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 ...

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 ...

Foam-bodied hoppers are working. Fish a peacock bugger fly or a brown woolly bugger with droppers behind those. Use a Copper John as a dropper. Irresistible Wulffs are working, as are dry royal trudes ...

Hoppers and droppers are working with a Mystery Meat Hopper, a new, foam-bodied pattern, producing well. Prince nymphs and rubber-legged hare's ears are good dropper choices. n Callan Wink, Dan Bailey ...

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 ...