Making Perfect Booby Eyes with Martyn White

[@upavonflyfishing3605]

Fantastic to see you using our products Martyn! Great video, keep up the good work!

[@charlesmcfarlane2082]

Cool love the oven tip.

[@dougbrien9836]

Good information Martyn, thanks

[@hankvana2149]

Hi Martyn, Thanks for posting! How do you determine what diameter of eye to use for a hook? I'm concerned about the fly spinning during casting or a fast retrieve.

[@flickingfeathers]

As long as the eyes are even you have quite a bit of leeway. A rough guide would be 8mm for a size 6, 7mm for size 8, 5 or 7mm on a size 10, 4or5mm on a size 12. That's based on a Kamasan B175 or fulling mill competition heavyweight

[@hankvana2149]

@@flickingfeathers Thanks Martyn! That's exactly what I was looking for!

[@joeduca8582]

Awesome, Martyn's workshop! Just thought of a name for this very cool process, Shape 'n Bake ;o) Now that oven is conventional not microwave, right? I've made lots of popper bodies before using different metal cylinders like cigar tubes, different caliber bullet casings, etc. by hand. I found a foam block used to car top a canoe for the bodies ( similar to those boat bumpers I think ) and other different foam objects. I never got into booby flies past the styrofoam / nylon patch ties. Excellent DIY tutorial Martyn, thanks!

[@flickingfeathers]

Yeah it's just an electric oven, don't use the microwave. If you make them like this you'll never go back to the mesh method.

[@joeduca8582]

@@flickingfeathers You know it! Thanks :o)

[@JohanPieterse-y5p]

Why do you put them in the oven to bake

[@flickingfeathers]

It smoothes out the rough edges from cutting and seals the surface

[@JohanPieterse-y5p]

Thanks appreciated