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Oh these guys just keep coming back. To be honest I can't rest until I sort them out. They have to be some of the best looking lures going around. All timber construction, quality hardware (Daichii and Mustad) Trebles, really well made lures. But they have to work, right? Of course they have to work.

Out I went armed to the teeth with lures, finally a drop in the Westerlies that the area I live is well known for over the Winter months, at no point in the session, before or during did I expect to catch anything (and I wasn't wrong), I didn't. But as we all know, that's never the point.

The finish on these lures is close to the best I've seen, if lures are made to catch fishermen I'm hooked. I know from experience that the trebles and rings are great, having tossed one of the lures around a few months ago it came back out of the tackle box without a sign of rust and looking as good as it went in some months earlier.

The little creek I fish close to home is certainly no place for a 4" or 10 1/2cm 19 gram twin prop fizzer, but hey I've looked silly before. In she went, casts beautifully, cranking back with excitement (what is this thing going to do?) well, I could hear that baby start to purr, both props spinning freely creating a lovely bow wave and plenty of disturbance, fast and slow retrieve the lure worked well. This lure in the right hands is really going to annoy some Barra or possibly a King or two in the harbours or outside. Didn't really want to take it off to tell you the truth but someone was coming. The green diver was my next choice and probably the lure I feel most at home with. Close enough to 7cm, solidly made wire through the body and a really nice range of colour. The lure gets to somewhere near 8 to 10feet and has a wide wobble that is very clear through the rod tip. Although trolling wasn't attempted on the test I imagine that would be an option with this lure. It tracked well and was quick to rise to the surface when retrieve was stopped, so it should be a good lure for snaggy water.

Well I didn't really want to end on a negative but next on my list were the poppers. I had two styles to trial and both worked, but for my liking were a little hard to pop and to my way of thinking with so many good poppers on the market they may just be too far down the list. Finish? fantastic, colours very nice but the face too small on the first and the body shape has it sitting very high in the water and try as I might I had trouble running it straight.

The large front end on the lure keeps it sitting high on the water so the face (which is already quite small) doesn't dig in as well as it should. I personally didn't like this guy but it will catch fish just not worth the effort for me. Onto the last lure for the session, another popper that looked the goods and appeared more conventional in its styling. Definately a better popper than the first, but again proving a little difficult to control. With a little practice I think it would be Ok but I was only able to get a few loud bloops in my little session. As a matter of fact it wanted to get its head down and dive and was rather difficult to get that characteristic splash and bloop from.

All in all I enjoyed this little testing session and will be asking some Palmfishing members to verify and re test these lures. What is good/bad to one angler and situation is often a godsend to another. The lures are certainly made well enough to warrant having more than one opinion. Based on the tests I am a big fan of the Fizzer and the Diver but as far as the poppers go just OK.