Gotta Make A Foam Version Of THIS Hopper :)

[Daniel J]

We found this guy in NE AZ last week while fishin' that part of town.
Even more colorful in person than on the picture.

[Ron Eagle Elk]

That is one colorful hopper. I wonder if the special coloration saves him from predators?

[Wild One]

VERY cool looking hopper.
Might just want to use yellow foam and makers for the other colors...

[HideHunter]

That is one colorful hopper. I wonder if the special coloration saves him from predators?

Our big yellow hoppers are a delicacy to about anything here.

Dad says they have a *monster* red hopper that shows up down in FL occasionally. Says he hasn't found anything down there that will eat them. Anyone else?

[Fly Goddess]

Robert Williamson has a book out with new material like tubes plus twisting material to get the multi color for this hopper. Check out his book. Really cool stuff.

[flybinder]

These are called "Painted Grasshoppers", (original, huh!?). Only found in the Western US and their coloring is to supposedly "warn predators that they are not good to eat".
Besides the orange and black, they're also found in yellow & black and green & Black.
Kind of a neat looking hopper!!

[DG]

I talked to a gentleman just last week who was throwing something that looked a lot like that. He was bemoaning the lack of takes he was getting, which likely had more to do with his 15-foot casts up a bank I had already fished than his psychedelic hopper.

They make swirly colored foam, I have seen it in craft stores. Would work well for that hopper. Some koosh legs, maybe a hit of acid before you started fishing...

[crazy4oldcars]

We have a yellow and black hopper that shows up down here every spring. Darn thing's are 4 to 5 inches long. I don't have a fly rod that could cast it!

Kirk

[Flyrodde]

So thats where the "Fire Tiger" color came from.

[Ron Eagle Elk]

Flybinder,

I kind of wondered about the color being a warning, sort of like the bright colors on poison dart frogs.

REE