Here is my first try at copying this plug. Thanks to Biteme for lending me one to copy. :kewl: No thru wire just thru-pins to hold the swivels like the original.

very nice and clean. I like the shape. Nice work

Looks right on

Thats Perfect...:kewl:

My favorite plug to build. Nice job :kewl:

Like it. Seems as if the old timers used big poppers as much as swimmers. I'll bet we've gotten too smug about them for our own good.

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One of the old timers that helps steer me in the right direction told me all he used was big atom poppers.Was the caretaker of a famous light house in RI for alot of years.Has pictures of him holding up some large he caught them on.Some good stuff right there.Wish I could build lures.

That plug looks great. Very nice paint job.

Never disregard poppers as big fish catchers. A few years ago, I was fishing a well known rip from the boat and we could see lots of big bass swimming deep underneath the boat. Other boats were jigging and trolling wire and leadcore and not catching anything. We decided to stop fishing and eat a sandwich. I'm sitting there watching other boats trolling with no luck, when I thought I saw a swirl in a rip line about 50 feet behind our boat. I grabbed a rod from the rocket launcher with a big yellow polaris and cast it out. A big bass came up and nailed it. My dad then did the same with a big blue and white popper and we realized that even though the fish were deep, they were coming up to the surface to feed. We did great with big fish that day, while none of the other boats did anything.

Wow looks great, I hope you made a couple.........:bl:

I'm not sure how far back you need to go to be an old timer but: I fished the rocks of Maine in the 60's. We caught most all of our big fish right in the false dawn on poppers. In those days that meant; Atom Striper Swipers, Gibbs pencils and polaris. Another way to tell that was a while back, The Gibbs Cast-A-Lure plugs were $2.95 each.

how long is it , Id like to make one, and how wide

Like it. Seems as if the old timers used big poppers as much as swimmers. I'll bet we've gotten too smug about them for our own good.

I love Poppers

Nice work on that Cutty popper, that's my goto color too

very nice looking popper :kewl:

Moosh,

It is 6 1/2" long. 1.55 inches around at the widest and weighs in at 2.4oz without the hooks. It is not thru wired but instead the three swivels are held in place with three pins, one in tail, one in belly ( that hole is drilled at an angle forward to back), and one pin is located behind eyes. There is no additional weighting to it. The one I turned was from a piece of cedar that I had taken down in the yard a few years ago.

To everyone else thanks.

Nice plug, clean nice colors.
Al,:btu:

looks really nice, spot on :btu: