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Surface Contact Lures are lures that stay on or near the water’s surface commonly called top water lures.
Lure contact categories, albeit not a common categorization, helps understand the lure’s common location in the water column along with what the lure’s design enables it to contact. The four categories used are: surface contact lures, minimal contact lures, cover contact lures and bottom contact lures.
Surface contact lures are important to:
Frog lures are surface contact lures known for mimicking a frog and are weedless lures commonly used to target largemouth bass in floating/matted grass.
Toad Lures, sometimes called a soft plastic frog or a frog soft bait, or a buzz frog are surface contact lures primarily known for the use of use of a toad soft plastic which provides a weedless frog looking soft plastic with kicking leg motion that provides vibration and a wake similar to Buzzbait. Some refer to toad lures as a heavy cover buzzbait with a more subtle lure action good with no wind/waves.
Buzzbaits are surface contact lures known for erratic churning of the water surface creating a bubbly wake lure action. Buzzbaits are also known for their noise and are relatively weedless, often used to cover water.
Walking Baits are surface contact lures known for their side to side walking lure action. Walking Baits are also known for covering water.
Poppers are surface contact lures known for surge of water, “the splash”, lure action produced with a top water pop retrieve. Poppers are also known for fishing slow (for a surface contact lure) when targeting near cover.
Wake Baits are surface contact lures, albeit some consider them sub-surface lures, known for subtle surface wobble rolling lure action. Wake Baits are also known for a rattle sound, for fishing slow or fast are as one of the best lures for producing the v-shaped wake.
Ploppers are surface contact lures known for continuous plopping noise, splashing action and bubbling wake lure action produced by it spinning tail.
Twitch Baits are typically surface contact lures, and just under the surface, and a sinking versions that are still fished at a visual depth. Twitch Baits are known for their subtle zig zag, darting, erratic motion lure action similar to a hard jerkbait but near surface and they are typically fished with a jerk retrieve or a more subtle twitch retrieve. It is also known as a salt water top water lure.
Prop Baits are surface contact lures known for producing short bursts of erratic bubbling commotion and buzzing sound lure action. Action is compelled by using the top water popping retrieve and some suggest the pause is important as it will trigger a reaction bite.
