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Madison River

For those who love to fly fishing this is the place...

The Madison is, in many people's opinion, Montana's river of superlatives, with a list including highest trout density, most consistent action, best dry fly fishing, and the most spectacular scenery. Not surprisingly, this southwestern Montana jewel is also the second most heavily used river fishery in the state, growing more popular annually.
You can find these species in the Madison River:Rainbow trout, brown trout, Yellowstone cutthroat trout, whitefish, and Arctic grayling.

The Madison River heads at the junction of the Firehole and Gibbon Rivers in Yellowstone National Park. From here, it flows for over 100 miles to its confluence with the Jefferson and Gallatin Rivers at Missouri Headwaters State Park near Three Forks. The Montana section of the Madison begins just inside the park boundary. After a few meandering miles, the river collects in Hebgen Lake. Only 2 miles downstream from the Hebgen spillway, the Madison is again confined. Quake Lake, a striking testimony to the continued geologic unrest of the Yellowstone Plateau, was formed on an August night in 1959, when a major earthquake shook loose a mountainside of rock across the river.

The dry fly fisher on the lower Madison has his heyday in April and early May, when a thick mid-day caddis hatch blankets the smooth-flowing portion of the river just below the mouth of Beartrap Canyon. Typically, water temperatures are ideal, and trout rise freely to the naturals and to size 12 elk hair caddis imitations.

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