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Rootski
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The topwater bite on East Metro lakes is still pretty good. With the frontal conditions we had last weekend the action wasn't furious but good enough to keep you on the lake. After a front I find that there will be a period of an hour or so in the morning when Bass will be active shallow all over the lake. Then they will disappear again either burying themselves in the weeds or moving back to the deep weed edge. This won't necessarily happen right at sunrise or first light, you have to keep fishing until it starts to happen.
This fish was the best one I found last Sunday, just shy of 20 inches and thick.
Rootski
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Every now and then its gettin' kind of hard to tell but I'm still alive and well
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RyanK
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Have you been throwing poppers or what? I fished topwater on an eden prairie lake this morning from 7am until 11am with only one small bass. I threw a spinner for like a half hour and got a big pike but the topwater just wouldn't produce? The last time I was on the Mississippi they loved em and when fishing topwater on this lake I usually slaughter em. Strange how that works?
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Boods
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Good for you Rootski! The topwater bite has been relatively slow for the last few days, but is starting to pick up....which is always nice to see 
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Rootski
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Hi Ryan....I was throwing foam poppers as well as deer hair bugs. The fish in the picture hit a big deer hair fly called a Dahlberg Diver. Sunday they wanted it slow. Throw it out there, make a little noise, and then let it sit for 30-60 seconds before you move it again. It drives you nuts waiting but sometimes that's what works best.
I saw that report about the Smallies you guys found on Pool 2. That sounds like great fun! I've caught a few Smallies on P2 but not on top waters. I'm going to have to try that again soon.
Rootski
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Every now and then its gettin' kind of hard to tell but I'm still alive and well
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willie boy
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Very good observation on the post cold front behavior...I've often seen that down here...day after, those fish are still very shallow and often seem to respond better to topwater baits than most else...
Last couple of weeks I have been on a very strong Horny Toad bite...southern weed flats on local lakes...1-4 feet of water...hopping the toad on weed matts, buzzing it through openings...or just plain buzzing it over/through weeds and timber...
typically, from comparing notes at the ramp, I've been doing significantly better than the guys tossing buzzbaits, spinnerbaits or the floating frogs...
Then again, I'm baitcasting...not fly-fishing.
But this bite will stay 'on' well into October here...fact it might get a bit better as the weed beds 'lean' out and weed patches get a bit more sparse...
As good as the mornings are, I also seem to get a better class of fish in the evenings here locally...
by the way, due to a tip offered on this site, I've now got my Horny Toad hook up percentages up to equal to or better than my plastic worm hook up percentages...
Just by changing my hook rigging and adding a bead ahead of the frog...fun cubed!
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Jack Naylor
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Way to GO, Steve, nice LMB
Jack
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