by Ludovico Cudia

Created on: January 13, 2009

The first time a big large mouth bass or a Lunker as we anglers like to call them, hits your top water lure is truly an experience to remember. The moment your bass strikes, the water explodes and you hear that whoosh sound that the fish makes through the water as it attacks the lure. Then you feel that tug and the instant you realize that you have a big bass on, your heart starts to race and your adrenaline jumps for joy. It's a great feeling. There are so many jigs, poppers, jitter bugs etc. to use for top water bass fishing. I've found that here in Massachusetts almost any top water lure will work for you if the time is right. The best time is usually just before dusk when the sun is just starting to go down to just after sun down. Or even better right after a heavy rain at dusk.

Usually bass are really starting to get active right around this time of night. In the summer time you will see lots and lots of bugs flying around the top of the water just as the sun is going down and into the night. Every now and again you will have the pleasure of witnessing a lunker soaring completely out of the water to snatch a hearty bug from the sky. It's quite exhilarating to see. It actually excites you. Most of the time you will just hear the splash. If possible cast your top water lure right into the rings in the water left by that lunker. A large percentage of the time you will most likely snag that lunker. Just because he just ate a little bug does not mean that he won't go for your lure. Big large mouth bass tend to hang out in spots such as sunken logs, rocks, concrete walls, tree line cover or any type of under water structure that have an over abundance in food sources. They tend to hide in these spots just waiting for an opportunity. The typical food sources for the large mouth bass is actually anything that is in the water or flying above it that will fit in it's mouth. I have seen big large mouth bass go after many different things. Some of the weirder things have been snakes, mice and one time even a baby bird that had fallen from it's nest. It was amazing to see. I was not aware that a large mouth bass would go after such a food source but, this one did and it was a beauty of a lunker. Unfortunate for the baby bird but, it became part of the food chain at that point.

Most of the success that I have had in catching big large mouth bass over the years I can attribute to top water fishing with a Jitter bug fastened with frills and frog legs streaming from the

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