Monthly Archives: September 2013

Madison River Dam: 749 cfs Kirby: 799 cfs Varney: 845 cfs With colder nights and thus colder water temperatures, things have been picking up on the river this week.  While nymphs are still the way to go if you are looking for numbers, we've been having better reports of dry fly fishing over the last few days.  That's not to say that you can go out there and rip 50 fish on hoppers right now, nor has it been a great hopper year in general, but the ant and attractor bite has been bringing more than a few good fish [...]

Madison River Dam: 804 cfs Kirby: 903 cfs Varney: 1,000 cfs The Upper Madison continues to fish well with nymphs, but the dry fly bite is still a little too inconsistent to really excited about-- We have been taking some nice fish on hoppers and ants in the wade section, but there are a lot more lookers than takers on the hopper front. While we are still seeing good fish eating nocturnal stones below Lyon's Bridge, the action has started to slow down a bit more over the last few days and my guess is that most of them will be [...]