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 ...

Grasshoppers, crickets, ants, beetles, bees, dragonflies, cicadas“¦ There’s a whole mess bugs classified as terrestrials. No matter the insect, when a breeze blows any of these land-based trout snacks ...

Catch him on a hopper?” Those are both the first utterances from Kurt Russell, a stinky caster, in Paramount’s “The Madison” ...

The low water flow was not inspiring. Certainly there were trout remaining from the ample stocking of Harveys Creek, but none were visible as I waded in the slow, clear water. I tried not to make ...

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 ...

Know these flies and techniques when most anglers are getting a little antsy with late-summer fly fishing conditions. Terrestrial fishermen revel in the season, streamer lovers are busy preparing for ...

As kids growing up in rural Oregon, my brother and I always had an important stop before we headed out for a day of fishing. We had to collect bait. For roughly 10 months of the year, that meant ...

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For fly fishermen, late summer means terrestrial time. By then, the rivers are running low and clear, and the mayfly hatches of spring have tapered off. Streamside meadows are abuzz with beetles, ...

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 ...