Poppers tied on tubes

[crashfromboston]

Has anyone tried this? I had corks kicking around on my tying bench
sorry i cant post pics. But hopefully when i have some done.

[bowfin47]

Hard-bodied poppers on tubes have been around for quite some time. Bob's Banger is a foam tubefly that I believe Bob Popovic came up with many years ago as an alternative to hard bodied, tubefly poppers.

I have some great tubefly - deerhair poppers that Tom Travis tyed for me at a FFF South Eastern Council Conclave about 10-14 years ago. They were Tom's answer to tubefly hard-body poppers.

[Alberto]

I use Rainy's foam heads for tube poppers and tie the tails on the hook, this way I can change the tail/head combination as needed.

[pittendrigh]

Here's a medium sized grasshopper made with a small tube on the bottom. But it could just as easily be a popper. The tippet threads through the tube and attaches to what ever hook you might want to use. To keep the hopper from sliding up the leader (so you can use it as a bobber for a trailing nymph) you can thread the tippet through the tube, over the thorax area and then back through the tube a second time.

If you snag the hook and break the tippet you lose the hook. But the hopper itself drifts right back to you like an obedient retriever. So I call these Boomerangs. You do have to remember to put some bare hooks in your fly box. If you use a razor blade to slant the back end of the tube, and if you snell the hook instead of knotting to they eye, then any tension on the leader forces the hook into the right parallel orientation to the body of the fly.

[Flyfish Dog]

Yep , I been tying on them for quite a few years now. I got a bunch of them but no pictures uploaded so I am crunched for time that I have wait to post them. My last one, is a muskie sized version.

[crashfromboston]

What hooks are you tying these on? Can you post some pics? I would love to see them.