Ahh the popper, #2 cause of heart attacks among bass fishermen (behind Buzz-Baits).
Ransome and I got into using poppers in recent years due to the power of the Fenwick Chug-N-Bait, which I am very fond of.
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And last year Ransome found his "magic" bait in the Rapala Skitter Pop "clown" coloured.
The technique of pop, wait, wait,...pop definitely catches fish, but we are not very patient fishermen but we usually only pause a second or two and we caught fish all day long consistently on all different bodies of water. I suggest you guys give it a try, once it's warm enough almost like "walking the dog" with a popper.
And to TheHoser my girlfriend bought me one of those a while ago and thought it looked stupid and therefore never tried it until I needed something to compete with Ransome's Skitter Pop(I had lost my Fenwick). So I tied it on and got a bunch of hits from smallies. Later I found an article in an old magazine that compared Spooks to Poppers.
Here's the trick: Poppers for generally shallow water and spooks for deeper water. The clear ones work really well in about 10' of clear water
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P.S. I lost mine and am looking if anyone sees one around ottawa let me know.