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 ...

The bite on the Beaverhead River has been consistent as we enter the cranefly and hopper season. Anglers are experiencing excellent trout fishing in the morning and late afternoons. As the season ...

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 ...

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 ...