Lunker Punker

http://blackdogbaits.com/store/lunker-punker/
has anyone used this lure?  it's pretty expensive but the video shows that it works quite well for striped bass and largemouth bass.

another cool vid:

Definetly fun to watch, also I didn't know that the SPOT could be used to save tracks, I thought it was just for location notification.

I have some of Black Dogs Weed Slingers in Hitch color for Clear Lake and  green shiner for the delta, they are a soft body 6" swimbait that works good.

But there are "better" (IMHO) swimbaits out there in trout colors that don't cost as much than the Lunker Punker. Most of these swimbaits below, you can buy 2 or some of them 3 for the price of one Lunker Punker.

Huddleston Deluxe 8" Trout-

you can dead stick it like a RBT sunning himself near the surface, and jerksnap it once in a while to draw a reaction strike. They look so real, and I fish them anywhere they stock RBT and has BIG LMB or stripers(like Spring Lake, Millerton, Mendocino, Collins, Castaic, San Antonio) They are lethal.



Castaic Catch-22 Swimbait Floating ( also have sinking models)

The trick we do is cast the swimbait out, leave the freespool or bail open, paddle away until nearly out of line, and then work the swimbait back to the kayak. You may have 100-125 yards of line out. Lots of long dead sticking, quick snaps, 5 seconds swims, snap, snap, deadstick, repeat.



Lucky Craft Real California 130 Premium Laser Rainbow trout color

I took 3 of these out of my tackle box once, along with about 12 other swimbaits, hooked them all to a metal stringer, and hung it off the side of my kayak in plain view at Spring Lake. Some guy called warden on me, thought I had way over my limit and was using live trout as bait. I told the warden I was just messin' with the bankie's heads. I got a good laugh, warden kinda thought it was funny too.



MegaBait Charlie Swimbaits

My favorite for Sac River or casting toward rock walls drifting downstream. They swim like a trout with a crankbait lip.



TyLure Kicker Trout 8"

this one swims JUST like a RBT



Mattlures Ultimate Bluegill Series Swimbait

This is my best delta bass catching swimbait. It should be illegal. I swim them down rock levee walls or use on bedding LMB.

http://blackdogbaits.com/store/lunker-punker/
has anyone used this lure?  it's pretty expensive but the video shows that it works quite well for striped bass and largemouth bass.

I myself is a swimbaiter, I have used Triple trout, Harasser, MS Slammer, Jerry Rago, you name it, and my last addition Lunker Punker, all these mentioned pretty much works the same of course depends on the season pattern, I think its not how much you spent on the lure its how much confident you have... My favorite MS Slammer works really great on both species, good luck...

i have never used the lunker punker, but i am a big fan of swimbaits, mainly huddlesons and mattlures.  After seeing ur post i went down to fishermans warehouse to ask them about it and they said it was an awsome swimbait and definately worth trying.  so after hearing that i bought 5...   this saturday(11-7) im going to the delta for stripers and largemouth, i'll let you know how they do.  they were $20 each at fisherman's Warehouse.

Mike

Matts soft bluegill lures aren't worth the money.  They look the best but don't last or swim well.  The huddleston seems to be the most consistent.  I like the bbz stuff to but I get them for free. 

Futhel where do you get all that dinero????????????????

wouldn't you like to know...

 with the mattlures iv'e never tried the bluegill, but the baby bass is definately worth trying, especially if you fish clear lake or the delta.  My picture is using one of those in the delta. 

I agree that the huddlesons are definately one of the best, ur just going to wanna use strong line because it's one of those "cry when it breaks off kind of lure"   What i like best about those lunker punkers is that they're top water swim baits.  I played with them in my pool for about an hour today

Where do you get all the money to buy those swimbaits?

Did they have the eight inch version of the lunker punker or only six?

We need to start a kayak swimbait page on this forum.  Or just swimbait caught fish pictures. 

I got my first swimbait rod for free from Bill Siemantel.  The first time I went to his house he had a three pound prototype trout that he was developing when he fished with Castaic.  I remember when I used to think an eight inch worm was big.

Dinero?  im feeling a little slow...

moolah, shekels, clams, dough, green, bank, cash, money

He's wondering if you have a good job or a great allowance!

Let us know how it goes tomorrow.

ive never had an alowance,truthfully i save all my money from work (sports fever), christmas, birthday and then invest it.  so basically there are times when im selling my fishing stuff then buying new stuff 3 months later...

they only have the 6 inch ones.

for my swimbait rod i have a shimano FXC 7 feet,  8-17lb test , medium power, fast action.

i tried using a low profile baitcaster but it felt weird casting that with so much weight.

now i use an abu ambasaduer. many people thought it was weird to cast with but i like it.

My 2 cents i just get scared when im casting a swimbait with a spinning reel/rod, i always feel like it's going to break

Matts soft bluegill lures aren't worth the money.  They look the best but don't last or swim well.  The huddleston seems to be the most consistent.  I like the bbz stuff to but I get them for free.  

Futhel where do you get all that dinero????????????????

I find with the Matt Lures Bluegills if you swim/hop them down a rock wall or levee like you would fish a jig, casting to shore and letting it bounce down the wall like it is walking down a set of stairs, you better hang onto your rod. The other thing I like to do with it is find bedded LMB, pitch it past the bed, and swim it right into the center of the bed. It won't last seconds. Usually he (the LMB) will charge it, hit it with his face, and if I can keep it in the sweet spot of the nest, then he will inhale it and try to spit it out of the nest. Sight fishing at it's best! Almost as much fun as topwater frog fishing. But I agree, as a "typical" swimbait, the Bluegills don't swim that great.

Have you ever tried fishing them as a crankbait, like banging dock pilings in Disco Bay? There are a couple of docks in Disco Bay and over at Russo's on Bethel Island that have lights that shine straight down into water like a spotlight, drop a bluegill into there  ( or a live crawfish on a jighook) and watch it disappear.

I really need to go fishing!

Only scary part is hanging one of those $20 bills on a piling and not getting it back. You'll never straighten that hook out, your line will break first.

just a suggestion when i use swimbaits i use 20lb test braid/mono, it varies.  plus you know those garbage picker-upers, with the claw?  i take one of those with me, except i made it and its about six feet long.  I also attacked strips with those little pop buttons, the ones you just press close, on the side of my yak so that it is out of the way yet available.

youv'e got to think about this stuff

i'll try and post another thread about it with some pics, because it has saved me about $100 in swimbaits, with a manufacturing cost of $10.  Plus when i fish swimbaits i have more confidence to throuw it into harer places for the potential lunkers because if it gets stuck i can probably get it.

Mike