queensland Caloundra with poppers

[slider65]

Decided to go our and try the poppers again, It was midday and the top of the tide and the water was super clear. So i paddled out to the centre of the sandbanks off golden beach to an area that was covered by weedbeds.I took a 1kg flick rod and 3 x 50mm poppers and a 4kg flick rod and 3\" x SP's, I positioned my yak so it would drift across the widest part of the weedbeds that were covered by 2-3 feet of water and started casting and almost straight away started getting hits on the popper. The thing i found was the popper had to be worked in a fast eratic action of 2-3 inch jerks and the whiting were chasing it all the way to the yak and there was 3 and 4 whiting chasing it at once.

The end result was 3 whiting one at 28.5cm, one at 36 and one at 36.5cm, and one bream at 27cm. I also dropped 4 more bream and 6 whiting from the hooks pulling out, i also dropped a small queenfish of about 35cm when it threw the popper in one of it's jumps.

All up i fished for about 1 1/2 hours .

All in all i was very happy with the result

[James W]

whiting on poppers...ya got love that mate...well done..and doesnt look like a real small popper either!

[slider65]

It's a 50mm bubble pop

[STU]

Sound like you had a fun popper session

[pinkey]

Thats awsome mate nice sized whiting to. unlucky about the queeny.

[Dazzamcgee]

Whiting on poppers well done !!

[Cowfish13]

I have that exact Bubble pop. Same colour. Have you got any 35mm BP's? Would they catch more or do you think that the Whiting and Bream like the bigger lures?

I'm still trying to get my first fish on a popper, but I havn't been trying to hard tho:D

[Rocket75]

what a great session, must have been a hoot. congratulations.

Rocket

[pinkey]

That must be one of the funnest ways to get a nice feed well done

[slider65]

Hi cowfish

I don't see why the 35 wouldn't catch them. The big thing i have found is that it has to be a fast erratic retrieve, i was jerking the popper fast with the rod tip in 2-3\" jerks and if it stopped they would loose interest and swim off. The faster the popper moved the move aggressive they became and the harder they hit.

I aslo saw 2 to 5 fish chasing the popper at a time so they were competing for it.

I was using a fairly stiff 1-3kg flick rod loaded with 1kg fire line and and a 2 metre long 4kg leader and making my casts long so as to cover as much water as possible.

The area i was fishing was weedbeds in the middle of some large sandbanks, the sandbanks had about a foot of water over them and the weedbeds had 2-3 feet of water over them.

[Cowfish13]

Thanks for that. I've gotta try out my poppers for Bream next time.

[breambuster13]

sounds like you had a good session.Good work.

craig

[clayton]

i have heaps of 35 bps is a fast retrieval better for bream with poppers.

[slider65]

Bream seem to preferr a retrieve that is more stop and start with plenty of pauses, They will slip up behind the popper and gently suck in under, Most of the time you will hook them on the back trebble.

[clayton]

cheers thanks man