A PHENOMENAL AFTERNOON makes me wonder . . . How many WHOPPERS can a "WHOPPER PLOPPER" PLOP . . . into your boat:-)

[wareaglecamo]

 

Before last weekend I had never even heard of the WHOPPER PLOPPER.  Now it has given me the most memorable afternoon of smallmouth bass fishing I have ever experienced on a Midwest impoundment. I fished from 2:30pm to 5:30pm with a nice medium chop on the water . . . partly cloudy skies and 70+ degree air temperature . . . mid-lake and midway back into chunk rock coves . . . little did I know I had entered the gates of smallmouth heaven. On my third cast ever of a "whopper plopper," a ferocious explosion like I have never seen resulted in a 5 pound smallmouth (see photo). Several smallmouth in the 2-pound class, a couple approaching 3 pounds and the one that left me literally shaking . . . a "blow-up" next to the boat 

like I have never seen as I lifted the fast-moving plopper out of the water . . . I was able to get a very good look at this "over-five-pound" 

golden-brown beauty that had the personality of a pit bull with fins. He would have been my personal-best smallmouth of a lifetime. Believe what you have heard about the "plopper." Today made a big believer out of me. I only had 2 or 3 short largemouth . . . the rest smallmouth My experience this afternoon showed me the faster you crank it, the more ferocious and larger the fish become. I had 7 rigged rods in the boat and never switched to any of them for even a single cast . . . another first for me. I used the "PERCH" color . . . . not because it was my choice, but because it was the ONLY ONE LEFT IN THE STORE.

[Hammer time]

Congrats and thanks for the report and pic. That's a good brownie!

[fisherofmen11]

What size is your whopper plopper?

[wareaglecamo]

It's the 5 inch . . . but it feels bigger with the extended hardware and large hooks . . . kind of like casting a "WEIGHTED CORN DOG"

[wareaglecamo]

the "Whopper Plopper" in PERCH color

[markgrantham]

Awesome fish and report!

[Ketchup]

You def. could be a salesman for the Plopper.  Congrats on the day. Watson hammered them last week with the Loon Whopper. 

 

[Quillback]

Next thing you know, people will be complaining about all the wakes being generated by thousands of Whopper Ploppers churning though the water.

Congrats on a great day!

[MOPanfisher]

Great another lure to buy that I don't need.

[Old plug]

On on this forum selling is what it is all about.intended or not intended. If it looks like the thing to do many will act like white bass on a feeding frenzy.