catch 'em... quite honestly, if I see bass crashing the surface, they are easy pickins.. I've never had a surface feeder not take my artificial..
I have had them finning on the surface and refuse conventional methods... for these times, I add a small dropper 18" in front of a surface swimmer, I've always used pork rind or a large slim streamer fly.. modern day fisherman favor soft plastics.. I say give 'em pork!.. this does two things, first it appeals to their competitive nature,they are feeding on small bait and "think" the other fish ( being the plug) is going to eat the baifish ( pork dropper) greed is a mighty thing and has been the undoing of many a man... and fish!

My 3rd 50+ lb striper came on a pork rind dropper in front of a yellow darter from Head of the meadow beach in '86... on a night when everyone was racking their rods in disgust because the bass were feeding on pin sized sand eels and those fisherman that October night were all armed with large surface swimmers because that is what was entrenched in their brains... think outside the box!

- Roccus

When they just won't take...