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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hoppers aren’t only abundant in the Magic City and can be found around many river and creek bottoms in the area. And while it is getting later into the hopper season, and trout have been gorging on ...

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 ...

My fly-fishing pals finally let on that the grasshopper fishing had been incredible for the past month. I’d been fishing high lakes and streams in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness Area for most of the ...

… There’s a whole mess bugs classified as terrestrials. No matter the insect, when a breeze blows any of these land-based trout snacks into the river, it doesn’t last long. In late summer , when ...

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