Topwater Caranx Ignobilis: Giant Trevally (GT) > Tackle & Techniques
How to rig your poppers with hooks
Brandon Khoo:
I'm not that particular - I generally use the YGK kevlar as it can be spliced into a loop but I will pretty much use any type of kevlar I can get my hands on! In terms of length, I think it is more a case of experimenting and finding what you think works for you. I think a length of two to three inches is adequate. Whatever you use, you will have incredibly frustrating days when you won't hook a damn thing because the fish are just slapping at the lures. Just need to persevere.
Peter Childs:
Brandon, I used the assist hook off the head quite a bit on a recent trip to Fiji, mainly on cubera 100s and 125s. What I did find, was that after repeated casting the assist cord started to wear a grove in the cup of the popper due to water pressure. Whilst it didn't seam to affect the performance of the popper, it didn't always settle in the dead down position (it might start to wear to one side for example).
I can imagine over time the wear will severely compromise the paint coating and lead to water logging of the popper! Luckily?, I was losing poppers to being reefed more often than changing them due to water logging. Have you experienced this, and what have you done to combat it?
PS. I also found that an assist of the head and a spinner off the tail to be a good balance on some poppers.
Mark Harris:
Peter, you might want to try softening the surface of the Kevlar cord by using heat shrink. Instinctively it feels that a soft heat shrink surface will not wear into the cup in any way. Just a thought.
Until reading this article I had never heard of (and certainly never used!) an assist cord off the front of a popper. I still have not used it in anger, but rigged a few different poppers that way and tried some beach-casting tests the other evening. As Brandon pointed out right at the start, you have to be selective on which poppers you use this rigging on. Some really misbehaved while others came in beautifully.
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate the mine of great tips and information in this forum.
Craig WILLIAMS:
Ive been having issues getting hold of Owner SJ-41 in size 11/0 recently and I've been told the 11/0 and 13/0 have been discontinued.. I'm not sure why as the 13/0 was a relatively new addition to the range I thought and surely 11/0 would have been one of the most popular sizes??
Ive just checked on the Australian Owner website and they only list SJ-41 available in sizes 3/0 to 9/0 and more surprisingly SJ-51 in 5/0 to 7/0 only..
Can anyone shed some light on this?
Nathan Cefai:
A dvd from Nomad has Glanville and Damon using poppers with just Jig Assist hoooks attached to the front of the popper,pretty succesfull..
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