Madison River

How To Fish It

• Dead drift close to the bottom in riffles and tailouts where trout are holding in the moderate, falling flow.
• Use Technical Nymphing.
• Favor Realistic bead-head nymphs and subsurface emerger patterns fished on a long, light fluorocarbon leader..

About The Madison River

The Madison runs out of Yellowstone National Park, through Quake Lake and the famed fifty-mile riffle water between Lyon Bridge and Ennis. It is one of the most consistent trout rivers in Montana because dam influence and broad insect diversity keep fish feeding through a wide range of spring conditions.

Most of the river's reputation is built on wild rainbow and brown trout, with strong dry-fly fishing when BWOs, caddis, and stoneflies line up. It is also a river where nymphing covers a lot of water efficiently, especially before the better surface windows show.

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