The Fishing Website : Discussion Forums : Stickbait / Popper hooks https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:01:47 +0000 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:26:51 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.01 360 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=50611 <![CDATA[The Fishing Website : Discussion Forums]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/ <![CDATA[Stickbait / Popper hooks : Uncle wrote:I can...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718774&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718774 Author: Moocha
Subject: 50611
Posted: 13 Feb 2010 at 9:26pm

Originally posted by Uncle Uncle wrote:

I can see this one, posted by Moocha
. Is this the one?>>> 
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Posted: Yesterday at 3:40pm - IP: 210.54.1.141
Nice one Stu, so that belly hook on the popper will trail as a tail hook on the retrieve huh, will you rig a shorter one that sits in the belly section  to cover non tail strikes ?
 
I had an idea of rigging the assists similar to a double on game  lures and rigged off the belly of the popper/stick bait, wonder what the pros and cons of that would be ?


I was paranoid before now that just confirms it LOLEmbarrassed

no Uncle it was one after that post.....and no Koro I am about to start drinking I wasn't before in answer to the next question LOLWink

I know for a fact posts don't 'just vanish' they often have a helping hand although usually I am asking for it when they do to be fair,  but not sure why that one would 'suddenly disappear'...
....note to self install anonymous IP scrambler  downloaded last week Wink LOL
]]> Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:26:51 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718774&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718774 <![CDATA[Stickbait / Popper hooks : Here is how I rig my stick baits...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718762&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718762 Author: Wazza(BOP)
Subject: 50611
Posted: 13 Feb 2010 at 9:11pm

Here is how I rig my stick baits and poppers.......................all owner hooks.

The lower one, the hook acts as a rudder to stop it rotating on retrieval. It's a light stick bait and with my heavy 250g popper rod it could rotate.


]]> Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:11:05 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718762&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718762 <![CDATA[Stickbait / Popper hooks : I can see this one, posted by...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718750&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718750 Author: Uncle
Subject: 50611
Posted: 13 Feb 2010 at 8:45pm

I can see this one, posted by Moocha
. Is this the one?>>> 
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Posted: Yesterday at 3:40pm - IP: 210.54.1.141
Nice one Stu, so that belly hook on the popper will trail as a tail hook on the retrieve huh, will you rig a shorter one that sits in the belly section  to cover non tail strikes ?
 
I had an idea of rigging the assists similar to a double on game  lures and rigged off the belly of the popper/stick bait, wonder what the pros and cons of that would be ?
]]> Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:45:11 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718750&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718750 <![CDATA[Stickbait / Popper hooks : Yes, good point Moocha.... I remember...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718740&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718740 Author: Capt Asparagus
Subject: 50611
Posted: 13 Feb 2010 at 8:39pm

Yes, good point Moocha.... I remember reading that post, and it is gone now... as you say, wtf.
I will ask on the mod forum....
]]> Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:39:13 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718740&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718740 <![CDATA[Stickbait / Popper hooks : what happened to my other post...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718712&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718712 Author: Moocha
Subject: 50611
Posted: 13 Feb 2010 at 7:44pm

what happened to my other post ? re a resemblance to a cedar plug ...wtf ?]]> Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:44:05 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718712&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718712 <![CDATA[Stickbait / Popper hooks : Ideally I would have gone for...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718661&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718661 Author: Capt Asparagus
Subject: 50611
Posted: 13 Feb 2010 at 4:49pm

Ideally I would have gone for hook up, but that ain't how it rolled....]]> Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:49:50 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718661&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718661 <![CDATA[Stickbait / Popper hooks : I like the thinking CA.... i&#039;ve...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718626&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718626 Author: jamesdaulton
Subject: 50611
Posted: 13 Feb 2010 at 3:20pm

I like the thinking CA.... i've lost a lot of trout spinning with toby's because the lure rolls the hook out - and that was my main resoning for investigating the assist option...  I like the break away idea as well - i imagine if you trim the tag really short it would release easily. The only problem I see is upsetting the action of the lure - as mentioned above. I may be wrong but probably a bigger deal with sub-surface sticks than poppers???
 
ok so next question would be - do you think that hook at the tail should point up or down???
]]> Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:20:21 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718626&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718626 <![CDATA[Stickbait / Popper hooks : No, my Ingenious Plans are always...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718524&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718524 Author: Capt Asparagus
Subject: 50611
Posted: 13 Feb 2010 at 11:11am

No, my Ingenious Plans are always plans of fiendish ingeniousity. Slight amounts of Hoop-lah attend all such acts of supreme ingeniousositiness.
Ingenuitity is one thing however, practicalitiness is another, that is why I'd like to play with this rig, just to see if it works as well as I am naturally assuming it will.... being such a fiendishly ingenious plan and all :-)
]]> Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:11:14 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718524&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718524 <![CDATA[Stickbait / Popper hooks : choice as...whatever works for...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718513&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718513 Author: Kezza
Subject: 50611
Posted: 13 Feb 2010 at 10:35am

choice as...whatever works for you then just keep on truckin' Stu....Thumbs Up...

obviously one mans ingenious plan is another mans hoopla.
]]> Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:35:30 +0000 https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718513&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718513 <![CDATA[Stickbait / Popper hooks : I don&#039;t like split rings,...]]> https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50611&PID=718507&title=stickbait-popper-hooks#718507 Author: Capt Asparagus
Subject: 50611
Posted: 13 Feb 2010 at 10:14am

I don't like split rings, to get a decent sized hook into a split ring, the rings just about always do not handle it well (had enough of them opened by GTs in the tropics), and I think the assist would be stronger. Also, I hope/expect the tiny little ziptie I used to hold the hook at the tail will break under pressure, so the fish will not be able to use the body of the lure as leverage to help work the hook free.... it may flap about a little in the fishes face, which may irritate the fishie a little, but the lure, not being attached to the hook will mean that the fish cannot get any purchase on the lure to lever it out of it's jaw (don't worry, I know what I mean).
If I had wanted, I could have just used a shorter assist and loopedonto the belly ring, that would have given me a hook in roughly thesame place, it is what I did with the popper-caught kingi  pic above.That still left the lure in the frame though... I really do like theidea of the line from rod-tip to hook not include a hardbodied lure.
Much the same as assists work with jigs, I suspect that if you had a nice single split ringed onto the tail of a long jig, you'd get plenty of hookups on that too, but the length of the jig would pop out the hook pretty quick.
I also like having the hook as close as poss to the tail of the lure... if I used an assist just looped onto the tail position, then the hook'd be a couple of inches astern of the lure itself, and then I'd want to have one at the belly just to cover a fish whacking the body of the lure... and I'd be back to having a 2 hooked lure in a kingie, something which I do not like the idea of, having seen how good kingies are at turning a second hook into a flying gaff for catching people with before, and not wanting a repeat of that exercise! :-) (Another excellent reason for not having a tail hook on a long jig).
So that is why I thought I'd have a looksee at the assist attached at the lures head. Second choice would have been at the belly. Last choice would be to have multiple hooks on the lure, for me anyhow.
Oh, and there's not really all that much "hoop-la"... it uses one cable tie at the back, but then otehr options given here have cable ties used to join twin singles at the belly position as well. There is actually a lot less to go wrong with this rig than there is with a couple of hooks with split rings etc... I don't see that assist braid pulling apart any time in a hurry, and it enabled me to use a very nice large Gammie hook on the lure, so I know it ain't gonna let go either.
Well, thems my thoughts anyhow,
cheers,
Stu.


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