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Shiner Minnow
Posted 11 June 2014 - 11:28 AM
big ups to Yak for all the help along the way. My first finished batch of bass poppers! I am really stoked.
Goodentight Those look awesome and finished in time for the bass season. Now you will have to post the fish you catch with them for us to see. Are those poppers soft foam?
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Steelhead Master
Posted 12 June 2014 - 12:56 PM
Goodentight Those look awesome and finished in time for the bass season. Now you will have to post the fish you catch with them for us to see. Are those poppers soft foam?
Thanks man.
The heads are just the perfect popper heads yeah.
I didn't buy the kit because I heard those kit hooks are $#1t. I just used a gammy 3.0 (I think, id have to check) and to get them to stick I wrapped in thread and then zapped into the popper. They ain't movin lol
I also have a bunch I didn't post. Would a pike ever hit these? (white/red or that black one?)
Perch
Posted 18 June 2014 - 09:50 AM
What do you figure is the average cost of a popper that you've made yourself?
Smallmouth Bass
Posted 19 June 2014 - 10:01 AM
What do you figure is the average cost of a popper that you've made yourself?
How long is a piece of string? LOL
On average I'd say it's around a $1.50, maybe a bit more.
Steelhead Master
Posted 26 June 2014 - 03:01 PM
well, they get cheaper as you go.
I bought a sharpie 8 pack kit that cost me 20$, but that will last forever...
foam heads are approx 40 cents each, the eyes cost a bit, hook costs a bit, hackle costs a bit etc etc etc.. I dont know. I just enjoy building them! Going to try them out soon.......
Sunfish
Posted 30 June 2014 - 02:51 PM
Slayed carp on lake ontario with this fly over the weekend. various colors, black brown and red doing the best
Smallmouth Bass
Posted 30 June 2014 - 03:26 PM
Sweet! Is that a certain park in the east end?
Sunfish
Posted 30 June 2014 - 04:02 PM
Sweet! Is that a certain park in the east end?
you know it
Smallmouth Bass
Posted 30 June 2014 - 04:04 PM
Nice, I've been wanting to check it out for a while, not sure why I haven't yet.
Smallmouth Bass
Posted 01 July 2014 - 11:52 AM
Took a stab at the Durham Ranger and a GH this weekend.
I'm fairly happy with the Ranger, but I think the floss could have been a little bit smoother, the jungle cock is a little high on the side and I don't really like how the head turned out (I had a nicely shaped herl head and had finished the fly but then realized I forgot my horns. After razor blading the head to put them in it got a little messy.)
On the GH I found the wing to once again to have too much taper (tail may be a little long as well). The floss again is a little rough, the roof ended up getting split on top and the far wing is just a tad shorter than the near. After I had gotten to the throat I looked back and somehow I found that the tail veiling on the near side had also collapsed. The tippet is stripped on one side and it got trapped in the wing for the photo but I've pulled it out with a bodkin since.
Chris
Swing and float
Posted 02 July 2014 - 11:06 AM
Luck is one of my skills!
Posted 09 July 2014 - 11:25 PM
hey is that a certain blue tail feather on that ranger that you may or may not have found a couple weeks ago while wading ? 
Sunfish
Posted 10 July 2014 - 10:53 AM
When you goin for the atlantics again Chris
Smallmouth Bass
Posted 10 July 2014 - 12:09 PM
LOL, never been.
Sunfish
Posted 11 July 2014 - 07:59 AM
Smallmouth Bass
Posted 12 July 2014 - 11:29 AM
Thought I saw an Atlantic mission on your blog. My bad, maybe it was a BC steelhead trip?
I did do a BC salmon trip last fall but I don't run a blog...
Swing and float
Posted 13 August 2014 - 06:14 PM
Smallmouth Bass
Posted 14 August 2014 - 12:13 PM
Nice looking hobo there TC! Heron is starting to come into the shop, the time is near!
Swing and float
Posted 14 August 2014 - 04:59 PM
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