Information about Daddies & Hoppers flies
Hopper offers versatility - nymph emerger, dry fly, terrestrial, whichever way you want to fish it.
Many Daddy Longlegs or Crane Flies are on the water from June to early October.
This fly makes a decent mouthful and will often tempt when small traditional pattern are ignored.
CDC Hopper Black
Availablity:
Immediate Dispatch
Flybox Code:2349
Hook Sizes: 12, 10
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
This dressing of a Hopper offers a wealth of versatility - it can be - a nymph emerger, dry fly or terrestrial; whichever way you want to fish it.
Claret Hackled Hopper
Availablity:
Immediate Dispatch
Flybox Code:2403
Hook Sizes: 12, 10
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Hopper will fish deep in the surface film, often hanging by surface tension right underneath it, and this is exactly where you want them.
Not many splashy takes with these flies, just nice confident slurps from Brown Trout.
Count to three before striking, and you are well and truly in!
Fishing the Hopper requires a leap of faith for most fly fishers
Daddy Longlegs
Availablity:
Immediate Dispatch
Flybox Code:2355
Hook Sizes: 10, 12
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Many Daddy Longlegs or Crane Flies are on the water from June to early October.
This fly makes a decent mouthful and will often tempt when small traditional pattern are ignored.
Sits well on the water creating an interesting footprint.
Detached Daddy
Availablity:
Immediate Dispatch
Flybox Code:2353
Hook Sizes: 10, 12
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Many Daddy Longlegs or Crane Flies are on the water from June to early October.
They make a decent mouthful and will often tempt when small traditional pattern are ignored.
Goldhead Daddy
Availablity:
Immediate Dispatch
Flybox Code:2354
Hook Sizes: 10, 12
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
How many Daddy longlegs will a trout see submerged?I do try to get as close to the natural as possible
So why is the Goldhead Daddy so successful- it is hard to explain; but successful it certainly is.
I have used this pattern with great success when I have watched fish feeding on nymphs in the gin clear chalk streams - they love a juicy morsel coming tumbling down their feed feeding channel.
GH Daddies are becoming standards in stillwater flyboxes.
Hare's Ear Hopper
Availablity:
Immediate Dispatch
Flybox Code:2402
Hook Sizes: 12, 10
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Fishing the Hopper requires a leap of faith for most fly fishers
The Hopper will fish deep in the surface film, often hanging by surface tension right underneath it, and this is exactly where you want them. Not many splashy takes with these flies, just nice confident slurps from Brown Trout.
Count to three before striking, and you are well and truly in!
Bibio Hopper
Availablity:
1-2 Weeks Delivery
Flybox Code:2400
Hook Sizes: 10, 12
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Hopper will fish deep in the surface film, often hanging by surface tension right underneath it, and this is exactly where you want them.
Not many splashy takes with these flies, just nice confident slurps from Brown Trout.
Count to three before striking, and you are well and truly in!
Fishing the Hopper requires a leap of faith for most fly fishers!
Black Hopper
Availablity:
1-2 Weeks Delivery
Flybox Code:2401
Hook Sizes: 10, 12
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Fishing the Hopper requires a leap of faith for most fly fishers
The Hopper will fish deep in the surface film, often hanging by surface tension right underneath it, and this is exactly where you want them.
Not many splashy takes with these flies, just nice confident slurps from Brown Trout.
Count to three before striking, and you are well and truly in!
CDC Hopper Fiery Brown
Availablity:
1-2 Weeks Delivery
Flybox Code:2350
Hook Sizes: 10, 12
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
This dressing of a Hopper it offers versatility - nymph emerger, dry fly, terrestrial, whichever way you want to fish it.
Medium Olive Hopper
Availablity:
1-2 Weeks Delivery
Flybox Code:2405
Hook Sizes: 10, 12
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Hopper will fish deep in the surface film, often hanging by surface tension right underneath it, and this is exactly where you want them.
Not many splashy takes with these flies, just nice confident slurps from Brown Trout.
Count to three before striking, and you are well and truly in!
Fishing the Hopper requires a leap of faith for most fly fishers
Orange Hopper
Availablity:
1-2 Weeks Delivery
Flybox Code:2404
Hook Sizes: 10, 12
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Hopper will fish deep in the surface film, often hanging by surface tension right underneath it, and this is exactly where you want them.
Not many splashy takes with these flies, just nice confident slurps from Brown Trout.
Count to three before striking, and you are well and truly in!
Fishing the Hopper requires a leap of faith for most fly fishers
Alan's Hawthorne
Availablity:
Trade
Flybox Code:2017
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
Cast it so it lands with a splash - get the trouts attention!
CDC Hopper Claret
Availablity:
Trade
Flybox Code:2159
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
The CDC Hopper Claret is a variant of the original Hoppers of the 1980s', they are used throughout the season on most stillwater and often with very favourable outcomes
CDC Hopper Olive
Availablity:
Trade
Flybox Code:2352
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
This dressing of a Hopper it offers versatility - nymph emerger, dry fly, terrestrial, whichever way you want to fish it.
CDC Hopper Orange
Availablity:
Trade
Flybox Code:2351
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
This dressing of a Hopper it offers versatility - nymph emerger, dry fly, terrestrial, whichever way you want to fish it.
Claret Hopper
Availablity:
Trade
Flybox Code:1678
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
My Claret Hopper has been selected from the many articles in the Angling Press and through reports passed to me by my own customers.
Ideal for reservoir, lakes and small stillwaters.
Fishing the Hopper requires a leap of faith for most fly fishers
The Hopper will fish deep in the surface film, often hanging by surface tension right underneath it, and this is exactly where you want them.
Not many splashy takes with these flies, just nice confident slurps from Brown Trout.
Count to three before striking, and you are well and truly in!
Dad's Orange Daddy
Availablity:
Trade
Flybox Code:2158
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
Fishing stillwaters on summer evenings you often see daddies hovering and floating around the water.
Tie this one on it can often stir the trout into interesting action.
If after time the fly absorbs water and sinks - let it - fish it wet.
Detached Daddy Blue
Availablity:
Trade
Flybox Code:700
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
The detached style body is excellent for use with mayflies and Daddies.
This Daddy variant is a good all-rounder, as its colour lends itself well to an adult damsel imitation.
Elk Hair Hopper
Availablity:
Trade
Flybox Code:2166
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
The Elk Hair Hopper stays afloat bouncing through a busy stream to those opportunist hungry mouths.
Elwes Hairwing Red
Availablity:
Trade
Flybox Code:3053
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
Adean Red Wulff