May 2nd Fishing Report
Showers and thunderstorms before 3pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 3pm and 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. High near 64. Breezy, with a southeast wind 11 to 21 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.The forecast is a lot of world salad to say that it will spit and drizzle on and off with the chance of clouds getting stuck in one valley where it might briefly turn into a storm.
All in all, these are the best conditions to be out in the Driftless! Cloudy and drizzly, the only downside is the wind...
Creeks are clear to slightly stained. We are still in a drought, but these smaller soaking showers have started to help get us out without muddying up creeks in our area.
The hatches aren't strong right now as we have not had a stable weather pattern over us, but fish are still eating caddis and the purple seam sipper happily on the surface. We have also started to have a lot of success on the magic beetle with a bead head dropped below.
On these cloudy days, leeches, scuds, and small streamers are great too!
