"Larry L" wrote in message ...


Couldn't you be describing a natural hopper with that? Sorta just kidding,
but I do "think" ( damned if I can find one in the back yard right now to
test in a glass of water ;-) that real hoppers float pretty damn low in the
water

True (real hoppers float low).
But the better a foam hopper floats, the heavier
the nymph you can drag off the rear end of the hopper.

With a lightweight foam hopper, you can mend the line
hard (while dragging a heavy nymph)--which sinks the
hopper mommentarily. But then up pops the hopper again:
right on top, even in fast water.

On the Madison above Ennis (in Montana), you can drag a
weighted Woolly Bugger underneath the hopper, while fishing
the fast, deep water in the middle of the river...which is
(on that river anyway) where all the good fish are. If you try
to do that with a deer hair hopper (or even one made with
dense, heavy foam) it just doesn't work.