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 ...

Last week, I received an email from a friend of mine who lives in southeastern Pennsylvania. Like many fly-fishermen this time of year, he had been busy tying flies for the upcoming season, and that ...

"Flies of the Northwest," an excellent fly-tying book produced by the Inland Empire Fly Fishing Club of Spokane, includes Missoula outfitter John Perry's "bugmeister" among more than 200 patterns ...

The salmonfly hatch is one of the most anticipated big fish opportunities of the year. Sometimes, however, we become obsessed with the big orange bugs and ignore the golden stones that are hatching at ...

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 ...

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 ...