Insect Family Acrididae (Grasshoppers)
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Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
» Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
» Class Insecta (Insects)
» Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers and Crickets)
» Family Acrididae (Grasshoppers)
Common Name
| Match | Common Name |
 | Grasshoppers |
Fly Imitations by Orvis
| Stage | Fly Pattern |
| Adult | Dave's Hopper |
| Adult | Foam Park Hopper |
| Adult | Schroeder's Hi-Vis Hopper |
| Adult | Schroeder's Parachute Hopper |
| Adult | Tube Hopper |
Where & When
Time Of Year (?): Mid-July through August
Trout may rise to hopper flies at any time of year, but they are best on meadow streams in late August when the fish actually are on the lookout for them.Acrididae Fly Fishing Tips
Grasshopper imitations should not settle on the water with the gentle, dainty touch of a high-floating mayfly pattern. The proper hopper fisherman takes pride in the splat his fly makes as it touches down.Ernest Schwiebert wrote of grasshoppers in Matching the Hatch:
My experiences with grasshoppers have taught me three lessons valuable in fishing them: the gentle twitch of the fly, bouncing the fly off bankside grass, and dapping or swimming the fly on a short line. All of these tricks are suggest of the natural in the water.
These imitations provide outstanding fishing in many situations, even when the fish have not seen real hoppers. Their large, low-floating, buggy bodies have a universal appeal which makes them excellent searching patterns (Searching pattern: Any artificial fly pattern used when trout that aren't feeding selectively on anything in particular. A searching pattern may be an attractor or an imitation of something specific that the fish might favor even though it's not currently hatching.). Their buoyancy also makes them handy for the trick of using a large dry fly as an indicator for a nymph tied to its hook shank below.
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