One of our favorite fly fishing set ups in Mongolia is fishing a hopper dropper rig for lenok, grayling and Taimen. With this you have the chance to catch lenok and grayling all day long, and even taimen are often tempted by the hopper. Mikey Wier’s hoppicator is an awesome fly for to use as your hopper / indicator with enough flotation to use with bead head nymphs. Mongolian fish ain’t too fussy on the nymphs, we use prince nymphs and stonefly patterns on the dropper.
- Mikey Wier’s Whopper Hopper Fly
For more info on this fly take a look at Staq’s hoppicator post on Way Upstream. This fly is distributed by Idlewilde Fly Company check out their Chubby Chernobyl’s too.
Here’s Mikey’s video on how to fish the super hopper dropper with the hoppicator
