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James Laraway

General silliness
« on: 28/04/2020 at 15:01 »
Instead of buying a commercial popper/diver head I had a muck about....



can you tell what it was in a previous life ?

Just need to fly some feathers/bling on the hook now  :z4

Eddie Sinclair

Re: General silliness
« Reply #1 on: 28/04/2020 at 17:37 »
Looks like a foam ear plug to me.

Eddie :z18

James Laraway

Re: General silliness
« Reply #2 on: 29/04/2020 at 11:44 »
Looks like a foam ear plug to me.

Eddie :z18

indeed.
Tried it with another one of a different type / colour. I think this one is better - the bumblebee !


 :z4

Sandy Nelson

Re: General silliness
« Reply #3 on: 29/04/2020 at 13:04 »
Only thing to watch James.
They  have a tendency to expand when soaked.
I takes a while but eventually the foam seems to swell up.
We’ve literally millions of them here and I’ve played with them before.
It’ll be interesting to see what you do with them :z16

Sandy

Steven Sinclair

Re: General silliness
« Reply #4 on: 29/04/2020 at 21:55 »
Only thing to watch James.
They  have a tendency to expand when soaked.
I takes a while but eventually the foam seems to swell up.
We’ve literally millions of them here and I’ve played with them before.
It’ll be interesting to see what you do with them :z16

Sandy

I too found this but then I devised a plan  :z16 an uber light coating of UV cure glue seals the foam and they still float! If anything I actually prefer them as they sit just that we bit lower in the water which helps create more bloop  :z4 this is a must for Giant Snakehead fishing  :z16 What you're best doing however, is adding an extra lip of foam that extends over the front. The noise these things make for their size is nuts  :z12




 :z18

Steven.

James Laraway

Re: General silliness
« Reply #5 on: 30/04/2020 at 13:52 »
and shes complete...




The head is on a shank with the hook able to 'wiggle'.

Derek Roxborough

Re: General silliness
« Reply #6 on: 30/04/2020 at 14:44 »
Ye lads hev nae shame, Derek Roxborough

James Laraway

Re: General silliness
« Reply #7 on: 07/05/2020 at 09:33 »
I too found this but then I devised a plan  :z16 an uber light coating of UV cure glue seals the foam and they still float! If anything I actually prefer them as they sit just that we bit lower in the water which helps create more bloop  :z4 this is a must for Giant Snakehead fishing  :z16 What you're best doing however, is adding an extra lip of foam that extends over the front. The noise these things make for their size is nuts  :z12



 :z18

Steven.

not really a fly - but castable on a fly rod.......popper head, foam and shanks...








Sandy Nelson

Re: General silliness
« Reply #8 on: 07/05/2020 at 10:44 »
That is just brilliant :z16

I love it  :z18

Sandy

Derek Roxborough

Re: General silliness
« Reply #9 on: 07/05/2020 at 13:49 »
Can you get a Lego version? Derek Roxborough

Steven Sinclair

Re: General silliness
« Reply #10 on: 07/05/2020 at 14:21 »
Awesome  :z16

I can see that I'm going to have to up my game here  :z14

 :z18

Steven.

James Laraway

Re: General silliness
« Reply #11 on: 07/05/2020 at 15:59 »
Awesome  :z16

I can see that I'm going to have to up my game here  :z14

 :z18

Steven.

I thought that would appeal to you  :z4

Eddie Sinclair

Re: General silliness
« Reply #12 on: 07/05/2020 at 16:39 »
Is it Bill or is it Ben?

Steven Sinclair

Re: General silliness
« Reply #13 on: 08/05/2020 at 23:28 »
Hi James,

Your frog reminded me of a weed less idea I was playing around with last year that you may find useful.

I'm unsure as to how embed the video here so I just uploaded it to YouTube with the link below.

https://youtu.be/m0HLrlJswUo

 :z18

Steven

Fred Hay

Re: General silliness
« Reply #14 on: 09/05/2020 at 06:41 »
Now that's a typical fly tyers bench   :z4

 




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