pop-r

I have been experimenting with them lately. I have taken off the front treble & adding flashaboo to the rear hook. This has eliminated the front hook from getting tangled when casting & also stopped the fish from getting hooked in the eyes or face. I have not noticed any change in losing a fish because of only using 1 treble. Also I have noticed that I am not getting hooked on cover when reeling a fish in through cover. I prob. shoud add some weight to the front split ring to rebalance it,as it rides tail down now but doesn't seem to matter as far as hits go.I am surprized that I am not losing more fish, because I let them jump as I am going to release them anyway.Also it seems that I lose less smallies than Largemouth,maybe because the smallies hit harder? Also color doesn't seem to matter,although I do prefer shad color. Does anyone on here use them for Stripers? sam

  Fish eat fish head first. I'd leave it on for the Stripers also.
 
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first 3 Byrds ov the night came on the middle or back hook 7 Mile if you can find the inline Buzz baits they work great in the thick veg. crappy

I HAVE used poppers to catch Striper ( with pretty good success ), and it's almost alway the fronk hook the gets them. Walleyes, Bass ( more often than not ), and the occasional channel cat get stung by the back hook. But not Stripers. That's just the way they hit.

  I've used the 4" Rapala Pop R in the past with ok results on Byrds but just too many L/M liked it also. On the Pop R the front hook is almost center ov the lure so I would def. keep it on for Stripers like spoon said. Caught my 2 biggest Bass on the 4" Pop-R.

 Those 3 Byrds I caught on the middle/back hooks last night came on a Crippled Shad which like the Pop-R doesn't really have a front hook, more centered on the lure. Like Sponnie said 85 - 90% ov the time it's the front hook in the Stripers mouth. Hope this helps.

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