we don't get one in here i'm probably gonna switch you up to hopper dropper
there's a lot of good shallow stuff i did see that just as i'm talking about hopper dropper i am
setting up a hopper dropper rig so for the hopper i've got a kind of a crane fly type
hopper kind of like a water walker see it's got a real flat wing
not a very high profile fly rides low it's got that dubbed body so that's going to sink a little
bit even though i'm going to put floating on it it's going to sit more like that than like this
and then that light foam on there is going to ride flat on the surface it's got a very
low profile wing so it's not going to have the puffball profile and pretty subtle legs
so this is the last hopper i got and eat on so we'll give it a shot and then below that
i'm going to go ahead and keep our rig fairly similar to what we have been using
since we've been getting fish on that crane fly larva i'm going to go ahead and put that one on
as the first fly underneath we are still going to fish three flies
so we will be fishing the water walker type and then below that we'll have that crane fly with the
veil on it and then below that i will have that little pseudo emerger
a little bit for every fish but the main purpose the main reason that i'm putting this hopper
dropper rig on as opposed to just fishing that nymph rig is because it's far more versatile
with the type of water that we'll be fishing so i use this quite often as a substitute for the
nymph rig um where we're fishing shallower water than we would be nymphing so instead of lightening
it up to the point where you have five feet two you know no lead and light bugs off the end of it
we're just going to go ahead and take the weight out of the equation take
the length out of the equation and fish the water that is appropriate for this
my thought is those fish are still going to be sitting in a lot of the same water that
they have been eating streamers in they're just not moving on the streamer today so
instead of you know fishing different water just because they're not eating streamers
i'll row you up a little bit they'll probably eat that hopper um we're just gonna alter our
tactics and see if we can hit those same fish without making them be aggressive
and it's the sun that's pushed them down yes yeah yeah they get real shy in the sun
yep there he is good job how fun is that that's crazy to spend that much time working on him
that was a sweet sweet thing nice
that's a great fish on the dry
she wanted to go she did
yep there he is nice well done that is fantastic
on the second one second one yeah that little that little nymph wow
wow that's a good fish nice fish
it's amazing i love the hopper right it's it's your indicator and it's your fly exactly
darker fish yeah nice great fish just fantastic lovely
that's the fly it took a little tiny guy tiny little number 20 you said oh that
one's in 18. 18. yep there's not a great number of fish here but they are quality and they are
ready and willing to eat just unbelievable there he goes