The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
Hopper, Caddis, Yellow Sally and 1 others
Medium - 5-7 Min
Coldwater, Warmwater
The Letort Hopper is a fairly simple hopper pattern that works really well for picky fish. Keep this in mind as you tie up this pattern; adding flash will work better in some streams and maybe not so well in slow-moving side channels. We recommend that you tie this fly specifically to the rivers you are fishing so you can best utilize this fly to fool picky or willing trout alike:
The Letort Hopper is a very unique fly that is very good at fooling fish. Varying this fly up just a touch can be an excellent way to entice those spookier fish into inhaling your terrestrial.
The Letort Hopper gets its name from the famous Letort Spring Run in Pennsylvania. Those accustomed to the area will recognize the Letort as holding incredibly spooky fish. This is your go-to hopper to catch those pesky, picky trout you find in water like spring creeks. This fly is really well designed to imitate the grasshopper without producing a profile that is so big and buggy that it spooks the fish away. This is an excellent fly for the picky stream or to simply vary up your fly selection a bit.
The weak point of this fly is its floatability. The Letort Hopper doesn’t contain any foam or hackle to help it float, so you are relying on the dubbing and deer hair to keep this guy on the surface of the water. Using floatant well and often is crucial to success when fishing this fly. When applying liquid floatant at the start of your day, be sure to allow 10-15 minutes for the fly to absorb the floatant and maximize the float of the fly. Using Dry Shake often will help and re-applying liquid floatant will greatly increase the success of this fly.
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Caddis Sizes: #10 - #22
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Region: West
Golden Stonefly Sizes: #8 - #16
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Region: Northwest
Golden Stonefly Sizes: #8 - #16
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Region: East
Golden Stonefly Sizes: #8 - #16
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Region: Midwest
Golden Stonefly Sizes: #8 - #16
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Region: West, Northwest, East, Southeast, Midwest
Hopper Sizes: #6 - #16
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Region: West, Midwest
Yellow Sally Sizes: #12 - #18
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Region: Northwest
Yellow Sally Sizes: #12 - #18
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Region: East, Southeast
Yellow Sally Sizes: #12 - #18
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