Hopper dropper ...
... question for those who use them.
I'm fortunate to fish a freestone stream which is virtually a "cutthroat only" fishery. Those dummies are always ready to go up on top and take a dry, at least starting shortly after the creek thaws out in early spring. From early April through mid November it is a succession of skwalas, salmonflies, golden stones, hoppers, October caddis and a few smaller stoneflies, caddis, midges, and mayflies.
From shortly after the creek becomes fishable until it freezes over ( the creek, that is ), there is no reason to fish a nymph, let alone a dropper off a hopper or any other dry. So once in a while when I'm reading some thread or other here on the BB, the question comes to me -
Does it ever occur to you that if you did not use the dropper that the fishies might actually come up and take your hopper ??
John
The fish are always right.