Spring Suprises

Who doesn't love suprises? Well, at least the good ones.

Spring has always been a time of suprises that run the range of, "I can't believe we squeezed a float in and actually caught fish," to "I would have never thought a midge hatch could get that thick," or "Can you believe carp will tail in 45 degree water?"I like suprises...

In the past few weeks, we have taken in a good bit of the variety that fishing in our region has to offer. Steelhead, trout, smallmouth and even carp have all been targets of worthy focus lately and all have provided the challenges that we have all missed so much for the last few months.

Flying snowflakes have become replaced by mayflies, steelhead are slowly remembering that they can jump and smallmouth are beginning to begin their prespawn rituals...

Are we out of the woods just yet? Probably not. But you can't ignore a pod of rising trout, a cartwheeling steelhead, or a chattering kingfisher along the stream.

While I'm confident we will be faced with a few suprises of the "bad" variety. Namely, high water and the freak spring snow squall. There is no doubt that things are only going to get better from here and we are definitely off to a strong start. Hopefully you are too...