The salmon fly hatch is still going on the upper Madison river south of Ennis. The bugs are moving up river but we still have about a week of this hatch left to come. We did very well floating down from Palisades fishing access to McAtee bridge yesterday evening. The best fishing is often early or late but the flies are out all afternoon and dry fly action can be had all day. Golden stones and yellow sallies are following the salmon flies up river. There are plenty of caddis on all of the stretches of the Madison. The nymph fishing has been great all over the upper Madison. If you are all about numbers you can catch about as many as you want on nymph rigs right now. As the giant stones fade, we should continue to see good dry fly fishing on the smaller dries like caddis and yellow sallies and the nymph fishing usually will be great throughout July.
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