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Fish Stick Round-Bottom Pencil Popper - 5.5" ~1.25oz

$23

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Description

At fishing shows, I regularly get the question: “what’s your favorite lure?” The answer isn’t easy because each one of our lures has a time and a place, and we’ve caught great fish on all of them. That being said, if we wanted to win you over to the 247 fan club with only one of our lures, the Fish Stick would be the first one we’d recommend. A small, round-belly pencil popper style lure that is sure to produce fish for you! At 5.75″ long and weighing approximately 1.25 oz, the Fish Stick casts better than you expect. Once the plug is on the water, there’s not a plug in our collection that’s easier to work than the Fish Stick. Some prefer to retrieve nice and slow and let the plug do the work. Personally, I like to walk the dog with short/small twitches. When that Fish Stick starts jumping side-to-side, even the pickiest of Stripers find it hard to resist. As of January 2024, all our topwater lures - including this Fish Stick - are being rigged standard with one treble hook on the belly swivel and an inline single hook on the tail. This is a change we’ve been aiming to make for several years now, but finally have a quality vendor for the VMC inline singles we’ve been wanting to use. (Exact weight and colors of lures will vary batch to batch and lure to lure. All of our lures are made in small batches, many of our colors are custom blends we mix ourselves, and even our internal lead weights are cut by hand. We do our best to keep lure shape, weight, and paint as consistent as possible, but 247 Lures is very far from mass-production where every lure is exactly the same.)

Specifications

Category

Topwater Baits

Weight

1.25 oz (35 g)

Length

5.75 in (146 mm)

Sink Rate

floating

Target Species

inshore

Techniques

casting, topwater

Water Column

surface

Action

walk-the-dog, side-to-side pencil popper action

Conditions

open water, low light

Field Notes

This is a surface pencil popper designed for stripers and other aggressive gamefish. It works best with a slow retrieve or short twitches to make it walk side-to-side, especially when fish are feeding near the top. The lure is castable for its size and is suited to open-water topwater presentations.

Pros

  • Casts better than expected for a 1.25 oz topwater
  • Easy to work with short twitches or a slow retrieve
  • Walk-the-dog action can trigger picky stripers

Cons

  • Topwater effectiveness depends on fish feeding near the surface
  • Treble/inline hook setup may be less ideal around heavy cover

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