The Commonwealth Hopper is a highly ‘floaty’ hopper that is great as a ‘dry’ in a dry-dropper or just a dry when you are fishing on a river near grassland. The bonus is it is not too difficult to tie and it works!
Recipe:
Hook: Size 12
Foam cylinder – tan or yellow
Wing: Antron and Elk or Deer Hair
Green or Black thread for initial tie
Orange Fluoro orange thread
Legs – orange and black (or whatever you have in your tying kit)
Please contact Claude and BJ (treasurer@canberra-anglers.asn.au) if you intend to be at our first club meeting and we will try to make up some tying kits.
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What size (diameter) is the foam cylinder?
Claude said to me: ” recommend speaking to the person they are buying the foam from. Pictures indicate it would be around 3/16 ~ 5 mm”
Claude has advised pictures suggest that it would be around 3/16 ~ 5 mm
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