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B/c Dropper Hopper

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Note: This recipe has not been verified against a documented source, or disagrees with one. Treat the materials and steps as unconfirmed.

InTheRiffle dressing

  • Hook TMC 5262, 6-10
  • Thread Monocord, tan 3/0

Materials

  • Body 3mm Tan Foam
  • Binder Strip Scrap of 3mm foam
  • Adhesive Zap-A-Gap
  • Hopper Legs Tan Medium round rubber leg
  • Underwing Mottled tan web wing
  • Flash Rootbeer Krystal Flash
  • Overwing Elk hair
  • Bullet Head Natural deer hair
  • Front Legs Tan round rubber legs
  • Indicator Cerise Pink McFlylon or Float Viz

How to tie it

  1. Start tan thread and lay a base over the back two-thirds of the shank.
  2. Tie a strip of tan 3mm foam down at the bend and along the shank so a tag hangs off the back as the hopper butt.
  3. Tie in a strip of mottled web-wing and a sparse elk-hair wing over the foam, reaching to the end of the body, plus a few strands of rootbeer flash.
  4. Stack a clump of natural deer hair with tips pointing back over the wing, bind it at the front, then pull the butts back over the top to form a bullet head and bind down behind it.
  5. Tie a tuft of lime McFlylon upright at the head as a hi-vis sighter.
  6. Tie in tan round rubber legs on each side, splayed out.
  7. Whip finish under the head, add a drop of Zap-A-Gap to lock the foam and hair, and trim the legs to length.

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