I bought a bunch of different pan poppers from a bin at gander mountain, and they all sink! After the first strip, they stay about half an inch under water. Lame! You think they'll take a return?

I don't know, but it is worth a try.

Head on up and ask them. But there is probably a reason they were in that bin....good luck with it.

I always get a chuckle when you guys get all up in a tizzy over discount fly lines and/or the "Bargain Bin" at Cabela's

Decievers? Depoppers ? Popcievers ?


Didn't we cover this under a thread called -
Hi my name is _________ and I am a cheap [censored] fly fishers.
I made some new friends some where...


Ain't that why Albright makes some $$

Are you using a heavy flourocarbon leader? Small poppers like that will sink when tied to a heavy fluoro leader.

No its a very light mono leader. They're just poor quality.
Clearly, the only solution is to tie my own. I am now forced to spend money on materials for this no matter how my wife feels about it Are there some threads here for tying poppers? Preferably, the kind that float.

Easiest ones are Gartside Gurglers or Pete's GurglePop Raineys also makes cool little kits that allow you to tie up a dozen with prebuilt bodies and then paint to your choice.

apply some dry-fly water proofer.. or look at the foam flys for bass and just make them smaller

floating poppers cost extra

You could dab on a little white gorilla glue for extra bouyancy.

I'm totally in the Fun Foam poppers camp - V.I.P poppers, Gurglers, Crease flys...

If at first they don't float, slap more foam on the next one!

Cut the hook off - it is steel.

I'd add that a suspending popper isn't a totally bad thing. Even though they don't float, they're still going to push a good amount of water and you might be surprised at the results.



It's the Bargain Cave, sir. Don't be hatin' just 'cause all the good stuff was gone the last time you went.

They sell some real tiny life jackets in the boating section.