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05-23-2004, 07:31 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 8
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Pencil Poppers
Anybody have luck useing Pencil Poppers this time of year?
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marcus
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05-23-2004, 07:37 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Holyoke
Posts: 174
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Oh yeah! God I love those yellow ones.
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" There's no way, no way you could have come from my gene's. When we get home I am going punch your momma right in the mouth." Sheriff B. T. Justice
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05-23-2004, 08:06 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,692
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As soon as the squid show up I start using them as well as poppers
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05-23-2004, 08:22 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Bridgewater, Ma
Posts: 41
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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.
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SurfRod
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05-24-2004, 07:39 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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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!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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05-24-2004, 09:21 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: outer space
Posts: 564
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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.
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05-24-2004, 01:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: West Wareham
Posts: 1,189
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How do you guys fish the pencils slow retrieve, side to side?? This is my first year fishing them.
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05-24-2004, 03:55 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Rochester
Posts: 91
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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.
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05-24-2004, 04:01 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: West Wareham
Posts: 1,189
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Sorry stupid me I was thinking of needlefish lure  |
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05-24-2004, 05:08 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 6,267
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pencil got me a nice one today  |
Live at Leeds
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05-24-2004, 05:19 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
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Quote:
Originally posted by Vectorfisher
Sorry stupid me I was thinking of needlefish lure
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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 |
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05-24-2004, 05:42 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Oh that Slingah....couldn't wait to do a little braggin' huh! 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! 
I got nine today on pencils.....not big but they were fun! |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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05-24-2004, 07:22 PM
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M.S.B.A.
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: I live in the Villiage of Hyannis in the Town of Barnstable in the Commonwealth of MA
Posts: 2,795
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Pencils work in the canal  |
"It is impossible to complain and to achieve at the same time"--Basic Patrick (on a good day)
 
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05-24-2004, 08:32 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
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Here's a great how-to on how to fish pencil poppers from the open beach:
http://www.bassdozer.com/articles/su..._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. |
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05-25-2004, 07:20 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: cranston
Posts: 815
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Anybody ever have any luck on pencils at night?
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05-25-2004, 09:15 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Holyoke
Posts: 174
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Yeah I have on cordel cottons I have.
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" There's no way, no way you could have come from my gene's. When we get home I am going punch your momma right in the mouth." Sheriff B. T. Justice
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