Top-water fishing casts a big splash

Daylight savings time starts on Sunday, March 12. This is great news for anglers as there is more time to fish before it gets dark.

 

So, what do you do with all the extra fishing time? Brody, the amazing fish-finding and stock-trading dog, and I will be targeting trout and redfish with top-water lures.

 

Currently, the water temperature in our rivers and creeks is just short of 70 degrees. Baitfish and shrimp are once again abundant in the creeks. 

 

After a long and lean winter, the warmer water has redfish and trout feeding aggressively, especially during low-light periods. Early evening is the ideal time to target them with top-water lures.

 

Sure, you can catch trout and redfish with other methods and techniques. However, only top water provides the visual excitement of a surface strike. Fishing with top-water lures is highly addictive. Here are a few tips to get started.

 

Tip No. 1: Bring bug spray. This time of year, the trout and redfish are not the only things that are biting.

 

Tip No. 2: Smash down the barbs on the hooks of your lures. In my experience, this makes it much easier to unhook and release a fish yourself or a fish-finding and stock-trading dog.  

 

Tip No. 3: The easiest and one of the most effective lures to fish is a top-water popper. Recently, I have been fishing with a Shimano World Pop. It casts well and is super easy to work effectively. A slight twitch and pause produces an action that trout and redfish cannot resist.

They sometimes hit the lure so hard it looks like someone threw a bowling ball into the water. The splash is that big. Like I said, a visually exciting technique.

 

For me, daylight savings time and top-water fishing go hand in hand. Give it a try. You will be figuratively and literally hooked.

 

Contact Captain Greg Peralta at 

captgregp@gmail.com or call (843) 224-0099.