Poppers for pike

Among the wide variety of lures, popper pike fishing in autumn, as well as in other seasons, is the most effective. With the help of this kind of bait, fishermen often pull out a trophy predator that comes out of its hiding place to look at the specific sound made by the fish. We will try together to determine the most catchy poppers for pike and find out all the subtleties of this bait.

What is popper?

Even novice spinningists know wobblers as baits, but not everyone has heard about the popper. In fact, this is the same bait, only made with some features.

Popper is called an artificial bait, which does not have a shovel at all and works only on the surface of the reservoir, without plunging into the water column. You can catch it in open water at any time of the year, splashes and gurgling during posting can attract the attention of even a deep-standing predator.

The bait is made of high-quality plastic and wood, almost every well-known company has a good line of poppers, and they can differ in different parameters, including color.

Features of the use of bait

Catching a predator with a spinning rod on water bodies makes anglers have a whole arsenal of various baits. Be sure to include a popper among them, and it is better to choose several models at once. Often, with the strongest biting, it is this bait that helps to interest the pike and fish out fairly large specimens.

Popper has its own application features, among which it is worth highlighting:

• classic wiring;
• the possibility of fishing in hard-to-reach places;
• catching not only pike, but also other representatives of predatory fish species in the reservoir.

Immediately after casting, anglers with experience recommend waiting 5-15 seconds, during this period the bait may drop a little. This is followed by a sharp jerk and winding of the cord, it is during this period that the popper emerges from the water and then goes along its surface, making gurgling sounds. The predator reacts to this instantly, it seems to him that a frog has fallen into the water, which is a real delicacy. The pike cannot refuse such a delicacy, so its attack follows almost immediately, the main thing is to make a notch in time.

Almost all variants of this bait will catch well, but there are 10 best ones that will be exactly catchy. The top ranking looks something like this:

1. Yo-Zuri EBA
2. Fishycat Popcat
3. Mega Bass Pop x
4. Owner Cultiva Gobo Popper
5. Halco Night Walker nano
6. Lacky Craft Bevy Popper
7. Ponton 21 BeatBull
8. Kosadaka Tokao
9. Salmo Spirit Rover
10. Yo-Zuri Hydro Popper

The presence of at least a few poppers from this list in the box of an avid angler is a must.

The most catchy form for a popper is considered to be a cone-shaped, wide head and thinner at the tail. But other subspecies also catch no worse.

Where and when to use poppers

For many, catching pike on a popper in the fall is the most successful, but this bait works all the time in open water. Experienced anglers recommend using it both in hot and cold weather, they use poppers for perch and pike from early spring until freezing, and predators react to it perfectly.

Poppers are used both for flow and in stagnant water, while catching them in different places.

Sometimes, a fun-filled popper in deep water helps to catch trophy pike. The predator rises from the very bottom in order to consider what creates such specific sounds.

Downstream, it is additionally worth catching places around small islands with a sharp drop in depths, often a toothy predator stands there.

Types and varieties of poppers

A catchy popper for fishing can be different, in total there are two types of this bait. They will not differ much:

• The first subspecies in the water is strictly horizontal, its hooks descend into the water, it goes exactly along the surface. Such a popper for pike is used in the presence of thickets of algae in the reservoir, highly located snags and other foreign bodies in the selected reservoir.
• The second subspecies differs from the first in a lowered tail, that is, the popper’s head is above the water, and the back is immersed in water. A pike on a popper of this type rushes perfectly, but it is worth guiding it through clean areas of the reservoir in order to avoid hooks and not lose the bait.

In some cases, baits may differ in shape, they are additionally equipped with propellers, which, when wired, create additional noise that attracts pike.

They are also distinguished by size, poppers are from 5 cm to 25 cm long. Large ones are usually equipped with three tees, they are used to catch trophy specimens weighing 6 kg or more.

The subtleties of fishing by season

We know how to catch a popper, it’s enough to master simple classic wiring. But there are some subtleties of catching a predator with such a bait for the seasons, and we will consider them further.

Spring

During this period, any of the subspecies of poppers is used. The vegetation has not yet risen from the bottom, there is enough water, the fish rises to feed in the upper layers. It is these factors that significantly reduce the possibilities of bait hooks; both horizontally floating and models with a submerged tail are used.

The color scheme is used bright, perfectly attract attention:

• light green;
• bright yellow;
• orange;
• green with a red belly.

For this period, it is desirable that the bait has a tee with plumage or with lurex, this will help to get not only a toothy predator, but also asp or pike perch as a trophy.

Summer

In the summer, it is better to catch pike on natural-colored lures. The water is already clear, the turbidity has subsided, the predator has become more careful, and even in the heat, bright colors can frighten off a potential trophy.

The best poppers for pike for summer should be of a natural color, and they should go strictly horizontally, since the algae at the bottom have already grown to the fullest, the water in the reservoirs has fallen, so the risk of hooks increases.

In cloudy weather, you can catch pike all day long, especially if it is also drizzling; in sunny, clear weather, fishing with poppers is carried out at dawn and before sunset. At night, poppers are also caught in the summer, for this they choose models with a fluorescent coating or paint them on their own.

Autumn

Catching pike on a popper in autumn is usually the most successful, and fishing is done both during the period of relative heat and just before freezing. A wide variety of models will work, but it is better to give preference to those that are kept parallel to the water.

Of the colors, both acidic and natural ones work. An excellent option would be a model with elements of these two colors. The wiring is standard, but it is better to take a thicker base and leash, during this period the pike is already beginning to fatten up for the winter, become more aggressive and can easily bite even a thick fishing line.

Pike can be caught on poper spinning in different water bodies at any time of the year, the main thing is that the water is open. Choosing a bait is not difficult, and even a beginner can handle the wiring after several trials. That is, the popper will be an excellent bait option for a predator and should be in the arsenal of every fisherman.