Fishing Report

Sunny, with a high near 78. South wind 3 to 8 mph.
Warmer and sunny weather means the terrestrial bite will be the main attraction again today. Hoppers, ants, beetles and hippie stompers are the leaders in the surface game right now. Actual hatches are sparse due to the clear water and sunny skies and happen in the last hour or so of the day or in shady areas.
Subsurface fishing has been best on slimmer bodied bugs such as spanish bullets and food.
Creeks are clear and a touch low with temperatures in the low to mid 50s.

Mostly sunny, with a high near 63. North wind around 8 mph.
Fishing remains more than good on hippie stompers and training wheels with bead heads dropped below. With the bright sun, the olives will not hatch as early, look for a few in the evening. The sun will get the terrestrials moving again though! Go back to fishing ants, beetles, hoppers etc.
Creeks are clear and flowing well with temperatures in the low 50s. In other words, just about perfect for late summer/fall fishing!
Remember to try leeches and streamers too. With the water temperature dropping we are getting more aggressive eats on bigger bugs.

Mostly sunny, with a high near 72. West wind 10 to 13 mph becoming north in the afternoon.
Creeks are clear to slightly stained with temperatures right around 50 degrees.
With the recent sunny and drier weather, terrestrials are back on top! Fishing a hippie stomper, or a training wheel with nymphs below has been excellent lately. We’ve been getting some bigger fish to eat the surface bugs too!
Subsurface fishing has been good on brush hogs, perdigons, squogs, and energizer squirrels.
When you are done fishing a spot with dry dropper, run a leech through there and hang on! Leeches and smaller streamers are cleaning up!
If fish are rising, they are most likely eating olives. We’re seeing olive emergences pretty much area wide even on the sunniest days.
Remember season ends after the 15th of October, get out here and fish before season closes.

Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 73. South wind 6 to 9 mph.
Creeks are clear to slightly stained with temps in the low to mid 50s area wide. Excellent late summer conditions!!!
We are seeing olives daily, and with the drier weather, fish are feeding on hoppers, user friendlies and hippie stompers again! Guides are fishing foam with a dropper until the afternoon when the olives are hatching. They are then switching over to mayflies when fish are rising.
Subsurface is a mix of everything. From squirrels and scuds to spanish bullets and zebra midges. Just keep switching profile and color and the fish will let you know what they want.
The streamer bite is on! Fish large and small are chasing and eating small streamers and leeches.

Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before noon, then a chance of showers between noon and 3pm. Patchy fog before 11am. High near 67. Calm wind becoming west 5 to 8 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
The ground is finally saturated and the rains last night have some creeks running muddy early this morning, but already starting to clear up as of 8 this morning. It might take a little more drive time in the am to find good water, but most creeks will be in good shape later in the morning and into the afternoon.
Fishing has been great overall, with the cold weather and clouds (both in the water and in the sky) putting the fish in a great mood. Olives are hatching, fish are also eating caddis and even hoppers and foam on the surface! Subsurface fishing has been across the board with smaller, thin bodied bugs working as well as scuds and pink squirrels, as well as leeches and streamers. If you are not getting any eats, keep changing the profile and size of your bug until the fish let you know what they want!
In the murky water this morning, streamers, leeches and worm patterns are key!

Showers, mainly before 1pm. Patchy fog before 9am. High near 54. Northeast wind 3 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Things are rolling along in the Driftless! Creeks remain clear to slightly stained as the rains have been steady and slow instead of coming all at once. In the afternoon, the olives have been hatching and bringing fish to the surface.
Early in the day, fishing is best subsurface on scuds, squirrels, and other thicker bodied nymphs. Leeches and streamers work very well all day too, especially on the creeks with a medium stain. Do not neglect the squirmy wormy! It fishes very well under these conditions.
On the surface, fishing a indicator attractor fly is still working, but the terrestrial bite is definitely slow due to the cooler and wet weather. We need things to dry out before terrestrials fish again. Watch for olives hatching mid day, and swing some soft hackles below the riffles.

Showers. High near 49. Northeast wind 7 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
The rains yesterday were not enough to ruin fishing. Most of our creeks are in great shape, crystal clear to slightly stained. Coupled with the cooler temps and cloud cover, on paper we have perfect fishing conditions in the Driftless right now!
Terrestrials will be much slower as the cold and wet weather keeps the naturals from crawling around. Attractor foam patterns with a bead head in the mornings (or streamers and leeches….) will catch fish. In the afternoon and evening we have had some pretty solid olive hatches that are getting fish to rise.

Just a brief update for the Labor Day weekend. Shop is closed Monday but will reopen Tuesday with extended hours.

A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11am. Partly sunny, with a high near 83. Breezy, with a south wind 11 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph.

Rains missed last night. We only received 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch which means perfect conditions this morning. Crystal clear to stained waters area wide! A cold front is blowing in which will drop temperatures to downright chilly next week. This cold and cloudy weather will do wonders for the trout creeks. Water temps will drop and fish will be very happy. We should even see olives hatching in the afternoons.

Hopper/dropper will remain successful, but it will take a while for surface activity to get moving after chilly nights. Nymphing or streamers in the morning, then switching to foam with a dropper mid day until you see fish rising to olives and midges.

Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a steady temperature around 67. Breezy, with a northwest wind 13 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph.
Great terrestrial day with the winds!
Creeks are clear and flowing a touch low. The recent rains did nothing to muddy things up and everything remains fishable. THe morning tricos have been underwhelming. You may see a few here and there. Watch for some olives hatching in the afternoon and evening alongside the midges. With cooler weather on the horizon the afternoons will start to give us more rising fish.
The main menu item for trout however is still terrestrials. Small hoppers, ants, beetles, etc on the surface are quite a bit of fun right now! Add to that some fantastic subsurface fishing and we have a good reason to skip a couple of days of work or extend your labor day holiday.
Subsurface fishing has been great lately. With the cooler water temps the fish are eating pretty much anything (mid day sun they still prefer the smaller, thin bodied nymphs) from pink squirrels to zebras to scuds.

Sunny, with a high near 78. West wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.
We’re in the part of summer that things hopefully continue to cool down (we are forecasted for excellent weather all week and heading into the holiday weekend). We can’t exactly say that we are transitioning to fall yet as we can still get a warm spell (happens every year!) this month.
Creeks are clear to slightly stained and flowing just a little low. Water temperatures are in the mid 50s to 60. Even the larger creeks that were too warm last week are giving good water temperatures and fishing has rebounded.
A few tricos in the morning showing up and doing their spinner fall, but it just has not been very strong this season. At about 9 a.m. there is a brief slowdown in fishing as the aquatic insect activity lessens when the sun hits the water. Once the dew on the grass disappears the fishing picks up again on terrestrials. Fishing a hopper (ant/beetle/cricket etc) with a dropper is deadly all day long. In the evenings the guides have been cleaning up by skittering simple CDC and Elk caddis patterns as well as continuing to fish terrestrials.
Subsurface fishing is still best with the thinner bodied patterns, but pink squirrels, scuds, and energizers are starting to work quite well, especially when the sun is off the water.
Leeches, streamers, and mice are still good, and will get better once we get some clouds in the sky or a heavier stain on the water (or the sun goes down….)