when I was fishing a lake in Texas for Strippers a few years ago the grasshoppers had been very thick the last couple days. The blues started to notice this too an where taking them off the surface. With no Strippers showing I when home, actually a cousins house, and got my fly rod. After tying up some huge hopper patterns, I went back out that evening and caught over fifty blues on the bug rods. Great fun to see thouse huge mouths take a fly even if they taste like $h!t.