These work very well

[joeD]

Hilarious. Now, if only MARCO SCUTARO fished!

"MARCO SCUTARO just CASTED and caught a smallmouth BASS! In a related note, Steve Carlton had the STRONGEST wrists I EVER SAW! He used to shove his hands in a bucket of RICE...!"

[Al Agnew]

Joe's point about canoe/kayak as opposed to a boat you can stand in is valid, but that's precisely why I use a very short rod for walking lures in the canoe. As I've said before, my topwater canoe rod is 5 feet, with a short, straight handle. The short rod allows you to work the lure with the rod at a steeper angle to the water, which brings the angle closer to what you have when standing in a boat. My boat topwater rod is a 6.5 footer, also with a short handle. For me, the short handle is important because that way I don't ever get the end of the handle tangled up in my shirt sleeve. Of course, I'm casting left handed and working the lure entirely with my left wrist on the rod handle, NOT palming the reel.

Control of your boat is important when walking, too. 95% of the time, i'm working the lure "back-handed"; in other words, with the rod handle in my left hand, the rod top is pointing to the right and the back of my hand is facing the lure. It's a whole lot easier to snap your wrist "downward" toward the inside of your arm than it is to do it upward, toward the outside of your arm. So if I'm trying to work the lure off the right side of the canoe, I have to twist my body around to the right and have the rod tip pointing toward the back of the canoe, which is a bit awkward. So when fishing solo, I tend to keep the canoe angled a bit toward the right bank when fishing off to the right, and cast at a 45 degree angle toward the front the canoe, so that the rod tip is pointing more or less straight out to the side of the canoe. When casting off to the left of the canoe, I often cast at that same 45 degree angle, and turn the canoe toward that left bank a bit, and actually have the rod tip pointed off to the right of the canoe, but if I want to cast at more of a 90 degree angle to the left bank, I turn the canoe a bit to the right to give my rod tip plenty of room to operate while still on the left side of the canoe. In clear water, since you want to make long casts anyway, many of my casts are well out in front of the canoe, often almost parallel to the bank and way out ahead of me, and in that case the canoe is pointed more or less directly downstream and the rod tip is always off the right side of the canoe.

Now, if I'm in the back of a tandem canoe, I'm forced to put myself in awkward positions at times, because I'm keeping the canoe straight or positioning it for the other person to fish, and I'm not casting far forward so that I don't encroach upon their "territory". But the short rod reduces the need for really awkward angles.

[Al Agnew]

Mitch's point about the Sammy bobbing too much is true, too. That is what is really wrong with the Sammy 85. The thing sits almost completely vertical in the water when at rest, and trying to walk it results in almost nothing but bobbing. The larger versions aren't quite as vertical in the water, but still rest at a very steep angle. I get around the bobbing with them by working them really fast, not allowing them to settle at all. With the 85, I take out one of the big weights toward the rear, which makes it sit at far less of an angle and makes it walk FAR better. But I no longer buy Sammy 85s, preferring my homemade walker if I'm wanting to fish a lure that small. I'd rather make my own than spend $15 for a lure that I'm going to have to spend an hour tinkering with it and a day waiting for the epoxy filling in the hole to dry.

[joeD]

I didn't know there would be math....and when will the trains meet?

Sammys catch fish by the way. You and others should know. The bobbing, half in, half out is the whole point. Then one retrieves. Someone tell me when Sammys suddenly became chopped liver. How many imitations it has spawned. The curved underbelly and jawline?

Whatever, I'm looking for bait hooks so I can keep a big bass on my stringer.

[Mitch f]

Someone tell me when Sammys suddenly became chopped liver.

Come on man, Dylan's gone electric! ?

[Al Agnew]

Oh, my topwater box still has a bunch of Sammys. I even still carry one of the modified 85s. And I still use them quite often. I like the profile and I like the swishy-sounding rattles. But I also like the Sexy Dawg Jr. and in the last couple of years have taken to using it at least as much as the Sammy.

[Mitch f]

Hilarious. Now, if only MARCO SCUTARO fished!

"MARCO SCUTARO just CASTED and caught a smallmouth BASS! In a related note, Steve Carlton had the STRONGEST wrists I EVER SAW! He used to shove his hands in a bucket of RICE...!"

McCarvers hatred toward the Cardinals is well documented. I know I will never forget him saying over and over after the Cards comeback against Texas...."How could this Happen?" he holds a grudge for being traded I guess. Very difficult to watch him and Joe Buck.

[Terrierman]

McCarvers hatred toward the Cardinals is well documented. I know I will never forget him saying over and over after the Cards comeback against Texas...."How could this Happen?" he holds a grudge for being traded I guess. Very difficult to watch him and Joe Buck.

Joe Buck announcing will make me turn off the sound. Cannot stand that little geek. And why on earth did the Cardinals ever decide to have Tim McCarver call games for them again? Like you, I suspect he still holds a grudge.

[LarrySTL]

Come on man, Dylan's gone electric!

Newport, '65 !

SB I am glad you put the info out here but please consider giving my credit card a rest and putting out info about some $ 4 baits.

I haven't recovered from the bill for the Dolphins, the ZnZ's, and the gunfish. Haven't done custom paint jobs though, or perhaps that's part of the problem !

Al, I am glad its not just me who has trouble getting the Sammy's to walk right. I can get em to glide, or to bob, but that nice spook 1-2-3-4 at about 45 degree pivots or slow it down marginally and let it swing wider, is something I haven't been able to consistently get. And I am too freakin cheap to take a dremel to a $ 17 hunk of plastic, though the thought sure had occurred. The 85s look incredible to me in a tackle box or even in my hand ( don't *anybody* say it !) but yeah, they do not want to walk.

Lately if I am not getting strikes ( or not getting them hooked) I have been switching lures ( and size, color, sounds, etc) every 15 or 20 minutes and so far its amazing me how often last weeks red hot WTD is just dead a week later. A week ago I found a bunch of fish that would annihilate a gunfish 95 in that outrageous bright purple / yellow Table Rock color pattern. Strange. And now I gotta get some $ 20 baits...... ARGHHHH

[Al Agnew]

Earlier this summer, the Gunfish was outproducing everything else I used. Since I've been in Montana for the last month, I don't know what it's doing now.

The Sexy Dawg Jr. seems to be quite comparable to the Sammy 100. Slightly shorter and a different profile, and it walks and glides a little easier, but if they are hitting one they are probably hitting the other one. The Sammy's rattle has a bit different sound and that makes a difference sometimes.

If you're going to spend the money on a Sammy 85, might as well get the Megabass Dog X instead, it will walk better and it's roughly the same size. But if you already bought some Sammy 85s, they ain't doing you any good as they are, so might as well take the Dremel tool to them.