River2Sea Whopper Plopper 190

For decades savvy musky men have known that surface lures that made acertain deep throated hollow popping–plopping sound drove muskies crazy.The problem was if you found one with a “good” tail it would bend and getout of tune when it got bit by a fish, hit a rock or even just from repeatcasting.

I caught my first musky over 50 years ago on this type of lure and I’vebeen tinkering with them ever since. The Whopper Plopper isthe culmination of my years of fine tuning this tyle of lure and sincethey are molded, every single one comes out of the box with the perfecttail size and angle to make a sound that simply drives fishcrazy. Plus, its tail is made of super tought plastic thatflexes right back into place whether it gets chomped on or gets cast intoa bridge piling.

The Whopper Plopper 190 is “roll resistant” and works well at a varietyof speeds. Interestingly, sound experiments have suggested that even atconstant speeds the tail kicks out sounds that vary as much as an octavein pitch as opposed to the more monotone metal tails.

Weighing in at over 2 oz. you can cast it a mile and it’s got top qualityRiver2sea 5 ⁄ 0 hooks that will stick from long distance.

• Weight: 2 3/4 oz.
• Length: 7 1/2″
• Hook: Black Nickel Long Shank 4X Strong #5/0