I went with a church group to a private lake/pond today for a fishing outing. For most of the time I used my standard Foam hopper with nymph dropper. Most of the time when I use this rig the hopper is mostly a strike indicator. This pond had hybrid gills stocked. I caught the 8 largest gills I have ever seen today, about half of them chomped down on that foam hopper.

What a gas.

Apparently these fish are sterile and are put in until the standard gills grow to adult size.