How To Use Poppers for Smallmouth Bass

Catching smallmouth bass on poppers is so much fun and in this detailed video, we discuss the techniques, leaders, and retrieves you should know to be successful in all conditions. Colin McKeown is the guest of Hawk Lake Lodge in NW Ontario, one of the top drive-to lodges in North America for smallmouth bass fishing. To learn about Hawk Lake Lodge: hawk-lake.com
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[@FlyTyer1948]

Poppers are so much fun.

[@MH-rb9et]

Loving this content keep up the good work #1

[@pecanjesaaleksandrom1108]

Bravo care.

[@ryanmclellan7402]

I am going to try and make a popper fly

[@jackmcmanus1238]

11:17 alone time with the bass… and a camera crew

[@thibod07]

Awesome! Beautiful water for fishing and swimming. That would be so cool to have a view from under watching fishes picking up the fly. Your saying that a bass is extremely territorial and will focus on certain spots for feeding so you need to be accurate in your casts? One thing for sure you are very efficient at catching them!

[@bssaassin1900]

Love catching smallies on the flyrod though I still have yet to catch a big one (texas is not much of a smallmouth state)but I do catch pretty decent largemouth with wooly buggers and streamers have yet to have a good topwater day though. Anyways great video nice fish but that line and rod sounds like nails on chalkboard that shit would drive me nuts!

[@jacobstarr9010]

I’ve wanted to try flymen’s howitzer baitfish popper. I think it’d work great on the largemouth in my area. Tightlines. I also had a question for you guys. Do you like to strip set with a popper or do you prefer to do a trout-type set? I know with streamers you need a strip set, but I just want to know if it’s generally the same rule for poppers.

[@brycealthoff8092]

Pretty much always strip set with bass. They have hard mouths and most bass flies have heavy hooks. You need to hit them hard to get them to penetrate.

[@joetrabold6036]

What’s the leader and tippet size setup?

[@mattoutzen7959]

What do you do when a fish is swimming towards you fast. I find myself not being able to strip fast enough and losing tension

[@MrJamesarcher]

Put it in your armpit and use two hands.

[@Floridaflyfishingproductions]

I really wana catch small mouth bass

[@pewpewkachew4735]

Floro sinks, please don’t ever use them on poppers.