Fishing Report

Sunny, with a high near 84. Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph.
Creeks are clear and a bit low. Despite warmer air temperature the past couple of days, the cloud cover has kept creek temps down!
Today will be a pretty normal sunny day. That means fish early (watch for tricos first thing), fish late and avoid the mid day sun. Upper and middle sections of our spring creeks are still flowing with good temperatures. Larger creeks and lower sections are getting warm. The good news is that we get some cloud cover, potential rain and a great cool down coming later this weekend!
After the tricos in the morning, switching to terrestrials on the surface and fishing foam with a dropper can be extremely effective. Cast close to the bank or underneath overhanging vegetation and hold on! We are seeing very aggressive terrestrial eats lately.
Streamers and mice at dusk and into the night have been a lot of fun the past few days too!

Partly sunny, with a high near 83. Breezy, with a west wind 11 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.
The temperatures have actually kept quite stable due to recent cloud cover. Creeks are clear to slightly stained and flowing in the low 60s. The lower sections of larger creeks are the only ones that are warm enough to not fish. Keep using your thermometer to find the best conditions (60-65 degrees).
The rest of the week looks good for fishing, especially in the mornings and late evenings.
Fish are eating trico spinners in the mornings on many of our creeks, then switching over to eating terrestrials on the surface. Watching trout cruise out from beneath cover to crush a beetle or sip an ant is one of the best things this time of year! You can fish a hopper with a dropper all day long from here to the end of season really.
Focus on fishing the shin to thigh deep water below the riffles and as close to undercut banks or overhanging vegetation as possible. Finding shady areas will also help you locate happy fish.
We have had quite a few reports that mousing and streamer fishing from dusk and into the night has been very productive too!

Mostly sunny, with a high near 87. Breezy, with a south wind 7 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.
Despite the hotter temperatures, fishing and water temperatures have remained really good for the summertime! So far most creeks are holding temperatures in the low 60s. The exception is the lower section of waters and the larger creeks. Please keep using your thermometer and make sure you are not fishing anything over 68 degrees!
The menu is very simple right now. Tricos in the mornings, then switching to a terrestrial with a dropper. Fish are dashing out of cover to eat beetles and smaller hoppers right now!
Fish early and late, and take a break mid day. Finding shady sections of creek is also key to the best fishing in the summertime.

Sunny, with a high near 88. Calm wind becoming west 5 to 8 mph in the morning.
It’s a hot couple of days, followed by a normal summer week. Creeks are clear to slightly stained with temps in the low to mid 60s. Summertime means thermometer time. Make sure you are constantly checking stream temperatures. Anything over 65 will start to slow fishing down, and over 68 can be lethal for trout. Luckily we have quite a few feeder creeks and spring heads that keep temperatures down on some of our creeks!
Tricos are showing up in the mornings on many area creeks, the rest of the day fishing a hopper or beetle with a dropper below (they are crushing terrestrials lately!) will work all day long.
The sun and heat are the limiting factors, so fish early, fish late, take a break mid day and find as much shaded water as you can. Shade not only gives the fish a break from heat and sun, but it also usually has terrestrials dropping from it throughout the day!

Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 81. East wind 3 to 7 mph.
Creeks are crystal clear to a medium stain depending on where the rains hit heaviest yesterday. Some areas saw 2 inches or more (near fennimore some spots got 4 plus inches!!) and some only saw a quarter of an inch. The heaviest rain fell pretty much along highway 14 from La Crosse to Viroqua.
In the cloudy water, fishing scuds and worm patterns is excellent. In the clear water, fish are picking up on hoppers (even larger ones now) with droppers below.
Mornings without fog, we have been seeing tricos early, and in the later evening egg laying caddis and midges are getting fish to rise.
Summertime is excellent for mousing and we have had some customers catching really big brown trout at night!

Sunny, with a high near 80. Southeast wind 6 to 9 mph.
Creeks are clear to slightly stained with temperatures in the low 60s except the larger creeks and lower sections which will be mid 60s. Remember to use your thermometer as anything over 65 is generally poor fishing and much warmer than that can be harmful to trout.
The sun is your limiting factor right now. Fish early (we have started to see tricos in the mornings!) avoid the mid day sun or find shaded areas, and fish late. When the sun is high in the sky, fish are far more spooky and less likely to eat.

Mostly sunny, with a high near 78. North wind 5 to 8 mph.
We are in the summer cycle now. It warms up, then rains hit, then cooler weather. Right now we are in the ‘cooler weather’ phase for a couple of days. That is typically the best fishing!
Creeks are clear to stained with temperatures right around 60 overall. Use your thermometer as lower sections and spots with less spring influence are over 65. Over 65 water temps mean fishing is very slow and potentially harmful to trout.
Summer means terrestrials! Fish a hopper or beetle with a thin bodied bead head below to find fish all day long. When you come to overhanging trees, or long grass in the water, tie on an ant and hang on!
The sun is the limiting factor right now (after water temp of course). If you can find shade, you will find happier fish. This means fishing early and late when the sun is down and looking for overhanging vegetation, undercut banks, and trees streamside.

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 3pm and 5pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 83. West wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.
The sun will shine quite a bit this week. The creeks are very low and clear with temperatures in the low to mid 60s. It is thermometer time. Make sure the water you are fishing is at 65 degrees or lower for best fishing, and to keep from overly stressing trout With sunny weather and warmer summer temperatures, you will find the best fishing very early, very late, and on shaded or headwater creeks. Chase cooler water temps and you will find happy fish!
It’s hopper/dropper season in the Driftless! Fishing a foam beetle, ant, or hopper on the surface with a small, thin bodied bead head below is the best way to catch fish right now. Early and late you could see some rising fish, so have a few CDC and elk caddis and some simple klinkhammers in both a light and dark color and you will have the hatches pretty much covered.

Sunny, with a high near 80. East wind 5 to 7 mph.
Creeks are clear to slightly stained. The stain in on the lower section of the ‘larger’ creeks in our area. We don’t advise fishing on those as they are also the warmest parts of our water right now. Please remember to use your thermometer. It is summertime and some water temperatures are creeping upward. Anything over 65 degrees and fishing slows down and much higher than that can be stressful to trout. We are lucky enough that there are still many headwaters and middle sections fed by our springs that water temperatures are still right around 60 on many of our creeks.
It is full on terrestrial crazy season now with fish happily eating ants, beetles, and even hoppers on the surface. Pairing a foam pattern with a bead head tied on as a dropper below is a great way to catch summertime fish. When you see rising fish, using a caddis type imitation, or an unweighted pheasant tail just below the surface is deadly! While most of our major aquatic insect hatches have slowed down (totally normal for this time of year) there are still some mayflies, midges and egg laying caddis the fish will feed on especially late at night and early in the morning.
Summertime also means mousing! From dusk until dawn you can have some fun slowly stripping a mouse across the surface.

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 2pm. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 78. Light east wind increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Creeks are all clear to slightly stained, they had drained out almost immediately after the heavy rains on the 4th! Temperatures are in the low 60s. We still recommend using your thermometer as anything in the high 60s will be poor fishing and can stress trout out. However, shaded areas and smaller creeks are flowing in the high 50s to low 60s and the fish are very happy.
Fish are rising sporadically all day long. Even mid day in the sun you can find pods of rising fish! Fishing hoppers or beetles over them will get some aggressive eats, and small mayflies or caddis imitations (we did very well on the front end loader yesterday!) fished in the riffles can be deadly this time of season.
When fishing your hopper or hippie stomper, tie on a smaller, flash nymph or zebra midge below