Materials
| Hook | Firehole 618 Size 10 2XL, 2XG, Competition foam/nymph hook |
|---|---|
| Thread | Uni 6/0 Watery Olive (to mactch body colour) |
| Foam Body | Green Craft Foam - 2 mm Green Craft Foam 5 mm wide - 8 to 10 cm long. |
| Dubbing | Semperfli Kapok Dubbing - Sulpherea. |
| Wing | Natural deer hair |
| Legs | Silli Legs or equivalent. (Hareline Grizzly Barred Rubber Legs - Medium Florescent Yellow) |
Notes
A foam terrestrial hopper tied on a competition foam/nymph hook with a green foam body and deer hair wing. It is fished on the surface: cast so it hits the water with some drama, then stripped fairly aggressively across the surface, which keeps trout hooked well for rainbows on a Cariboo river.
Published in February 2026 (Vol 59 No 2), page 12.