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Went on a five day last year and one of the deck hands caught some big yellowfin casting a popper. Anyone have any experience with them, what type, weight, color works best? |  Published by | | | Rock Star Join Date: Aug-24-2003 Location: Carlsbad
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What trip were you on? | | |
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Feb-16-2007, 09:24 AM
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Have used them at Guadalupe and Alijos the past couple of years with some success. Yozuri GT Popper is my favorite. Replace the trebles with the new owner trebles.
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Originally Posted by ocsawdust  What trip were you on? | Sr. Tuna, Pac Star October. | | | | | | Re: Tuna Poppers
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Originally Posted by Bajangler Went on a five day last year and one of the deck hands caught some big yellowfin casting a popper. Anyone have any experience with them, what type, weight, color works best? | Poppers are a blast for tuna. Dodos, and Yellowtail eat them pretty good too. There are a couple very good brands out there. Yozuri, and River2Sea are a good place to start. You want to match the bait so take several sizes with you. Mackeral, and sardine patterns/colors work well, and the pink/white combo seems to work pretty good also. Another surface treat is the skip jig...works like a charm. Both methods seem to work best when the fish have pushed the bait up already, and are feeding hard but there have been times when I was able to get fish to go on the surface when soaking baits wasn't working. I have found this to be especially true with Blue Fin Tuna. They seem to like the sporadic movement, and splashing on days when they aren't really keying in on the bait, or yoyo iron. Top producing colors for me are blue/white, green/white, and pink/white for poppers, and green sardine 7x is my favorite for the skip jig although blue/white works almost as well. Sometimes when the bait is smaller you can even skip a megabait and get them to go. My favorite color of megabait is black/silver...especially for Albies, and Blue Fin Tuna. Hope this helps. | | | | | | Re: Tuna Poppers
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Originally Posted by fishnfool Poppers are a blast for tuna. Dodos, and Yellowtail eat them pretty good too. There are a couple very good brands out there. Yozuri, and River2Sea are a good place to start. You want to match the bait so take several sizes with you. Mackeral, and sardine patterns/colors work well, and the pink/white combo seems to work pretty good also. Another surface treat is the skip jig...works like a charm. Both methods seem to work best when the fish have pushed the bait up already, and are feeding hard but there have been times when I was able to get fish to go on the surface when soaking baits wasn't working. I have found this to be especially true with Blue Fin Tuna. They seem to like the sporadic movement, and splashing on days when they aren't really keying in on the bait, or yoyo iron. Top producing colors for me are blue/white, green/white, and pink/white for poppers, and green sardine 7x is my favorite for the skip jig although blue/white works almost as well. Sometimes when the bait is smaller you can even skip a megabait and get them to go. My favorite color of megabait is black/silver...especially for Albies, and Blue Fin Tuna. Hope this helps. | Have any poppers in stock? | | | | | | Re: Tuna Poppers
A few...waiting for the order to arrive from the show last month. | | | | | | Re: Tuna Poppers
Hey Kevan................tell them about the time a couple of years ago when we (Team Hanna) were on a paddy of a life time, and you were throwing a popper on those yellowfin. Tell them how those damn things were flipping out of the water and crashing that thing like it was a bomb and we were laughing our asses off. Tell them how the Yellow Fin Tuna were fighting over the popper. Tell them how much fun that was.............. Tell them..............
Oh...................guess I just did. 
Curtis..........
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Ive always taken a couple yozuri curface cruisers with me on my LR trips and they tend to work great when youre running and gunning on the bird schools. blast to fish them and they look cool as hell getting blown up on. | | | | | | Re: Tuna Poppers
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Originally Posted by Captain Curt Hey Kevan................tell them about the time a couple of years ago when we (Team Hanna) were on a paddy of a life time, and you were throwing a popper on those yellowfin. Tell them how those damn things were flipping out of the water and crashing that thing like it was a bomb and we were laughing our asses off. Tell them how the Yellow Fin Tuna were fighting over the popper. Tell them how much fun that was.............. Tell them..............
Oh...................guess I just did.
Curtis..........
The boat Hanna......... | You mean this trip??? | | | | | | Re: Tuna Poppers
Nice Yellow Fin Tuna! That's what we need here this summer. | | | | | | Re: Tuna Poppers
Kevan, are you going to have a booth at the Fred Hall Del Mar? | | | | | | Re: Tuna Poppers
Pink Pili Poppers work KILLER. | | | Pope
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Feb-16-2007, 06:51 PM
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I just posted something about jigs from this website, but they have some good looking poppers too. We use them all the time in the Gulf, especially at night. 360Tackle | | | | | | Re: Tuna Poppers
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Try here. I just bought a couple for the upcoming season. I've seen these poppers in person and they are made really well. Now i just have to wait to see if they'll catch fish!!! | | | | |
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