I should note that the fly shown in the "fish's window" view uses a furled body instead of the body shown in the pattern recipe. If you know how to do a furl, it's a lot faster. And...if you don't want to deal with the somewhat involved pheasant-fiber legs, try pre-made hopper legs instead.

buckhunter,
Dang, I forget the composition of that flexible stuff. It is Tolumine(sp?) and ? Some of the tiers that use lots of it make their own...it is "Shoe-goo" thinned out some. I bought a large jar at a big box store for fairly cheap. Dave Whitlock has it marketed as "Dave's cement", and is much more expensive.
I sure like rubber legs, over trying to make those jointed, pheasant feather legs, and the rubber moves a lot more in the water.

Jason & TR...thanks for the pattern and yes I'll use the speckled rubber legs. Perfect timing for the Eastern Slope (High Sierras) 'cause the hoppers are in flight right now!

Where are comments 4-7?

Here's a great one to go along with the terrestial theme. On some rivers everyone is throwing big hoppers along the banks, and fish get shy about taking them. A good pattern is a smaller ant, or a beetle pattern. I went to our big flytying Expo recently held in Idaho Falls, and got to sit down with many tiers from around the country, and watch them tie their specialty patterns...One guy was Scott Sanchez, of Jackson, WY. Scott is quite an inventor of flies and new use of materials, and I have been tying up one of his specialities.. He uses Gorilla GLUE! It is very strong, and air/foam and really floats the fly. It expands some, and you have to allow for that. He puts a small bit on paper, and then adds some acrylic paint to get the color he wants. He puts a ball of it on the back of the hook, and a ball on the front for the ant pattern. He then has the hooks drying. Before they dry you can also shape the glue if you need to, just wet a tooth pick, and it will allow you to shape it. Then he can add a hackle in between the balls of glue, add rubber legs is an option, and add hackle tip wings extending out over the back ball, or just a visible wing of hair or poly yarn for effect and visibility. Makes a great, good floating terrestrial, and smaller can be better than bigger often, especially as the hopper season wears on.

buckhunter—The flexible coating for the deer hair head that was originally used on the fly was Dave's Flexament. In more recent years, I've been using Loon's water-based flexible cement (well, in this case, it's a coating). Peeling issues aside, either of those coatings should improve the life of the deer-hair head.

One (slightly humorous) reason that I tend to have the water-base stuff by my vise: I used to production tie when I was younger, and one order was for something like 100 dozen Humpy-style flies (folded deer-hair backs). Following production protocol, I tied them all first, then grabbed my bottle(s) of solvent-based coating and did all the backs at once. By the time I was halfway through, I didn't even have to climb the basement steps—I just floated right on up!

muskiehunter—Should work well in Central Wisconsin...that's where I'm originally from. As for hatches in WI, certainly don't miss the Hex! Some of the best night-fishing there is with massive dries....

buckhunter—Thanks for the site visit and the kind words about FF&W. The drawings and paintings are mine, yes (including that hopper stuff above, which is from my way-back college days). Hope you'll find at least a few of the flies coming up here to be useful in your own angling journey.