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To make the wings of the spin bug which project from the sides, use bucktail or other hair. Take two pinches of the bucktail and wrap the butts tightly with fly-tying thread, as shown in Fig. 21. Then dip or dab the windings with clear, waterproof cement. After they dry, drill two holes in the wood body if the bug, one on each side. When you do this, make sure that the holes are just big enough to take the butts of the bucktail wings snugly. In other words, it should be a tight fit. Then dip the butts of the wings in clear cement and insert them into the holes. You can also force a drop or two of the cement into the holes with a stick or brush. When the cement dries the bucktail wings will be held firmly in place. Another type of popping spin bug can be made, using the plug body of the popping plug described in the previous chapter. Only here you cut off the tail section so that the bug is short, as shown in Fig. 22. This bug can also have a treble hook wound with bucktail hair and wings at the sides.
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