hey guys help me out! i guess i am a newbie, i have been turning for bout 6 months but i can turn them all to the same size to the naked eye{ help that i am a carpenter} i made 110 swimmers , all shapes colors and styles. feid tested all of them, they had a beautiful wiggle, you no what im sayinn! the kind of wiggle that even catches a womans eye! my problem is poppers{like saltys big mouth} i turn and constuct all my stuff from trial and error, never bought anybodys to copy! im lookin for a long bomb, distance lure, am i lookin at the worng one. i weight in the front and back , and in the tail, 2nd heaviest tail lead from nj tackle , it sits tail down and plops and moves like chit. i here people say the tail sits down. now is that saggy ass or is it reallyclose to vertical! need some help men of fisher. I HAVE BEEN ENVOLED AND THEN MARRIED SO I HAVE BEEN TIED UP FOR ABOUT 8 YEARS, NOW DIVORSED THANK GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!
tanks scott

Yup! Salty's balls will get'er done:buds:

110 swimmers! No one has a use for 110 swimmers, unless you are selling them, and if you are selling them at the same time you are just learning to make them, well then you don't need any saltyballs, your own are too big to start. Regardless, if you are asking how to weight a popper, it seems to me the best ones float/sink only slightly tail down. The heavy tail weight/vertical float thing seems to do better with spooks and pencil poppers.

not sellin, just my hobby,cant stop makin them and i dont smoke or really drink so i have to blow money on a non profitable someting! all i like is fishin, would not sell , i do not take critisism very well, they work, swim well , and thats what matters to me

If you do not take critisism very well, this is the wrong place for you. ;) Learn to give and take, it's what life is all about!

that is not what i meant , i do not sell plugs because most plug builders in the stores and on the beach where i fish talk trash about other builders on the beach,{ there like, no buy mine ,NO BUY MINE} im there to fish and hang out with friends, not to get a headache!
im a carpenter i deal with customers all the time , good with the bad

best popper i ever made was a ccb plunker type,big mouth on a short body ,, I did not have model to copy so I just winged it . I weighted it with one 00 buckshot 1" back of belly hook . It was yellow with a siwash, long yellow tied hook in the back . I lost it . I'll try to make another someday . I say it was the best because after spitting water it would do a little S wiggle . Bob Pond reportedly said the best poppers swim . That comment facinates me .. If I was making poppers , that would be my quest .

i weight in the front and back , and in the tail, 2nd heaviest tail lead from nj tackle , it sits tail down and plops and moves like chit.

dont put any weight in the nose......use a tail weight and some weight before or after the belly hook.