If there’s tall grass on the banks of a river or stream, you can bet there are hoppers. Trout will often eat them right when they hit the water next to the bank, but a good drift down a mid-river foam ...

In preparation for a sacred day in the lives of many mid-Michigan outdoors enthusiasts — the trout season opener on Saturday, April 27 — I solicited input from several fly-fishing experts to identify ...

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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 ...