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 ...

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 ...

Use a hopper-dropper setup. A trico parachute or trico comparadun are taking fish. Use an elk-hair caddis or X caddis. A PMX hopper or a parachute hopper will work. Use a lightning bug or MFG as the ...