{"id":4886,"date":"2024-02-17T06:30:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T19:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/fly-tying-28-feb-2024-commonwealth-hopper\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T18:53:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T07:53:50","slug":"fly-tying-28-feb-2024-commonwealth-hopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/fly-tying-28-feb-2024-commonwealth-hopper\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Hopper &#8211; Fly Tying &#8211; 28 Feb 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"917\" height=\"666\" class=\"wp-image-4885\" src=\"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/email1705915386091image0018058595488668123708.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/email1705915386091image0018058595488668123708.png 917w, https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/email1705915386091image0018058595488668123708-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/email1705915386091image0018058595488668123708-768x558.png 768w, https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/email1705915386091image0018058595488668123708-624x453.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 917px) 100vw, 917px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The Commonwealth Hopper is a highly \u2018floaty\u2019 hopper that is great as a \u2018dry\u2019 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!<br \/><br \/><br \/>Recipe:<br \/><br \/><br \/>Hook: Size 12<br \/>Foam cylinder \u2013 tan or yellow<br \/>Wing: Antron and Elk or Deer Hair<br \/>Green or Black thread for initial tie<br \/>Orange Fluoro orange thread<br \/>Legs \u2013 orange and black (or whatever you have in your tying kit)<br \/><br \/><br \/>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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Keyword dryfly<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Hopper is a highly \u2018floaty\u2019 hopper that is great as a \u2018dry\u2019 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 12Foam cylinder \u2013 tan or yellowWing: Antron and Elk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fly_tying"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7aQnH-1gO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5831,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions\/5831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}