"Larry" wrote in message
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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.

Could be. I was watching a spring creek protected to fishing (on hatchery
land), so I was free to observe the trout in the clear water and they were
free to eat without harrassment. I floated a bunch of hoppers over their
heads and they never even looked at them. They ate some other stuff while I
was there though.

When we were at Rock Creek for the clave a couple years ago, the trout were
hammering these huge "club sandwich" drys, which could be hoppers, or could
be stoneflies, who knows (there was no stonefly hatch at the time.) I don't
really know why that stuff works. I don't recall ever seeing a trout hit a
real hopper.