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 ...

More years ago than I particularly care to contemplate, I was a catcher of bait as well as of fish. The two naturally went together. You had to have one to catch the ...

We met last summer at the Bamboo Rod Fair. He was 7 1/2 then, with a handshake hardened by Taekwondo and an uncommon talent for tying flies. I gave him an assignment to create an original grasshopper ...

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 ...