Does anyone have any experience with the Whopper Plopper lures? I've been hearing some good things. My bass-fishing is mostly for river smallmouth, with a bit of largemouth fishing in shallow, weedy crappie-pickerel ponds.
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Originally posted by JasonT View PostFor ponds my all time favorite is the jitter bug early in the morning, nothing like watching the water surface explode.
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Originally posted by MattM37 View Post
I like 'em, too. Pop-Rs and prop-baits are fun, too. Lots of times in the summer, I hit one of those ponds on my way home from the river, just for that last hour before sunset. The one I fish most is back in the woods a ways, more like a small lake that's half swamp, perfect place for quiet topwater fishing. Quiet until the strike comes, that is.
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Originally posted by crm3006 View PostYa'll just caught my two favorite times. Early morning with mist rising and right at sundown. Love it when Ole Bucketmouth comes up to take that Hula Popper or Jitterbug! Will have to look at these Whopper Plopper lures.
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Originally posted by crm3006 View PostYa'll just caught my two favorite times. Early morning with mist rising and right at sundown. Love it when Ole Bucketmouth comes up to take that Hula Popper or Jitterbug! Will have to look at these Whopper Plopper lures.
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A Jitterbug figures large in our family folklore, too. I don't know how many fish it caught, but once it caught my mother right in the forehead. Story goes, she and Dad were fishing in a johnboat on a lake in the Adirondacks. He'd probably had a few beers. Luckily he'd remembered the needle-nose pliers.
That Jitterbug was one of the old red-and-white ones. Dad had given up fishing long before I came along, but some of his tackle was still around. I remember he had a bunch of those big old Heddon plugs, too, the ones with the big metal lips. The smaller one was the River Runt; I can't remember what the bigger ones were called.
According to Mom and my older siblings, he loved fishing for pike with big plugs. Never cared about bass, was always after the pike, and didn't like to use spoons for some reason.
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Originally posted by MattM37 View PostA Jitterbug figures large in our family folklore, too. I don't know how many fish it caught, but once it caught my mother right in the forehead. Story goes, she and Dad were fishing in a johnboat on a lake in the Adirondacks. He'd probably had a few beers. Luckily he'd remembered the needle-nose pliers.
That Jitterbug was one of the old red-and-white ones. Dad had given up fishing long before I came along, but some of his tackle was still around. I remember he had a bunch of those big old Heddon plugs, too, the ones with the big metal lips. The smaller one was the River Runt; I can't remember what the bigger ones were called.
According to Mom and my older siblings, he loved fishing for pike with big plugs. Never cared about bass, was always after the pike, and didn't like to use spoons for some reason.
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Looks just like my dad, same cap, same smoke in the corner of the mouth, same white T-shirt.
Funny, I got to remembering how he and a lot of my old uncles were always talking about pike-fishing. It was always a big event to go up north for pike. I think maybe because in the 50s and 60s, the Lake Ontario salmon fishery was not yet established, so pike were the big-game species to go after.
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