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Deer Hair Poppers

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Hare are a few simple deer hair poppers I tied lately. Sounds like it would be simply to get the same size/shape every time, but I've struggled to do it. I made a cardboard template to fit on the eye of the hook which guides the trimming and that helps a lot. These are tied on Mustad 3366 #1/0 and TMC 8089 #6 hooks.

 

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Tom

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oooo tasty little flies! Nice work :)

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Great looking poppers and who cares if there not exactly the same size you will never catch a fish that is exactly the same size every time. Variety is the spice of life as they say, I say it is the spice of fly's

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Here are the templates I use for trimming. Not very high tech, kinda like a soup bowl hair cut, but they work for me. Help me trim a little faster without having to worry about going too far. I also like being able to tie sizes I want with some consistency. The way I found works best is to initially trim close to the guide but leaving just a little extra around it. When I get most of the fly trimmed to shape I put it back on and finish the last bit of trimming.

 

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Tom

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Nice idea. I've got fifty poppers to tye and that template should do the trick. I might try to make mine out of brass. Nice flies by the way.

 

-Mike

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