Finally Some Topwater Action

*** I took another newbie out on the water this afternoon. We started learning to flip by working the Fisher bank. I managed three 1.5 to 1.8 keepers and missed two bites. Typical small keeper action. My guest was having some confidence issues with the concept of flipping so I decided to fish a little backwater cover with a couple docks in it where I could let him dead stick some weightless senkos. I had a hard time getting him to really get back were he needed to to catch fish so I borrow the rod he was using and made one cast. Bam. Solid 2 pounder. I kept trying to get him to work it, but again he was having some issues with confidence.

Then we headed over to another little back water area, and I tried to show him how to fish brush pockets and give him the confidence to put his bait where it needed to go. I caught four fish while demonstrating all decent fish in the 2 to 2.5 range. Oops. Finally I just started casting and handing him the rod. He got two fish on but didn't get a good hook set on them. He handed me the rod once just as a 2+ took it. I set the hook and handed it back to him. Yeah. He finally boated one. Finally he started getting the hang of casting where he needed to with the senko.

I had a 2.5 blow up and take a senko on top on me so I picked up my popper rod and started working the area. It was a pretty solid topwater bite with me catching another 10 bass from 2 to 3.5 pounds and a 7 inch blue gill. Some of the fish I caught on the popper hit it three times before I could hook up. They were pretty aggressive. I think all together from 6:00 until we headed in I caught about 18 keepers, one short, and one bluegill. My newbie got atleast three bites, and managed to reel in one fish.

FINALLY got into some of that evening topwater action I have been looking for this summer.

Bob La Londe www.YumaBassMan.com