He prefers to use the following. Try to cast it as accurately as possible directly in the hot spot.
Any angler wants a photo of his big fish and leaving the lure in place adds to the shot and helps tell the story.
How to fish a popper lure.
For the yellow magic rico and other small poppers he uses a 7 light to medium light baitcaster spooled.
If you are fishing a propeller lure like the mirrolure 7m try letting the lure go silent and then retrieving slowly for maybe ten or fifteen feet.
Then let it go silent.
The lures are made for spincasting baitcasting and fly fishing.
Poppers are hollow bodied lures designed to float.
But only experienced anglers like this chap with a sense of caution should do so.
Popper lures you will want to place directly where you think the fish are.
While poppers can be thrown on very light tackle matt prefers to the surprise of no one to step up his tackle when targeting big fish with these finesse baits.
The style of fishing is aggressive as the lure makes a loud popping noise and a wake during retrieval.
Popper fishing is a forgotten secret amongst bass fishermen.
As john explains the lure sounds like a flat tire on the retrieve which calls fish in and produces bites from a better class of fish.
There are times fish will hit them on simple slow retrieves with no pauses and silence but again they are curious about the noise and there is not telling which slight variation in the retrieve will draw a strike.
If using larger poppers then the action of the rod will need to be increased incrementally based on the size of the lure.
A remote atoll in the middle of some ocean is not the best place to impale your hand with a 50 treble.
If that doesnt work then you can experiment with casting just beyond the strike zone and retrieving it through where the fish are.
For example big gt poppers need to be really worked to push out a large amount of water in this case the twitch wont be a large enough action to create the spray you need.
Poppers come in a large variety of sizes and colors with applications for species ranging from small panfish to large saltwater game fish.
Everyone knows they work but few bother to throw them.
The next time the topwater bite isnt panning out dont forget your popper.
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