Upper Madison River Fishing Report

A week of cold nights has brought back the anchor ice to the Upper Madison's wade section. Most of the mid-river ice is melted off by noon each day, but early morning you'll be trudging through some slush out there.
With that being said, once most of the slush has melted out, the swinging has been pretty good. Was nice to find about a half-dozen fishing grabbing a swung fly out in the - READ MORE.
As this (beautiful) sunny, crisp weather persists, fishing has been fairly... inconsistent. It's not that fish aren't eating...
Conditions on the Madison have just continued to get better! Bite windows are opening up to span pretty much the entire day, and fish are much less picky about their meals.
Jake Schilling
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