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Show your stuff... I have a bad eye and have been home all day whiped up a few flys.
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micro skrimp
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here is the you tube video i watched.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkZb-lBc5dY
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i used 5 min. epoxy. the other stuff looks nice but this is what i had.
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i have been playing around with seducer types and ep crabs for the last week. all in #4
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very nice, is that fox coming off up by the bead chain?
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are those the wapsi heads? i have been wanting to order some but was not sure what size to buy or were. i was going to try the 4 and 6 sizes, hoping to find one that is big enough to float with a heavy bite tippet but still be easy to cast.
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Howdy Blind... Yep, they're the Wapsi soft foam heads, the catalogue number (for your fly shop) is PP6... although they're designed for a #4 hook, they'll hold a #1 and perform well with them.  Now for the hard part.  I don't think any popper works well with a shock tippet (although I'll use one if I have to...).  They work much better with just straight 20 or better yet 15lb tippet (I use fluoro, exclusively, with a four foot length looped to a much heavier butt section... 40lb mono for an 8wt.).  When there are small tarpon or snook around you're going to lose a lot of fish unless you add a short 40lb shocker... but then you'll get fewer bites.

I tell my anglers that the first hit on a popper is usually a miss and if they keep it moving slowly the second hit won't miss at all... The only other tip I have for working them is to make it look like a very small bait that's trying to get moving while badly crippled.   Small "blips", with each very short strip making a small sound seems to be just right for us.  For trout a bit more noise with periods of no motion at all seems to do the trick.  Good luck, I like them a lot at first light when there's no wind to speak of.
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thank you sir, i will have to track some down. i use a four to five foot piece of 25# mason hard mono for a butt and then a four to five foot piece of either 20-30# fluoro. Lately i have been using a piece of 17# mono with a short bite for surface flies but i am not sure how much of a difference it makes. It seems every time i get sporty and try to lighten up on my leader i get busted off and revert back to my old ways.
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i though i would save this thread from falling back any further. i have not had much time to tie lately but i bought a few of these from bill Jackson a while back. i liked then so much i went out yesterday and picked materials to make them in clear, tan, and olive.  this is my second attempt.  i think its called the supreme shrimp.

 
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did you whip finish the tail?  It doesn't look like it was knotted. 
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surgeons knot x2 and epoxy.
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oh, and thanks
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blindmullet, are those 'glow eyes'? Got to love, glow eyes.  :cool:
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no glow. just olive mono. some glow eyes would be nice but i have not seen them before. the original pattern i bought had melted mono with green marker and then epoxy dipped.(i think) but if these mono eyes are not as durable i will start doing it the hard way. i tied some more with the shrimp color sup.hair and they look even better. i just need to track down some clear legs.
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nice to see this thread alive. i just caught a glimpse of something like this in a video while surfing the web for fish porn.  this is my first attempt and i have not got it wet yet.
i guess it would be a supreme gurgler? 
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supreme hair (shrimp)
ep shrimp dub (tan)
legs (clear)
mono eyes
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my first attempt at carp flies.  #2 "carp breakfast" 

my wife was amazed how i could turn a trip to Iowa into fishing.  thanks to a new friend in Iowa i got my chance to feed some carp.


some crabs...



and ep bait fish.
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That lower crab fly looks like the Cuban Avalon?? I'm looking forward to tying some of those up.
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its was definitely my inspiration. and i think your posts started me on using dubbing around the eyes on my crabs or toads if i am not mistaken. i plan on dropping it on some pot hole reds this fall. i hope they like cuban food:)
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