Blue color scheme

[flymanaj 0]

I have a foam popper head that is painted blue with black scale. I don't really use blue very much so i don't have any blue materials besides bucktail. Just wondering what colors you guys use with blue

[fshng2 0]

Colors All white; Yellow/White, Black/White, Gray/White, Blue/White, Dark Blue/ light Blue, Black/Blue, Chartreuse(green)/White, Blue/Chartreuse(green).

Materials: Bucktail , Strung Chinese feathers, or Maribou.

Flash: Silver, Pearl, Blue

Tip: With most strung feathers and maribou I always wash them before using otherwise they will bleed on anything they touch.

To wash I use dawn dish detergent, rinse well, pat dry with paper towel and let them air dry or use a hair dryer, store in zip lock or equivalent freezer bags.

[DarrellP 0]

If it ain't chartreuse, it ain't no use. I think Lefty said that

[flytire 0]

be creative. experiment

 

or

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=blue+poppers+fly+tying&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1-MvxlZzdAhXuV98KHa0TBgIQ_AUIDCgD&biw=1600&bih=763

[tjm 0]

Does the color of a popper head matter? I don't use them enough to know.

[mikechell 0]

I think the contrast between colors is as important, if not more so, than the actual colors. I, generally, tie three different colored popper. Yellow, green and black are the foam head colors. The trailing material and legs are usually a different, contrasting color.

 

I have had fish hit one color when they wouldn't hit another ... but I honestly can't say they hit one color more consistently than any other.

[Philly 0]

I very seldom use a solid head color on my poppers. Before I started making my own I brought a couple of Orvis salt water poppers that had solid head colors. They were red/white, blue/white and yellow/white. I caught some bluefish on them but never used them in fresh water. Like Mike I like white and yellow poppers but one solid color, no contrast at the head. I do like to imitate bait fish colors with them. These two are more for salt water, than fresh but I'd use them in either. The color contrast doesn't show up that well in the picture.

 

[fshng2 0]

Very nice work Philly what hook & size do you use?

[flymanaj 0]

[fshng2 0]

Nice overall work and painting flymanaj.

Where do you get your stencils?

[Philly 0]

fshng2, Pretty sure they're a Tiemco hook. Not sure they make them anymore. They've been sitting in one of my hook boxes for a number of years. I did check they're size 2.

[Capt Bob LeMay 0]

Flyman... the color scheme I'd use would be fl. pink for the collar and white for the tail with that blue head... Of course I'm tying for salt or brackish waters - and can't be bothered to even paint the heads on my poppers... They don't last long enough to make it reasonable...

 

By the way for anyone that's struggled with using dyed red feathers and white together (the red always bleeds into the white the first time it gets wet - no matter how you process it first...)... simply use pink or fluorescent pink instead of the red... the pink doesn't bleed...

[flymanaj 0]

Fshng2 my brother in law painted those. I'm not set up for that yet.