Tag: Surf Candy

This is an updated version of Bob Popovics’s Surf Candy. It’s just one of a slew of incredible patterns Bob has come up with over the years. His book Pop Fleyes has step-by-step instructions for many of them, including the Surf Candy. As I said, here, I’m going to tie an updated version of it, that uses some modern materials and is actually easier to...

IN A TWIST of fly-tying history, a fly originally developed for the unsophisticated tastes of bluefish became the most effective fly for the wary, sharp-eyedmembers of the tuna family, like bonito, false albacore, and small bluefin tuna. When Bob Popovics came back to Seaside Park, New Jersey, from Vietnam in 1970, no one in his area even knew how to tie a...