The water temperatures below Mio Dam have returned to safe levels with the recent rain. The water level is up a bit today, but not to unsafe wading or drifting levels.

Lots of people are asking about the Hex hatch. The answer is, who knows? I’m getting reports of sporadic hatches on the Upper Au Sable and downstream of McKinley Bridge to 4001, but nothing very predictable. Our guess is the Hex are petering out and will be mostly gone in the next week or so.

Other good choices are still isos, #12 and #14 Light Cahills, BWOs in #18, stoneflies, rubberleg hoppers like the black and yellow skunks, Dave’s Hoppers, and Tarantulas, and of course several different attractors like Adams and Borchers. In other words, a smorgasboard, and if one fly doesn’t work throw another one on.

For streamers, try an olive Matuka sculpin, a Little Rainbow Trout, or a ghost.