NE of sportfishing’s most popular gigs at present is topwater fishing. What’s topwater I hear you ask. Well, there are many variations on topwater fishing because it covers so many species and types of fishing. It can be fishing small poppers and stickbaits in shallow estuary water for bream, whiting and even flathead. It can be fishing cicadas or surface lures for bass or murray cod in the sweet water. At the high end, topwater involves casting big poppers and stickbaits
