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 ...

Grasshoppers, crickets, ants, beetles, bees, dragonflies, cicadas“¦ There’s a whole mess bugs classified as terrestrials. No matter the insect, when a breeze blows any of these land-based trout snacks ...

Along with the plethora of aquatic (from the water) insects we’re seeing lately, local rivers have plentiful terrestrial (not from the water) grasshoppers along the banks and are settling in to prime ...

A good hopper pattern has been the Rainey's Hopper. — Bighorn Fly and Tackle. Boulder River: Fishing has been good on the Boulder, as smaller dries are all you need to catch a bunch of smaller fish.

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 ...

From the Madison to the Bighorn, dry fly anglers can indelicately pound the bank with their favorite hopper patterns and take fish, even during the heat of the day. Reservoir anglers might want to ...

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 ...

Trout fishermen continue to use hopper and dropper setups, using a floating hopper pattern as their upper fly and a small nymph as a trailer.

Hopper patterns are still a good bet. Foam hoppers are working. No other hatches, but beadhead nymphs are also taking trout including red copper johns, lightning bugs and prince nymphs. — Rainbow Run ...