I luv them lures. I like to vary the speed depending on variables such as temp, time of year, depth etc but I usually always start the day by sound also. I like it fast enough to distinguish each plop till I see what the day brings.

I have a blackbird double TR, and a frog regular TR, both in almost new condition , I would definitely sell to anyone interested!

Id agree there too, color is kinda my last factor, I usually buy something in the black, frog and baitfish range to give each type of lure a fair shot. most of my contacts have honestly been on a silver and copper sucker-ish color. but have had good luck with black too. It also depends a bit, I am sure, on time of day and visibility, but I think the action on the surface tripping their trigger is more important.

So many factors go into how I fish a proptail topwater. I choose a speed in relationship to my perceived sight distance, not unlike a bucktail. If they're in shallow tall/thick weeds the speed is going to be slow compared to fish that are a little deeper or fish that are on a shallow flat with sparse weeds (think milfoil vs cabbage). Along with the weed/depth variable for sight distance is water clarity and clear = faster. Fast though isn't remotely close to burning a bucktail, fast is medium (est. 2.5 mph). Every lake seems to have it's idiosyncrasy with proptails, plop vs splash, slow plop, slow splash, etc. and then there are those waters where they just don't eat them at all IMO.