Driftless Area

Rating: 4, temperature: 76 ℉, condition: Cloudy.

Waters are cool after rain all day yesterday, and the vast majority of our streams are running clear.  Today will be sunny and windy.
  Not much has changed hatch wise.  We are still seeing sparse light colored mayflies in the evenings (sulphurs, cahills), craneflies all day, and yellow sallies are laying eggs in the evenings.  On the small, cooler streams, olive caddis are hatching and laying eggs too.  Although there are sporadic hatches, fish are still looking up as they are still seeing terrestrials all day long.  Ants, beetles, and even hoppers have been working, especially with a small nymph as a dropper.
  Scuds have started to fish very well again, and the thin bodied tiny nymphs we have been using for the past few weeks are still hot.
  Do not overlook a size 14 thick bodied nymph as it imitates cranefly larvae, as well as yellow sally nymphs.  These can be deadly fished below riffles at the heads of pools.

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