When a dry and warm winter carries over into a dry and warm spring, it’s rarely good for the rivers. Here are water flow and temperature charts for the Madison River north of West Yellowstone. Less than half the normal volume of water, temperatures already getting into the 70s. That’s a bad combination for trout. No one knows how the season plays out from here, obviously, but the fingers of the collective Yellowstone angling communities are crossed, and crossed again.
