Does anyone have a really simple grasshopper pattern?

[hungNtree]

I really love Al Campbell's "too simple" fly patterns. I have even printed off the instructions and put them in a notebook that I keep. I'd love to have a pattern for a grasshopper or cricket if there is one. If anyone has one and don't mind sharing I'd love to have the pattern and if possible the instructions. I'm really new at fly tying and the simpler the better.

thanks in advance,
hNt

[jimsnarocks]

Jason, John's FEB hopper from last week's fly of the week is in the catagory of simple but deadly. Try it. Jim

[Cold]

Could be as simple as this:

#8-10 Dry Fly hook
Small strip of yellow or brown foam, tied in at mid shank
Caddis-style elk-hair wing

Basically a big caddis with a foam body. Floats like a cork, big profile, right colors. That'll catch fish, especially in ripply water where they cant get a good sharp look anyway.

[rainbowchaser]

Check out the Charly boy hopper on the charly's fly box site. Simple with nice clear tying instructions and floats like a cork.

[solowookie]

Check out the Charly boy hopper on the charly's fly box site. Simple with nice clear tying instructions and floats like a cork.

got a link?

[rainbowchaser]

http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/fly...m?parentID=164 O.K but do take a look around the site. There is a lot of other good stuff there.

[Steven McGarthwaite]

Hook: 4X streamer.
Ribbing: Olive hackle
Body: Olive dubbing.
Wing: White & Brown Bucktail tips (mixed)
Color: Brown hackle.

Wing extend out past the rear of the hook by 1/3 the hook shank length.

~Parnelli

[solowookie]

ok chaser that is a super simple pattern, and one I have the stuff to tie thnx for the link. I want to tie some of the FEB, but haven't been anywhere to get some of the materials.

[brandonl]

Could be as simple as this:

#8-10 Dry Fly hook
Small strip of yellow or brown foam, tied in at mid shank
Caddis-style elk-hair wing

Basically a big caddis with a foam body. Floats like a cork, big profile, right colors. That'll catch fish, especially in ripply water where they cant get a good sharp look anyway.

That's pretty much what I tie but in a size 12 and with black rubber legs. It will float all day long, even with a #14 beadhead dropper under it.

[JohnScott]

That's pretty much what I tie but in a size 12 and with black rubber legs. It will float all day long, even with a #14 beadhead dropper under it.

What proportion of the fish typically eat the hopper and what proportion typically eat the dropper ??