Flows have just about settled down to average levels, and clarity (pending local rain) is good.  Water temperatures are hanging in there, though as the Firehole (more than the Gibbon) warms, temps will climb – there’s some bright sunshine due this week through the weekend.   

There are still a few spinners around in the mornings, but the hatch has waned quite a bit at this point.  There are a few terrestrials around – we’re not seeing or hearing reports of lots of hoppers, but there have been beetles and ants on the water during the day. 

It’s pretty much a given that the Madison is fishing much better out of the Park right now, and if we were making the trip to the Park today, we’d probably wait and fish the Caddis hatch for an hour either side of dusk, it’s been a healthy hatch that’s still going strong. 

If there isn’t hatch activity present, you could throw streamers or double nymph rigs (deep in the slots), but we’d head for more active water this time of year, and come back for the Caddis in the evening.

Flows this morning near West (0515) were 486 cfs, with today’s average 462 cfs.

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Flies to have in the box:

Dries:  Caddis - EHC, X Caddis, Electric Caddis, EC Caddis, CDC Caddis, Spent Caddis - tan, olive, black; PMD – Parachute PMD, PMD Sparkle Dun, Harrop PMD; Yellow Sally – Headlight, Glasstail

Nymphs: PT; BHPT; BH Hares Ear, Copper John, olive; BH Prince; Lightning bugs, gold, silver, green/olive;  PMD Wonder nymph, Electric Yellow Micro Mayfly

Terrestrials: Beetles, Ants;  waiting on the hoppers

Streamers:  Woolly buggers, brown, yellow, olive, black; Sparkle buggers, same colors; Girdle bug; Zonkers, assorted

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