Best Artificial Shrimp To Fish Under A Popping Cork (Brand Comparison Test)
It’s shrimp fishing time!
What’s your go-to artificial shrimp when fishing it under a popping cork?
Do you just buy whatever is available at the store?
Or whatever the fishing magazines tell you to get?
Depending on which one you get, you could be making a big mistake.
If you’re fishing artificial shrimp under a cork, two of the biggest things to keep in mind are:
The action of the shrimp as it darts through the water
How the shrimp settles when the cork is still
So we took seven of the most popular brands of artificial shrimp and tested these two factors.
Want to see how they stacked up against each other?
Check out this video.
P.S. We’re not affiliated with any of these lures companies (or any other companies at all), we just wanted to create this video to show you the difference between lures.
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The Vudu shrimp seems to be the best of all attributes?
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Great comparison, thanks.
I real world settings, how much of leader from shrimp to bonner should I leave.
I got myself a set of shrimp lures from amazon and it said that you can catch trout with them but they seem a bit big so I was just wondering if that was true or if the shrimp lures are mostly for bass.
Gulp wins in stained water due to scent. Vudu shrimp wins in clear water
Great tips! Subscribed to your videos, heading to islamorada in early December and was checking out different rigs for pier fishing. Normally we would bottom fish with cut bait for shark,snapper or whatever would eat. Was thinking about moving up in the water column. So I’ll be studying your videos like this one. Thanks!🎣
I believe shirmp are naturaly supending vertical then swim back
Vudu wins
Vudu under a cork or DOA with no cork — aww yeah
I wish they made vudu shrimp in a bigger size
Check out the full blog post here: http://bit.ly/2lSG9Hx
The Power Prawn has them all beat! The Savage and Vudu are a close 2nd. If the Gulp was made out of floating plastic along with the scent, it would be up there. Chasebaits tail action is lacking. Another great informational video getting straight to the point, thanks!!
You could rig a Power Prawn or other shrimp imitation on a Core Tackle Hover Rig hook and it would hand horizontally under a popping cork, or a lot better than a jig head at least.
I mean this is specifically for saltwater right I’m going fishing a lake tomorrow using popping cork got fake shrimp plastics and chicken liver and Kool aid hotdogs I’ll post about it tmrw ptauy me I’m teaching myself and kids 2 fish 🐟
music really could not here shrimp noises
Tony – any way you can do that comparison bottom jigging?
Haven’t used a popping cork From what I’ve seen looks good. ?what size cork ?
Spend time actually catching shrimp at night with a light and you will clearly see that none of these shrimp look very natural. Shrimp “walk” forward horizontally. Period. If you really want to match the hatch-a very slow steady retrieve without jerking would imitate a shrimp in action perfectly. I understand the popping cork theory but I’ve personally caught tons more fish with the slow roll method. Reds trout and snook
The Vudu was the winner in my uniformed, humble opinion!
I’d eat the vudu shrimp if I was a redfish..just sayin
Great video!!!! I used to do this with lures when I was a kid; without the camera lol.
Real shrimp swim backwards
Hanging from a static popping-cork isn’t the same as sinking on a tight line without the popper. The DOA will stay horizontal on a retrieve with a tight line when paused.
None is any good. Shrimp dont swim forward like that….
Jesus Christ! RIP headphone users.
I wonder how the rest would vary in salt water?
This is just my thoughts, they make the shrimp realistic, but 👈🏽. If you see a shrimp in nature it swims backwards, it flicks its tail to propel itself in reverse and none of theses lures do that , and to get a shrimp lure to get a natural motion it would need to be at a pivot point just above we’re the body meets the top tail section, so the tail could collapse and spring back also in nature the shrimp would settle to the bottom of the sea floor and would jump off the bottom, and yes I realize that this is a comparison of product and who better, but our job as fisherman is to deceive fish into thinking our lure is natural and real in order to trick them into biting and getting caught, 🤔
Nice test.
vertical = not good
Confused a little, do shrimps not swimm backwards?
Would live shrimp still be the better choice when available???
zeeman u=is the worst, i was told it was good n bought 4 pack. threw the all away. guys at shops just want to clear stock
Don’t shrimp swim backwards?
so we not going to talk bout how he’s using a bobber like bro
DOA over Vudu Junk all day!
Great vid bro
Add marker 54’s shrimp to this …
I think the internal weight on the EZ shrimp messes with the buoyancy of the Elaztech. Maybe if it was lighter or it it was a jighead.
In Australia we don’t have popping corks but we do have poppers we could use instead. I’ll try a chasebaits shrimp behind a regular hookless popper. Thanks for getting me thinking.
Cheers …. Dwayne
Good video broski !!!! Thumbs up just subbed
Awesome video Tony. I love your underwater vids!!!
How do you fill about the native shrimp
Zerek’s absolute shrimp is my favorite all-around saltwater lure now! Replace the original hook with 3 gram worm hook , re-align the feets with nano heat stick to make it all wide open, then you’ll see the magic !
nice one , thank you😘
What about the Nikko shrimp
Great test I got a lot from that awesome work
curious what size voodoo shrimp produces the best
I think the real test is how they perform while being fished with the cork, not how it floats. How it floats horizontally is not a true measure of how it will work and doesn’t mean it’s the best. By the way water density is way different.
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I have heard about the popper and lure/bait fishing.
I think I will try it now.