Update on Mormon Cricket Pattern

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I finally got to field test my Mormon Cricket and Freshwater Gotchas.

Here is the results. I went out in my Kayak this morning on the Ocoee River, between Hell Hole and Shredder Rock. I caught 22 of these guys, all about this size, and 3 SM bass around 1 pound each, before going backwards over a waterfall that I had forgotten about. Got wet…

9 on Mormon Cricket (then lost it on a tree limb)
13 on the Gotcha, along with 3 SM bass (couldn’t get a picture of the bass with my cell phone. I was too busy trying to survive the plummet over the falls, and not lose my flyrod)

I think both patterns work.

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Don’t I distinctly remember that there was going to be an FOTW on that bad boy cricket? :slight_smile:

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I sent it in quite some time ago, and I haven’t heard anything since.

Maybe it wasn’t good enough?

I’ll try to shoot a YouTube tutorial and post the link here.

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I like that Morman Cricket.
I tied this one 3-4 years ago, in Montana’s Centennial Valley, in late summer:

Speaking of Mormans, I just got back from a 7 day river trip on the Green River in Utah.
No fly fishing there. The river below the Yampa runs opaque tan all year long. And two
days ago it was at 30,000 cfs: biggest flow since 1983. And it’s still ten days or so away
from peaking. Perhaps at 45,000 to 50,000 cfs.

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[b]pittendrigh[/b]!! Nice tie!!! Ultra realistic :roll:

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Look forward to it!

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Is that really a tie, or the actual living cricket? Where is the hook? Where is the hook eye?

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RE> “Is that really a tie, or the actual living cricket? Where is the hook? Where is the hook eye?”

I used a transparent stainless steel hook, first developed by First Engineer Scottie on Star Trek, and the leader a similarly new and transparent nylon?

Well no. I wish. It’s a closeup photo taken with a 105mm macro lense. High altitude cutthroat creeks in Montana are the only places I’ve personally
found Morman Crickets. And the cutthroats are total suckers for any short fat hopper-like imitation (at that time of year anyway).

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Beam me up, Scotty…

Thanks for posting the pic. It’ll help me with markings, and such. I think I have the right sillouette, anyway. The fish around here seem to think so.

I going to take it out to the Hiwassee River tomorrow, and see if the trout like it as much as the other fish do.