Fishing Report

Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. Light southeast wind becoming south 6 to 11 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
We’re in our summer pattern (apologies for not posting more reports this week, it is really hard to get creative typing the same “it’s hot use your thermometer, tricos and terrestrials” report over and over!)
The pattern that happens is it gets really hot and humid (today), then rains come and cool things down for a couple of days, then it gets hot and humid again and repeats. Barring anything too weird, we are looking at a couple of these cycles coming up over the next week.
Otherwise, it is hot out there, please use your thermometer and make sure you are not fishing over 65 degree water. Terrestrials are at the top of the menu on the surface right now. The humid and foggy mornings are not great for tricos.
Subsurface is where the majority of the fish are feeding. A purple drank or brush hog is excellent right now!

Sunny, with a high near 77. South wind 3 to 7 mph.
Creeks are clear and a touch low with temperatures right around 60. Only a couple are starting to warm up to 65. Make sure to use your thermometer to double check temps.
Overall everything is pretty normal for the summer. The floodwaters from last week have cleared out and left some bankside vegetation smashed down which makes walking and casting a bit easier!
Tricos in the early morning, then terrestrials (hopper/dropper!) all day long.
Mousing has been fun lately too!

Sunny, with a high near 76. West wind 5 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.
Creeks are clear to stained with the waters north of the shop starting to become fishable (the creeks that had the worst effects of the rain).
It’s summertime which means tiny trico spinners first thing in the morning, then switching over to terrestrials on the surface (ants, beetles, hoppers etc)! Fishing a foam bug with a dropper is never a bad idea. On the murky water, a squirmy worm or scud/squirrel. On the clear creeks; purple drank, brush hogs, and pork chop express are fishing well!
Concentrate on the broken water below the riffles and fish up into the riffles to find the happiest fish.
Mousing has started to pick up lately too! Fishing a mouse on the surface at night can be a blast this time of year.

Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 81. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph
Creeks north are still muddy, but there is finally a touch of visibility! South of town things are in much better shape, flowing clear to slightly stained even after another small burst of rains yesterday.
In the murky water, scuds, leeches and worm farm are fishing well. Clear water is hopper or hippie with food, purple drank or ice cream cones hung below them.
There is a cool weather front rolling in today which will keep overnight temps quite pleasant and daytime highs barely touching 80. Good summer conditions!

Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 3pm and 4pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 85. West wind 9 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Not much has changed fishing wise. The Timber Coulee and West Fork and other creeks north of Viroqua are still a mess. There are still bridges out or compromised. Best to stay away and let crews clean the mess up and let the creeks settle down.
South of Viroqua has been fishing well! A few tricos in the mornings, although the humid weather has the spinner fall a bit off. Mid day through the evenings it has been terrestrials with a bead head tied below, or smaller ants and beetles fished underneath overhanging vegetation.
Creeks (outside of the flood waters up north) are clear and flowing with temps in the high 50s to low 60s.
Weather wise, we are looking at some VERY pleasant temperatures coming up starting on Friday!!

A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 87. Heat index values as high as 98. West wind 8 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
The creeks north of town are still recovering. They were hit hard by rains and caused quite a bit of damage to roads and bridges. Best to let them be for a few days.
The good news is that south of town is in great shape. Clear waters and happy fish.
The high humidity and heat will persist today and a bit into tomorrow, but we are looking at mid 70s by Friday.

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 10am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 80. Light and variable wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
After yet again another multi year flood event, streams north of town (Timber Coulee, West Fork etc) suffered major flash flooding this weekend that is still being cleaned up as of this morning. There are still bridges closed (the Bloomingdale road on S might be compromised) and debris on some of the smaller roads. Please be cautious out there, or better yet do not try to fish the streams in northern Vernon county!
South of town fared much better. Where there were 6 inches to the north, south of Viroqua only received about 2. This means most of the creeks south of us were clear yesterday and fishing was good.
Today’s weather will be tolerable, but the humidity is quite high.
On the fishable water south of town, the menu has not changed much. Terrestrials and smaller, thin bodied nymphs will fish all day long. Tricos are still around, but with the humid an foggy mornings, the bugs are not present in the numbers we get excited about.

Major rains, especially north of Viroqua. There is a lot of flooding in the valleys and on the small roads. Lots of flash floods going on area wide.

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 11am. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 81. Southwest wind 3 to 6 mph.
Here is what we are seeing, there is a chance for rain and scattered thunderstorms all weekend long. Nothing looks heavy at this point according to the forecast. These summer rains are helping to keep temperatures closer to 80 degree for the next few days. With the sporadic rains and cooler temperatures, we should continue to see stable water temperatures on most creeks and the fishing should continue to be decent.
It is mid summer, and the fishing has been good for summertime! The best fishing is early in the morning when things have cooled off overnight. Mid day fishing has been good on smaller, colder creeks (remember your thermometer!) on terrestrials with a dropper, and the evenings we are seeing some rising fish (parachute adams hatch) right before dark.

Widespread haze before 3pm, then widespread haze after 4pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Calm wind becoming southwest around 6 mph in the afternoon.
Another comfortable summer day out there! Water temperatures are in the high 50s to mid 60s area wide with creeks running clear to slightly stained.
Things have been on track for summer fishing. Tricos in the morning are around, although lately the spinner fall has been unpredictable. Right around 9, we are switching over to terrestrials (ants and smaller beetles as well as hopper/dropper). Subsurface fishing in the riffles and just below has been fantastic lately with fish gobbling up hot spot PT nymphs and the aptly named food fly.