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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In this edition of The Morning Hatch: - Insight on how to develop your fly fishing knowledge and skills on the water. - Essential trout skills: Take your fly fishing to the next level - Pocket water ...

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 ...

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 ...