On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:23:36 -0800, Mike
wrote:

That fly does not work very well, because it either floats too high,
or sinks. Hoppers sit with their bodies in the film.Chenille bodied
flies are not usually much use as dry flies, even when treated with
various floatants.

Horse puckies. Joe's Hopper works very well and it does so because of
the chennile body. It is the chinnele body on Harry Mason's Killer
Caddis that makes it such a successful fly.

Correct. It works well *because* of the chennile. The recipes for
it, however, show different body materials.

You have never fished the waters that BJ Conner has fished. Your
statements about hopper patterns are *theory*. BJ's statements are
based on *proven fact*, no theory involved. He fished Joe's Hopper
successfully on many waters in the U.S. Have you ever fished *any*
hopper pattern, especially the one you endorse, in the U.S.? If the
answer is no, then you don't know what you are talking about.

LaCourse