During the fall months, the water is generally low, making for some spooky trout situations. To make it even more challenging, autumn breezes make it harder to cast larger terrestrial patterns, such as hopper, cricket, ant, and beetle imitations. Piling on an extra challenge for myself is that I usually use 2-weight rods from early fall through the cold season due to the very technical waters.  Crickets provide a valuable food source at this time of year. Tree crickets are much narrower and smaller than common field crickets, so there are a significant number of variables to work from, as far as crafting a smaller imitation.  S o, my criteria for a good cricket pattern are as follows: a smaller size hook around a size 16, a fly with little bulk, a fly that can be cast with a 2-weight line on 5x or 6x tippets, and a hook that can uniformly scale the pattern down with varying levels of success. Now, a #16 is by no means a tiny hook, but considering most hopper and cricket patter...