Playing with Popper Designs

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Stippled -

 

Those are an amazing display of artistic tying and craftmanship, and more importantly would catch oodles of fish

 

I'm curious... What hook do you use when you tie down to a 14 on those? I'm getting ready to tie some hard and soft foam poppers for my local panfish lakes, and am having a hard time deciding on the best hook for small, panfish sized poppers. Thanks in advance for your suggestions....

 

Best Regards-

Bob

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Stippled -

 

Those are an amazing display of artistic tying and craftmanship, and more importantly would catch oodles of fish

 

I'm curious... What hook do you use when you tie down to a 14 on those? I'm getting ready to tie some hard and soft foam poppers for my local panfish lakes, and am having a hard time deciding on the best hook for small, panfish sized poppers. Thanks in advance for your suggestions....

 

Best Regards-

Bob

 

 

For my #14s I use what Wapsi sells as a Bream Popper #PPO #12 body. The hooks I use for both the #14s and the #12s which I use the Wapsi #10 body is the Orvis #4641 which is their Straight Eye(Big Eye) dry fly hook. Since there is no kink, I am very careful to really fill the slot with superglue. Also I wrap a bit of thread around the shank to hopefully help it have something for the glue to grab onto. I also use the #10 Wapsi #PPO with #10 dry fly hooks.

 

When I want a slightly larger #10 I take the Wapsi #8 #PPR body and sand the back of the body until the tip of the hook point of a #10 Mustad CK52S is right under the back of the head. No trimming is necessary when you use a #8 body with the #8 Mustad hook.

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A Rio Grand Cichlid of my own:

 

 

Stippled, those are some first class poppers. I especially like the RioPopper.

The smallmouth here in VA would go nuts for those.

 

Thanks for sharing and if you have few extra of those larger RioPopper I would love to have one.