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Pipette Hoppers and Poppers

Oct 21. 2024
Lab equipment Lab equipment flies tied using plastic pipettes.
See the tricks here
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Bar Guac Hopper

Jan 9. 2019
Terrestrial This pattern, which takes its name from the popular appetizer Guacamole, was inspired by the 'Bar Guac' special at a local fly fishing hangout.
See how to tie it here
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Grasshopper Valley

Dec 31. 2018
Hoppers Fly fishing with terrestrials in Slovakia at its best.
Read the report here
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Tom's Hopper

Mar 10. 2012
Terrestrial Before you know it, the summer is upon us, and a hopper pattern can suddenly be what makes a day. Tom Biesot's hopper is a good bet. Using a foam body and a couple of neat tecniques 
he produces a really good imitation
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How to fish with more than one fly

Jan 11. 2012
Teaming up Having more than one fly on your leader actually makes pretty good sense in the very simple way that presenting more than one temptation to the fish increases the chance of a bite. But there are many other reasons.
Read about it here.
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The only knot

Aug 14. 2011
Tying This is definitely going to get me in trouble! But I guarantee you that if you learn this knot you will be able to get very far in almost all kinds of flyfishing. Use this for your daily knotting and use loops for the rest (backing to fly line, fly line to leader), and you will be able to make it through many, many fishing days.
See which one it is here.
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Hoppers with Foam

Sep 20. 2002
Terrestrial I'll warn you now; the hopper is my favorite pattern. It's big, I can see it, it's fun to cast and present it with a plop, I have fun tying them and the fish just adore the big, juicy, summer delight.
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Pete's EZ Hopper

Sep 20. 2000
Foam "...once they broke the surface film, the butts would tilt down and the head and shoulders would be the only part of the grasshopper above water. They neither rode high in the water, nor lay in a horizontal plane. My thought was to design a hopper that would duplicate that presentation."
Read more about Peter Frailey's EZ Hopper.