Hopper / Dropper

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Over here it's a purple Hippie stomper or chubby Chernobyl on top and typically one of these 2 subsurface....

Option #3 is when the bite gets tough.

• Perdigon Nymph: Size #16 with a heavy tungsten bead. Its slick, epoxy body cuts through the fast Kootenai currents instantly to reach the strike zone.
• Pat's Rubber Legs: Sizes #8–#12 in black or brown. Perfect for dropping under a large #4 Chubby when you want to target the river's monster rainbow and bull trout feeding on stoneflies.
• Hard-Bodied Ant: Size #16 or #18. When the afternoon sun is bright and trout get spooky or refuse big hoppers, swap to a short 12-inch dropper with an unweighted ant that floats just a few inches below the surface film

Thats how we do late spring into summer fishing on lazy afternoons. How about your neck of the woods?


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[rotato]

Similar in my zone
Olive double thick chubby floating a euro dropper with dubbed body wire rib and yellow rubber legs
Works on the creek and the small lake
Cheers

 

[Pigs]

I need to remember trying the ant dropper.

Terrestrials in general, often get overlooked, and often slay when utilized.

Foam beetles have saved days for me in the past.

 

[fatbillybob]

I swing a drowned Ant and an emerger on point or skate a dave's hopper and an emerger sunken.