SumoNinja Posted December 16, 2021 Report Share Posted December 16, 2021 (edited) One of my recent catches on a Big Grandpa by Finnbait Customs If it looks like a lot of work, it is. It's a 12" wood punker-type bait and I had the wrong reel for the job but I've since upgraded my reel to a faster one and it fishes 10x better. QUIK_20211216_244158.mp4 Edited December 16, 2021 by SumoNinja Prodigy_Lee, _zoso, Jim137a and 20 others 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewManFishing Posted December 16, 2021 Report Share Posted December 16, 2021 Nice catch man. Cool boat too SumoNinja 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassbass Posted December 16, 2021 Report Share Posted December 16, 2021 Nice SumoNinja 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim137a Posted December 16, 2021 Report Share Posted December 16, 2021 Very nice video !!! SumoNinja 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBassLife133 Posted December 16, 2021 Report Share Posted December 16, 2021 Huge blow up SumoNinja 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stkbass Posted December 17, 2021 Report Share Posted December 17, 2021 Nice one! SumoNinja 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary m Posted December 17, 2021 Report Share Posted December 17, 2021 Sick Ass Blow Up!!! Cheers!! :)) SumoNinja 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted December 18, 2021 Report Share Posted December 18, 2021 That’s was cool!!! Nothing beats top water. What blank dobyns did you use? Thanks for posting SumoNinja 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SumoNinja Posted December 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2021 15 minutes ago, Alex said: That’s was cool!!! Nothing beats top water. What blank dobyns did you use? Thanks for posting It's the best. I had an awesome crazy blowup on my next trip but it was raining all day so I didn't bring the gopro That's an 867. It bombs that bait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hmoob Posted December 18, 2021 Report Share Posted December 18, 2021 AWESOME catch..... Bring the GoPro it's water proof we wanna see more footage!!! BigBaitThirty and SumoNinja 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SumoNinja Posted December 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2021 4 hours ago, Hmoob said: AWESOME catch..... Bring the GoPro it's water proof we wanna see more footage!!! Will do, trout season is in full swing so hopefully many more to come Hmoob 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishDr Posted December 20, 2021 Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 It looked like you were working a popper for GTs! The blow-up was sweet - nice fish! SumoNinja 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SumoNinja Posted December 20, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2021 1 hour ago, FishDr said: It looked like you were working a popper for GTs! The blow-up was sweet - nice fish! Yea tbh too, I wasn't working it that hard all day. That was at the end of the day and my whole arm was tired. In the video I was using mainly my shoulder to do most of the work because doing it that way was easier. It's normally not that sloppy, and much easier with the faster reel I got on that rod now. It's very taxing if u use that bait almost all day. Probably 80% of the time. We opened the lake and shut it down that day Milkman76 and BigBaitThirty 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtySouthGlide Posted December 23, 2021 Report Share Posted December 23, 2021 Nice catch bro. Them things are fun, especially on a top water plug. I have been throwing a 9” Megadog and my low gear tranx seems to slow. So you like that faster reel for that big top water? SumoNinja 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SumoNinja Posted December 23, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2021 4 minutes ago, DirtySouthGlide said: Nice catch bro. Them things are fun, especially on a top water plug. I have been throwing a 9” Megadog and my low gear tranx seems to slow. So you like that faster reel for that big top water? Most definitely. It's all about the slack and pickup for these big walking baits. I have limited experience with them and still learning myself. But u gotta figure out the right cadence to make it do what it's made to do. Too much or too little slack being given or picked up and you're just dragging a stick on top. For me, ideally, for each sweep of the rod that makes it walk to one side, u need half a turn to a full turn of the handle to pick up that slack just enough to do the next sweep to get the bait to walk the other way. If u look at my video closely I had to do a lot of 2 reel turns at times to pick up the slack. When u have the right reel it's so much easier to retrieve and less of a pain to fish DirtySouthGlide 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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