So I know I love the indicator, but I also really love catching fish. I reluctantly jumped on the floating head wagon and after a few half hearted attempts, I managed to save an extremely slow day at an eastern Washington lake by deploying the FBHL. Things turned epic in a hurry, but to be honest the method I ended up fishing them were not technically how they were designed, so I still wasn't 100% sold.
Flash forward a couple of months and I throw one out during another day, but this time fishing was steady on jig nymphs under an indicator. Fish ate them again, but this time in a more "traditional" way. I'm more intrigued now so I start looking into tying more of them. The problem is, those darn heads are expensive. So off to the craft store. Well, a dollar store shares the parking lot with the craft store I parked at so I peeked in their first. I found 50, approximately 1" closed cell foam cubes in 4 different colors. Below shows the process of one of the orange cubes. I can cut each cube into about 6 "cylinders", that's 300 heads!
I also found that I could push a bodkin through the center of the head and slide the eye of the hook through the cylinder. This helped keep things in place much better.
This is a picture of the cube, one of the six rectangular prisms I cut it into, one of the trimmed down "cylinders", and then the trimmed down booby tied on the hook.
I used a florescent orange thread and tied in some pink marabou tail.
After that I tied in some pink crystal chenille.
Next some chartreuse crystal chenille.
Finally I tied it off.
And now a full box of Unicorn Puke as @troutpocket called it.
Flash forward a couple of months and I throw one out during another day, but this time fishing was steady on jig nymphs under an indicator. Fish ate them again, but this time in a more "traditional" way. I'm more intrigued now so I start looking into tying more of them. The problem is, those darn heads are expensive. So off to the craft store. Well, a dollar store shares the parking lot with the craft store I parked at so I peeked in their first. I found 50, approximately 1" closed cell foam cubes in 4 different colors. Below shows the process of one of the orange cubes. I can cut each cube into about 6 "cylinders", that's 300 heads!
I also found that I could push a bodkin through the center of the head and slide the eye of the hook through the cylinder. This helped keep things in place much better.
This is a picture of the cube, one of the six rectangular prisms I cut it into, one of the trimmed down "cylinders", and then the trimmed down booby tied on the hook.
I used a florescent orange thread and tied in some pink marabou tail.
Next some chartreuse crystal chenille.
Finally I tied it off.
And now a full box of Unicorn Puke as @troutpocket called it.