Drop Shot A Hula Popper?

[bassguytom]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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 .

[BuckMaxx]

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]

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]

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]

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

I can actually see how that might work....

[A-Jay]

I can actually see how that might work....

 

Perhaps - but I think we was having fun with me . . .

 

A-Jay

[Oldplug]

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]

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]

Next time you talk to the guy tell him you took his advice and have been killing it on that rig ever since.

[Scorcher214]

Next time you talk to the guy tell him you took his advice and have been killing it on that rig ever since.

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[J Francho]

I like to bubba shot Slammers.

[PABASS]

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]

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]

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]

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]

I've actually caught fish slow rolling a buzzbait, but it was more like 3' of water

[tomustang]

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]

Actually it really does work, but it has to have purple polka dots too.

[bleedingshrimp]

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.