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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grasshoppers, crickets, ants, beetles, bees, dragonflies, cicadas… There’s a whole mess bugs classified as terrestrials. No matter the insect, when a breeze blows any of these land-based trout snacks ...

MOUNTAIN HOME — The dog days of summer in Arkansas can be downright, dastardly hot. Fly fishing in the Ozarks during this time, however, can have its benefits. The tailwaters of Bull Shoals, Norfork, ...

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 ...