It's likely been asked before (probably by yours truly), but how do you work a Lucky 13?  By looking at it, one would think it's a chugger type topwater and that's the way I've worked it, but the only fish I've been able to get any response from have hit when I was reeling at the end of a cast.  Is that just a fast way of working it, or what?

Wow! That brings back memories! When I was 13, my Dad bought me a Pflueger "knuckle buster" bc reel and tubular STEEL bc rod. We filled it with black dacron line. With my paper delivery money I bought my very first ever wooden Lucky 13 in red head/shiner white pattern. Did a lot of casting with that lure and caught a few bass and big pickeral on it as well. If I recall correctly, all lures back then were just the "cast out & retrieve" types, like the Spook, Jitterbug and Crazy Crawler. So that's probably how I fished it back then. Gave all my old wooden lures to my grandkids, or sold some to friends, so I don't have that one now.

I think you can do a steady retrieve to crawl it on the surface, or pop/walk it. 

Haven't thought of that in many a year. I think we twitched the rod tip to bring it in. I've caught quite a few fish on one, and a couple of big ones.

Use it like a wake bait , chug it , twitch it .

Plop-plop-plop. Pause. Repeat.