Madison River Outfitters

Entry by Casey Dixon

September is a month that usually brings on cold days with cloud cover,though not so much this year. Although there have been a few nasty weather days, on average it has been sunny and unseasonably nice or horrible if you are a fish. We have been watching the weather forecast hoping and praying for clouds and rain to try and bring some of those lake run browns up into the Madison in the Park. Although there are some fish around, the general consensus is that the fishing is slow. 

I have had some days of fair fishing and have been picking up fish here and there, but a consistent bite has been hard to come by. The most bizarre thing for me is that my best fishing has come on days where I was lazy and got out at the crack of 10 am and caught fish around noon under a high and bright sun. The days I have fished when the sun was lower or it was clouded over I have picked up some fish too, but not as many throwing a wrench into the theory that fishing is better when it is cloudy and cooler. 

On a good note fishing should only get better from this point until closes and with some rain on its way later this week hopefully that will finally get the fishing to a little more consistent point. On a positive note, fishing terrestrials has continued to be good and the Madison’s problem with Hebgen dam has been temporarily resolved and fishing in the float section has been decent.