This is such a cunningly simple, brilliant idea! I have never really tied parachutes - 1. in Texas foam spiders/poppers are the topwater of choice and 2. tying in the parachute has always been a maddening procedure.

using the foam strips has set my mind a whirling. I think I am going to attempt with strips of 2mm closed cell foam and see how I turn out. Bream on parachutes ought to be heckka fun.