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 ...

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 ...

There are few things that get anglers more excited than watching a fish come to the surface to smash a big dry fly. For a well-fed trout, it’s hard to resist a large, clumsy hopper. Still, we know ...

Last week, I wrote about my four favorite hopper-style flies that work wonders on our local rivers and creeks. This week is all about the flies we place below the hopper, the dropper fly. Most dropper ...

As the long hot days of summer fade into the shorter days of fall, a curious occurrence is sure to drive anglers to near dementia, potential divorce or rapid unemployment and drive trout to rise with ...

During the past couple of weeks, monsoon season has brought a welcome respite from the heat for both anglers and trout. As families get ready for a new school year, the number of fly fishermen on area ...

Gallatin River: Afternoon rain showers are affecting the clarity. Hatch activity is dwindling but attractor patterns like trudes, wulffs and humpies are taking trout when the water is clear. Hopper ...

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 ...

More years ago than I particularly care to contemplate, I was a catcher of bait as well as of fish. The two naturally went together. You had to have one to catch the ...

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