Mickey gave such a good topwater demonstration Saturday, I had to come home and modify one of my topwaters to try to get close to matching his. I chose a Nipididdy . First the propellers had to be straightened to catch more water. The original hooks were terrible, so I changed them out with some a lot bigger. They were so big, I just hoped the bait would float. Here is what the finished product looked like.

It looked good to me, now if it will just produce.  The bait worked great, walking the dog and making that little “chirp” all while almost sitting in one spot.  Here is what happened.

One scarfed it right off the bat and didn’t have a chance with all those big hooks. Grand Lake has a lot of cypress trees and also a rock bank with a good many docks. Jackson and I had a pretty tough time to start even with one on top right off the bat. We caught a few along on top and on spinnerbaits.  We fished around the docks with shallow crankbaits, spinnerbaits and worms or even a tube.  We caught the 4 – 10 FOD on a DTF – 3 Rapala crankbait off of a dock. Jackson had one even larger follow his out from another dock but it would not bite. Later in the day the rear propeller was pulling out of my modified topwater so rather than lose the hardware I changed to “the clown”, a Spook Jr with a shiny red head and a gold body. It caught some too right away.

The Clown will walk the dog and has a single rattle that clicks and makes a great attracting noise.  We had a good day ending up with 14 and getting a lot of casting practice under all the cypress limbs. Great debut on Grand Lake.