I think the love affair has worn off completely now.
Damon took a few on the trip we went to NC but we gave him such a hard time about one of them (it had this red liquid that looked like blood sloshing around the inside of a transparent lure) that he didn't use it. He did use the biggest popper a fair bit and I have to admit it is probably the best beginner's poppers I have ever seen. All you have to do is twitch the rod tip and it creates a big boof. the problem is that no respectable GT angler is going to be able to sit there just twitching the rod tip with a popper on the end and Damon would, after a couple of casts, try to give it the good old rip. Every time he did this, he got the lure in aerial mode