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Poor Mans Bone Fish

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Rohit Saqa Lal:
If you can get your hands on any Sugoi poppers then it will be a good investment. problem is they are discontinued and rare as hens teeth and $35 a pop if you can find any. Hawk has some clones that a close and get some good fish but not quite on par with the Sugoi, but still I find the Hawks to be better then most others and at $7 a steal. The top pic is the Sugoi and the bottom one the Hawk. Both are identical in size and shape but the camera angle makes em look a bit different. They swim the same as well with the real difference in the sound of the rattle.

Warwick Joyce:

--- Quote from: graham scott on October 22, 2009, 03:30:06 PM ---Good report!
I have tried up here in CQ, but I think our whiting population is a bit low...too many big predators.
I had some success with Bushy's stiffy poppers.
What worked for you guys.

I also found adding an extra split ring to the back treble increased my hook up rate. Looks like your whiting were a lot hungrier than the ones I could find.
Still great fun at any size.

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I too have been trying heaps, no luck yet but plenty of strikes and by catches no whiting yet  :(

I'll be trying that 2 split trick of yours Graham as I'm sure there have been whiting strikes!!

Graham Scott:
Hi warwick,
Yes I was getting lots of slashes behind the popper with zero connects. I've caught maybe 5 or 6 now all on the back treble, just in the lip. I guess they are trying to disable or even annoy the popper rather than eating it, which is clearly impossible given the size of their mouths.
If I'm looking for a feed of whiting I have been using the popper to prospect as you can cover a lot of ground quickly, then swing over to bait when I've seen them having a go at the popper, not very sporting I know.

Also caught some decnt flathead...and a big green toad.

Surprisingly I've had heaps of gar have a go but no hookups.

Travis Heaps:

--- Quote from: graham scott on October 24, 2009, 01:19:32 PM ---Hi warwick,
Yes I was getting lots of slashes behind the popper with zero connects. I've caught maybe 5 or 6 now all on the back treble, just in the lip. I guess they are trying to disable or even annoy the popper rather than eating it, which is clearly impossible given the size of their mouths.
If I'm looking for a feed of whiting I have been using the popper to prospect as you can cover a lot of ground quickly, then swing over to bait when I've seen them having a go at the popper, not very sporting I know.

Also caught some decnt flathead...and a big green toad.

Surprisingly I've had heaps of gar have a go but no hookups.

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Hey Graham - also having trouble with them up here on the poppers, definitely nothing like the success you had on your first trip Greg.  Ahh yes the Gar/Longtoms do like them - ask Warwick, he managed to catch one without even hooking it!  Managed to get it's beak tangled in the trace... :D 

Recently bougth a Bassday Sugapen for a Jungle Perch trip though and it looks the goods, looking forward to trying it on the local whiting population.

Stephen Polzin:

--- Quote from: Rohit Saqa Lal on October 22, 2009, 11:07:05 PM ---If you can get your hands on any Sugoi poppers then it will be a good investment. problem is they are discontinued and rare as hens teeth and $35 a pop if you can find any. .


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Strewth, I picked up a couple of those Sugoi poppers at Tackleberry in Japan a few years ago.  Tackleberry is a franchise of stores selling used fishing tackle.  I think they worked out at about $2 each.  Work great on Sooty Grunter and Jungle Perch.

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