New Tying Video Mini DH Hooper

This pattern came about from a good friend of mine wanting a small hopper pattern. Up in south park there as an abundance of tiny hoppers in the grass along the creeks and rivers. The DH Hopper has been around for a while and has had many versions.   Enjoy

 

 

Mini DH Hooper - Finally at last figured it out

Finally figured it out and I really like the looks of this little hopper. Been trying to get the DH hopper down in size to match the small hoppers up in South park. Really like the Umpqua competition series 550 hook for this pattern. If you don't want to pay the price for those hooks TMC 2488 hooks also work. This fly will also work as a general attractor pattern. I will get a video up shortly on this pattern.

Size 10 an 12 Mini DH Hopper Umpqua C550 competition hook

Size 12 Mini DH Hopper TMC2488 Hook

Mini DH Hopper Challenge

I have been tying my DH hopper in standard sizes for a while, it has been a very productive pattern. I tie it in a wide range of colors. I have a customer that has been ordering my DH hopper in size 12, he seems to really like it. He had a strange request this week, he wanted the DH hopper in a size 16. I thought about it and said I can do this. The biggest challenge with this fly would be what hook to use. A standard dry fly hook would have no gap left after you tie the fly. After a couple of tries I settled on a TMC2499SPBL hook is a size 12. The shanks length of that hook closely matched that of a size 16 2XL dry fly hook.   I also liked that it had a slight curve to the hook.

Group photo

I think this little hopper could hold a a good size dropper

Bottom view

I wish Montana Fly Co. made those red/black/yellow rubber legs in a small size

I think this little fly has a lot of potential as a attractor dry fly in these sizes. I'm also going to try it on the same hook but is a size 10.  I don't think I would take it any smaller than this.