Ok .... After a little research
... It helps to ask your wife who also ties ;D She actually had the pattern saved. Not sure where she got it from.
It also has a tail added on which is the only real difference I can see from the Scroeders hopper.
Special thanks to Miss Cheryl who ties
real flies unlike the made crap that her husband prefers on his vise ..
Hook: Tiemco 200R - Size #14 & up
Thread: 6/0 color to match body
Post: white poly yarn
Hackle: usually grizzley or cree
Rib: copper wire
Tail: that's right a very short tail - deerhair
Body: tan dubbing (or lime green)
Under-Wing: deerhair
Over-Wing: turkey tail
Legs: Pheasant Tail tied in knot
• Start thread and build a base behind the hook eye
• Build a parachute about 1/4 length of hook back from eye (or maybe a little closer - just eyeball it) Tie it higher than you would expect.
• tie in the hackle and wind up the parachute and back down
• build thread base to tail
• tie in a clump or deer hair as a short tail, I try not to flair it too much.
◦ it also acts to "lengthen" the body a bit. e.g. for green hoppers I use green deer hair
• Tie in the ribbing
• dub body rather fat to to post. I try to keep the width rather uniform like a grasshopper's body is
• rib the body
• cut a clump of deer hair as the underwing and measure so that it will be about a shank's length longer than the body
◦ I cut the hair so that it will butt right up to the post and maybe just a tad more so that when I tie it in there I can work the thread between the butts somewhat (like a caddis).
• cut a prepared turkey feather to be the same length as the deer hair and tie it in right on top. I tie in 2 wings for bigger hoppers.
◦ to prepare it, I coat the feather with head cement to make it rather stiff
◦ tie it right behind the post on top of deer hair
• tie in prepared legs behind the post on top of the wing) so that the knee is about even with the end of the body
◦ cut the shins about 2/3 the length of the thigh
◦ try to make the head a little bigger and square
◦ also try to end up at the front of the post
• wrap the hackle down the post with each wrap under the previous one
• Tie off the hackle by winding around the post trapping the loose end of the hackle which is still hanging with pliers attached
• tie off behind the eye ( add a little more dubbing as a wrap to get me to the eye
I hope this helps, and I hope this is the right pattern.
Tentwing