Spring has sprung......

Although few seem to have acknowledged it to this point, spring appears to have arrived (at least in Meridian, ID). Sure, it still freezes at night - but with day after day after day of sunshine and 50 + degree weather, it's prime early-spring fishing weather. Add to that a new rod (see previous posts), and a lack of runoff from a mild winter, and you get one happy angler. Last week I hit eastern Oregon's Owyhee River twice, and the fishing was pretty good - as usual for this time of year, dry fly action came from midges - those tiny little flies that seem to able to hatch no matter how cold it is. Size twenty Griffith's gnats did the trick!  Naturally, I don't see the need to dig my camera out for every fish - here are a few that I made an exception for: