Need to run a swap as part of healing process...

[chugbug27 0]

Nice tie there, mikemac, I like it... BTW I tried looking up "cherry pie hopper" having not heard of that pattern, and apparently there's an ipa beer by that name infused with cherries & granadine... Just sayin

[mikemac1 0]

Nice tie there, mikemac, I like it... BTW I tried looking up "cherry pie hopper" having not heard of that pattern, and apparently there's an ipa beer by that name infused with cherries & granadine... Just sayin

 

https://www.jsflyfishing.com/blog/easy-as-cherry-pie/

[Bryon Anderson 0]

Nick my flies are packaged up and my wife will mail them tomorrow from work. Thanks for hosting!

[flytire 0]

i would recommend searching for hatch books concerning your area

 

these books will give you the insect and a corresponding fly pattern to match it

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=fly+hatch+books&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKmojKvo_kAhVvUN8KHQcHD2AQ_AUIEigC&biw=1600&bih=757

[vicrider 0]

First of the flies are in the house. Hoppers in from Rick Ziegler, Mikemac1, and a really nice soft hackle from Professori. Prof, that Guinea hackle really looks good. Never used it but definitely will see if any of the Guinea feathers I have loose will work for Northern Spiders.

 

Right now in our area the hoppers are out in ridiculous numbers. Should be a first choice if I ever get to one of the local lakes. Almost makes me wonder if the loss of birds they talk about could be allowing the hoppers to propagate beyond normal limits. I know a lot of birds eat them but right they're doing all the eating and ruined my wife's flower bed and can't walk through any grass without a continuous flare up of the mutant hoppers we have here.

[Woodenlegs 0]

Flies will go in the snail mail tomorrow

[mikechell 0]

Nice little bugs, Woodenlegs!

[Johnw1986 0]

Took mine to the post office today

[dogfacedoc 0]

If you guys don't mind a second set of hoppers in the mix, that's what I had planned to tie.

 

edit: foam, deer hair wing, and bug legs from FTD.

[vicrider 0]

Bryon, your great looking streamers are in the house. Dogface, when hoppers are on the menu they get chewed up pretty good. Never hurts to have a little extra variety in the box.

[dogfacedoc 0]

Bryon, your great looking streamers are in the house. Dogface, when hoppers are on the menu they get chewed up pretty good. Never hurts to have a little extra variety in the box.

Tying up 12 tan foam hoppers with deer hair wings from a buck I harvested last year. They'll be in the mail Monday.

[Woodenlegs 0]

Nice little bugs, Woodenlegs!

[Woodenlegs 0]

Thanks

Mike

[vicrider 0]

Two more arrivals. We're halfway there. Johnw1986 sent a cool little "banana spider". Woodenlegs shared a cool cross (or seems to me) between a nymph and a soft hackle that I just know he has caught a lot of fish on on his local rivers (tailwaters).

[dogfacedoc 0]

Vic my package went out monday, have you gotten it?