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 ...

Streams and rivers are excellent for trout fishing right now with abundant grasshoppers creating an opportunity for good hopper pattern fishing. Many anglers are using the hopper-and-dropper approach, ...

Trout on the Bighorn, Madison and Missouri rivers are also keying in on hopper patterns these days. It's that time of year when grasshopper fly patterns are starting to produce on a lot of rivers, ...

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 ...