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Poppers with gill slits

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A couple weeks ago my salt water club had a tying class on poppers with gill slits. Not a new idea but he expanded on it a little bit. He supplied some pre-made bodies for the class and we worked on those. He gave us some pre-formed bodies to take home with us and I brought some "templates" from him. Reason being the poppers we were doing were for salt water and I wanted to downsize them to bass and pan fish size. This is what I came up with. Something to throw with my 6 wgt.

 

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View from the back showing the "gills"

 

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This one is pan fish size.

 

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I like putting gill representations on my streamers, poppers, etc. I haven't tied very many crease flies, but I did gill slits on the ones I fished. I put them a lot closer to the eye, though. Yours appear more "mid-body" than actual gill location.

 

Actually, I think it's just the bit of red that's the draw. The fish don't care if it's gills or blood ... it's a signal to take advantage of.

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Agree. Whether it's a red band on my "Red Neck Crappie Jigs", a red or orange throat on a streamer, red is a good accent.

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I was looking at that, Mike. I first met him at a "Heroes on the Water" fly fishing and fly tying workshop my salt water club did back in March. He gave out samples of some of his flies. I picked a popper and a diver. I think what it is that when I was downsizing the pattern I didn't reduce the head portion enough in relation to the rest of the body, that's why the slits are so far back. I haven't fished them yet. I'm curious to see what the action will be with the water flowing through the "gills".

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