How do you fish a Whooper plopper

What kind of retrieve works best.

If you watched the Toledo bend live action or find the archives, watch what Chris Lane is doing.

Basically and slow or medium paced, constant retrieve .

Start with straight retrieve. If that doesn't work, try a rip and stop. If that doesn't work, drink a beer.

The musky version of this lure has been around a long time, called a top raider. I know we are talking different fish, but every one I've ever caught using this lure has been on a steady retrieve.

Sometimes I will cast it a good way past my target - stump, dock piling, weed edge etc. I will use a straight, steady retrieve until I get to the target, then kill it. They can hear it & see it before it gets there. Sometimes that pause can get a massive blow up. Other times it happens as soon as you start the retrieve again.

Which size works best?

Just saw Ish fishing it like a buzz bait. Steady searching.

steady plop, plop, plop, plop, plop

I like the medium best.

I would fish it just like I fish the spook. Target the big Bass and let it sit. Be patient. Move it every so slightly. Make it do the dying quiver which is the 180 degree turn and let it sit. If it will do all that???

It's made to be reeled at a steady pace similar to a buzzbait

^^^ This. Think of it as a floating buzzbait that can be slowed down without sinking below the surface.

Just was wondering if it will turn to the left or right when you twitch it? I have a couple of prop baits that will and have caught a couple of good ones on them.

Yes it will I do it like that sometimes but mostly a steady retrieve.

not really. It kinda just plods ahead when you pop it.

I fished with Bertrand one day in Missouri. He used one all day. And it was just a medium, steady retrieve. He finally gave me one to use since he was kinda burning the bank with the TM on a pretty fast setting. He caught some good fish with it. I never did. Haven't since. He gave the plopper he let me use. To me, it's just a big ole heavy salt water lure. Lol. I caught good fish following him up with a crank and a senko.

I can make it walk just fine.

My HS boys have caught some good fish on one this weekend.

Haven't fished one much, but I do know this... If you get a little too much crud in between the tail and the axle through the tail the whole bait will spin and twist the [censored] out of your line. It's not that easy to see it happening because the bait is still plopping along even as the bait is spinning. Probably a good idea to use a snap swivel to prevent this.

...what a about a Herb's Dilly?

Sometimes, before I start the retrieve, I simply let it float and pop it once in a while so it moves up and down in the same place. That can draw some savage strikes. When I retrieve it, I let the fish tell me what they want at that time and place. Sometimes slow and steady, sometimes fast and steady, sometimes extremely fast and steady, and sometimes a varied, start and stop retrieve. Very few bass simply suck it it....they usually attack it. That's been my experience, anyway. I only throw the medium- and large-size versions of the WP.

Brent Ehler fished it yesterday and Wesley Strader the year before at the TTBC when I rode with them. They both threw it on braid with a steady retrieve, slow to medium speed. I have yet to see a fish hit it but both said its a good big fish bait.