ugust is the month that makes average fly anglers look like pros. The great equalizer is grasshoppers, which bring otherwise wary trout and smallmouths to the surface to smash high-floating bugs with careless abandon. But the month isn’t just for fly guys. August is for going deep into cool water for fish feeding heavily before the fall. It’s for spinner and spoon pitchers who cast to shoreline weedbeds. It’s for bait slingers
