My top producing colors for bass poppers are as follows:

All Black

Chartruese with some white and black (basically a fire tiger popper)

All white or all yellow.

If I were limited to one color popper for bass it would probably be all black

For painting poppers, I usually string several bodies on a piece of thin wire and hit them with a few spritzes of spray paint on the backs of the poppers. Once they dry, I add any other markings I want either with model paint or markers and give the finished popper body a coat of 60 minute epoxy after it has been mounted to the hook. Then adding the tail, collar ect. is a piece of cake. If you fish poppers a lot, especially where big bass hang out, it's much easier to create an assembly line operation for your popper making. It will cut the production time by about 75% when compared to completing one popper at a time start to finish.

Just my two cents worth.

Jim Smith

Jim Smith