Driftless Area

Rating: 4, temperature: 77 ℉, condition: Light Flurries.

 A good soaking rain last night (It was worse north of I-90) put about an inch of rain into the system! It is dry enough that it will not do any lasting damage to streams, however expect a few stained streams this morning clearing out by this afternoon.
  Tricos are on the menu first, with fish rising well in the early hours of morning.  After that, terrestrials with a nymph dropper, or smaller terrestrials on the surface in the riffles are doing well.  We have started to see some olives hatching during the cloudy parts of the day too.
  Subsurface fishing is still solid on thin bodied nymphs and scuds as well as pink squirrels.  You may have to be right on the bottom of deeper pools when the sun is shining, and don't forget to twitch that bead head!

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