[TheCream]

I had been doing a lot of foam bodied poppers for this spring. I was bored Sunday evening, so I decided to alter the design a little and see if I could do a slider along the same lines. I punched out the foam discs, then instead of gluing them all together, I did 3 segments: 2 front discs, 3 middle, 2 rear. I cut down the middle 3 segment with scissors to be smaller diameter than the rear segment, and did the same with the front segment to make it smaller than the middle. From there, I did them the same way I made the poppers. Added eyes, used a Sharpie to make a dark back, glued it to the hook shank and epoxied over the body. Marabou and flashabou for the tail, Ice Chenille for the over wrap. I did 3 of them yesterday in different colors as test patterns, and took one down to the river by the house close to dark to test it. It dives just like a slider, but makes a little more surface commotion, I think. Slider+Popper=Slopper.

[Stippled Popper]

Nice tie. Which hook did you use on it?

[NJ All Day]

Where do you get the foam disk from?

[TheCream]

Nice tie. Which hook did you use on it?

Mustad R74-9672 Size 6

Where do you get the foam disk from?

I buy the foam in a bulk pack from WalMart, it's a cheap craft foam, like 50 sheets for $4. I have a circular punch I use to punch out the discs that are the size I use for the #6 poppers and the 2 rear discs for these. From there I cut them down with scissors, glued them together, and epoxy coated them. Here's a sample of what the poppers look like on the same hook and hook size:



I also covered the foam with prismatic lure tape on a few:

[David Legg]

Those are coo!