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A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Sunny, with a high near 88. North wind 3 to 6 mph.
Creeks are clear to slightly stained. Water temps are at 60 and starting to creek higher with this weather. Remember anything over 65 will be poor fishing and can be harmful to trout. Seek out smaller headwaters and shady areas, the fishing will be much better there.
Fish early and fish late, avoid the mid day sun!
Hatches are still fairly sparse, but the terrestrials are making up for it on the surface! We’re fishing hippie stomper and dropper on the surface through the day. Mornings and evenings if they aren’t hitting parachutes or crystal wulffs (PMD and adams) we will toss an ant out there (size 16/18).
Mousing is heating up! Fishing mice on the surface at night in the summer can be an absolute blast!

A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 85. Light southeast wind increasing to 5 to 9 mph in the morning.
Creeks are clear to slightly stained with temperatures in the low 60s. We’re in full summer mode where fishing is best early and late and anywhere you can find shade.
Hatches are sparse, which is normal for this time of year. You will find some fish rising first thing in the morning, and late in the evening. The morning fish will take a generic parachute pattern or film star, while the evening fish will also eat ants readily.
During the day, it is terrestrial time on the surface! Fish ants, beetles, even small grasshoppers. Targeting creeks with overhanging grass or even trees gives you a better chance at finding terrestrial eaters.
Subsurface fishing is starting to become a game of thin bodied patterns. Perdigons, spanish bullets, zebra midges etc are more effective when the creeks are clear and the sun is shining.
Leeches, streamers and mice can be quite good right now when the sun starts to set until the sun starts to rise.

A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 86. Southeast wind 6 to 13 mph.
Hot and humid out. Creeks are clear to slightly stained with temperatures right around 60 degrees. All week there is a chance for thunderstorms (which would provide cloud cover and some cooler water).
It’s summertime in the Driftless. Fish early, fish late, avoid the mid day sun and find shade. Terrestrial or attractors and a dropper mid day, and ants and generic parachutes in the evening.

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 86. South wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch.
Creeks are clear to slightly stained area wide with only a couple still showing a medium stain. Looks like scattered drizzle through the day which will not do any harm to the creeks, and the cloud cover will only benefit anglers!
Thing are getting back on track after some up and down weather the past few days. While hatches are still sparse and unimpressive, fish are rising in the evening to simple parachutes and emergers.
The terrestrial bite is starting to really heat up as ants and beetles as well as hippie stompers starting to be eaten very well by trout. Even for rising fish, tossing a beetle or ant will get them to feed it seems.
Subsurface fishing has been solid on a mix of bugs including scuds, midge larvae, brush hogs, and hot spot purple PT jigs. Fish a thick pattern then switch to a thin bodied pattern and the fish will let you know what they want!
Post rains, in the stained water, leeches and streamers are great!
Mousing is starting to get good too, especially as the grass dries out a bit.

A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Creeks are clear to slightly stained except for the West Fork and the Bad Axe watershed which are still mildly stained to murky.
The sun is the limiting factor again as creeks have dropped and cleared for the weekend. Fish early and late and avoid the mid day sun if possible.
Early next week looks like a chance of rains most every day. This isn’t a terrible thing unless an unexpected gully washer shows up. The cloud cover and potential stain on the creeks makes fishing much better and the rain drops water temperatures slightly.
Hatches have been sparse with a few lighter colored mayflies around as well as some egg laying caddis. Ants have been hot on the surface, and fishing a hippie stomper with a dropper is the go to setup throughout the day.

There is fishable water out there today!!!
Sunny, with a high near 84. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph.
The heavy storm in Vernon County hit around 2:30 and dropped almost 2 inches of rain in half an hour. Things blew out quickly, then started to drop and clear pretty quickly too. Since it happened so early in the day, we have quite a bit more fishable water than we expected. The larger creeks (West Fork, Bad Axe) and creeks below flood control dams remain muddy to heavily stained, while the smaller creeks and headwaters are in good shape. Clear to stained.
Fish scuds, leeches, and pink squirrels as well as squirmy wormies in the murky water. In the clear water fishing foam with a dropper below (hippie stomper and brush hog etc) will catch fish.
Hatches are sparse but having a few PMD colored parachutes is not a bad idea. Guides have been throwing ant patterns to rising fish with great success too!