Learn expert fall fly fishing techniques for Adirondack trout including grasshopper patterns, terrestrial insects, ...

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.

September delivers cool nights and a change in the bugs that have been so prevalent for months. Hatches are waning, with some ...

You can also use large attractor flies behind a torpedo bobber. Try hopper patterns, stimulators, elk hair caddis and other large, high-floating flies. Don't try to match any hatch.

Trout are hitting on a "Mystery Meat Hopper?" Yes, that's exactly what was reported for the Yellowstone River at Livingston.

I know the name is misleading, but an olive Amy's Ant imitates a hopper as well as many appropriately named hopper patterns. The Amy's Ant is also buoyant enough to hold up a size 16-18 tungsten ...

Hopper fishing demands heavier than normal tippet, and throwing a 3x leader is not unusual. This helps turn over bulky, wind resistant fly patterns, keeps the tippet from twisting and allows anglers ...

In late-summer, terrestrials can catch some of the biggest trout of the year. Here are the best patterns and tips for fishing these bug flies.

Trout fishermen continue to use hopper and dropper setups, using a floating hopper pattern as their upper fly and a small nymph as a trailer.

Hopper patterns are still a good bet. Foam hoppers are working. No other hatches, but beadhead nymphs are also taking trout including red copper johns, lightning bugs and prince nymphs.

I’ve caught bodacious brook trout, broad-shouldered brown trout and rascally rainbow trout using a Dave’s Hopper on streams all over mid-and northern Michigan.