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 ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... More years ago than I particularly care to contemplate, I was a catcher of bait as well as of fish. The two naturally went ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...