Next time we will take more smelly bait. Fortunately the Japanese group that had fished before us left a few slightly modified poppers on the boat. The large trebles both increase hook-up ratio and make pulling the hooks less likely. The group before us used only floating poppers. The poppers are a maximum of 20cm in length and 5cm in diameter, weighing around 3oz.
Poppers carry extra lead weight at one end.
After the cast it floats in the water upright. Using a short rod, pull the popper towards you with short pulls without reeling in, followed by reeling in the amount of line just pulled in. Pull, reel, pull and so on. The stiff rod in combination with the braided line provides a spectacular action with the popper moving towards you and creating big splashes intermittently. This action cannot be achieved using nylon line that has too much stretch or with long rods, which are too flexible in most cases.