Well if you want something different for topwater, you can look at the River2Sea Whopper Plopper....they run about $15 each. 

The G2 is a great bait. Put your tip down, and burn it, and it will run sub surface. Keep your tip up, or slow roll it, and it wakes. I catch a lot of fish on that bait, and the jointed Lucky Craft Clunn waker. I too, throw it on 15 to 20 lb. P-line CXX.

Thanks gonna check that out! No one, I mean NO ONE throws big stuff up here. If these work for me on this particular body of water I'll be a pig in $#!^. Last tourney I tanked and guy won with 5/5 11lbs... smfh

Very few throw big baits around here and I get looks and laughs all the time when I'm tossing big baits, and I'm just fine with that. I did a big bait seminar at a tournament last year while we were all waiting in the parking lot because of a fog delay. Someone spotted my 7" Slammer tied on a rod and asked if I was joking with that thing. I broke out my camera and big bait box and started showing them why they should be fishing them. A lot of the pictures were at a lake where everyone fishing shakyheads and drop shots all summer long, while I'm catching fish on a Slammer I caught one of our keepers that day on my Slammer and we ended up in 4th place for the weekend.

Very few throw big baits around here and I get looks and laughs all the time when I'm tossing big baits, and I'm just fine with that. I did a big bait seminar at a tournament last year while we were all waiting in the parking lot because of a fog delay. Someone spotted my 7" Slammer tied on a rod and asked if I was joking with that thing. I broke out my camera and big bait box and started showing them why they should be fishing them. A lot of the pictures were at a lake where everyone fishing shakyheads and drop shots all summer long, while I'm catching fish on a Slammer I caught one of our keepers that day on my Slammer and we ended up in 4th place for the weekend.

 

 

You needed the 9inch for first place.

You needed the 9inch for first place.

Didn't have one at the time, no longer suffering from that deficiency 

Very few throw big baits around here and I get looks and laughs all the time when I'm tossing big baits, and I'm just fine with that. I did a big bait seminar at a tournament last year while we were all waiting in the parking lot because of a fog delay. Someone spotted my 7" Slammer tied on a rod and asked if I was joking with that thing. I broke out my camera and big bait box and started showing them why they should be fishing them. A lot of the pictures were at a lake where everyone fishing shakyheads and drop shots all summer long, while I'm catching fish on a Slammer I caught one of our keepers that day on my Slammer and we ended up in 4th place for the weekend.

 

You'll learn to only show pics to folks that live halway across the country. LOL

What's the common color for shell cracker you guys use, or does it not matter?

I just bought a G2 in bluegill...going to try it out for the first time this weekend.  It's really not that big of a bait at 4" long.  From what I've read bass knock the crap out of it though...

Yeah, they do. My favorite color is Blue Craw. Stick that on a Rage Rig, and it's gonna happen.

Shell Cracker

Not

Kind of hard to put a hard bait on a worm hook. This thread is discussing the Black Dog G2 Shellcracker, not the Ragetail Shellcracker, which is also a great bait.

I use the redear...only because it was only one available. I like it though. I want the crappie color now.

Ok so placed my order today, went with the bluegill pattern, not the ghost one. Also took another recommendation and got a whopper plopper in monkey color. Had a slammer in cart but with everything else I ordered I had to cut some costs. Next time but thanks again everyone for all the info! The G2 is on back order so won't have it for awhile but all is good. Looking forward to it.

4 tourneys and 6 practice days later on said body of water. Too late... Stuff came in today. The cracker and plopper look great!

I'm heading to Champlajn Wednesday prob gonna bring these with me. So general consensus heavy rod, 30+# braid or 20# FC. Also gonna prob use same rod for soft body frogs. Sound good?

4 tourneys and 6 practice days later on said body of water. Too late... Stuff came in today. The cracker and plopper look great!

I'm heading to Champlajn Wednesday prob gonna bring these with me. So general consensus heavy rod, 30+# braid or 20# FC. Also gonna prob use same rod for soft body frogs. Sound good?

Yup.