All the shaping, glueing, painting and adding tails and legs has gotten to me...I now just tie craft foam gurgler type patterns, the tails are added to the hook along with the hackle or dubbed underbodies and the legs are incorporated right along with the foam bodies.
Add some Fleximent along the bottom of the fly and they will hold up to 75 or so smallies.
They seem to cast easier and are VERY effective topwaters as well.