Sea Trout Popper?

Bombax · **Posted:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:38 am

Just have a general question.......

Will a sea trout hit a surface popper in the same way as a Bass does? :idea:

My normal mark throws up a combination of both Bass and trout. I like fishing poppers for the visual buzz but would like to still catch both species (as a Toby does).

Always Hedge your bets both ways :lol:

Any ideas would be much appreciated, i know they hit wake fly's at night in rivers?? So??

Easy now..

Tanglerat · **Posted:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:27 am

Bloody good question Bombax, and one I mean to experiment with this year.

I've been told that Sea Trout won't go for a SP like Bass will, but I won't be happy till I've spent hours of angling time finding out for myself.

peterk19 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:51 am

I've had a sea trout attack a tacklehouse feed popper before im not sure if it was just jumping and hit the popper out of coincidence but he did knock the popper about a foot in the air, sadly it didnt hook up tho

JimH · **Posted:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:17 pm

BB

having spent thousands of hours watching people fish poppers/walkers for Bass where I know seatrout are also present - I have never seen one landed on Bass tackle - that of course doesnt mean you cant catch them......it just means several other things that you or I can speculate about - I have caught them on a 'battery fly' (surface) but then again why?

So with a different popper/walker - colour/shape/sound/presentation/timing etc who knows - I bet it would be cool though -I have caught the following on surface lures in Ireland - GHB, Bass, Launce, Mackerel, Pollack, Shad, Wrasse, Mullet (suspect accidental), Brown trout, Pike, and Perch,

carpets · **Posted:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:57 pm

Tanglerat wrote:

Bloody good question Bombax, and one I mean to experiment with this year.

I've been told that Sea Trout won't go for a SP like Bass will, but I won't be happy till I've spent hours of angling time finding out for myself.

Ger i had a sea trout hooked on one of the storm 4" weighted shads in the yellow and green last year brought me on a right tour but sadly i didnt land him but they will take em

MAC · **Posted:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:10 pm

JimH wrote:

I have caught the following on surface lures in Ireland - GHB, Bass, Launce, Mackerel, Pollack, Shad, Wrasse, Mullet (suspect accidental), Brown trout, Pike, and Perch,

Very impressive Jim,

Any detail on the GHB catch on a popper. Would love to hear what it was caught on and how the fight was like :?:

carpets · **Posted:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:18 pm

Will be out tomorrow for a go at a few trout will hopefully get our first one of the year

franck breizh angler · **Posted:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 4:04 pm

You had caught wrasse on surface . Very impressive me too.

GHB ,what is it ? thanks.

Tanglerat · **Posted:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 6:13 pm

GHB would be a Gilt Head Bream, franck.

franck breizh angler · **Posted:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 7:14 pm

Thank you !

corbyeire · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:51 pm

mate got a 5lb+ sea trout on a Bass buster once

you could see the fish riding the waves after it - was sure it was a Bass - turned out a sea trout

some craic

johnfish · **Joined:** Sun Aug 02, 2009 5:47 pm **Posts:** 123

fly fishing wake lures can be real good in rivers at night ,rarely works during daylight hours ,gets the bigger fish too.

Hugo · **Posted:** Fri Apr 02, 2010 9:23 am

JimH wrote:

having spent thousands of hours watching people fish poppers/walkers for Bass where I know seatrout are also present - I have never seen one landed on Bass tackle

peterk19 wrote:

I've had a sea trout attack a tacklehouse feed popper before im not sure if it was just jumping and hit the popper out of coincidence but he did knock the popper about a foot in the air, sadly it didnt hook up tho

Have had similar experience several times. Is it something to do with hook size on Bass poppers Jim? The trout have much smaller mouths.

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