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Coming into spring, dry fly season is right around the corner. Up where I live, we get grasshoppers jumping off the banks and into the water pretty early in the season. However most of our hoppers are not too large, and it is tough for some of the smaller creek fish to take a large grasshopper pattern. I wanted to make one small, and this one is quite small. Tied on a size 10 hook, its small enough to fit in a small trouts mouth. Also it mimics the size of the local grasshoppers that the fish are eating on. These hoppers are yellow, tan and brown. So thats the color pattern I am tying them in.

Not only is this fly effective, it is very durable. I have yet to have a fly come apart even after a few hard takes from fish.

Here is a list of materials I used on this fly.
Hook: TMC 100 in size 10
Thread: Veevus 10/0 in tan
Abdomen: 2mm tan fly foam
Dubbing: Vaca dry fly dubbing in hopper yellow
Head: 2mm tan and brown fly foam
Wing: Congo hair in medium brown
Hot Spot: 2mm yellow fly foam
Legs: centipede legs in speckled white
Glue: Paint on gorilla glue

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Nice looking fly. I have no doubt that it's effective.

 

One small nit to pick over it, for purists trying to imitate young grasshoppers (called nymphs, believe it or not). They tend to be green for most species. I'm not a big believer in exactly matching color, and I doubt it matters, but I've seen tyers that insist on replicating that fact.

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Nice looking fly. I have no doubt that it's effective.

 

One small nit to pick over it, for purists trying to imitate young grasshoppers (called nymphs, believe it or not). They tend to be green for most species. I'm not a big believer in exactly matching color, and I doubt it matters, but I've seen tyers that insist on replicating that fact.

I hear what you are saying, however its more about the species of grasshopper Im imitating. We have the large ones out here, but we also have small brown/yellow ones. They are about 3/4-1 long.

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