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[KarateKick]

I see bags of little pompoms in the art & craft section of the dollar store.  Are these good for fishing?

I've read about people using little yard balls for fishing, and they don't look much different from the pompoms.

[RalphH]

yes.

[clarkii]

I know they work for Mahseer over in Asia.

Went to the f3t when it was in Van and guys from MFC ended up going into a Resturant in Thailand and bought the green pom poms off the table cloth.

The red flies they tied to imitate the ripe fruit had one issue.
The fruit weren't ripe and were green, so they had to make do.

[Ian Forbes]

I know they work for Mahseer over in Asia.

Went to the f3t when it was in Van and guys from MFC ended up going into a Resturant in Thailand and bought the green pom poms off the table cloth.

The red flies they tied to imitate the ripe fruit had one issue.
The fruit weren't ripe and were green, so they had to make do.

I used them on the very same river... Mae Ngao, with good success at a specific time of year when the fruit ripen in the tree.

They also work for steelhead, char or trout feeding on eggs.

[KarateKick]

Have you used a pompom in a local river?

Do I need to somehow prepare it, e.g., fray it?

[Every Day]

I've used the yellow tinsel laden ones for coho before with success. Put them in a pill container and soak them in anise oil or another scent...

I'm sure they would work for steelhead too, just never tried. The only time I used them for coho was in super low clear water where they were obviously spooked, and they never took the float down, I always just watched and set the hook on sight (you'll see a white mouth open up near your float).

[Ian Forbes]

The purple ones work for Chum salmon in the Fall. The peach pink ones work very well for trout and char holding below spawning salmon. No real need to add anis oil scent unless it is to get rid of human scent or lacquer smell.