Category: Ruby Creek – Madison River

Ruby Creek, Mt – Thursday June 19, 2025

Summer is here, at least for a while, it is going to cool off in a couple of days. Decided it was going to be too hot for me to fish today. I have never enjoyed the sun and heat and I’m trying to act my age. Yesterday I had to look for a while to find a place in the shade to eat lunch. Between the mosquitoes and the Salmon Flies I had look for a spot with shade and no bugs. Oh yes, yesterday was the first day of Salmon Flies.

The river is dropping and getting warmer. Here’s the river over the last 30 days.

Over the last week.

Up above the lake just outside the park the river has really warmed up. The river water below the dam comes out of the bottom of the lake so it is still ice cold. We are 30 miles below the dam so water hasn’t heated up above the restricted temperature but it is warm nun the less.

Yesterday I noticed birds starting to build a nest in the coach exhaust pipe

This is hard to see but huge flock of birds flew over head for 10 minutes.

After the flock left this hawk flew around for a while.