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 ...

Dry-fly fishing is the way to go for anglers that seek top-water excitement. Recommended patterns include chubby, pink pookies, hoppers, yellow or orange stimulators, yellow or royal parachute Madam X ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has already been an incredible season of fly-fishing in the Vail Valley area this summer. Despite some questions about our snowpack, the Eagle River had a nice, long float season and excellent dry ...

Bighorn River: There is some good grasshopper action on the river. While nymphing has been fantastic as usual, dry fly fishing is really picking up with hopper fishing as high as the first three miles ...

Tying flies has long been one of my favorite winter activities. I derive much pleasure from crafting a supply of the many fly patterns needed to restock my fly boxes for the upcoming trout season.

— Bighorn Fly and Tackle. Boulder River: Predominately smaller mayflies, attractor patterns and caddis when on top. Go with small nymphs if you are fishing underneath. — Mike Marcum, StoneFly Fly Shop ...