Sure. Or 5 Min epoxy, or Thompson's Tightbond (the best for wood, in my opinion, even if it does take 12 hours to completely dry...). That's how we tied poppers back in the days before spinning deer hair became popular ( sometime in the early 60s, if I remember right). If you want your flies to really look neat, dress the hook before you put the hook in the body. There used to be 'popper' hooks that had a small kink in the middle to keep them from spinning in the body, but they may not make these anymore since deer hair and foam became so popular. If you use enough glue, you don't need a special hook, anyway. Just watch your hook gap. Select a hook about 1 size larger than you think it should be, and the gap will be about right. Or, you can just use wide-gap hooks. Another 'trick' to making cork poppers is that, instead of painting eyes on them, you can glue on those tiny doll eyes you see at Walmart, and other hobby places. The pupils in them are loose, and will 'rattle' every time you twitch the popper, and it drives bass, and bluegills insane[

QUOTE=teachmarkey;476899]Thanks, Gigmaster! Didn't think about small corks. What do you suggest gluing with? Superglue?[/QUOTE]