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Very nice Frank! They should work well on the Salmon river.

Good looking flies!

Some good advice on this thread for sure. If you want to target perch and bass at the same time I would go with deeky’s advice and go with the Clousers. Perch are big minnow eaters as are Bass.

Great looking pooper!

The Hare Water Pup in black. Olive, chartreuse and brown also work well. This guy took the chartreuse one.

Nice job! Should work well for Bass or Pike.

Ha! That is what I was thinking. I'm like a crack addict with this stuff. Cool fly like that and I have to try and make it.

Very interesting bug Kirk! How about some construction details? Hook size, body material and so on?

I had to do some more Dave Whitlock flies. I use to use these on Lake Erie for smallmouth and sometimes for pike. For some reason I have not used them in a long time. They worked great back then so they should again. White Version Yellow Version Shad Version

Looks like a great start brother.

Great job on a true classic!

Thanks everyone. They are called Matzuo sickle hooks. I dont know if you can still get them. I have not seen them for sale anywhere for a long time. Who did you take the class with?

I got some Flylipps a while back and after tossing some ideas around, I came up with these (see below). Not sure if they are practical for fishing yet because it is cold out and I have not had a good chance to fish them. I have dragged them through the water and they do wiggle so I suppose that is a plus. Anyone else use flylipps for something cool?

Yes Kool! I would imagine it gets a bit tedious, but the results are quite impressive.

Grat poppers ad great paint jobs on them. Do you apply the spots individually?

Yup! I have some rusty old blind eye salmon hooks I plan on refinishing when I get a chance to try it.

Decided to do some Dave Whitlock deer hair poppers the other day. Comments welcome. Fruit Cocktail Porky’s Pet

I used rubber cement for the glue and Balsa for the body (sharpened in a pencil sharpener). I think my problem with the scales is my tool. For this one I used the handle of a socket wrench and the knurling was not as sharp as I would have liked. I have since found a better tool for the job. What did you use? Like I said, it was my first attempt so I do appreciate any pointers. I fish them mostly in lakes Erie, Ontario and the Niagara River. Not many shad, except in lake Ontario. Common minnows and shiners, some smelt. After seeing yours though, you can bet I will put the dot on a few for Ontario.

Great looking poppers perchjerker! I love the diver! I was thinking of hitting the face of one with a rat tail file and making a chugger. For hooks, I have been using the Wapsi Lightning Strike 2/0 saltwater popper hooks. They have great shank length for pencil poppers, a good wide hook gape for big bass and a great finish. And I did what bigfoot suggested for foil, went to the craft store. They have more than just silver and gold foil to. Below is one I did. I think I may need to thin out the body a bit. But not bad for my first one I guess.