Weinermobile Hopper

Cheech - September, 2019

If you have followed this site for a while you will know that I'm always tinkering with things to either be creative, or to try to make something better, more durable, more buoyant, etc. etc. I have been intrigued by cylindrical flies for a while since I started fishing the bionic ant a few years back. Not only was I messing around with tubular bodies, I was also dead set on finding the best way to glue foam sheets together (specifically for bionic ant indicators.) We have a bonus post this time to not only show you the very best way to glue foam sheets together, but we have created a very simple and cool pattern that caught many fish before it got a name. It was tested on some very fussy fish that like their foam bugs completely free of drag, and floating high. This fly not only was a very high floater, but it would skate when I mended it (instead of getting pulled under the surface). I realized that the unique shape of the body and head (both slightly pointing upward) was the key to making it skate. After an Instagram post of a chewed up hopper, we go the perfect name suggestion from a gentleman named Brian Feeney. The Weinermobile Hopper...

Happy Tying!