BEST TIME for TOPWATER Fishing is NOW!! (Whopper Plooper Bass Fishing)

Spawn season’s still heating up, and Lake Zurich turned into a battlefield. Armed with my go-to 4″ Whopper Plopper, I mixed in swim-pause, jerk-pause, and slow roll retrieves—anything to crack the code. It started slow with a few dinks, but after dialing in the rhythm, it happened: a surface-shattering explosion from a 2.5-pound bass that straight-up wrecked the Plopper.

It wasn’t just a lucky cast—it took persistence, experimentation, and fish that did not want to make it easy. But man, that chaos on the surface? That’s why we throw topwater during the spawn.

If you’ve ever worked a bite ‘til it paid off—drop your favorite spawn bait in the comments! I want to hear what’s working in your waters.

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