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Poppers in dirty rivers

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Poppers in dirty rivers

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Funny last week in Sungai Tiang we had some dirty water. It was almost pointless to fish sort of conditions. I had set up the Snakehead ten weight to show the lads Snakehead casts and being short on rods I went back to "give it a go". And consequently ended up with a very nice Jungle Perch.
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Anyway it opens up a new possible dirty river tactic. Anyone else fished poppers in water the colour of milk chocolate?

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For the record, the fish was in slack water in the same place that backcountry NZ browns hang out when the river is in flood/spate. ie 1m off the bank.

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Used to fish for Murray Cod in dirty water.
The popper used to leave slime line on the water, 7 out of 10 hits was a miss, unless the fish follows the popper then it was a hook up.
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Of course!

Throwing poppers is my favorite way to fish for baby tarpon, but while the waters are what most would call "dirty", these days it looks more like heavily creamed coffee than chocolate milk.

I have noticed that surface feeders like snook and tarpon are the only ones likely to hit on top in water more than a few feet deep. The other species will usually only respond if they are shallow at the time. That is especially true the dirtier the water..
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Interesting. You can see the colour of the water behind Ray here.
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Or here
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Makes me think about the Wet Season and the jungle perch running the rivers to spawn. We didn’t hook any Mahseer in these conditions.

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