THE BASS COLLEGE

If you love topwater you've got to walk the dog. Good video gives you the basics.

Thanks for the info. I love top water lures and wasn`t quite sure how to walk the dog. Now i can go and try to rip some lips off.

WHO LET THE HAWGS OUT -:D

walk the dog land the hawg

Great stuff

Glad you mentioned that. that is really inportant.

A rod with a soft tip helps. Change up your cadence and let the fish tell you what they want. Also Jimmy Houston always using a split ring on his Spooks and walking lures.

If you really want to be an expert at it, and not take the easy way out, you can tie a loop knot instead of using a split ring. lol

yeah like h2oman said a soft tip helps with walking and hooksets on spooks,sammys lunker ,punkers,skitter walks.....and on. when i fish topwater i use a cranking type rod so you can let the rod load up before you hook the fish...to me this is important because when i see that fish hit i tend to get very excited and swing! so a soft rod helps me land more fish

I have problem with the hookset on the softer crank rods, if the fish aren't hooking themselves.  So I prefer an X-fast tip but will settle for a fast tip.  It's for varying the amount of walking the dog.  Working a sammy with a finesse walk is much easier with a quick tip.  The wider glides is easier with a softer rod tip, but with some practice X-fast tips can do the job just fine.  In fact longer casts benefits with the X-fast tips, making walking the dog with less effort.  When you're running the dog, the X-fast tip has more authority in controling the fast pace and cadence.  The last thing that X-fast tip can do is a double twitch to one side, before changing over to the other direction.  Of course, it's not walking the dog anymore.