Mike, tie that same fly with a much broader face and triangular shape, rather than a thin, long rectangular shape, and I bet you find it skips all over the place. Also, I bet if I trimmed my Tap's Bug down as far as your bug, it's probably tied just as tightly. When I refer to "very tightly packed," I'm speaking of a deerhair fly surface that almost looks solid even when the hairs are left as long as they are on my Tap's Bug.
You have a point about the balsa wood poppers. On the other hand, they are a different material entirely, so maybe they have other attributes that balance out the solid design.
No less an authority than Charles F. Waterman also prefers a less dense, more raggedly trimmed Tap's Bug.
Touche.
-- Mike
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