
Thunder Grass Hopper
McKnight's combination of the Sweetgrass and Thunder Thighs Hopper. Brand New and super crafty hopper with a thin foam body, visible wing and very realistic legs. Great silhouette. "I came up with the Thundergrass hopper as a follow up fly to my successful Sweetgrass hopper that Umpqua released a number of years ago. I am excited for this one to come out and have been fine tuning it now for a number of years. The end goal was to come up with another extremely realistic hopper pattern that floats well, but also sits lower and is slurp-able and easy to feed a wised up fish. I borrowed the legs from Eric Paramore’s brilliant Thunder Thighs hopper, along with elements of the Sweetgrass along with a few new ideas- like the cylindrical body which makes a wonderfully realistic profile. The Thundergrass also does not have any rubber to rot off if you don’t use it for a while- always a pet peeve of myself and other anglers. The fly is also very scalable down to the tiniest of sizes and it e