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Chris Young:
Just wondering how many of you have pencil poppers in your kit?. Couldn't help but notice most fish caught in these pages are on large poppers or stickbaits, the poor old pencil seems to be out of fashion ::)

Chris

Mick Cunningham:
hi chris .
i find the pencil need to work with a high speed and keep spinning non stop and sometime i am out of breath to keep it up  :-[

i do have a couple in my kit just in case when the tuna are hot .

i did notice that you make one for tony when we went to frazer . and it,s a nice pencil popper . and he has tested it but but he was out of breath  :D :D

that size seem to be a great size for tuna  ;).

i will be happy to test more on it if you wish so while i go up north in nov .  :)

Andrew Poulos:
I like pencil poppers but I chase different fish with them. The speed gets them going more than bloopers.

Brandon Khoo:
I always carry a couple of different pencils on my trips but they are not generally a preferred choice. The primary reason is that I have rarely come upon suitable conditions in the past couple of years. Pencils work very, very well when the fish are active and I've had days in the past when pencils have outfished everything else.

My experience is you don't need to work them as fast as most people think. The objective is to get them to make a steady commotion on the surface and you can do that without going flat out. I've seen some quite surprising fish caught on pencils ncuding a maori wrasse.

I know Sachin uses them with great success in Fiji.

Aaron Strid:
I quite like using pencils poppers when chasing GTS.  Speed isn't necessarily the key.  My 5 year old son was proof when he caught a 5 kilo GT on 6 kg gear by slowly winding in a 135 halco rooster.  The lure was just blooping along at a reasonable speed and the GT had no hesitation in smashing the lure.  Also there is nothing like watching a GT at speed with it fin up chasing down a popper on the surface. 

What is other peoples preference on pencils?

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