Poppers--Floating or sinking?

[Saltheart]

I thought I'd throw this up for discussion. I used to fish Atom poppers when Bob Pond made them in South Attleboro. the atom poppers sunk.

Now a days , most of the better poppers (like Habs) float.

It seams to me that the sinking poppers were more verstile than floating poppers. If you wanted to , you could get right on it and use it like one that floats but youcould also let them sink just below the surface and bring them up to break the surface. You could also let them sink down very low and bring them up so they only occasionally broke the surface for a short time then back down. All different ways a hurt bait fish or bait fish chased in a school during a blitz may behave. You could also swim the popper when you just used it as a casting weight to drag a teaser out there.

I once wrote a big thing about poppers way back for WMI and can't find it. i wanted to post it here. Anyone from the good old days at WMI have a copy of that popper thing I wrote?

Anyway , I used to use a lot of poppers in the fall down in south county and just wonder about how many different types of presentations people are capable of with poppers that float. I'm also interested in peoples preferences of sinkers and floaters.



What do you think?