Topsy Turvy

This is serious. Serious stuff. For serious fishermen.
This is how to entice a top water strike:

-Head out in the early morning, and try to catch a high-outgoing or a low-incoming tide. The water movement is the most important component for catching snook, and water moves the fastest at these tides.

-Locate bait clusters by looking for sardine flashes or diving pelicans, as this indicates where the bait is and thus where the snook can be hooked.

-Use stick baits like a Zara Spook or a Top Dog, which are lures with erratic surface movement. You want chaotic movement because it caused commotion and imitates fish feeding on baitfish.

-Once you make your cast, walk-the-dog or make popping twitches as a retrieval - anything that makes a loud popping sound. The snook gulp when they come to the surface as though they’re inhaling the bait rather than just biting it.

This is your best chance of getting a snook airborne as you reel it to the boat. The sound and the jumping right make this one of the most exciting ways to catch snook.



These photos show what other encounters anglers have while snook fishing in Florida, and especially the Everglades. From top to bottom is a bull shark, a blue egret, and a roseate spoonbill.