Another configuration, most notably the Original Frenchy Water Thumper, takes a little different approach. As you can see from the Kaiser water thumper (pictured), this approach uses a solid shaft that eliminates the sagging tail but maintains the same premise…’match the slap’. Another variation is the Water Walker (pictured). This approach eliminates the separate spinning tail and incorporates the prop into the body of the lure. The complete body rotates as the lure is retrieved causing the prop to slap the water. The real difference here is the use of a tail hook arrangement that allows for the addition of a dressed bucktail as a trailer hook or a single hook equipped with a twister tail. There is another approach to tail dragging, but first we should discuss presentation. All of the lures discussed so far develop their characteristic sound through the use of a moderate to fast retrieve.
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