Anyone Take Over Making Guppy Lures?

[JPH]

Wondering if anyone took over

would like to get some for the season

[RyanJ_88]

Did they ever stop making? Wayne sent me a few wires recently and will be doing 2 shows this season... 

[zak-striper]

44 mins ago, JPH said:

Wondering if anyone took over

would like to get some for the season

i bought some from their website last year. i believe they took a break, maybe pandemic related, then they were back last year. i love their poppers. they are the 1st poppers out of my bag at the canal.

[PI Guy]

He was at Surfland for their demo day, pretty sure he’s still in business.

[R.R. Bridge Fisher]

I have a couple of his pencils away in storage.  For some reason I never go for them. Too many options I guess

[R.R. Bridge Fisher]

18 hours ago, JPH said:

Wondering if anyone took over

would like to get some for the season

Would be nice if someone took over CCW....

[shark lobster]

I thought he just stopped supplying stores

[zak-striper]

On 2/3/2023 at 6:14 AM, R.R. Bridge Fisher said:

I have a couple of his pencils away in storage.  For some reason I never go for them. Too many options I guess

Guppy poppers are my favorite for thre canal. They don't dig in so you can work them as soon as they hit the water. They cast a mile as well, as good if not better than Superstrike Little Neck poppers.

 

The SS popper, which I love on the beaches, digs in too deep once it hits the water at the canal, especially once the current is moving.  It takes a few pumps to get the SS back on top and splashing. If fish are breaking way out in the middle of the canal SS poppers take too long to get going, often drifting out of the strike zone if the current is no longer slack.

[ged]

3 hours ago, zak-striper said:

Guppy poppers are my favorite for thre canal. They don't dig in so you can work them as soon as they hit the water. They cast a mile as well, as good if not better than Superstrike Little Neck poppers.

 

The SS popper, which I love on the beaches, digs in too deep once it hits the water at the canal, especially once the current is moving.  It takes a few pumps to get the SS back on top and splashing. If fish are breaking way out in the middle of the canal SS poppers take too long to get going, often drifting out of the strike zone if the current is no longer slack.

Manual pick up reels are quicker to keep a top water on top. My line is on the roller before the plug hits the surface. 

[Ba Ba Buoy]

39 mins ago, ged said:

Manual pick up reels are quicker to keep a top water on top. My line is on the roller before the plug hits the surface. 

 

Not to get off topic but, why can't you achieve the same thing with a automatic or manual bail? Most of the bail less reels have slower retrieve rates, that and the learning curve in manual pickups make it much harder for me. Give me a Stella with a XHG or HG retrieve and I have that surface plug dancing on top as quick as can be. Give me a VS, ZB, or 706Z and the fumbling I experience guiding the line on and slow IPT's does me dirty! 

 

 

[Ditch Jigger]

4 hours ago, zak-striper said:

Guppy poppers are my favorite for thre canal. They don't dig in so you can work them as soon as they hit the water. They cast a mile as well, as good if not better than Superstrike Little Neck poppers.

 

The SS popper, which I love on the beaches, digs in too deep once it hits the water at the canal, especially once the current is moving.  It takes a few pumps to get the SS back on top and splashing. If fish are breaking way out in the middle of the canal SS poppers take too long to get going, often drifting out of the strike zone if the current is no longer slack.

I wonder if they're using the same trick that Brad used, that allowed them to be ass weighted but still float, when they were Hawg Hunters.  

[zak-striper]

7 hours ago, ged said:

Manual pick up reels are quicker to keep a top water on top. My line is on the roller before the plug hits the surface. 

It's got nothing to do with manual bails or bail-less reels. The plugs are designed differently.

 

The SuperStrike little neck popper has a big cup for scooping out a lot of water to make a big splash. As soon as the SS hits the water at the canal, if the currently is moving, it digs deep. While I love that action on the beaches, 'cuz I want a big splash to attract stripers & blues on the beaches, that same scooping action does exactly what I don't want the lure to do in the canal.

 

Meanwhile, the Guppy has a considerably smaller and shallower cup so it doesn't dig into the current. The Guppy also has a flattened bottom, similar to how the Gibbs Canal Special popper has a flat bottom, to help it ride on top of the water. The lures have different designs to produce different actions. However, they both cast great.

 

Guppy on the left, SuperStrike on the right.

 

[jt0791]

2 hours ago, zak-striper said:

It's got nothing to do with manual bails or bail-less reels. The plugs are designed differently.

 

The SuperStrike little neck popper has a big cup for scooping out a lot of water to make a big splash. As soon as the SS hits the water at the canal, if the currently is moving, it digs deep. While I love that action on the beaches, 'cuz I want a big splash to attract stripers & blues on the beaches, that same scooping action does exactly what I don't want the lure to do in the canal.

 

Meanwhile, the Guppy has a considerably smaller and shallower cup so it doesn't dig into the current. The Guppy also has a flattened bottom, similar to how the Gibbs Canal Special popper has a flat bottom, to help it ride on top of the water. The lures have different designs to produce different actions. However, they both cast great.

 

Guppy on the left, SuperStrike on the right.

 

 These 2 plugs have completely different actions its like comparing apples to oranges. The super strike is more comparable to Polaris popper. Much more slower and methodical compared to the faster slashing and gliding motion of a pencil popper. Either way both fish magnets.

[R.R. Bridge Fisher]

For me tops is Mikes ditch witch  pencil along with afterhours makes a couple styles I can't go without. 

Then there's the jigman tailweigted. Top tier pencil in my book. Larson makes a great canal pencil also.

 

[DEM Parking Lot]

Guppy poppers are nice but I find they dig too much while fishing in inlet currents.  I gata' shake the pole like a madman to get it to work the surface.

 

I always find myself going for the cotton cordell pencils. 

 

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