Monthly Archives: June 2016

Madison River Fishing Report for June 24th, 2016 Dam: 545 cfs Kirby: 829 cfs Varney: 1,270 cfs Madison River fishing report.  The fishing on the Upper Madison has been excellent this week, and despite the crazy afternoon gusts the dry fly bite has remained pretty solid.  Most of what you'll find in the upper 12 miles between Quake and Lyon's Bridge has been caddis and a few PMDs, but we should start to see more in the way of stoneflies and Eperous starting to pop here over the next 10 days.  The best caddis action seems to be on chocolate caddis (great [...]

Madison River Fishing Report for June 15th, 2016 Dam: 598 cfs Hebgen: 1,020 cfs Varney: 1,800 cfs Madison River fishing report. The Upper Madison has really been coming into shape over the last week, and we are currently sitting at 20"-24" of visibility in the wade section below Quake Lake. Water levels have been dropping steadily throughout the upper river, with the creeks putting in less water by the day and of considerably clearer quality than what we saw just five days ago.  Beaver Creek has gone from chocolate milk to green, and the West Fork of the Madison has followed suit [...]

 Madison River Fishing Report for June 7th, 2016 Dam: 714 cfs Kirby: 1,400 cfs Varney: 2,750 cfs Madison river fishing report.  The Upper Madison is still fishing very well these days, and the clarity remains at roughly three feet and green above the West Fork.  That is likely to change very soon, as Beaver creek has been pumping chocolate milk into Quake for the better part of four days now and Cabin is still putting in a dirty olive stripe between the lakes.  The West Fork of the Madison is still running brown as well, and the stripe seems to be [...]