[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"learn-glossary-hopper":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"aliases":6,"body":10,"category":27,"definitionShort":28,"description":16,"disciplineTags":29,"extension":30,"meta":31,"navigation":32,"path":33,"relatedCards":34,"relatedTerms":37,"seo":43,"sourceRef":44,"stem":45,"term":5,"__hash__":46},"learn_glossary\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary\u002Fhopper.md","Hopper",[7,8,9],"grasshopper","foam hopper","hopper pattern",{"type":11,"value":12,"toc":23},"minimark",[13,17,20],[14,15,16],"p",{},"Hopper patterns work in late summer because grasshoppers fall in the water. Wind blows them off bankside grass; storms wash them out of meadows. A trout that's been sipping midges all summer will hold its lane on a hopper because the calories are worth the risk.",[14,18,19],{},"Modern hoppers are mostly foam — a foam body shaped to a hopper silhouette, rubber legs, a bullethead, sometimes a parachute hackle for visibility. Tan, yellow, and pink-bellied are the standards. Fly shops carry a dozen named variations (Morrish Hopper, Fat Albert, Schroeder's Para-Hopper); they all work.",[14,21,22],{},"Fish it cast tight to a grassy bank, with an audible \"plop\" — a real hopper hits the water hard. Let it sit for a beat, then twitch the rubber legs once. Most strikes happen in the first three seconds after landing.",{"title":24,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":26},"",2,[],"fly","A terrestrial dry fly imitating a grasshopper — foam-bodied with rubber legs, sized 8-14. Late-summer staple anywhere grass meets water. Often fished as the buoyant indicator of a hopper-dropper rig.",[27],"md",{},true,"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary\u002Fhopper",[35,36],"the-hopper-dropper","dry-dropper-for-pocket-water",[38,39,40,41,42],"dry-fly","dropper","indicator","chubby-chernobyl","chernobyl-ant",{"description":16},null,"learn\u002Fglossary\u002Fhopper","bVmKQzXE6RjcerwPRmS-TuY0-Mi0WY7KNCZiij-1FJw"]