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 ...

It's hopper time. And it's ant time. And it's beetle time. The final weeks of summer and on into early fall, it's the time when land bugs and terrestrial fly patterns become an important part of a ...

The black ant crawled to the top of the mustard-colored goldenrod plant that was leaning over the bank of the stream when a breeze dislodged the insect from the top of the weed and into the water’s ...

Every fly pattern has a story. Most fly tyers at some point develop their own flies that become their favorite pattern that is often a variation of another pattern. Usually, the story centers around ...

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 ...

You’ve seen the name taped to drawers and labeled on cups in fly shops. But what exactly is a terrestrial? Terrestrials encompass a huge variety of insects that live around land, either on land or ...

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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 ...

… There’s a whole mess bugs classified as terrestrials. No matter the insect, when a breeze blows any of these land-based trout snacks into the river, it doesn’t last long. In late summer , when ...