Anyone immersed in the sport of fly fishing, especially for trout, have heard of the popular presentation technique called the hopper-dropper. Not only does the catchy name roll off your tongue with a ...

guides these days, Tom Sadler likes to boost his clients’ chances of catching trout by having them fish with two flies instead of one. He sets them up with the kind of rig known as dry dropper: one ...

Last week, I wrote about my four favorite hopper-style flies that work wonders on our local rivers and creeks. This week is all about the flies we place below the hopper, the dropper fly. Most dropper ...

Nearly every insect is hatching — from green drakes to PMDs, BWOs, midges, caddis and craneflies on local rivers, especially the Fryingpan River. Along with the plethora of aquatic insects, local ...

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 ...

This is a special time of year because nearly every insect is hatching from green drakes to PMDs, BWOs, midges, caddis, and craneflies. Along with the plethora of aquatic insects, local rivers have ...

Hopper and dropper action was great on the Yellowstone River between Springdale and Gray Bear fishing access sites Saturday morning. I floated the river with an old Bozeman friend and we got into ...

Trout fishermen are starting to rely on hopper-dropper rigs more and more as the calendar has turned to August. Anglers use a strong-floating hopper as their first fly and then hang a beadhead nymph, ...

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 ...