Here's a medium sized grasshopper made with a small tube on the bottom. But it could just as easily be a popper. The tippet threads through the tube and attaches to what ever hook you might want to use. To keep the hopper from sliding up the leader (so you can use it as a bobber for a trailing nymph) you can thread the tippet through the tube, over the thorax area and then back through the tube a second time.
If you snag the hook and break the tippet you lose the hook. But the hopper itself drifts right back to you like an obedient retriever. So I call these Boomerangs. You do have to remember to put some bare hooks in your fly box. If you use a razor blade to slant the back end of the tube, and if you snell the hook instead of knotting to they eye, then any tension on the leader forces the hook into the right parallel orientation to the body of the fly.
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