GARDEN CITY — Western Kansas is hopping this summer as the number of grasshoppers spikes. Kansas State University Research and Extension entomologist Anthony Zukoff said wet weather patterns this ...

I like to fish dry flies. It’s not that I dislike nymph fishing, but there’s something truly special about watching a trout rise to your fly. There are, however, times when fishing dry flies simply ...

Rites of spring, in my mind, always feature vivid images of nymphs. No, this is not some kind of bacchanalian orgy. However, it does involve a feeding frenzy of fish in western Montana streams, ...

A close second would be, “What (or how many) fly patterns do I need to have to be successful most of the time? Those are both valid queries, and ones which reflect the quintessence of fly-fishing. On ...

What do you picture when you think of fly fishing for trout? If your answer is casting a bug imitation that floats and then watching a fish rise to sip it off the surface, I’d say you fall in with the ...

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The tiny white-flecked black nymphs showed up around mid-May in one Bethlehem backyard, right about where the adults of their ilk had swarmed the grapevines last fall. Scraping egg masses off the ...

Kansas State University Research and Extension agents are reporting higher numbers of grasshoppers this summer thanks to a warm, wet spring across the western half of Kansas. (Kansas State University ...