SnickASaurusRex

Simple yarn body and rubber legs. Kills em every time. Black yarn white legs, green yarn black legs. Some lead wraps or bead chain if you want it to sink. Not pretty, but just sleighs them around here.

Love the hawg tied bug pic. It reminds me of a female coworker that I tried to explain the craft to. She said.... And I quote... "What, why.. What do you even tie them to"?

I enjoy those eyes. They turn any fly into a cartoon goofy bug. and the fish seem to love them too.

Ahhh. Ain't he a cute lil' thing.

Some more Duffus Bugs. My favorite color combo is the gray and white. It's a lot like the shiners we have around here.

Tying poppers and sliders in one continuous process from start to finish is something that I have put a lot of effort and thought into. I don't like to manufacture in stages such as balsa and carved foam poppers. I have an articulated pattern that I call the block head, but it is not in its final form so I will hold off on reviling that to the world for a time.

Try corded material with a piece of zonker tied into the tip for a tail. Makes a great lizard or snake pattern. Or some marabou or bucktail for a flopping dying bait fish pattern.

I honestly think it was the best name I could give to it. I mean... It looks like it should be announcing to the bass, "Duhhh... I'm a Duuuuuuffus Buuug."

A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by SnickASaurusRex: Floating Wisker Nose Duffus Bug

OK Here is the popping one. I call this color combo the Electric Frog Pajamas. You can clearly see the strip that is tied onto the bottom. The little bit of lip that it provides is just enough to pull the face into the water surface and make it go POP.

To make it pop just add 4 - 5 wraps of lead or lead free to the front part of the shank. Or add a strip of foam to the bottom. I'll post a pic of one with a strip that pops more when I can find the camera. The key to getting it to pop is to have abottom lip or have the front end ride down in the film more.

Oh it produces. I have been tinkering with this pattern for nearly seven years now. It is really in it's fifth or sixth evolutionary form. I have added rattles to it and done different tails. I like the frog legs the best, but I do feathers and bait fish imitations. I've done salamander and snake imitations on the same technique too. The Marabou legs do nicely. The joint is a simple over hand knot sealed with a generous dollop of cement. and the are splayed apart with a chenille ball tied in the frog's, ummm.... butt region. They flap and kick nicely. No it don't pop too much. It rides high, so it is more of a chuger or a gurgler.

My Folded foam popper tied froggie style. I call it Frog Pajamas. Here is a SBS about my folded foam popper: Folded Foam Popper SBS

Trash fish??? I like to target creak chub on my 0wt using embroidery mono as a tippet. There is a network of small creeks, emphasis on small just south of my house. I put the waders on and tie on a size 16 - 12 scud and the little B-tards just hit it like nothing else. On that kind of tippet with the drag set low it is like salmon fishing. All of that from essentially a minnow.

Yeah that became my new favorite CA today. They'll know me by name down there by the end of summer.

Today I was out at James A Reed in Lee's Summit Missouri, and my wife drove out to get lunch. We forgot to pack it. Anyway, I was board waiting for her to return and I was jigging a size 12 bead headed san juan just playing with the blue gill. Then Woomp Whoomp something took me out to 50 yards of backing. Strip, strip, wind, wind. I got it back in, the sun was in front so I couldn't see it. Zoom it took me deep into my backing again. This happened three times. before I got it in. I was on 8x tippet and the wife had the net in the car. I finally grabbed this monster by her tail and lugged it in. A 3 pound 20 inch channel cat. Good Gravy. I thought I had caught the devil.

Who uses Gorilla Glue and what for? I find it is great for securing foam to hook shanks. I also use it for this: Gorilla Glue Fly

I use 30 lb mono for the most part. The spool doubles as a tool caddy for me.

This is my easy foam popper. I Have presented it in a blank slate form. Legs and eyes can be added to liven it up some. Prismacolors or paint also adds a nice touch. It is buoyant enough to support an epoxy coat if that is your style. I use gorilla glue to strengthen and secure the foam to the hook. It is a little tricky to work with but it eliminates the foam twisting and deforming on the hook after several uses. 1: Add a sparse thread base and tie in mono for the weed guard if using. 2: Tie in tail material. Don't worry if it gets bulky the foam covers it all. 3: Add a thin layer of gorilla glue along the hook shank and tie in the foam strip with the taper starting 3/16 - 1/4 inch from the eye. Lash this down tight and secure. Now the Gorilla glue will have oozed. Wipe the excess clean. I just use a bodkin for this. 4: Now run another bead of gorilla glue over this bundle of thread and foam. Roll the foam strip forward and tie down in segments. 5: This gets a little tricky here. Add a piece of heavy mono (20# - 30#) and tie in so that it points straight up and presses firmly into the foam strip. Don't trim just yet. This gives the foam a cupped face for the Pop, Pop, Pop.... 6: Fold the foam back so that it forms and exaggerated fold behind the mono. Add another bead of gorilla glue inside of this fold and at the tie in point. Now tie off into the segment behind the head. Trim the foam to what ever shape is needed. Tie in the weed guard and whip finish at the eye. Wipe any excess glue. Use an office clip to smash the foam and glue together so the glue can do it's thing. The glue takes about 2 hours to set hard. Check up on the glue in 15 - 30 minutes and wipe any that has foamed out. It is an expanding glue.

A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by SnickASaurusRex: Folded Foam Popper <img src="uploads/img4bf447c970a98.jpg">

Well I would do a sparse hackle hair wing caddis.

A decade in and I am still using a super AA vice. I like it and I am fast and good on it. I have considered a true rotary vice, but I am cheap.

If you could only tie and fish one bug what would it be. You could only put this one bug in your fly box, but in any color and size variant imaginable. I'll tell you mine after a few good responses.

When it's done it's done, but I'll spend hours prototyping a pattern to find the quickest way to tie it well.

Well the line is a 3 ply line. I use 100wt YLI silk. For the 5wt line I used about 1400 yrds. I build the segments on a furled leader jig that is 12' long. I drilled 1" holes every 4" to accommodate any taper I can dream up. I built the taper first then added 10' segments. I used a sewing needle to loop the next segment through the first segment and so on to make a 90' line. The line began to build up a lot of back twist so I had to completely remove the line from the jig every 10' and let the back twist undo itself then move the butt to the tip end of the leader jig. For the oil vacuum I plan to use a mason jar equipped with a lid that hooks to a food vacuum sealer. then use a varnish making thee coats. It is complicated to explain. I'll be try my best if you have any more questions.