Walk through the brush that grows along any stream this time of year and you will see a multitude of grasshoppers leaping away from your strides. This is the season of the hopper. By now they have ...

If there’s tall grass on the banks of a river or stream, you can bet there are hoppers. Trout will often eat them right when they hit the water next to the bank, but a good drift down a mid-river foam ...

It's that time of year when grasshopper fly patterns are starting to produce on a lot of rivers, including the "Mystery Meat," a new creation. Expect hoppers to continue to work through the month of ...

Bighorn River: There is some good grasshopper action on the river. While nymphing has been fantastic as usual, dry fly fishing is really picking up with hopper fishing as high as the first three miles ...

It’s time for fly fishermen to break out their grasshopper fly patterns and head to the rivers. Hopper flies are taking trout on rivers like the Bighorn, Boulder and Stillwater. Flows remain higher ...

As kids growing up in rural Oregon, my brother and I always had an important stop before we headed out for a day of fishing. We had to collect bait. For roughly 10 months of the year, that meant ...

Prime hopper season runs from late summer into early fall. When warm water and low flows slow the regular aquatic insect hatches, trout start looking elsewhere for calories. The good news is that ...