Top-water lures can induce bass strikes – Outdoors – NewsObserver.com
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BY JAVIER SERNA – Staff Writer
APEX — Not long after dawn Friday, Adam Petty was slinging top-water poppers toward the shore of Shearon Harris Lake from the deck of his bass boat.
The Four Oaks man is a member of the Raleigh Fire Department, and he also has a small landscaping business on the side.
“And then I fish,” Petty, 28, a sponsored tournament fisherman, said, joking. “I make time for fishing, and I find time for my work.”
And right now, before spring sizzles into summer, is when he makes extra time to fish for largemouth bass using top-water baits, that array of lures worked on water’s surface that can elicit some of the most exciting strikes in the sportfishing realm. This is one of the best times of the year to fish on top at Harris, Petty said.
Chris White, owner of The Tackle Box in Fuquay-Varina, set me up with Petty.
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