Driftless Area
Rating: 3, temperature: 35 ℉, condition: Light Flurries.
The slow melting continues! Overall, creeks are fishable and clear to stained. Only a couple are too murky to fish due to snowmelt. The past couple of colder days have slowed down melting, and stabilized water temps.The most productive waters are 40 degrees and warmer. Use your thermometer 35 or colder means poor fishing.
Midges are still hatching area wide with some fish eating them on the surface. Most fish are eating subsurface on scuds, thicker bodied nymphs such as hare's ears and pink squirrels, midge larvae, and leeches fished slowly.