Hopper season is starting... 7/26

[netboy]

I launched at Wildcat this morning and ran to some protected water and then put the waders on. There were some fish rising to small mayflies so I tied on a size 18 parachute Adams. I had 6 or 7 takes and landed 3 rainbows and a decent cuttie. Then I noticed a big splash close to the shoreline so I switched to a size 10 green foam hopper since I saw quite a few small green hoppers yesterday when I mowed the yard. Second cast and I hooked the brown in the first and second pictures. A while later I hooked the rainbow in the last picture. I missed a few more takes on the hopper and then I didn't see anything rising so I switched to a Y2K/midge combo under an indicator and caught quite a few rainbows.  

Glad to see the fish starting to look for hoppers as that is one of my favorite ways to fish. 

 

[netboy]

Ran out of file space. 

Here is the rainbow...

 

[Terrierman]

The little leaf hoppers are taking over around here.  It's a good time to be a fish that likes terrestrials.

[sfiser]

hoppers have been hit or miss for a few weeks now.  Last week we had a nice day on them monday and they just didnt work on tuesday.  hopefully that bite is starting to get a little more consistent.  We did have some really nice fish eat foam bugs on monday though!