Michigan tyer Tim Neal says "this is my pet hopper pattern… I designed this by combing the best features of Madsen’s Skunk and Whitlock’s Hopper. I always liked Dave’s fly but found trimming the deer hair head to be a pain. My method of putting on the deer hair head is a 10-15 second procedure and you’re good to go. And those rubber legs attract fish. Dead drift or twitched, it’s a real fish catcher.”