Whopper Plopper or Berkley Choppo?

[VTFan]

Just a curious question.  Which do you prefer, the Whopper Plopper or the Berkley Choppo? Also, what colors?

[ironbjorn]

Which one? Yes

 

Which colors? Yes

 

They're the same, and colors don't matter. It makes a ruckus on top and gets hit because of it.

[MediumMouthBass]

They are both good, one sounds different than the other, one has a hard tail and the other soft.

So if you are throwing around docks/rocks/and trees or wood get the soft tail. If throwing around open water or grass either.

There was a post asking this a few weeks ago, maybe a month. Search for it and you will find alot more information.

And for colors, White (or bone), Black, Frog, Rainbow Trout, or Perch depending on whats in your waters.

[Darth-Baiter]

I just boxed up all of them and will give them to a bud.  I just dont enjoy fishing with them enough.  

 

I like the glug of the WP better.  it seems deeper.  

[FryDog62]

Both are good - I lean towards the 105 Choppo because of its size - seems to work equally well for largemouth and smallmouth in my neck of the woods. I think it's more the tonal quality of the plop than color, but I like Bone for smb and Bluegill/Monkey Butt for lmb. 

[Susky River Rat]

I like the choppo 90 in the black chrome color for smallies on the susky. I haven’t rest used the WP much. The bait monkey will tell you get some of each. I am sure they both have situations they are slightly better in than the other. 

[Jig Man]

If I had a dollar for every fish that I have caught on a whopper plopper I would have $2.

[OG Crankster]

For the last 2 years, the berkley bucktooth choppo has been my most productive top water lure. Catches numbers and big fish. I don't leave home without one.

[Darth-Baiter]

@Jig Man  hahahaha..I think using that logic, I owe someone some money.  

[MickD]

Neither.  They are not even as good as the lure they emulated, the Jitterbug.

[Happybeerbuzz]

Choppo - the tail engages faster.  

[FrnkNsteen]

I use both. I agree the WP is a softer "glug" as Darth said. The Choppo seems to have a harder chop to it and makes more noise. Name fits in my opinion.

 

I have caught a TON of fish with them in all colors.... Bone White, black Loon, frog, perch, silver with black back,... etc. Smallies up in the Canadian shield glacier lakes LOVE them!,... Unfortunately, so do the Northern Pike and Musky!

 

I watch for sales and keep stocked up. Choppo goes on sale more often!

[swhit140]

I've caught plenty of fish on both brands, first thing I do out of the package is replace the hooks. I like Chrome, Bone, Black but you can probably catch them on any color. 

[tim_kovar]

Guess I am the odd one on here, but I much prefer the whopper plopper over a choppo.  Monkey butt is my go to color.

[Bluebasser86]

On 8/6/2023 at 12:20 PM, MickD said:

Neither.  They are not even as good as the lure they emulated, the Jitterbug.

I'm really curious how you've come to the conclusion that a chopper is emulating a crawler?? They're both topwaters, but that's kind of where the similarities end in my mind. The WP certainly wasn't designed to emulate them, it was a copy of large chopping muskie baits that Larry Dahlburg pursues often. When he was designing the bait for R2S, the first version was the 190 that he was in fact using mainly for muskie and pike but kept catching bass on it so they made smaller versions and found it to be an effective bass lure as well.

 

I have caught countless bass on a WP. Despite my efforts fishing it, I finally caught my first bass on a Choppo about a month ago, all 10" of it. I'm not sure the difference, but I can't seem to catch a bass on the Choppos to save my life. 

[MickD]

Both the jitterbug and the WP are lures that steadily gurgle across the water, not much difference from a bass's perspective, I expect.  Not exactly the same, but similar. I really think the jitterbug is superior, though.  Certainly not inferior to the WP. 

[Bird]

I occasionally fish with a fellow that works these baits with an abrupt JERK JERK JERK and a slight pause, he does really well.

I'm mostly a steady retrieve with only an occasional pause.

Caught the most on a 90 in Monkey Butt.

[Darth-Baiter]

EL Whopper doesnt have the same ring as EL CHOPPO!  

[Big Swimbait]

If you just want to fun fish, throw the 60 on light tackle - I use my BFS set-up. The numbers are amazing - even in this ridiculous Texas heat! Bone, Loon and Monkey Butt are my best colors. Now I also throw the 190 in low light conditions on 65# braid. You can hear that beast the next cove over...

[Bluebasser86]

On 8/8/2023 at 3:51 PM, Big Swimbait said:

If you just want to fun fish, throw the 60 on light tackle - I use my BFS set-up. The numbers are amazing - even in this ridiculous Texas heat! Bone, Loon and Monkey Butt are my best colors. Now I also throw the 190 in low light conditions on 65# braid. You can hear that beast the next cove over...

I just put new hooks on my 190. Got a tournament coming up with lots of standing timber and a lake that has been putting out lots of 6-8 pound fish. Thinking that monster might call them up out of those deep trees and I doubt anyone else has been tossing one. 

[VTFan]

I have two WP's, one in chrome/black and the other in perch color.  Both 90 size and I noticed last night that on has a deeper 'plop' sound than the other.  That could come in handy I guess.

[Big Swimbait]

15 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I just put new hooks on my 190. Got a tournament coming up with lots of standing timber and a lake that has been putting out lots of 6-8 pound fish. Thinking that monster might call them up out of those deep trees and I doubt anyone else has been tossing one. 

Go for it. One of my favorite ways to fish it is pitch it up close to the bank along side of a dock. I let it sit for a little bit because it sounds like somebody fell in when it hits the water. If one is there, I rarely get more than 3 cranks before the blow up. I also swapped the hooks to BKK Viper-41's and the split rings to Owner Ultra. I've lost 2 baits to giant cats - not taking that chance again.

[santafish]

The color is just on top, basically the bottom of the lures are white ish and all the fish will ever see. I may carry different sizes with me but carrying different colors of ploppers/choppos just sounds crazy to me.