{"product_id":"thunder-grass-hopper-umpqua-fly","title":"Thunder Grass Hopper - Umpqua Fly","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am excited for this one to come out and have been fine tuning it now for a number of years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fly is also very scalable down to the tiniest of sizes and it easy to control the proportions and keep them the same throughout the different sizes. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe also slipped in a TMC wet fly hook that will hold up to heavier tippets and also make the fly sit a bit lower in the column than many all-foam hoppers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Umpqua Fly","offers":[{"title":"Black\/Tan \/ Size 14","offer_id":47590554960130,"sku":null,"price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black\/Tan \/ Size 16","offer_id":47590554992898,"sku":null,"price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0731\/8123\/3410\/files\/thunder_grass_4__66868.jpg?v=1774553766","url":"https:\/\/anglersall.com\/products\/thunder-grass-hopper-umpqua-fly","provider":"Anglers All","version":"1.0","type":"link"}