The Upper Madison River originates in Yellowstone National Park and flows through Hebgen Lake, past the town of Ennis, Montana on its way to Ennis Lake. Because river flows are managed from Hebgen Dam, water levels remain pretty consistent throughout most of the fishing season. With gorgeous scenery and great fly fishing, anglers from all over seek out Montana's famed Madison River.
The Upper Madison has been fishing excellent lately and should continue to be good as we move further into summer! The whole river is in play right now and fish have been hungry and happy. The walk and wade section has been excellent recently with streamers and nymphs for the most part, although some days they are eating on top like crazy. Nymphing has been great with worms, stoneflies, bead baetis, blow torch's, shop vac, holo midge, frenchdipity, butano perdigon, pearl perdigon, and psycho princes. Dragging flies like the mini dolly, short shank redemption, gdp jigs and balanced sculpins have been crushing it out there from Lyon's bridge to Ennis. Streamer fishing is getting excellent out there too and flies like the mini peanut envy, micro dungeon, barely legal, sluggo, and slick willy's have all been working great. They are starting to eat chubbies out there too, so dry dropper fishing with a chubby to any nymph or smaller streamer listed above has been really fun recently with some surprisingly big fish eating the bigger purple or tan chubby recently. Salmonflies are out near ruby campground and fishing has been hit or miss on the surface but always fun to throw nonetheless!
Parachute Adams (16-20), Purple Haze (18-20), Griffiths Gnat (16-20), Razor Midge (18-22), Buzz Ball (16-18), Chubby Chernobyl (8-16), Water walker (8-12), Corn Fed caddis (14-18), Stubby Chubby (12-16)
Woolly Bugger Black/Olive (6-12), Mini Loop Sculpin Olive, Natural (6), Mini Dungeons Yellow/White/Black (6), Baby Dragon Sculpin/Black/Yellow/Whitey (4), Sparkle Minnow Smoke/Sculpin/Brown (2-8) Heisenberg Black/ Olive/ White (6), Kill Whitey Black/ Olive/ White (4), Montana Intruder (6), Sparkle Minnow Smoke/JJ/Sculpin (8) (8)
Pats Rubberlegs Black/Coffee, Olive, Black, Orange (4-12), Rainbow Warrior (16-20), Copper John Red/Copper(16-20), Pink/Natural Quilldigon (14-18), Green Machines (16-20), $3 Dips (14-18), Steel Worm (6-8), Matt’s Shagadelic Mop, Eggs
