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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are few things that get anglers more excited than watching a fish come to the surface to smash a big dry fly. For a well-fed trout, it's hard to resist a large, clumsy hopper. Still, we know ...

A dry dropper is a two-fly rig that combines a dry fly and either a nymph or emerger, allowing you to fish on the surface and subsurface at the same time. If you’re fishing shallow water but not ...

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 ...

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 ...