One to try: Hook: #2 to 6 up eye salmon
Thread: Kevlar works best but the flat-waxed nylon is good for the wings too. Careful too tight on the foam body and either thread will cut it. Body: Craft foam cut to a trapezoidal shape with the corners on the wider end cut round. Grey is the standard but the foam comes in a rainbow of colours. For #2 hooks I cut 1 �� X 1 � " rectangles and then cut them in half at an angle so that the narrower part is about 7/16" wide and flaring to 3/4" at the widest the whole being 1 �" long. Shorten as needed for smaller sizes. Wings: Any colour of elk or deer hair. The natural colours work just fine but something bright enhances distance and rough water viewing. Specific instructions: First fold foam in half length wise to find it's centre and insert hook in the crease at the narrowest part of the foam about half a hook gap deep from the edge of the foam. Mount hook in vise with the foam out of the way toward the rear. Tye in your first wing it should be proportioned to the shank length, and positioned above the barb. Spin the foam forward from its position on the bend now hold the thread up above the shank and fold the foam up around the body to either side of the wing. Secure the foam with a couple of thread wraps and bring the thread forward off the foam and onto the hook shank again. The foam is now pulled down out of the way, it should cock into this position. The mid wing is next tyed to the shank and the foam is again pulled up and folded into position around the mid wing creating the second body segment. Again thread is wrapped forward onto hook shank and foam is pulled downward out of the way. Tye in the third wing and leave the thread hanging at that point. Bring foam up but this time use your bodkin to poke a hole into the centre of the foam just below the hook eye and at the point where the eye just starts to bend up. Stretch the foam up and over the hook eye so that the eye protrudes through the foam holding up the foam fan. Tye off the fly just behind the head to create the third and fourth body segments. A couple of shallow nips on either side of the base of the head with the scissors to widen out the flare of the head fan and its ready to �float a lug nut thru Hell's Gate on the Fraser River.� Calm Days Wally *-----Original Message----- *From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:majordomo- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Brettell *Sent: December 19, 2003 5:28 AM *To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject: Re: [VFB] Popper bodies, cork or balsa? * *I've never had much luck with poppers. It's probably from fishing them wrong. *That is until I started tying Lefty's Potomac River Poppers. These consistantly *work on all warm water species, including pickeral, both bass, and panfish. * *It's as simple as possible, and Lefty recommends just leaving the cork uncoated *and unpainted - au naturale. This works and lasts until the popper gets beaten *up too much to fish anyway. Just a cork, a squirrel tail and a collar of crystal *chenille. * *The slim body, and the lack of feathers and stuff, aids in casting, and the *squirrel tail pulses in the water. It works, and is quick and simple to tie. * *I buy corks at Michaels. * *--- *Steve, *In Maryland * * * * *____________________________________________________________ *Free Poetry Contest. Win $10,000. Submit your poem @ Poetry.com! *http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;6750922;3807821;l?http://www.poetry.co m/contest */contest.asp?Suite=A59101
