared to this is a river to see one as well But most style poppers are going to be around this size pretty dang small Probably about an inch inch and a half This one is going to have a little bit more weight. It's gonna be a little bit bigger a little bit fatter profile So you're gonna be able to launch that bait out there That's the biggest key in my opinion is get in the bait where you need it to be So that's why like a little bigger style top water bait Here's the spook Sharp hooks right there boys Here's a spook. I'm sure you guys are familiar if any of you guys top water fish, you know what a spook is Maybe you don't go look it up and probably find tons of videos on it I have a linear video where we're throwing a spook and we're just killing those spots So you guys when you're fishing on linear for the spotty basses spotty bass are very aggressive The launch this thing five foot out of the water there will come up five foot from the boat and just Whoosh look how many wolf packs like five fishes and the same So a couple of videos on that if you want to go check that out but What I really like and what I'm sure you guys like about the spook is It's straightforward. It's pretty simple bait, but it's really really cost efficient. It's only like $6 $7. I mean, they're pretty cheap. You can get spooks fairly cheap. You can get them out Walmart I know all of us don't like spending $25 on the bait. I know all of us do don't like that so Spooks pretty cheap you pretty much get them anywhere you can get them at your local tackle shops You can get in my basketball shops and get my Walmart. I mean it's simple to find that's what I really like about spook When I throw a spook, I like throwing a spook when you can throw it when the water is crisp You can throw it when the waves are going crazy You can throw it if you guys officially knew you guys knew what I'm about to talk about You got there on a Saturday the winds crazy the freaking boats the big weekend warriors are out there So the waves are crazy Throw a spook in that as well Spooks just goes through really well and most of that stuff and you can usually get good bites I was actually throwing this a couple days ago Went out on linear for just a little bit of time because I mean there's so much weak weekend people out So it was bad. It's just a bad day to go. You don't want to go on a weekend on linear But I had about a five pound spot five and a half pound spot just come up I just missed this thing, but I mean he was coming for you. Just didn't want to grab it I'll understand if he's in a wolf pack, they would have got it But that's not really like about spook. You can throw it pretty much in any conditions It is also a pretty big style bait pretty decently heavy style bait so you can whip that thing out there I mean you can cast this thing a miles Here's another repo man except that one's in the bone failure Here's a bit haven't gone ever a chug bug a chug bug is pretty much similar to a popper and Honestly, if I could go I honestly don't even throw poppers much If I could compare this to a popper or if I could throw one of them I would definitely be throwing this one I really like it works really good and I mostly throw it on a spinning rod spinning rod of braid is what I throw these on Because you can get the bait out there. They are light baits. Like I said poppers are really light Chugbugs pretty light chugbugs a little bit heavier than a popper But I would throw this on like a spinning combo with some braid pretty good On linear a little quick story. I was actually throwing this over some brush same exact one I have one that's like really wore down. I believe I still have the same one Let's throw it over some brush. We're pre-fishing for you on state championship and Just working this pop are right when I'm going over the brush because I have lineups in my head So I know I was about to go over it working the popper and this bush Just see them start I could see there's multiple fish, but I was like man. This is a big one. This is a big one Got it close to the boat. I could see it for a second. I had a spot on and a largemouth on at about a Five pound spot on and that about a six and a half pound six pound largemouth on at the same time So I had like 12 pounds on my line at once on this little bait right here And they each had an individual hook I guess the spot was hooked on this back one It's a little bit weaker and then largemouth was hooked on this one But what happened was that when I got it up to the boat that spot just tore off and broke the o-ring and everything But I did get the largemouth and it's pretty big fish. Just a little quick story Um Pretty crazy. There's a bigger style one And so if you really wanted to get it out there, you can throw this one on a big castor This one's way bigger if you compare it and the weight difference is freaking crazy You can tell it's pretty freaking big difference Get it out there. I honestly like the smaller one in that one Here's a little different bait, and this is one of those prop baits. This is a Roppler one Pretty sick looking bait. I usually like the fatter prop baits like This one right here This one's actually a cedar lure. This one's Stanford lures One of my old old old sponsors, but they actually went out of business, but Really great bait to be honest cut a lot of fish on it These are really great when you're fishing like up shallow when you're fishing over those beds really good And spring time spring time spring time and stuff Also when you fish by that grass you can fish the edge of the grass with this catch some pretty good fish as well Prop bait pretty much just throw it out there And just you can It's hard to explain Just pretty much pull you're just pulling towards you pull pause Pull pause so those props are just going Usually tear it up, but I usually like one the size like this I might not throw too many of the ones like this. That kind of looks like a jerk bait More of the ones like this a little fatter styles Right here This one's called the ghost walker. This one's by Sibyl actually through this a couple times and this one walked phenomenal I know you guys are probably thinking man That's kind of shaped a little weird, but honestly this bait walked amazing on my three I kind of want to get a bigger one I mean it's still it's still pretty good size a little a little smaller than the spook But honestly this thing was walking amazing. I was surprised when I threw it out there I didn't think it's gonna walk as well I know I threw Sibyls swim baits and stuff a lot and I really liked them But I didn't think I was surprised when I threw that out there cut some good fish on it as well What is this you got I bet 50% of my viewers right now. I do not know what in the world this is This is called a front runner You guys are probably thinking what in the heck is that? It's about about the size of my eye about the size of my eye Got a feather hook and everything um What you do with this is When you're all right, I'm gonna go with an example right here We're on linear and those spots go in wolf packs like I said And they'll be trying they'll be honestly trying to steal the bait out of the other fishes mouth You'll have like five five pound spots chasing your bait and you only have one hooked and you're thinking yourself come on I want three. Well, it's just crazy. They're going crazy over the bait What this does is you'll tie this directly to your line and then you'll have a leader You can make that leader as long as you want Honestly, I would say about that much about a foot foot and a half leader I mean you're gonna obviously need to cast it so you don't want it too long But what it's gonna look like is you're gonna work through your bait The same as you would and what it's gonna look like it's gonna look like this bait this bait fish right here is chasing something else And it will set those fish off. I guarantee you guys you need to go try it it will set those fish off and It's just a little hook on here, but it will catch fish Um, it sets those fish off and when they're going in those wolf packs You will sometimes hook two maybe even three fish. Um, it's pretty good really good on the linear with his aggressive spots But i'm sure if there's a large amount of bass and we see you guys are fishing for we'll whack it as well Especially this small mouth really aggressive fish Um, here's another style bait and this is a custom painted bait. This is a wake bait Um, this is a buckeye leader's wake bait. I really like a wake bait guys But when to throw a wake bait is the biggest key You're not gonna want to go out there when the winds are 15 miles an hour and throw a wake bait Or the waves are just crazy. It won't work You literally have to run this thing so slow that I like throwing it on a 5 to 1 gear issue of reel just like you're cranky Um, what it does is it coasts at the top of the water like this and it's such a smooth motion It's literally like i'm running it right here. So this kind of dig is dig exactly like that I get off topic Um, you have to run this thing really slow. So I like a 5 to 1 gear issue of reel I know it sounds ridiculous, but it just has to happen Really good throwing it in the morning, but the water has to be crisp Literally it the wind can't be blowing a bit I mean if it blows like a tad And there's a little bit of current a little bit of ripple You could still work it but Most of the time when the water's just slick Wake baits the thing to go man, though we'll crush this thing. They hate it for some reason. I don't know why they just tear it up Um, also when they're betting really great bait throw it at the bank work it back to you Really good cut some good fish actually, um, better fish than this one Here's another way bait big ol hawker docker right there. Um, this is more of a striper bait, but you can catch bass on it as well Um, I personally just like this one personal favorite Um, and that's pretty much all actually I want to show you this one here Here's another, um, prop baits called a buzz jet and it has a lip So it's going to dig down a little bit more you can work it a little bit faster Just has one of those props on the back Really cool bait as well thicker baits. Like I said, I like thicker ones on better A lot of rattles in it Um, but pretty much guys that's all the top order baits top order styles that I throw Um, like a sammy repo man gunfish spook pop our Um Chug bug that's pretty much all the styles that I throw wake bait as well prop bait stuff like that Everything I went through. Um, so there's all times the fish those like I went over Um, the wake bait you want to throw when the water's crisp Spook you can throw pretty much any time especially when the water's really choppy It's really great to throw that gunfish when the water's kind of moderate Um, so they're just like tools guys. You're not going to use a flathead for a phillips head, you know, you you're they're tools and Depending on what the fish are wanting that day or depending how the conditions are you're going to have to throw one or another So let's go ahead and hop into the rod and reel setup on the line. I use um rod pretty much any Medium power rod can work medium heavy can work Even a heavy could work. I want to be Too specific on it. Um, I like a lighter rod just so I can work it a little bit better Um, like a jerk bait rod We have a jerk bait rod that I throw top order on because it works for me Um, it's a little lighter rod. Um, this is pretty pretty heavier style rod that I have on this But um, that's what I have braided on that time. So this time is on um And the reel I have it on this is a legend extreme Um Rod by st. Croix by the way really great rod. You guys know that's my favorite rod. I'm just handling everything It feels so great. Um, the reel is a revo sx. I know you guys are going to love me saying this because it's really Um, great price for you guys that are wanting a little cheaper style reel. Um, it's around 100 140 150 bucks So it's going to be a really great reel that's going to last you a while. This is one of the first generation revo Um, sx. So it shows how long we've had it um Really great style reel and the line I have is 65 pound braid by spider wire um really, um Really low on the price for the spider wire. You don't have to pay that much for it Um, just last pretty good lasts a long time. So not complaining. Um, and right here I just have a spook on I mean, I just like throwing a spook. It's just simple as it gets you can throw it anytime Um, and as you guys can tell I have red hooks on there and you guys are probably thinking why do you have red hooks? That's another thing That I can talk about and why do I have the feather? It's something for them to zone on for the most part guys On they see that red. It's a little bit different. I usually don't put a red one in the front I usually just put one in the back, but Um, see if they hit it from the back, they're going to get the whole bait They hit it from the front they might just get the front hook Because they're going to hit your line you want them to hit it from the back So I'll put a red red hook on the back It will attract not really attract fish with a little zone in on it more when they're going towards that bait They'll zone in on that. So they'll hit the back of it. Um, just a little quick tip there So I hope you guys really got some good information from this video I know I talked a lot, but I already knew this video is going to um Take a while to go through but I just gave you some good tips What baits to throw when to throw them when the conditions are rough when to throw which bait I mean that that's it's just the tools that you guys got to have guys. So Go check you out some of these baits. We haven't already Um, spook is a good one to start off with the guys aren't used to throwing top order a little chug bug Chug bug and spook because I mean cheap as they get man You just go pick one up pretty cheap six dollars and getting both at walmart Anything like that. So I hope you guys really enjoyed this video Please leave a comment below on what you guys want to see next week and um, leave a comment below if this helped you out also Definitely check out st. Croot rods I have a grocery reels really great setup and you guys have been asking me what's my favorite setup Um, and it'd be any review style a reel on Pretty much any st. Croot rod and why I say any is because all you guys are at different price ranges I can't really specify one to you guys But if I could choose one to be a review mgx on a legend extreme st. Croot rod That's just my favorite person. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Please check out the palm vlogs Um, I blog four days in a row So and I posted a video like the past nine days. So you guys definitely need to go check out all those videos if you haven't already Um, yesterday, I did post a gunnersville tournament video with la Please go check that out. It's a little motivational video. It really means a lot if you guys go check that out Also, check out the vlogs. I'll leave the links at the end of this video when you follow blogs You'll get the sea christen schmedleys. You'll get to wash my dad's peekers stomach cramping all up But until next time guys Keep drinking them wine monsters Keep schmelting yourself boys and girls. See you guys next time