Drop Shot A Hula Popper? 2024
Bassguytom reply :
Has anyone ever heard of drop shotting a pink hula popper? This sounds really different but we have a guy up here in PA that swears by it. Is he just trying to throw people off the bite or what? Let me know if you guys have any info. on this.
A-Jay reply :
Never heard that one - but I had a guide in Mexico recently tell me that a buzzbait on a Carolina rig was Money . . .
A-Jay
Teal reply :
Never heard of that, but ive also been known tell people that i caught my fish in 40 foot of water on a purple spinnerbait, when theyve badgered me with questions about how im catching them...
Shoalamfishin reply :
Sounds like a load of Bull Shad if you ask me. Like Teal said, I've know people to give out bogus information about what the fish are biting, and I've done it before myself especially to nosy, aggravating people that I don't trust that much.
Teal reply :
On 3/29/2013 at 11:59 AM, Shoalamfishin said:Sounds like a load of Bull Shad if you ask me. Like Teal said, I've know people to give out bogus information about what the fish are biting, and I've done it before myself especially to nosy, aggravating people that I don't trust that much.
Nail on the head. I dont mind helping anybody or talking fishing, but condesending or aggravting or untrustworthy people get the spinnerbait line or the cold shoulder. I have been BURNED really bad by someone who i thought was a respectful friend...i wont talk anything fishing related with that person at all now.
DelfiBoyz_One_and_Only reply :
I dont know if its true or not, but I do know what off the wall stuff like that can be effective. In the winter/spring I throw a floating jerk bait on the back of a c-rig, the hooks catch the line way less than you would think. I work it slow and give it a bunch of slack so it can rise. Its amazing. Next time your out fishing just give it ten minutes of your time. You may be suprised.
Jay- 
Brian6428 reply :
You guys have given me some good new ideas 
. My brother and I fish from a dock and in the summer there would be many days where we would be catching more fish than all the people in boats, so a couple times people in boats would come and cast right in front of where we are fishing on our dock, so that we just had to wait for a few minutes. It got to a point to where we had to keep a rod with a heavy Rat-L-Trap on it to "defend our territory" (just cast out far, not hit them) hahah. After that, they had the nerve to ask what lure we were using. We always told them what we were using, but that might change after reading this thread 
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BuckMaxx reply :
I am 99% sure that someones feeding your crapsticks. But it is so off the wall it might work. I went up walleye fishing with a buddy of mine that is a BIG walleye fisherman. I personally hate fishing for them. BOREDOM! But anyway. he asked me bewildered what the hell i was doing?? I tied on 2 gitzits one about 18" above the other and just caught the **** out of em. Wasn't long before he was digging in my Walmart sack tacklebox for his own rig.
Goose21 reply :
As long as it has a hook It will stick something eventually I guess. Grab a snickers bar it may be a while drop shotting a pink hula popper? I've never done it personally.
trailer reply :
What would be the point of that type bait in that type of presentation? I don't understand a popper lure 20 feet under water using a sit-and-wait approach.
CPBassFishing reply :
I can actually see how that might work....On 3/29/2013 at 10:45 AM, A-Jay said:Never heard that one - but I had a guide in Mexico recently tell me that a buzzbait on a Carolina rig was Money . . .
A-Jay
A-Jay reply :
On 3/29/2013 at 9:31 PM, CPBassFishing said:I can actually see how that might work....
Perhaps - but I think we was having fun with me . . .
A-Jay
Oldplug reply :
I think it would be about impossible unless he has made some drastic alterations to it. The popper has treble hooks and will rise straight up into the line and become tangled. I just wonder if he is a old bird and is confusing(it is normal for us old birds) drop shoting with trolling a popper and putting a small jig on a line about 18 inches in back of it. Around here the trollers do something a bit similar with a Jitterbug. They put 1/16 and 1/8 crappie jigs on about 2 ft of line tied to the rear hook of a Jitterbug and troll it. Believe me it can really slays the crappie and white bassinet the evenings when they are rising to feed.
On the other hand it sounds like a bare faced lie. I have never seen a pink Hula Popper. I do not think they are made. I just wonder if he made the pink claim just to make it seem more outrageous. I do not think he realizes that some pink plastic type lures can have their times and place as fish bass catchers.
Bluebasser86 reply :
Whenever someone asks me what I'm catching my fish on in a tournament I tell them a bubblegum colored hula popper carolina rigged in 30' of water by the dam. He was messing with you.
JoePhish reply :
Next time you talk to the guy tell him you took his advice and have been killing it on that rig ever since.
Scorcher214 reply :
On 3/30/2013 at 1:11 AM, JoePhish said:Next time you talk to the guy tell him you took his advice and have been killing it on that rig ever since.
THIS
J Francho reply :
I like to bubba shot Slammers.
PABASS reply :
Hmmm, does the person know what a drop shot is? The salt water guys been using this technique long before it was discovered useful for BASS and I never heard of anyone using topwater bait underwater with a drop shot?? I am all for trying it once but the concept sounds broken to me, it would have to be open water which isn't near me, it also doesn't imitate a frog or fish what would it be, floating vertical with a bunch of hooks lol..
tbone1993 reply :
On 3/29/2013 at 10:42 AM, Bassguytom said:Has anyone ever heard of drop shotting a pink hula popper? This sounds really different but we have a guy up here in PA that swears by it. Is he just trying to throw people off the bite or what? Let me know if you guys have any info. on this.
My buddy has won multiple tournaments vertical jigging buzzbaits in 30 ft of water. Give that a shot.
Snakehead Whisperer reply :
I'm trying to imagine how much weight it would take to keep a hula popper down... I imagine at least a solid ounce if not 2oz.
I'm with the others here. I think he's messing with you. Although I'm sure this rig could possibly catch fish under the right conditions if you worked out the technical problems with it's rigging.
lmoore reply :
Slow rolling a buzzbait on bottom in 20-30 feet of water is my go to answer for people I don't really want to answer. Actually have a buddy who watched a kid do it during a tournament.
(His final weight that day was zero)
Snakehead Whisperer reply :
I've actually caught fish slow rolling a buzzbait, but it was more like 3' of water
tomustang reply :
On 3/29/2013 at 10:42 AM, Bassguytom said:Has anyone ever heard of drop shotting a pink hula popper? This sounds really different but we have a guy up here in PA that swears by it. Is he just trying to throw people off the bite or what? Let me know if you guys have any info. on this.
We're in SEPA, it's only weird if you DONT hear a goofy story like that every season. 
Comfortably Numb reply :
Actually it really does work, but it has to have purple polka dots too.
bleedingshrimp reply :
On 3/30/2013 at 11:43 AM, Comfortably Numb said:Actually it really does work, but it has to have purple polka dots too.
Great! Now everyone will be doing it...I'll have to switch to my other secret...Alabama rig with crankbaits of different depths on braided line. You fish it really fast through grass and laydowns. Fishing sure gets expensive.
Snakehead Whisperer reply :
On 3/30/2013 at 11:43 AM, Comfortably Numb said:Actually it really does work, but it has to have purple polka dots too.
But seriously, purple on pink is a killer color scheme on crankbaits.
YoungProdigy19 reply :
"Loose lips sink ships". Dont believe everything you hear. Especially that!
Crookedneck reply :
I have actually done something similar. Except it involved a 3way swivel a 1 1/4oz sinker a Rebel pop-r with some of those tape on weights to keep it horizontal. A Zebco 33 spooled up w/ 12lb yellow Stren & a 5'6" ugly stick. I like to use it for deep water presentations for smallies. You cast it out let it sink (works best in brush or rocks) when the weight hits the bottom just do the chugging back in like normal. Great stained water presentation!
BassThumb reply :
I think he's trying to throw you off. I wouldn't be taking anymore fishing advice from that guy.
down4ttown reply :
I will try to help anyone. I am not a professional but if I am on the fish, I want others to experience the same. Especially those who are new or not as experienced.
RAMBLER reply :
Huh???? 
The Young Gun reply :
On 3/29/2013 at 11:59 AM, Shoalamfishin said:Sounds like a load of Bull Shad if you ask me. Like Teal said, I've know people to give out bogus information about what the fish are biting, and I've done it before myself especially to nosy, aggravating people that I don't trust that much.
"Bull Shad" hahaha.. I agree x2
S Hovanec reply :
I've been known to have a giant pink Poe's crank tied on when I show up for weigh-in but I've never 'told' anyone i was using it. They may have assumed it tho just by its presence on my rod. I have caught smallies over 100' of water on a Spook Jr. tho, so don't write off all goofy notions as someone pulling your chain.
J Francho reply :
QuoteI've been known to have a giant pink Poe's crank tied on when I show up for weigh-in but I've never 'told' anyone i was using it.
That's awesome. I once left my swimbait rod on the deck after a Tx on Erie, lol. The trick is not to say a thing about it.
BrettD reply :
On 4/1/2013 at 11:32 PM, S Hovanec said:I've been known to have a giant pink Poe's crank tied on when I show up for weigh-in but I've never 'told' anyone i was using it. They may have assumed it tho just by its presence on my rod. I have caught smallies over 100' of water on a Spook Jr. tho, so don't write off all goofy notions as someone pulling your chain.
I do this sometimes with a 10" offshore trolling crankbait that has #2 treble hooks on it.
ww2farmer reply :
Be careful about snowjobing the competition, it will come back to bite you. How do I know??? LOL. Last year I had a couple young guys who's chain I was yanking about how/where I was catching my fish..............well those guys went out and did some of the outlandish things I was dreaming up to mess with them, AND BEAT ME TWICE last fall in tournaments. Or so they said, maybe there just messing with me....it's actually pretty dang funny. Were all friends so no harm no foul, and I think they got wise to it anyways, because the hounding me for info stopped.
WhiteMike1018 reply :
It actually dosent seem that bogus.
When you think about it, does it really matter what bait you are drop shotting?
Usually at drop shot depths color dosent really play an important role at all and visibility also cuts down from sunlight.
After all a hula-popper does float and I can almost garuntee if you tried it out some youd likely catch a fish.
Also the hooks are on the bottom of the lure so it seems like it would also be pretty weedless on a vertical presentation.
Blues19 reply :
On 3/29/2013 at 9:14 PM, trailer said:What would be the point of that type bait in that type of presentation? I don't understand a popper lure 20 feet under water using a sit-and-wait approach.
thats what i was thinking too. and you would need alot of weight to make it sink. just seems like it would be crazy awkward to try to use
WhiteMike1018 reply :
Im trying this next time im out
Snakehead Whisperer reply :
On 4/8/2013 at 9:34 AM, WhiteMike1018 said:Im trying this next time im out
Please report back with the results.
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