My Favorite Whopper Plopper and Choppo Colors
If you’re allegedly a bass angler and you haven’t yet become addicted to a Whopper Plopper bite, there’s something wrong with you. The first time I threw the 130 model Plopper at El Salto back in 2016 was life-altering – I’d never seen topwater strikes that vicious outside of the Amazon. While it may never be that sudden and violent again, I continue to throw the Plopper and its various competitors, most notably the Berkley Choppo. They create different sounds, and some days the bass clearly prefer one over the other. Here are my three favorite colors in each of them:
Whopper Plopper
Powder
The first one I bought/used, and still my go-to
Loon
My favorite under darker skies
Phantom Shad
Best pure shad imitator
HD Threadfin Shad
My confidence color when bass are feeding on shad in clear to ultra-clear water.
Bone
An all-around baitfish imitator
HD Baby Bass
Looks more like a crappie or tilapia to me.
Which are your favorites? Which did I miss? I feel like I should be throwing bluegill imitators and chrome more regularly, but it’s hard to put down the proven winners.
Plopper-Style Hard Baits I Still Need to Figure Out or Try
