The hopper myth?
 

"Jimbo" wrote

it's a gas station/sporting goods store near the Crazy
Mountains north of the park.

I keep meaning to explore in that area ... as well as over East of the Park
in Wyoming.

Trouble is, I really, really like going back 'home' to places I love, too.

The hopper myth?
 

ahh the mountains north of the park are a pretty great place. Different
feel than the park itself of course, and much less people.

Ever been around Cooke City? Some great stuff in that area as well.

What home places are you referring to? Places in the park itself?

The hopper myth?
 

"Daniel-San" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote ...

"Daniel-San" wrote ...

...The Black Earth in Wolfgang's Curdistan has a very weedy shoreline
that teems with hoppers once the heat gets going....

The Black Earth is not mine......nor is all of Curdistan, for that
matter. We just sort of......um....."cohabitate." C'mon up sometime and
I'll show you mine. :)


Just wanted to guve you the credit for the term. One of the better
nicknames for a state I've heard.

One of the kinder ones, anyway. :)

I'm planning on heading up to the BEC sometime next week -- most likely
Wednesday if the weather looks reasonable. Trying to deal with my fishing
habit while I should be packing the house up for the move is a difficult
dance. A little fishing is allowed, so long as a lot of packing has taken
place...

See to it that you get all that stuff taken care of by sometime in June.
Joel and I will take you to a couple of places that.......well, you'll have
to wait and see.

Wolfgang

The hopper myth?
 

"Larry" wrote in message
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The hopper/dropper thread down the page a bit reminded me this.

One day, several years ago, by weaving back and forth downwind, I managed
to herd about 40 or 50 hoppers in front of me and out onto the 'Bonefish
Flat' section of the HFork. I've read, over and over, about the
'smashing rises' that were going to occur and I excitedly followed the
hapless flotilla downstream, expecting to mark the location of many big
fish.

Well, after following 40 live hoppers maybe 500 yards ( all the way down
into the fast water near the midway bridge) I had seen exactly one rise
and it appeared to be a small fish. 40 times 500 yards is a hell of a
lot of float to get one rise.

Since that I've never gotten up much enthusiam for tying on a hopper, but
I still carry a few.

Actually, I've never experienced 'hopper fishing' that struck me as more
effective than big attractor dry fishing would have been, same time and
place. ( one exception, a high country lake with a patch of grass that
had hundreds of hoppers along the edge...there the fish were hopper
selective ).

When and where have you experienced good fishing to hopper patterns and
thought that 'hopper' was a key to the fish? I'm tempted to think such
situations are actually far more rare than the stories about them in the
magazines.


Hoppers always seemed more of a quiet river, bass-ish sort of fly.

They do look cool though.


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