Driftless Area

Rating: 3, temperature: 80 ℉, condition: Flurries.

This is the first day in a couple weeks that the air temperature is supposed to hit 80 degrees.  This has been a great summer weather wise for trout.
  Water temps are in the mid 50s to mid 60s with only one or two streams pushing the upper 60s.  Use your thermometer and if the temps are above 65 fishing will be poor or even lethal to trout.
  We're seeing more and more tricos hatching and doing their spinner fall in the mornings.  Other than those and a handful of midges, aquatic insects on the surface have been pretty quiet.  Fortunately, terrestrial fishing has been excellent!  Ants, beetles, and hoppers both on the surface and sunken just below the surface have been getting trout to eat.
  Subsurface is still best on scuds and tiny nymphs rolled along the bottom, and midges and other tiny flies fished just below the riffles.

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