6" Topwater Game Changers and T-bones

It's hard to beat a good topwater muskie strike; the wake forming behind the fly, the violent eat...heart pounding. I figure you can get the usual blockhead or double-barrel poppers in muskie size a lot of places, so I'm taking a different approach.

Flymen offer the Howitzer head as part of their Surface Seducer line, in chartreuse and white (though both of them take sharpie marker ink very well, so other colors are possible). I tie Feather and Hybrid game changers, plus a single articulation popper that puts the head on a 28mm Flymen Fish Skull Big Game Shank, T-bone style. All of these get follows, and our PB musky ate an all chartreuse tie of the T-bone variant. These are all around 6" long and in the 5 gram range.

Not shown, but Flymen also make a smaller Howitzer head that I can tie into a ~4" Game Changer with 4 segments behind the head; largemouth bass went mad for a white version of this last year. Available in feather or brush/chenille variants, this 2 gram fly is castable on a 6wt, shoot, maybe a 5.