Balsa wood poppers

[Spinartist]

Great post!!! I may make a few.
BWT... is that your blood on the brass tube where you're pushing it down with the golf ball??

 

[DLJeffs]

Thanks, give them a try.

I don't think that's blood, I think that's what's left from a red rubber band I had wrapped on there and left it for a long time. The golf ball trick works really well because the brass tube bites into the cover of the ball and it doesn't slip at all.

 

[DLJeffs]

Probably right, but the first few that the guy came up with - he used some sorta glue that melted the foam a little and that did not work at all. We found that out on the water. We had to pull the deerhair streamers outta the fly box. Luckily I had tied up and brought quite a few with me before the "season" started.

Funny thing about our "system". The bite was not on top, but a foot or so below. The poppers were used only because of their "wiggle". We had to throw 350 grain sinking line to get them down a little in quick fashion. Lots of current to overcome quickly. Had to throw tight to current obstructions and not pull it out of their strike zone before they got to it. In that current they did not follow far!

That's tough conditions for sure.

 

[Mike Hill]

Sometimes we'd called it "Chuck and duck". But sure caught some big fish. I stopped doing it pretty quickly as they were hitting it so hard they were getting hooked too deep and would bleed.