Fishing Report

Mostly sunny, with a high near 86. Northwest wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
Last hot day, things cool down a bit tomorrow and into the weekend.
Creeks are clear to slightly stained and temperatures are right around 60. Not bad at all for late June!
The storms that came through a couple of days ago flushed most of our creeks and even knocked down some bankside vegetation.
Hatches are sparse (normal for this time of year) as we transition into heavy terrestrial season. Outside of a few egg laying caddis and mayflies in the evenings, there is not major hatch right now. It is mostly ants, beetles and foam attractors patterns with bead heads below that is catching fish right now.

Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. Light southeast wind becoming south 6 to 11 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph.
We’re seeing more and more fishable water open up after a weekend of much needed heavy rains. Fishing yesterday, while on limited creeks, was quite good. Focus on the upper sections of streams, avoid the bigger waters, and you will find clear to medium stained conditions. The farther down the creek you get, the murkier the water is.
In the clear water, ants, beetles and larger seam sippers are catching fish on the surface. Subsurface flies are bright, flashy and skinny.
In the stained to murky water, leeches and worm patterns as well as larger scuds are good.
The good news is the rain flushed out a few creeks and will help keep water temperatures stable as we head into summertime. The bad news, it brought out a large number of gnats. Remember your buggins!

Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 78. Northwest wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.
The majority of our waters are muddy to heavily stained with a few headwater creeks and some surprises running clear enough to fish first thing this morning. All in all, it seems we got a decent flush of the creeks, and things are dropping and clearing quickly. Later today will be ok, and by tomorrow we should be good pretty much area wide. South of the Wisconsin river into the Fennimore area will stay muddy longer as they received more rain than by the shop.
Under these conditions, leeches, scuds and San Juan worms are you friend!

UPDATE 3:45. We were hopeful, but now this popped up and will hit the area around 5 p.m. If it rolls through quickly things should be ok, if it gets stuck over us it will re-muddy the clearing waters. We will update you tomorrow morning!

UPDATE 10:00. We’re more hopeful…. It looks like the rains could be done for the day now (we are not seeing anything backing up the rains this morning as of now) and we are getting reports of fishable, not great, but fishable water here and there.

Things are heavily stained to muddy after the brief, but heavy rains yesterday. The least amount of recorded rain is an inch plus, and some valleys received up to 3 inches yesterday. The forecast today is for 1-2 inches more. A much needed flush of some creeks, but not a good idea to fish today. Depending on when all the rain hits, tomorrow might give us some fishable water. We will keep you updated.

First small band of rain is on us now, and were’ getting the feeling that it isn’t going to be good later today and into tomorrow. At this point we are not recommending that you travel to fish our area. While we do not have a crystal ball and could be wrong, looking at the forecasts and radar it looks like we could get the heavier rains throughout the day and into tomorrow.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 11am. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Patchy fog before 11am. High near 79. Calm wind becoming southeast around 6 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.

We will skip the fishing report side of things (come on into the shop for updates, and keep an eye on things here for any major changes). We’re looking at a potential of 1-4 inches of rain today and into tomorrow. If it falls on the low side, things will be excellent. On the high side and we will have temporarily muddy rivers. A silver lining if it falls heavily is that we need a good flush on many of our creeks, especially the smaller headwater ones.
Watch the radar, and we will keep you posted on conditions as best as we can!

Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 74. East wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
The major rains are well south of us (south of hwy 18) and we have clouds and very light drizzle as of this morning.
Overall creeks in our area are clear to slightly stained with temperatures in the high 50s to 60 degrees.
Fish are back to normal, and feeding well on beetles, small hoppers and ants during the day. We still have a few leftover sulphurs in the nighttime, but the hatch is fading as we transition into summer terrestrial time.
Subsurface fishing has been very good on smaller, thin bodied bugs and anything with a bit of flash. The trout are spooky, so make sure you use some stealth when you approach your spots, and focus on the broken water so you have some cover from trout seeing you. If you can see the fish, they can see you!

A chance of showers and thunderstorms before noon, then isolated showers between noon and 1pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 75. Light and variable wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Some rain last night (half an inch or so near Viroqua, a little less south of us) cooled things down and refreshed the creeks. Water will be clear to stained this morning, and we are forecasted for a bit more rain on and off through the day and the week. If anything heavy hits and muddys the creeks up, we will let you know.
Throughout the day, we will continue fishing indicator dries with bead heads below, or swing leeches and small streamers below the riffles. At night we are still seeing some sulphur mayflies hatching (although the hatch is slowing down a bit in some places).

Mostly sunny, with a high near 89. Breezy, with a south wind 13 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph.
Our mini heat wave was blunted a bit yesterday thanks to cloud cover. The sun never had much of a chance to shine onto the creeks and water temperatures stayed pretty stable.
Today will be hot and sunny and pretty uncomfortable with the humidity. Again, we get a small silver lining in that whatever rise in water temperatures will be reset by rains tonight and into tomorrow.
So, while water temperatures may pop up a bit temporarily they should stabilize again by tomorrow!

Partly sunny, with a high near 88. South wind 6 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Hot and potentially stormy on and off until Wednesday. If you fish, please fish first thing in the morning then be diligent about checking water temperatures. They have been pretty stable up until this short heat wave. Things normalize (hopefully) after some rains Tuesday night and into Wednesday.
Our recommendation: Chase some panfish on your local ponds, or other warm water species and give trout a couple days break.

A chance of sprinkles with a slight chance of showers between 9am and 11am, then a slight chance of showers after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. Southeast wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Creeks are clear and temperatures are good for now. The next few hot days will mess with water temperatures quite a bit, we are looking at 90 degrees for the next few days. Probably a good few days to avoid…
Beetles and droppers through the day, sulfurs hatching at night.