Blue Shad Topwater Wakebait

The key to good wake bait fishing is simply making long casts, focusing on keeping a steady V cutting across the surface and casting to likely targets or where you’ve seen fish come up and kill on baitfish. The biggest key can be just to throw it where the fish quit striking your other topwaters and showing them something different. The round-bodied baits can give you a bit smaller profile, can be worked a little faster and often can be more precise casting for working the wake approach around shallow cover like laydowns, grass and more.