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 ...

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 ...

The low water flow was not inspiring. Certainly there were trout remaining from the ample stocking of Harveys Creek, but none were visible as I waded in the slow, clear water. I tried not to make ...

In preparation for a sacred day in the lives of many mid-Michigan outdoors enthusiasts — the trout season opener on Saturday, April 27 — I solicited input from several fly-fishing experts to identify ...

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 ...

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 ...

GRANBY, Colo. — Its not a plague of locusts, but the action on rivers and streams reach a feverish pitch when grasshoppers appear. “You’ve got the dog days of summer when hopper season is happening.

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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 ...