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Henry's Fork Hopper

Terrestrial · Trout · Intermediate · 2 versions

Classic Recipe

  • Hook 2x long dry, 8-12
  • Thread Cream 6/0

Materials

  • Body Cream elk hair, reversed & segmented (extended)
  • Underwing Yellow elk (sparse)
  • Overwing Mottled hen saddle, lacquered (tent)
  • Head Elk hair bullet (folded back)
  • Legs None. The wing does it

How to tie it

  1. Mount the 2x-long hook and lay a thread base to the bend.
  2. Clean and stack a bunch of cream elk hair; tie it in by the tips at the bend so the butts point forward, then rib thread back through it to form a reversed, segmented extended body off the bend.
  3. Tie in a sparse bunch of yellow elk as an underwing over the body.
  4. Lacquer a mottled hen saddle feather, trim to shape and set it tent-style over the back as the overwing, tips just past the bend.
  5. Clean, stack and tie in a bunch of elk hair pointing forward over the eye, then fold it back and lock it down to form a bullet head that flares a collar; the swept collar is what floats it and stands in for legs.
  6. Whip finish right behind the bullet head and add a touch of cement.

Other versions

1 more in the app: Classic Recipe (2).

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