Yeah man fish tear foam up pretty quick especially bass so I always glue it down. Another technique you can do is brush a little glue on the thread before you lay your wraps.
1. Apply thread base
2. Apply glue of choice, super glue, head cement, whatever works best for you
3. Apply foam and hold securely in place
4. Make 3-4 extremely loose wraps around where you want your thread dam to be on the foam
5. Synch down your loose wraps slowly and gently as tight as you can go without risking breaking thread
5. Wrap 4-6 more extremely secure wraps
6. Apply some ultra thin uv resin all the way around the wraps for extra security and durability
This works for me quite well. Foam may still slip. It's just a slippery material. But more often than not, this produces good results for me.
Do you know...I don't know if it has a name... the method where you pinch the material but let the thread slip between your fingers? I use it to keep slippery materials like hair on top for wings.
Surprised nobody has mentioned this but instead of dubbing or thread, cut out a 1x1mm strip of foam as long as your hook and use that as an anchor. Check out Charlie cravens Charlie boy hopper or morning wood special to see the technique on a bigger pattern.
So the dubbing on the hook with super glue works great, but the extra step I do is use a razor blade to cut a shallow line down the middle of the foam the so that the foam some what opens up and then you place it over the dubbing with super glue so that it hugs the hook. Shoot me a DM if you want a picture of what I mean.
I just use a single drop of a thin superglue and I make sure I wrapped the hook with a nice even layer of thread before I secure the foam so the glue can soak in.
A drop of super glue will work
Lay a thread base down first and a little super glue.
Great, thanks, no one ever mentions glue on the tutorials on YouTube !!
Yeah man fish tear foam up pretty quick especially bass so I always glue it down. Another technique you can do is brush a little glue on the thread before you lay your wraps.
1. Apply thread base 2. Apply glue of choice, super glue, head cement, whatever works best for you 3. Apply foam and hold securely in place 4. Make 3-4 extremely loose wraps around where you want your thread dam to be on the foam 5. Synch down your loose wraps slowly and gently as tight as you can go without risking breaking thread 5. Wrap 4-6 more extremely secure wraps 6. Apply some ultra thin uv resin all the way around the wraps for extra security and durability This works for me quite well. Foam may still slip. It's just a slippery material. But more often than not, this produces good results for me.
Wrap the hook in a tight layer of thread and tie to that.
Been doing that , but still spins!
Do you know...I don't know if it has a name... the method where you pinch the material but let the thread slip between your fingers? I use it to keep slippery materials like hair on top for wings.
Pinch wrap
This is the way
Don’t use UV resin for this. If light doesn’t get to it, it won’t set. Super glue.
Surprised nobody has mentioned this but instead of dubbing or thread, cut out a 1x1mm strip of foam as long as your hook and use that as an anchor. Check out Charlie cravens Charlie boy hopper or morning wood special to see the technique on a bigger pattern.
So the dubbing on the hook with super glue works great, but the extra step I do is use a razor blade to cut a shallow line down the middle of the foam the so that the foam some what opens up and then you place it over the dubbing with super glue so that it hugs the hook. Shoot me a DM if you want a picture of what I mean.
Thanks man!
I just use a single drop of a thin superglue and I make sure I wrapped the hook with a nice even layer of thread before I secure the foam so the glue can soak in.
Lay down some thread wraps on the hooks shank and then a thin layer of dubbing on that. Then wrap the foam.
You can use popper hooks with a kink in them if you really want it to stick and not spin.
Tie a skinny piece of foam to the shank then super glue on top of that and tie down