Week of June 7, 2026: Getting, hot, hot, hot!

Bad news, folks. The ambient air temperature has reached a point when the overnight lows are not low enough.  

I checked the Musky and SBR both weekend mornings. Water temperatures in the high 60s before 7:00 a.m. is a problem.  By midday the water is potentially harmful for trout. Ethical catch and release fishing suggests NO FISHING if a trout won’t survive. It is touch and go…touch your thermometer to the water and go home or seek small mouth and panfish - both are a blast on the fly!

While we do have flies specifically for warm water species, most trout flies still work - especially streamers.   Bass flies are available in the shop to use topwater on our lakes and ponds - but they work on moving water, too.

There is a chance that water temps may dip down to safe levels, but we should always check.  Some say all of the trout die by midsummer.  I respectfully disagree.  They will find a place to chill, ready for action late August. Let them be and grow to become next year's holdover trout.