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Cricket & Grasshopper Fly
Swap
For those of you who fish freshwater streams and lakes such as
Eucumbene during summer you will most probably be using a grasshopper
or cricket
pattern to fool that big brown or rainbow trout. For those who
have never tried using cricket or grasshopper patterns get into
it, it is great fun!!!! |
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Swapmaster : Andrew
White
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The Tiers |
Pattern |
Comments |
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1. Andrew
White |
White's Hopper |
Have found this fly very successful on large
rainbow trout, it is a mix of a few different standard hopper
patterns that you can buy in shops. |
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2. Colin
Hutchinson |
Hutch's Hopper |
One of the best Grasshopper patterns around,
great in streams and rivers,with its red legs makes them hard
to pass up. |
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3. Kevin
McDonald |
Flat Creek
Hopper |
This hopper pattern is particularly effective
on slow flat water where the trout gets a good look at it due
to it's low profile mimicking the naturals. |
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4. Steve
Merrifield |
Glen Innes Grasshopper |
Fairly traditional pattern, pretty common. |
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5. Jerry Young |
Au Sable(Mich.)
Pine Hopper |
Hello Mates : Would you allow a Yank in to show
you what we cast in tight to the under cut banks to get those
big browns that are hiding from the hawks and herons. |
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6. Dale
Grey |
Grey Cricket
Mk 1 |
Andrew sounds desperate, so here's a black foam
body cricket prototype, it hasn't even hit the water yet, so
I apologise for the untested nature of this beast. |
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7. Dean
Hamilton |
Black Cricket |
See you guys are having trouble filling the swap,
well here is a little cricket pattern that has brought many a
trout undone for me. Hope it works for you guys. Plus I am a
little short on hoppers for next season. |
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8. Ian
Williams |
Yellow Humpy |
I have found the yellow humpy tied in the larger
size 10 to be a good grass hopper pattern. This is particularly
when the larger "muddler" style patterns seem to give
the fish a headache. |
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9. Ross
Rowe |
Nobby Hopper (Variant) |
A very popular Aussie grasshopper fly varied
by so that the deer head hair is not clipped fully but left slightly
longer. |
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