The tail propped top water was around far before a whopper plopper. Dahlberg just made one of his favorite Muskie lures a little smaller.
Is anyone really getting enough speed on a retrrieve where a softer tail prop flexes enough to be all that different from one that does not?
I have 5-6 of the 90s and 110s and have yet to have a fish take a swipe at my whopper ploppers. It’s weird since I’m catching plenty of fish on Spooks, Poppers and mirodine prop topwater. This spring I’m going to be on a mission to find why they’re not hitting this bait!
2006 Triton SP-185, 2006 Evinrude Etec 90, PowerTech NRS3, Garmin Echomap Plus 73CV & 93SV
The years prior to Ploppers becoming so popular the bites you would get on them were violent. They would try to destroy it. Got to enjoy them a couple of years before they took off. Now everyone and their brother are throwing them. I personally think a lot of fish have gotten conditioned to them a bit.
My biggest fish have hit on a slow retrieve. The tail was spinning but I hardly heard a “plopping” sound. Never been hit burning it.
here is my biggest on a plopper:
http://www.bbcboards.net/showthread.php?t=909004
Whichever catches em is what I prefer.
1997 Charger 186 TF
1997 Yamaha ProV 175
I still kick myself all the time for not listening to Ish talk about how good they were about two years before they got really hot. He kept talking about it in a bass university class I was in and I never thought anything more about it until a couple years later when everyone was throwing them.
Which one do the Pros use the more of, that would be the one for me...
2006 Triton SP-185, 2006 Evinrude Etec 90, PowerTech NRS3, Garmin Echomap Plus 73CV & 93SV