I made few fly poppers earlier, and caught sand bass, small large mouth bass, and small stripers with them. One thing I don't like about those poppers is that the hook up rates were low, the fish "self releasing rates" were high. I really don't like those hooks.

This is one popper I made before:

So I decided to twist my poppers a little bit: using hooks that I have confidence with:

I went striper fishing at Lake Texoma Saturday morning, to try out my new twisted poppers. I fly fished for about 1 1/2 hour, had 4 hook ups, landed 3, lost one close to the bank. There were not big, but I am happy with my twisted poppers.

Nice!

Very nice Moon..................glad that they worked so well for you

Mike

good looking fish, a few of us from the shop are going to go on tuesday. Looks like your poppers worked well

Thanks very much gentlemen!

My twisted popper does have a little "swimming action". It's like articulated popper.

Most of all, the hooks I use are very sharp and strong, which gives me lots confidence for big fish.

Moon,

Did you carve those out of Balsa or Foam? what hooks did you use.

Well done Moon!!!

Nice poppers Moon!

I use foam bought at Basspro. Below is the picture of the hooks I used. You can see that I am unconventional guy.

Awesome Moon! Very nice.

Thanks. I wish that I can make poppers as good, as beautiful as yours.

Great looking poppers Moon! I am impressed that you have so much success bank fishing. Nice work.