Andrew Burke
Hello everyone! I hope the spring run is treating you well, and that you're able to spend some time on the water. The bass are certainly here, with the bigger ones beginning to show up too!
Personally, I've had one lure stand out among the rest so far this season: The Super Strike Little Neck Popper.
The Super Strike Little Neck Popper casts like a tin, swims like a metal lip, spits water beautifully, and should definitely become part of your topwater arsenal.
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When thrown with a rod rated 1-4oz, the Super Strike popper absolutely flies. It's more compact than a pencil popper of similar weight, and cuts through wind extremely well.
Because of it's heavy weight, the Super Strike popper sinks the moment it hits the water. However, this shouldn't discourage you from using it even in flat calm conditions. When you're retrieving this lure it planes right to the surface, ready to pop and splash water.
Super Strike makes these lures in 3 different options. They have a floating model (with green eyes), their standard sinking model (with black eyes, pictured below), and an extra-heavy model for heavy surf (with red eyes).
I only have experience with the black-eyed sinking plugs. This season, they've been effective in dead calm waters, as well as high wind and surf like we had Mother's Day weekend.
The sinking models swim like a metal lip swimmers on a slow, straight retrieve. This action can be mixed in with popping for some great results.
Thank Andy, Ive been making some of my own plugs and cant wait to try them here as couple i love fishing the poppers
Nice video. Thanks. Where were you fishing. Looks like a jetties in Cape Cod Bay.
Thankyou for passing on this information
My pleasure David! Thanks for tuning in!
Definitely an under-used plug on the Cape, often taking a back seat to the pencil….and while I still prefer a pencil by a small margin, there have been more than a couple occasions where the presentation of the littleneck draws strikes when a pencil won’t. Legendary plug for sure.
Couldn’t agree more Daniel. Don’t see them all too often out here, but they certainly work!
Nice video. What rod & reel are you using. Thanks
This is a Van Staal 200x paired on a Century Stealth 10′ rated 1-4oz.
Good video. I will give it a try later this week when I get on Cape
Thanks for tuning in Mark! Good luck out there!
Nice video! Good Action! Looking to convert a couple of my plugs!
Absolutely Love this lure, I fish the Black and red eye exclusively, I also tie tails and add a tiny bit of flash to the hooks, these lures “swim” Great on a slow retrieve, plane back up and “pop” easily, I personally like the 2 3/4oz sinking, this will be a Go-to plug on many occasions.
Interesting! What about adding two split rings and leave the wire as is? This way you don’t risk breaking it and the fish has even less leverage once hooked.
Good point Patrick! I guess its just preference. I personally wouldn’t want to have the hook hanging that far back with two split rings. It probably would be very functional though. If only the Super Strikes had barrel swivels off the back wire, that would solve all the problems!
Great information Andrew. I thought I was watching a John Skinner video!
Haha thanks Dex! That format is pretty instructional, so I figured I’d try it out. Hope your season is going well!