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 ...

Getting started with fly tying doesn’t have to be daunting, especially with the wealth of fly shops around here, the amazing ...

Spent a little time on the bench to tie up a version of a hopper and then tested it down at the pond..

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 ...

We met last summer at the Bamboo Rod Fair. He was 7 1/2 then, with a handshake hardened by Taekwondo and an uncommon talent for tying flies. I gave him an assignment to create an original grasshopper ...

"Flies of the Northwest," an excellent fly-tying book produced by the Inland Empire Fly Fishing Club of Spokane, includes Missoula outfitter John Perry's "bugmeister" among more than 200 patterns ...

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 ...