The patter of soft conversation drifted around the table. Scissors snipped. Thread was wrapped. Deer hair was cut and stacked. It was another subzero night in Duluth, but beneath the poster-sized ...

Walk through the brush that grows along any stream this time of year and you will see a multitude of grasshoppers leaping away from your strides. This is the season of the hopper. By now they have ...

The Dave s Hopper was the brainchild of Dave Whitlock, one of the more creative and innovative tyers around. In an attempt to more closely match the natural, Dave pioneered the use of hackle stem legs ...

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 ...