Making Hopper Wings - Awesome technique!

I stumbled across this technique from a website article on tying different hoppers. One of the hoppers used this wing, and I had not seen this technique before so I figured I would give it a try and really liked it. Here is the link to that article. I did not tie the whole grasshopper exactly like his thought, I took some aspects of other hoppers I really like. But utilized that wing he made, which is amazing. I did change up the wing slightly though. Just for what I think looks more like a hopper, maybe it’s more stonefly look, but either way you make these, they look great! I have not perfected this yet, and im sure there are many different ways of doing this. I can already see stonefly wings, dragonfly wings and even caddis or mayfly wings tied this way. Just select different feathers and colors and you can have some great looking wings of different styles. Let me know if you have seen this technique b
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