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Comment by Bruce Tomaselli on December 3, 2015 at 3:33pm

Beautiful, Mark. Have you ever created a tutorial for these?. I've made some and they are even close to yours, but they caught a few small mouths.

Comment by carl hendrix on December 3, 2015 at 8:10am

love the way you paint these Mark !!  thanks to you;; you have me trying to make popping bugs to !!

Comment by Rex Robinson on August 2, 2012 at 5:21pm

Mark, these are some of the very best I've seen.  I'd be climbing trees to get one of those out of the branches.

Comment by dick tabbert on August 2, 2012 at 3:39pm

That's what I always used was Createx. I probably have 30 bottle's of dried up stuff put up with the air brush.

Comment by dick tabbert on August 2, 2012 at 3:35pm

Mark at any rate I don't think you'll run out of poppers any time soon.

Comment by Mark Stine on August 2, 2012 at 3:35pm

Dick I like Createx acrylics because you can spray them right out of the bottle but use the Delta Ceramcoat etc. from the Walmart but has to be thinned with water.

Comment by dick tabbert on August 2, 2012 at 3:31pm

I have a couple Iwata's put up somewhere haven't used them for long wouldn't know where to find them. I'm assuming you used acrylic with a clear coat. Nice job on the poppers.

Comment by John Sheehan on August 2, 2012 at 3:26pm

Wow # 10 hook is my choice of size for the gills I encounter .Great creations on your part !Beautifully done!

Comment by Mark Stine on August 2, 2012 at 3:24pm

Here is a peak into my popper box. 

Comment by Mark Stine on August 2, 2012 at 3:18pm

Bruce, I will work on a tutorial,

John, my favorite hook size is #6 mustad 33903 big enough to cull out some of the smaller bream. I will some times use #8 but have never gone smaller.

Dick, I airbrush quite a bit, I mostly use a Badger SG 100 aorbrush which only holds about 4 drops of paint at a time, I also use a Paasche VL when I paint larger areas or do a big batch of poppers (I usually make 10 to 20 of the same pattern at a time). I see online that a lot of popper makers like the Copic airbrush which uses a color that appears to be a highlighter/marker.

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