Spring Arrived and Gone Again

I have returned from the Coast after a miserable month of March which saw epic rainfall and cool temperatures. As I drove back into the interior of our lovely province I was expecting to re-embrace winter but was warmly welcomed by spring thaw and warm temperatures.
After a brief stop in Nelson, I continued further east and didn't start seeing snow in valley bottoms until I reached the Rocky Mountains and the Elk. There wasn't much left on the ground but the Mountains where still thick with white reminding me of the heavy snowfalls that were pasting the mountains before I departed.
The weather was nice, sunny and warm so my brother Kevin, Jeff and I took a boat out to a small lake and fished chironimids for a couple hours. Kevin's first two casts resulted in some nice rainbows and Jeff hooked a few right after. The day was a little sporadic after that, but the sun and the melting of the last patch of ice on the lake made for a pleasant afternoon.

The following day we headed east to Alberta to fish the tail water of the Oldman Reservoir, again blessed with warm sunny weather. The visibility was good and we hooked some beautiful rainbows along with some cutts and a good bull trout. We focused fishing the shallow troughs along the banks as the mid-river seems were showing any signs of feeding fish. It's a beautiful stretch of river and the fishing will be improving dramatically as the weather warms and bugs begin to hatch. This is a great time of year to fish on this river and temperatures are often in the between 70 and 80 degrees.

Another gem of a river at this time is the Crowsnest which we will be hitting soon. More photos and river reports will follow, however; it is snowing lightly again today and I am definitely your fair weather angler type. Ice on the guides and cold fingers doesn't appeal to me as much as baked goods, tea, a fire, and a tying bench.