Ginger.. Thanks for this info.. I stopped today and bought several more 12" X 12" sheets of that 2mm foam today in all different colors, and will try this, cause all the square fronted poppers I've ever tried that I bought , would catch fish , but only one fish per hole, cause the popper made a LOUD "sper-lunk" sound and splash when I went to recast, and scared anymore fish that might have been around that same area away, Thanks again, Chuck
----- Original Message ----- From: "Allen,Ginger M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 7:57 AM Subject: RE: [VFB] Poppers..build your own I was just experimenting with popper patterns. There's not much to buying a preformed body to teach my class so I was looking for more. Anthony Hipps was tying poppers at the SE conclave and he was building the bodies with the flat foam sheets. Since I won a box of his poppers in the raffle I examined them more closely. I ended up with what looks like a tootsie roll looking crease fly. For the pencil popper used a long shank hook. I tied in a tail. Using mono thread I tied a narrow piece of white foam along and around the hook shank (like the underbody of a gurgler). Then I tied a second piece of foam that only went half way down the hook shank over and around that piece. This foam is about 1/8 inch back from hook eye as it becomes a sunken face cup. Whip finish. Measured a a piece of foam to wrap around this foam underbody. Trimmed it to taper around hook point. Put super glue on foam underbody. Snuggly wrap overbody around it. Overbody should extend 1/8 out from front to create cup face. I squeezed the seam shut with my fingernails. I used permanent marker to color a green stripe down the back and added some black stripes and red gill lines. Added some of my vinyl t-shirt paint eyes. Then coated with Scalze hard head or epoxy. I took a photo if anyone wants one. Also had fun with the multi colored crazy foam as an exterior on one, looks great. I will also get a copy of Anythony's original concept. His finished product looks like the old time original bream/bass cup faced tapered popper. Like half a tea cup? Ginger M. Allen Senior Biological Scientist Florida Master Naturalist Program Coordinator www.MasterNaturalist.org University of Florida/IFAS Southwest Florida Research & Education Center 2686 State Road 29 North Immokalee, FL 34142 FAX 239-658-3469 PH 239-658-3400; SunCom 974-3400 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Delaney Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 10:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VFB] Poppers.. I like to tie popper with balsa, but I've also made them with cork, foam, or deer hair. Balsa poppers are my favorite to make.... Mark Delaney On 7/6/05, Chuck Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anybody fish with.. or tie poppers???? I'm wondering if you use > Styrofoam, cork, something else??? I have caught a lot of bluegills > with them.. Just wondering, Chuck > -- "So much water, so little time!" http://chemprof.tripod.com/fishing.html
