Bass poppers

[Tucker733]

I like to say I haven't paid for a fly for about 2 years since I've been tying my own. Now I'm running short on my bass poppers I picked up before I started tying. I tyed some with foam cylinders but I really like the painted ones but they are going for an arm and a leg these days. My question is does anyone sell a decent variety online that doesn't cost $5 a fly?

 

[poopdeck]

Poppers are crazy expensive for some reason. The components to tie them yourself are more than I want to pay as well. I tried making popper bodies from dollar store sandels and cork but did not like the results. I started tying this gurgler pattern which is tied from inexpensive foam sheets and they are a quick and easy tie. they dont look as good in a fly box as a njce popper but I find them equally effective for both stream and river SMB. Just don't tie them in saltwater size.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?autoplay=1&v=kCPJCfJG5BM

 

[Berks]

I use this website for poppers. They have a large inventory.
https://www.breambugs.com/

 

[BrookieChaser]

Walmart.

 

[RLeep2]

I use the Rainy's pre-formed bodies in various colors and color them with a permanent marker (or markers..). Pricing my labor at the roughly 11 cents an hour it is worth and adding in the hook and any hackle or flash I use as well as amortizing the occasional outlay for new markers, I figure I'm getting serviceable poppers that catch bass for about $1.32/ea.

I can live with that...

 

[JerryC]

I use the pre-formed soft foam popper bodies. I buy them in white most of the time. Use permanent markers to color them. My most productive colors are white, fluorescent yellow and fire tiger. Since I already have the hooks, tail and leg material like RLeep2 it costs me a bout $1 to make a popper. You can also make a decent popper using circles or heart shapes punched from sheet. All you need is a punched foam circle, a bag of the gold Aberdeen crappie hooks, some marabou for a tail, and wrapped hackle for a body. Not pretty but they work. Never figured the cost, I'd guess it be $0.25 a popper
Google "Fun Foam Popper" That's what the guy who showed it to me called it.

 

[brain]

you can buy all the stuff to make and then tie cork bodied poppers and sliders. they even have special zig zagie hooks for popper bodies.
i and as well as the bass i chase prefer cork bodies. not sure why,maybe they ride lower in the water than foam.