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A Half Dozen Poppers Black, Orange, and Olive

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#1 Stippled Popper

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Posted 04 May 2010 - 10:37 PM

Here are 6 poppers tied using Wapsi Perfect Popper bodies, #2 Mustad CK52S hooks, Puglisi Silky Fibers, Krystal Flash, with various
hackles and rubber legs.

The olive frog is my go to popper for bass. But I must confess to using Puglisi Baitfish when they aren't hitting poppers.

The painting on the Black popper is a somewhat simplified version of something posted earlier.

Here are a couple of standalone images of the orange one, the most recent design.

I'm thinking about calling this one The Great Pumpkin if it works.

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#2 gpd4

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Posted 04 May 2010 - 11:01 PM

It is definately a great pumpkin...whether it works or not. Beautiful work.

There is three times as much water on Earth as there is land. Any fool can see, God intended man to fish three times as much as he works.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

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#3 cencalfly

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Posted 04 May 2010 - 11:10 PM

Those are beautiful. Are you hand painting the eyes?

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#4 Kirk Dietrich

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Posted 04 May 2010 - 11:17 PM

Beautiful Stippled! The bass are starting to turn on pretty good, those frogs ought to get worn out before long. If you find those orange ones don't get used, I'll be glad to take them for a ride around the pond for you.

Nice!,
Kirk

Every now and then, I'll make a video, wish I could find time to do more; here is the link:
http://www.youtube.c...et?feature=mhee

I've got a few folders with photos of flies, these get more updates than my videos:
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Posted 04 May 2010 - 11:21 PM

excellent as always....

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#6 Stippled Popper

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Posted 05 May 2010 - 06:49 AM

QUOTE (cencalfly @ May 4 2010, 11:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Those are beautiful. Are you hand painting the eyes?

Yes. The eyes and everything else on the bodies is hand painted.

The eyes on these were applied with the ends of brass rods. I use
3/32", 1/8", 5/32", and 3/16". I also have a 1/4". But find it is too
big except for exceptionally large bodies where you are applying a
flat surface to a rounded body. For the rest of the painting, other than
for the base body colors, Yarn Darners, Tapestry, and other diameter
needles were used

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#7 mdraft1

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Posted 05 May 2010 - 07:30 AM

Those look fantastic! What kind of paint do you use? do you apply a topcoat?

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QUOTE (cencalfly @ May 4 2010, 11:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Those are beautiful. Are you hand painting the eyes?

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#8 Stippled Popper

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Posted 05 May 2010 - 07:36 AM

I use the acrylic paint commonly sold for craft projects. The brands I use are
Delta Ceramcoat and Anita's All Purpose Acrylic. If a protective coating isn't
applied, the paint will rapidly come off when the popper is fished. For these
poppers I used a number of coats of Loon Hard Head. The other product I
often use is Devcon Two Ton Epoxy.

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#9 Dart

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Posted 05 May 2010 - 09:28 AM

Ron, you continue to be an inspiration. Thank you for your willingness to share what you know (repeatedly) and for having such a helpful spirit. Due to your mentoring nature, I have improved the quality of my own poppers drastically. I can only hope that I'm as patient and eager to share my knowledge as you have been.

The poppers are absolutely stunning.

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#10 oatka

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Posted 05 May 2010 - 10:24 AM

i absolutely love your poppers, each time I look at them i think "why the heck haven't i bought more popper heads to try and paint them like he does?"

awesome poppers!!!