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Mostly sunny, with a high near 71. North wind 3 to 8 mph.
Great day to be outside again today! Early mornings and evenings are chilly enough to consider a sweatshirt!
Creeks are clear and flowing well with temperatures in the mid 50s to low 60s. There are a still a few warmer creeks out there and we recommend using your thermometer. Anything at 65 or over will stink for fishing.
While hatches are slim, fish are still rising to midge patterns, egg laying caddis and craneflies. Otherwise, we are doing very well with terrestrials and droppers below (any slim bodied bug will work just fine especially if it has just a little bit of color and flash).
Great weather through Thursday, and still looking solid for the weekend too! We love these cooler summer temperatures!

Mostly sunny, with a high near 70. North wind 7 to 11 mph.
Incredible summer cool down the next few days, get out there and take advantage of the cooler weather.
Creeks are clear to stained with temperatures in the mid 50s to low 60s. There are still a few larger creeks that are running over 65. Avoid those as fishing will be poor and can be stressful to trout.
While hatches are slim, and the terrestrial bite streaky, fish are still coming up to smash hoppers, ants and beetles. Your best fishing is using larger foam terrestrials with a bead head a couple of feet below. Most of your fish will eat the bead head nymph, but a few will munch the foam fly.
Mousing has been good in the evenings, as has pulling larger streamers and leeches.
Fishing is still best when the sun is off the water, so fish early and late and find the shaded areas to find happier trout!

Mostly sunny, with a high near 79. Calm wind.
Stable summer weather! Fishing is still better early and late in the day when the sun is off the water. If you find shade, you will find fish even mid day!
It’s terrestrial time in the Driftless. Fish are responding well to hoppers, crickets, hippie stompers, ants etc on the surface and sunken just below the surface. Cast your terrestrials close to the banks and overhanging grass and hang on!
Subsurface fishing has been very good (we’re fishing a hopper/dropper or foam/dropper all day) on thinner bodied nymphs and midge larvae.
Creeks are flowing a touch low, which is normal for the summer time, with temperatures in the high 50s to low 60s. Only a few creeks are hitting the mid 60s (West Fork, Bad axe watershed). Use your thermometer. Anything over 65 will be slow fishing and much higher than that can be detrimental to trout.
It’s good to be outside right now and it looks like this weather will continue for a few more days!!!

Mostly sunny, with a high near 81. Calm wind.
We’re in the thick of one of the very pleasant and stable summer weather patterns. This stability can lead to some good fishing!
The sun is your limiting factor right now. Fish early and late and find shade for your best opportunities.
The larger creeks are running a touch warm. The fish are not boiling, but when water temperatures hit 65 the fishing slows down quite a bit. Remember to use your thermometer and have a couple small creek backup plans just in case.
Creeks are clear to slightly stained with water temps ranging in the high 50s to low 60s. Very normal for this time of year. Hatches are sparse with a few trico spinners showing up in the mornings and a few midges hatching through the day. When you see rising fish, try an ant! If that doesn’t work, then go with a small parachute mayfly.
The best approach right now is foam (hopper, hippie, user friendly etc) with a thin bodied dopper below. Fish are keying in on terrestrials right now and the dropper will catch fish fairly consistently.
At night, mice and streamers are getting some pretty good sized fish to eat right now too!

Showers likely, with thunderstorms also possible after 1pm. Cloudy through mid morning, then becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 82. Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
A little light rain this morning dropped the humidity and cooled things down. After a scorcher of a weekend temperatures are slightly dropping and stabilizing. It is still summertime so please use a thermometer. Anything over 65 will be poor fishing and much higher can be stressful to trout.
The large storms passed mostly south of the shop over the last few days leaving our creeks clear to slightly stained.
Tricos are very sparse, as are other hatches. Rising fish are concentrated mostly in the mornings and evenings.
The major surface activity right now is on beetles, hoppers and ants. Foam patterns with a dropper below are key to success!
In more stained water, scuds and pink squirrels. In clear water, fish thin bodied patterns like spanish bullets and perdigons.
Mid day, fish are in the shade. Fish tight to the banks and underneath overhanging vegetation.

Sunny, with a high near 81. Light northwest wind increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
The rains were mostly south of Vernon County meaning our creeks are still clear to slightly stained and flowing well! The rains missing us also means that water temperature will remain a touch warm for the next day or two. Make sure you use your thermometer as anything over 65 will be harmful to trout. We expect temps to stabilize after a day or two.
Tricos are still sparse, but we are seeing some spinners in the mornings. Otherwise hatches consist of midges and egg laying caddis. The real surface action is on terrestrials! Hoppers, beetles, and ants.
Subsurface fishing has been best on thinner bodied nymphs such as spanish bullets, perdigons, and zebra midges. When the sun goes down fish have been eating mice (morrish mouse) and streamers (stranger thing).
Sunlight will be the limiting factor for fishing. The best fishing is early, and late, and into the night. Mid day make sure you are finding shade and getting your flies as close to undercut banks and overhanging vegetation as possible.

Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. Heat index values as high as 97. Light south wind increasing to 9 to 14 mph in the morning.
Today it’s ugly hot. Tomorrow will be hot with storms rolling in. The good news is that the storms will cool things down for next week. If you are out this weekend, fish early, fish late and take a break mid day. With just one or two days of hot weather then rain, water temperatures should not be impacted negatively for next week.
It’s hopper dropper time, and we have heard rumors of tricos in the mornings.

Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. Light southeast wind becoming south 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Creeks are clear to slightly stained with good water temps. Things will get hot this weekend so make sure to fish early and fish late and avoid the mid day sun and heat.
Small hoppers are on the menu right now. Fishing hoppers with droppers right now is key all day long. We have started to see some tricos in the mornings, but the major spinner fall is not here yet.
Subsurface is all about thin boded and smaller patterns. Zebras and perdigons lead the pack right now.

Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 77. Calm wind becoming northeast around 5 mph.
We couldn’t ask for better weather! Things are cool and creeks are clear to stained.
Hatches are still sparse, but rising fish will not hesitate to take an ant pattern or purple parachute twitched over their feeding lie.
Terrestrials are also fishing well on the surface, especially near overhanging vegetation and undercut banks. Remember that things need to dry out for terrestrials to be active, so late morning into the afternoon is best.
Subsurface fishing has been hot on scuds and spanish bullets lately!

Mostly sunny, with a high near 74. Northwest wind around 9 mph.
A very small and localized storm cell hit our area last night dumping up to an inch of rain in some valleys. We still have fishable water, but do not be surprised by a few murky creeks this morning. Things will drop and clear out quickly as the storm hit before dark last night.
The fishing has been quite good for summertime thanks to these recent rains and cooler temperatures. We are getting water temps down in the mid 50s to low 60s.
Fishing is best early using emergers and soft hackles as well as small parachutes. Mid day it is terrestrial time! Fish a hopper/dropper or ant or beetle below overhanging structure.
Subsurface is where the fishing really is though. A bead head zebra, red copper john, or energizer squirrel will do wonders along with the standard summertime bead heads.
Do not neglect streamers and leeches (and mice at night!) especially in cloudy creeks!