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Not no fail, they all do sooner or later. They're not cheap at $20 but I've got to say the Rico Lobina popper. I fish a lot of topwater and it's worked more consistently for me in all conditions over the past ten years than anything else I've used. I've still only got one and it was a gift. It's missing some paint and the tail feather's gone but it works as well as when it was new.

Original spook.

Overall I like a Spook, but that said, a Frog or a Horney toad if there are mats on the water

Gunfish

Frog.

Original spook here also.

Tiny Torpedo.

I've had lots of success with Tiny Torpedo,Devils Horse,Hula Popper and many more over the years but lately I'm rather fond of the Splasher series..Seems to work just a tad better on off days than the old standbys.

My youngest grandson approves..

I concur.

i remember as a kid i used to catch bass on Jitterbugs and Hula Poppers.....always a blast.

Had a yellow jointed-body jitterbug that i caught a truck load of fish on, in the half-light of dawn and dusk on quiet mornings always liked to hear that that bloop-bloop-bloop sound it made crawling across the water.

Caught quite a few bass night fishing with it too.

also used to catch some fish on Zara Spooks, Devils Horse, and had a couple of other topwater stick baits & floating minnows we'd fish on top.

Those big black jitterbugs at night are a big bass killer.

Hula popper in mid to small size...black with purple skirt, fished under a full moon.
Cast, chug....and hang on...

sluggo

#11 floating rapala.

My dad used to fish his Spooks on an old Pflueger steel rod with a Supreme level wind. I wish I could walk the dog half as good as he did, and he could hit any hole in the lily pads no matter how small.

Hula Popper, Jitterbug, and my go-to with just a tiny bit of chop has always been the Smithwick Devil's Horse. Cut the bottom barb off the trebles, throw it flat so it doesn't land verticle, and you seldom pick up weeds.

I found the Zell Excaliber popper to spit as good as the Rico for less than half the cost. Unfortunately it is now out of production as sold by Excaliber.

The company has been absorbed by Pradco. Fortunately BooYah has taken up the production of this lure which as been renamed the Boss Pop. There are some new finish offerings but otherwise it is the same lure.

http://www.booyahbaits.com/booyah-boss-pop

1. Crazy shad
2. Spook
3. Baby torpedo
4. Pop R

Spook
Skitter pop both big and small with feather tails
Buzz bait

I've had good luck with the Skitter Pop, Pop R and Hula Popper too. IMO if there's a good surface bite going on almost any surface plug will work.

With the big Skitter pop (the ocean one) in a night tournament about 5 years ago I was moving it in a zig zag pattern like a spook and a ten five ate it. Worth $500 that night. Be sure to change out the hooks to better ones.