When to use it
- For bass and panfish when a fly that can slide, bloop, dive, and rise is useful.
- Around open pockets, banks, and cover suited to the exact hook and weed guard.
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Stealth Bomber
Kent Edmonds's folded-sheet-foam diver and slider for bass, bream, and other warmwater fish.
- Common size
- FFI documents sizes #10 through #2 depending on target
- Colors reviewed
- black, white-chartreuse, yellow, frog and baitfish tones
- Imitates
- general surface prey, frog, baitfish, or large insect impression
The reviewed form uses a shaped folded foam overbody with a rear air-trapping tab, sparse bucktail-and-flash tail, lightly dubbed body, and optional rubber legs. Its half-cone foam shape makes it dive, wiggle, and release bubbles before floating back up.
Technical illustration
Identification views
Stealth Bomber reviewed side profile
A schematic profile emphasizing folded sheet-foam overbody and rear air-trapping foam tab.
- View
- reviewed side profile
- Color shown
- black folded foam with a white-and-chartreuse sparse tail and dark rubber legs
- Look for
- folded sheet-foam overbody; rear air-trapping foam tab; sparse bucktail-and-flash tail; half-cone diving profile
On the water
Understand it. Then fish it.
The river, depth, insects, and fish behavior still decide the final presentation. These are reviewed starting points—not a claim about what is happening today.
How to fish it
- Use soft strips for a wiggle or bloop and sharper short strips to dive and release bubbles.
- Pause so the fly can return to the surface before the next move.
Mistakes to avoid
- Flattening the foam overwing so it cannot form the half-cone that drives the action.
- Calling every folded-foam diver a Stealth Bomber.
Variant control
Small changes matter.
Three reviewed technical illustrations show the identifying profile, construction, and fishing orientation. They are schematic field-guide aids, not photographs; different head materials, colors, sizes, and weed guards remain labeled variants.
Reviewed folded-foam form
The reviewed form uses a shaped folded foam overbody with a rear air-trapping tab, sparse bucktail-and-flash tail, lightly dubbed body, and optional rubber legs. Its half-cone foam shape makes it dive, wiggle, and release bubbles before floating back up.- Colors shown
- black, white-chartreuse, yellow, frog and baitfish tones
- Weighting
- Head material, ballast, hook orientation, and weed guards remain labeled when they change action or depth.
Review trail
Sources, rights, and limits.
Pattern facts were reviewed on 2026-07-12. Every image has its own rights record; photographed hand-tied flies may still vary slightly in proportion.