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 ...

Anyone immersed in the sport of fly fishing, especially for trout, have heard of the popular presentation technique called the hopper-dropper. Not only does the catchy name roll off your tongue with a ...

Nearly every insect is hatching — from green drakes to PMDs, BWOs, midges, caddis and craneflies on local rivers, especially the Fryingpan River. Along with the plethora of aquatic insects, local ...

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 ...

This is a special time of year because nearly every insect is hatching from green drakes to PMDs, BWOs, midges, caddis, and craneflies. Along with the plethora of aquatic insects, local rivers have ...

Trout fishermen are starting to rely on hopper-dropper rigs more and more as the calendar has turned to August. Anglers use a strong-floating hopper as their first fly and then hang a beadhead nymph, ...

Hopper and dropper action was great on the Yellowstone River between Springdale and Gray Bear fishing access sites Saturday morning. I floated the river with an old Bozeman friend and we got into ...

Summer is on the wane, but the fishing isn’t.Dave Johnson, owner of Carbondale-based Independent Flyfishing Guides, reached on his boat during a float down the middle Roaring Fork River on Monday, had ...