I've never had much luck with poppers. It's probably from fishing them wrong. That is until I started tying Lefty's Potomac River Poppers. These consistantly work on all warm water species, including pickeral, both bass, and panfish.
It's as simple as possible, and Lefty recommends just leaving the cork uncoated and unpainted - au naturale. This works and lasts until the popper gets beaten up too much to fish anyway. Just a cork, a squirrel tail and a collar of crystal chenille. The slim body, and the lack of feathers and stuff, aids in casting, and the squirrel tail pulses in the water. It works, and is quick and simple to tie. I buy corks at Michaels. --- Steve, In Maryland ____________________________________________________________ Free Poetry Contest. Win $10,000. Submit your poem @ Poetry.com! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;6750922;3807821;l?http://www.poetry.com/contest/contest.asp?Suite=A59101
