Sunny, with a high near 78. Calm wind.
Creeks are clear to slightly stained. The rains over the weekend have all but worked their way out of the system except on the largest waters.
Simple menu for trout right now. It is all about the hopper (or beetle) with a dropper. This will continue for most of the summertime until things cool down in later September.
Sunlight is the limiting factor for sure, so find the shade and fish early and late for the best results.
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7am. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 73. Northwest wind 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
WIth another inch of rain falling yesterday many of our creeks are heavily stained to murky. There is fishable water out there though, Check the tributaries and headwaters.
Things are dropping and clearing well, and we are looking at a nice weather week ahead. Wednesday will be the warmest at 84 degrees, while every other day is in the mid to high 70s. It is the prime terrestrial season with hoppers, ants, and beetles leading the way (tie a dropper on below for even more success!). Tricos are still around but not in crazy numbers first thing in the mornings, and in the evening fish are rising to a mix of egg laying caddis and some midges and lighter colored mayflies.
Monday will be cool and cloudy continuing the great weather from last week. A brief warm up on Tuesday and Wednesday. Wednesday we are forecasted for some summer showers that drop the temperatures again for the weekend. All in all a solid looking week for August!
Tricos in the mornings, then terrestrials with droppers all day. The hopper and beetle bite has been quite good. Water temperatures are good right now in the upper and middle sections of the creeks, while being a bit warm in the larger creeks and lower sections. Use your thermometer.
Fish are holding in and below the riffles especially in shady undercut banks. The sun is our limiting factor right now, fish early and late and find the shade to find the happiest trout. If you can, take an early dinner and stay out a bit later the last couple hours of the day have been very fun! Staying a bit later and swinging a mouse pattern in some of the deeper spots and slow pools at night has been fun too!
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 76. Light northwest wind increasing to 5 to 9 mph in the morning.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 82. Calm wind becoming southwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 83. South wind 5 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Creeks are clear and a bit low with temperatures in the low 60s.
An unusually pleasant weekend of weather ahead of us. This cool week really has fishing going strong. We’re dialing back on the every day fishing report as there are only so many times and ways you can write:
TRICOS IN THE MORNINGS, TERRESTRIALS ALL DAY LONG ESPECIALLY FOAM WITH A DROPPER.
The sun continues to be the limiting factor, it is much more difficult to find willing fish mid day. Fish early, fish late, and find the shade for better fishing. Shade can be an undercut bank, or even as small as some overhanging grass.
Evenings we are still seeing rising fish. A simple parachute or klinkhammer will get the job done there. Have a few in lighter colors (PMS) and a few dark (Adams or purple)
Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Northwest wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
You really could not ask for a better late July week of weather. The highs barely hit 80 and at night it is cooling down into the mid, and sometimes low 50s!
The sun is still slowing the fishing down, so while water temperature is not as much of an issue (except on the largest creeks and lower sections) we still recommend fishing early (look for trico spinners!) and late and avoiding the high sun when the sky is clear.
We did get a quarter to a half an inch of rain last night, but it is nothing that will do any harm to the fishing conditions. Just a good soaking summer shower.
Tricos in the mornings, then terrestrials and droppers all day long. Trout are also taking emergers in the later part of the day when the sun comes off the water.
Partly sunny, with a high near 79. Southwest wind 3 to 7 mph.
Today and tomorrow are going to be the warmest this week barely hitting 80 degrees!
Creeks are clear to slightly stained with temperatures in the low 60s. Only the larger waters are getting temps over 65.
Fish are eating tricos in the morning, then terrestrials and foam attractors with bead heads below during the day.
On the sunny days, stick with a thinner bodied pattern as the sun will make fish skittish on larger and thicker nymphs.
Mostly sunny, with a high near 75. Calm wind becoming west 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
Every once in a while we get the perfect summer weather. This week is it! With highs barely getting into the high 70s, and night times hovering around 60… Perfection for late July!
The vast majority of our creeks are back to being crystal clear to slightly stained and the temporary bump in flows and temperature drop due to the rain on Saturday has the fish in a great mood.
The rhythm remains the same. Tricos in the early morning, then terrestrials with thin bodied bugs below all day long. A few fish rising to klinkhammers in the evenings as well.
It is still a good idea to use your thermometer. There are still some larger streams running in the do not fish zone (68 degrees and above).
The storms last night dumped up to a couple of inches of rain on the area. It was not concentrated in one specific area but spread out pretty spotty throughout the area. Things are dropping and clearing very quickly and a lot of the rain was soaked up by the thirsty ground. Many creeks are muddy (but most will drop and clear to a fishable level by later this afternoon) however, there are a few smaller creeks and headwaters that are already mildly stained and approaching slightly stained. The key today is to spend a bit more time searching, especially the smaller bodies of water as they will clear out the quickest.
Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 5pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Increasing clouds, with a high near 88. Heat index values as high as 96. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
Tricos in the am. Terrestrials and hopper dropper all day long.
A quick note on the weather. Today will be hot and humid as the clouds gather up moisture for the rain tonight. It is not forecasted to rain a ton as of now, but it could come all at once.
This is our very normal summer pattern now. Heat and humidity builds up, it falls out as rain quickly, then things cool down and fish extremely well.
Looking ahead, next week the forecast will be right around and below 80 degrees every day with some night time temps getting down into the high 50s! This is a week to focus on trout fishing in the Driftless, especially if the rain falls and bumps water levels up a bit! Time to call in sick….
Partly sunny, with a high near 85. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Despite some warmer weather, so far we have been spared from a massive heat wave and the water temperatures have started in the low 60s except on the larger creeks. Early morning fishing has been fantastic lately, not just due to tricos, but there have been clouds each morning keeping the sun from shining down on both anglers and fish. This has given us an extra couple of hours on the water before things slow down.
Remember to use your thermometer, temps above 65 start to slow things down, and over 68 can be lethal to fish!
Tricos in the mornings, then fishing a beetle, or ant near grassy banks and overhanging vegetation will get fish to eat on the surface. The standby hopper or foam indicator fly with a bead head below will always get fish in the summertime too!
In the evening we are seeing trout rise to cahill-ish bugs (white to cream colored mayflies) as well as a few midges and egg laying caddis. It is much later in the evenings from about 6-10.
Mousing and larger streamers at night after the sun goes down has been good.
