Favorite hopper pattern?

[tkww]

I've had the best luck with Schroeder's para hopper, but calf tail and turkey quill don't currently appeal to me. What has worked for you?

 

[Hobbyranch]

I've had the best luck with Schroeder's para hopper, but calf tail and turkey quill don't currently appeal to me. What has worked for you?

Morrish with an added deer hair over wing

 

[Zak]

Here's a drowned hopper pattern that works for me:

A good drowned hopper: The Hopper Hammerdown wet fly

Sometimes grasshoppers forget that they can’t swim. These would-be Weissmullers end up in rivers — and trout readily eat them. While I love fishing high floating foam-bodied hoppers or …

currentseams.com

 

[Norm Frechette]

Improved Chaos Hopper

 

[RCF]

@Norm Frechette says - "Fly tyers sure have a way at making things difficult" and has got it right...

I no longer tie grasshoppers. I buy them. Much easier!

 

[Scottp]

Steelhead Plow

DHH+ Hopper

Craven’s Charlie Boy Hopper

Club Sandwich Hopper (variation)

A few from the last month or so that have worked.

Regards,
Scott

 

[SculpinSwinger]

A couple favorites

Gartside’s Hopper


Snowshoe Hopper

 

[Tom Butler]

I've been fishing muddled stuff. Eats floating, sunk, and a lot more fish stripped back than other flies I've tried.

 

[GAT]

I tried a lot of different hoppers while fishing YNP and the one that worked the best was a bit of a shocker. A Joe's Hopper worked when the others did not. A plain old ordinary Joe's Hopper was the ticket and it is now what I use for all my hopper fishing.

 

[dmsummers]

This fly has worked well for me on east side waters. It's a variant of a Foamulator. Floats really well, but when it doesn't it works well drowned also. Lately I have been fishing it a lot with a bead head soft hackle about a foot below it, with great results.

We sometimes will see how many fish we can take on one fly. They can get pretty tore up and still work...

 

[fatbillybob]

I have successfully fished plenty of foam but if a pattern exists without foam I catch more. I'm not sure why that is? My fav hopper is a simple "Dave's hopper." There is always a few in my box.

 

[kmudgn]

I tie the unsinkabeetle. It is a generic all-purpose high float beetle/hopper pattern. I tie tan and green varieties. Another easy tie that catches fish.

 

[dmsummers]

if there are a lot of smaller hoppers around I will also fish a stimulator. Works fine as a hopper pattern.

 

[Dave Westburg]

I'm old school. Give me a letort hopper. Really small sizes (12-14) seem to work just as well as large sizes.

 

[Wade Rivers]

I'm old school. Give me a letort hopper. Really small sizes (12-14) seem to work just as well as large sizes. View attachment 161751

Cool looking beetle too

 

[Dave Westburg]

Cool looking beetle too

Peacock herl body. Foam back. A couple turns of black hackle at the head. And the other fly is a jassid.

 

[Mossback]

Good use for the split nails...jassid still works.