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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hoppers aren’t only abundant in the Magic City and can be found around many river and creek bottoms in the area. And while it is getting later into the hopper season, and trout have been gorging on ...

During the past couple of weeks, monsoon season has brought a welcome respite from the heat for both anglers and trout. As families get ready for a new school year, the number of fly fishermen on area ...

If you’ve prowled any fly shops recently, you’ve noticed a growing number of bins holding terrestrial patterns. It’s like they are reproducing and mutating, morphing into strange and garish ...

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 ...

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 ...

My fly-fishing pals finally let on that the grasshopper fishing had been incredible for the past month. I’d been fishing high lakes and streams in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness Area for most of the ...

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