Hareline Tomsu's Supreme Mormon Cricket Leg Cutter

What it is

Hareline Tomsu’s Supreme Mormon Cricket Leg Cutter is a pronotum cutter tool used at the bench to punch out matching parts. The blades are sharp and durable, so it cuts cleanly and consistently when you press it through foam or similar sheet materials.

What to tie with it

Use it to cut Mormon Cricket pronotum pieces for building the back/shoulder plate profile on cricket patterns. It also works as a general foam-cutting tool when you want repeated, precision-cut fly parts without having to freehand each one.

Flies and the fish they're for

This tool shows up when you’re tying a Mormon Cricket pattern with a defined pronotum, a key shape on that imitation. Fished as a big terrestrial, a Mormon Cricket is commonly thrown to trout on rivers during hopper-and-terrestrial seasons, and it also gets eaten readily by opportunistic warmwater fish like smallmouth bass in streams and rivers where large land bugs get blown in.