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Handmade Balsa Popper to match a Cricket
Turns out the homemade popper pictured doesn't necessarily match the brown of a Live Cricket but it's been working...Crappie, Bass, Bluegill, Shellcracker and Warmouth to name a few species that are hitting this bug...Chartreuse Bitsy Minnow is added for size reference......
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Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on June 4, 2012 at 2:31pm
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The popping bug pictured here will be the popper of choice this month.....my dad has a hard time going away from our homemade "cricket" flies......I love the action of the really long legs that provide the action of a real cricket swimming....If the fish were piled up that have been taken on this bug.....you wouldn't believe it!
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Appreciate it Leo....my dad has always insisted on the two long legs....the true test is when a bait gets fished and these bugs have been deadly...That's what really matters when the rubber hits the road.....or in this case the bug hits the water!
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Comment by Leo Nguyen on April 6, 2012 at 7:52pm
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Great none the less. Love how you left two trailing legs longer than normal to create wakes in the water. Very creative and insightful approach Jeffrey.
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