One of these caught fish, while the others didn't / Photo by Ken Baldwin Prime hopper season runs from late summer into early fall. When warm water and low flows slow the regular aquatic insect ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trout on the Bighorn, Madison and Missouri rivers are also keying in on hopper patterns these days. It's that time of year when grasshopper fly patterns are starting to produce on a lot of rivers, ...

The bite on the Beaverhead River has been consistent as we enter the cranefly and hopper season. Anglers are experiencing excellent trout fishing in the morning and late afternoons. As the season ...

Nebraska’s Pine Ridge provides some cold-water streams that support trout year-round. On a recent family trip there, my son, Daniel, and I returned to familiar water and found the fishing to be just ...

If you come into the fly shop and ask what is working, you will be likely to leave the shop with at least one “hopper” fly. The caddisflies are still flying around, but the trout are not as committed ...

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 ...

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 ...