Nice catch! I wish I could get down there, but we've just been too busy.

I agree the grass walker is a solid lure. It casts a mile and especially into the wind. I've caught some quality fish on it over the years. Has a corky type profile. They are great in heavy grass or rocks/shell.

Only drawback I would say is with the weedless setup and lack of hook exposure you can miss some fish, you really have to set the hell out of the hook to drive the hook home. I put my thumb on the spool when setting the hook with the grasswalker.

Good going buddy!!

Great fish.

And that's going to be a hell of a sun burn pattern.

Great post and what a hoss of a trout. I picked up some of these grass walkers in bone diamond based on one of your previous posts and have used them a few times in very shallow grass flats focusing on reds. We are poling skiff fly guys but have friends or kids who can't throw the fly come with us now and then. I haven't had a ton of success w them but the folks on our boat that throw these are often beginners, accuracy is an issue, and I throw the fly all the time unless it's extremely windy.

I probably need some guidance on how to have my anglers work the lure in the shallow grass flats. I rig them weedless w a weightless belly hook 5-0. My limited experience casting them at tailing reds was that they werr too heavy to throw close to a tailing red, but that they were great to locate fish or pull across the front of a waking red.

What kind of action/tips would you suggest for working these specifically for my indication to help my anglers connect more?

CPDAggie10 said:

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I agree the grass walker is a solid lure. It casts a mile and especially into the wind. I've caught some quality fish on it over the years. Has a corky type profile. They are great in heavy grass or rocks/shell.

Only drawback I would say is with the weedless setup and lack of hook exposure you can miss some fish, you really have to set the hell out of the hook to drive the hook home. I put my thumb on the spool when setting the hook with the grasswalker.

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I grew up bass fishing before getting into saltwater. I set the **** out of a hook.

Atta boy..great fish.

One of the absolutely magical things about that lure is that you can impart any action. It is so versatile to cover any action in any type of water for every condition. Get yourself to a swimming pool.

-It will walk the dog underwater. I don't know of any other lure I can do that with as easily amd confidently and effectively. Find the right cadence in a pool then repeat in your fish hunting grounds.
-Or work it fast enough to walk the dog on the surface/high in the water column with a weightless hook.
-You can jig hop.
-You can inch worm it just barely ticking a loose line. Try this indoors on your floor. And when I say inchworm I can exactly that. Try to move it as little as possible by barely flicking the rod tip to make the loose line impact the action. This is how I would fish for tailing reds and flounder. (Although for tailing reds as you suggest it could be a touch too big and spook em....i would down size a bit....never seen too small a bait spook fish....but too big can). Try bass lure soft plastics frogs for that kids and reds scenario. Or even a black weedless spoon. Again inch worm it.
-You can dead stick it and just drag the bottom never lifting it.
-You can twitch and glide. Twitch twitch glide. It will glide and barely fall level in the water column.

I do allllllll of the above until I get strikes. Then repeat. The crew i was with simply couldn't replicate what I was doing and then couldn't feel the bite. .... subsequently they watched me pull heads.

Baffin is fun. Buddy of mine was there before the cold snap and got a 29" and a 31" trout. I'm probAbly going to do a trip with them in a few weeks. Big one was on a corky and the other was on a topwater.

That lure is amazing over shallow grass! Great fish! Are you offering trips that far South?

No not offering trips in general. If someone had a house for me to stay with them too and the group wanted to fish multiple days we could probably put something together to make it worth it.