Wakebait: What it is

A hard bait — often jointed — with a sharply angled short lip that keeps it waking in the top inch (2-3 cm) of the water column instead of diving. Reeled dead-slow, it pushes a rolling V-wake that imitates a bluegill or shiner cruising the surface film.

Where it shines →

Wakebait

A shallow-lipped hard bait reeled slowly so it V-wakes just under the surface — the quiet topwater for calm water and big, wary fish.

  1. What it is
  2. Where it shines
  3. The retrieve
  4. Tackle

Wakebait