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DIY BAITFISH SLIDER HEAD KIT
DIY BAITFISH SLIDER HEAD KIT
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Blane Chocklett Slider Head Kits—often referred to in his material systems as DIY Baitfish Popper and Bug Head Kits—are innovative, modular fly-tying component packages engineered by Blane Chocklett. These kits provide tiers with pre-cut, highly engineered foam shapes designed to construct high-performance surface and sub-surface slider, popper, and baitfish patterns.
Key Features and Design Mechanics
• Pre-Molded Efficiency: Eliminates the need to manually shape, carve, or burnish dense foam heads on the tying bench.
• Hydrodynamic Profiles: Built with specific contours that displace water cleanly, allowing the finished fly to slide, dart, and glide effortlessly.
• Modular Versatility: Designed to integrate seamlessly with the Chocklett Factory multi-articulated Game Changer wire spine platform.
• Aerodynamic Taper: The head forms taper cleanly to maximize aerodynamic performance, making large, profile-heavy flies much easier to cast over long distances.
• DIY Customization: Tiers can purchase the component kits to construct heads from scratch, allowing for personalized thread wrapping, color markers, and feather/synthetic integration.
Target Forage and Profiles
The kits are engineered to help tiers match the exact silhouettes of critical predatory target forage, including:
• Shad and Bunker: Taller, narrower profiles that require specific water-pushing capabilities.
• Glass Minnows and Chubs: Sleek, elongated baitfish shapes optimized for quick sliding actions.
Component Integration
The slider head kits typically work alongside other proprietary Chocklett Factory components to achieve their signature erratic, non-mechanical swimming motion:
• Support Discs: Internal structural discs (available in Oval Support Disc Kits or Standard varieties) that sit behind or inside the head assembly to actively divert water flow.
• Body Tubing: Authentic structural tubing used to keep synthetic or natural fibers flared up, creating a "hollow fly effect" that retains structural bulk without adding casting weight.
• Specialized Brushes: Densely packed, stiff-fiber synthetic brushes designed to wrap tightly behind the head to build a firm foundation and control the fly's overall buoyancy.
If you are preparing to tie these patterns, let me know:
• What species you are targeting (e.g., smallmouth bass, pike, musky)?
• Whether you prefer using natural materials (like bucktail) or synthetics?
