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Fall has hit the Madison. The Lower has woken back up, the Upper is still kicking ass, and the river is in all around great shape.
Fishing the Lower these days is pretty easy. Crawfish, streamers, sculpins, big princes and stonefly nymphs are all taking fish. Look for a pretty good Baetis hatch in the afternoons, [...]
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The Madison is fishing well right now. Even the Lower is starting to come around. Water temps are cooling off, and flows have come back up on the Upper river, allowing for better floating options.
Like I said, the Lower is coming around. Water temps are the main factor, and they are really starting to [...]
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Flows have come up a bit on the Upper Madison, which is good news for those of us with boats. There still are a few spots that you need to watch pretty carefully, but on the whole it is much better. Due to some of the cool nights, the Lower is finally starting to turn [...]
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The Madison River Foundation is sponsoring their Ennis on the Madison Fly Fishing Festival this weekend – here’s a link to the Foundations web page for the event (full schedule available).
Here’s part of their description of the event –
For the fifth year in row ClackaCraft Drift Boats of Clackamas, Oregon has donated a brand [...]
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The Madison continues to fish well. Flows on the Upper river are holding at right under 1,000 cfs. The cooler weather and rain earlier this week bumped flows a little bit, but water clarity was not that affected.
The Lower remains locked in the grip of the tubers, but should be starting to fish better very [...]
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Flows on the Upper Madison have dropped quite a bit since last week. As of this morning, the river was at just below 940 cfs, down from almost 1,300 a few days ago. The lower flows are going to make a couple of section tricky for floaters, but fishing is still good.
Unless you are going [...]
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The Marines have landed in Bozeman (the pic above was taken about an hour ago at our massive Gallatin Field).
There’s an interesting story circulating among locals here in Bozeman and Ennis – it has to do with Obama, his upcoming visit to the area and a land purchase in the Madison Valley.
Like most rumors and [...]
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Every once in a while, you get one of those years where almost everything just seems to fall into place and makes fishing great. This just might be one of those years on the Madison. In the past week, PPL has bumped flows out of Hebgen. Yesterday, they dropped back down again, but are still [...]
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