Many companies produce popping lures to fish for tuna and other pelagics.

But Hanta, a relatively new company, founded in 2012, specializes in popper fishing and jigging for the big game.

The company, from the United States, primarily makes rods for that.

But it also makes lures for the angling, including two popper plugs, the AJ Killer and the Komodo.

The AJ Killer, shown in the above photo, is a pencil popper, with a skinny diameter.

The AJ, available in a number of colors, was originally made to fish for amberjacks or a.j.’s in North Carolina.

But the plug will catch all different pelagics, including tuna, the company says.

The Komodo, shown in the photo at left, also available in different colors, is a chugger, a shorter, wider popper, deadly on giant trevally, but also tuna and other pelagics, it says.

Fishing with poppers, lures with cupped mouths that splash, gurgle and chug along the water surface, draws violent, visual attacks from fish.

The sport originated in Japan by anglers targeting giant trevally, the company says.

A tuna crashing a popper looks unreal, and is addictive, Hanta says.

As if catching a pelagic like a tuna, like the one at left, weren’t thrilling enough.

If you’re going to popper fish for tuna from New Jersey, you might want to check out lures by a company specializing in the angling.

Also, a little about Hanta’s popping rods:

Popper fishing for big game requires unique rods that are lightweight, for repeated casting.

The rods also must be able to cast large lures a long distance.

Yet the rods must be exceptionally strong.

Those are qualities Hanta had in mind in developing the rods.

Check out more about the lures and rods on Hanta's website.