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Been running most of our trips on the Madison lately, and it has been good. Varney to town fishing well on top with hopper/dropper, and side channels fishing well with stinger sculpins. The flows seem to have steadied out again, probably will change once we update today. But for now it's down a bit around 1260CFS. We fished last Wednesday from Storey to Ennis (I know long float) but it was easily in the top 5 days I have ever had on this river. We started out fishing streamers and picked up some nice fish, switched over to a sculpin with a beadhead off the back and absolutely stroked fish for a good solid 3 to 4 hours beneath the surface under an indicator. Lots of fish hanging out in the small sidechannels eating hoppers and ants. Didn't really see any PMD's but again, couldn't have cared less as we put 15-20 16-18" browns to the boat from Storey to Varney. Our best rig was a Bow River Bugger trailing a 16 or 18 beadhead whatever you wanted behind it. Better to be up early, and when the clouds come out fish are feeding well on top. Upper stretches around 3 Dollar have fished well, mainly smaller stuff, some PMD's and a few caddis here and there.
Over the weekend, decent reports from the Big Hole, not phenomenal, but definitely not slow either. Hatch wise we heard that there's still some PMD's along with the spruce moth (which has been sweet). And amazingly enough the Trico's are still going - I knew they would be. Afternoons are pretty much toast, so limit your fishing to the early mornings and late evenings. There is a decent PMD spinner fall coming down before the noon hours, so get on it early and get ready for some dry fly fishing before things shut down in the afternoons. Again, if I hear one more guy tell me I can't fish an elk hair for the spruce moth I might have a brain aneurism. The whole river is open except up high where nobody ever fishes anyways. Afternoons are absolute garbage, even more reason to be on early and off early. Water temps got a bit of a break with some cooler evenings, a small break in the weather, and a little rain. Hope that helps these guys over here, because like all of us, they can use the water. Good luck if you make it over.