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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...