Fly anglers place grasshoppers in the ‘terrestrials’ category. Ants, beetles, crickets and grasshoppers are examples of land-based insects that inadvertently end up in the water where trout easily ...

Fall is hopper season on many trout rivers. These are the ones to keep in your fly box.

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 ...

Along with the plethora of aquatic (from the water) insects we’re seeing lately, local rivers have plentiful terrestrial (not from the water) grasshoppers along the banks and are settling in to prime ...

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 ...