How To: Foam Hopper

After tying your thread onto the hook thread a piece of foam twice as large as you would like the body onto the hook. Like pictured above. Make sure the line is tied to the back of the hook.

Now wrap the thread around the foam like pictured above left to create the first segment of the hopper's body. Tie the thread around the hook up to where you would like the next segment to begin, tie a few wraps around the foam, and repeat up the body to get the segmented look pictured above right. Wrap backward over the top of the foam to get the thread positioned as shown above right.

 Now tie in a thick chunk of deer hair and trim tight to the foam body. Make sure the deer hair is tied in at a natural segment. (use as few wraps of thread as possible to ensure that the segment doesn't get too thick) Now tie in the legs on each side, only in the back. Do not trim the legs yet!

 Tie on the green foam wing casing on top of the same segment used to tie in the deer hair and legs. (I can't overemphasize the importance of limiting thread wraps) Tie in the orange indicator foam strip next. Now wrap across the next segment forward (wrap across the top) and then wrap the foam wing casing and orange indicator foam down. Tie in the front part of the legs like pictured below. Trim the orange indicator now.

Wrap the thread one more segment forward and whip finish. After whip finishing be sure to use head cement on the whip finish and each segment. Using a liberal amount of head cement ensures that it won't fall apart easily after lots of fishies!

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