Anybody have luck useing Pencil Poppers this time of year?

Oh yeah! God I love those yellow ones.

As soon as the squid show up I start using them as well as poppers

I use pencils all season.
I build them from 3/4 oz to 3 1/2 oz.
The Schoolies love the small ones.
yellow, green, olive.

What Surfrod says......you should virtually be beginning your season with them.....schoolies as well as large fish slam them! I keep a full arsenal of 1 ounce Gibbs in all colors trimmed with a 5/0 siwash bucktail on the tail. I also use other sizes however I find the 1 ounce cast better than larger sizes and more easily worked in the water.....I simply find them less clumsy!

So.....yeah, you should be employing these immediately! Going out in a couple hours and I am gonna crush on 1 ounce pencil poppers!:happy:

they kick ass, I have them in all sizes, and colors, I only fish gibbs ones though, they stand up pretty good and have awesome action.

How do you guys fish the pencils slow retrieve, side to side?? This is my first year fishing them.

Went out last Wednesday evening, i ran into about a half an acre of fish, mostly bass and a few blues ( up to 35 1/2" ) They were just sitting on top not doing much of anything in about 5' of water. I tried just about everything on the boat, the only thing that they would go for is a 4" pencil popper that i made over the winter. White bottom, silver top, white bucktail, and holographic eyes at the rear of the plug.I'll post a picture when i find the damn thing. It took me a while to get the action of the plug perfect but when i did i was getting a keeper on about every other cast and the 3 boats around me got skunked! I'll never go fishing again without a selection of pencil poppers.

Sorry stupid me I was thinking of needlefish lure :smash:

pencil got me a nice one today:D

Originally posted by Vectorfisher
Sorry stupid me I was thinking of needlefish lure :smash:

yes. slow and if the water is deep. painfully slow with pauses, working the tip of your pole like you would a pencil to give the needle a bit of action

Oh that Slingah....couldn't wait to do a little braggin' huh!:D Pencil poppers rule....don't let anyone tell ya different. As far as retrieve.....it will always vary somewhat. Fast, slow, alot of twitching, a little popping....it is always how they like it. If how you are doing it is not working....change it a little!:btu:

I got nine today on pencils.....not big but they were fun!:happy:

Pencils work in the canal ;)

Here's a great how-to on how to fish pencil poppers from the open beach:

http://www.bassdozer.com/articles/surf_pencil_poppers.shtml

In the Canal, let the current do most of the work for ya. Just give it a little up and down motion with your rod tip.

Anybody ever have any luck on pencils at night?

Yeah I have on cordel cottons I have.