"And by the way," Bink Grimes punctuated a voice-mail message early Monday, "we got 'em again in the surf this morning. Up to five pounds, mostly on topwaters." His lure selection came as no surprise.

There’s rarely a warning. Not with pike. When a striped bass attacks a topwater fly, you often see a boil or a swirl before the toilet flushes. Snakeheads will track a foam frog and wake the surface ...

There is one other aspect of topwater fishing and that is frog fishing. I don’t know why frogs are kept separate, but they are. I guess it’s because the topwaters I have been talking about are used in ...