Dave's Hopper

The Dave’s Hopper is a masterpiece of terrestrial fly design, created in the mid-1950s by legendary fly tier and angler Dave Whitlock. Engineered to combine the lifelike leg action of a Joe's Hopper with the water-churning, high-floating properties of a Muddler Minnow, it is widely considered one of the best-selling and most effective grasshopper imitations of all time.Unlike modern foam patterns that float high like a cork, the Dave's Hopper was explicitly designed to sit slightly submerged in the surface film