Clint you sure are getting more than a fair share of springsteelhead action bud... good for you and thanks for the reports. Id like to hit the water with you once before the seasons over.

The forecast is finally looking like spring. Warm rain in the forecast for mid-late week... things will start changing soon. Probably gonna start seeing some small mouth staging up in the lower end... this season is definitely atleast two weeks behind... thank god for some warmer weather on the way

Clint any of my recent efforts have been up north and south with no success... they came up pretty good a week ago but the water mustve been too cold from snowmrelt...or i just plain old missed em... looking forward to the warm rain coming up...

With spring fish it is 90% being in the right place at the right time. 
 
Last year, April 8 was Easter, and my first dwarf iris bloomed, daffodils were nearly done and a lot of tulips were flowering, forsythia was starting to green up, but still showing some yellow.  This year, dwarf iris only started showing any new growth in the last week, crocus are still in flower, daffodils have not flowered, but soon, and tulips are not even showing flower stalks yet, forsythia are just budding. Definitely 2-3 weeks behind last year, but last year was also 3 weeks ahead of "norm." 
 
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im going to have to make atleast one more trip up...cant wait
 

Clint, i was up there the other day and a guy said he had a few on... he was fishing with an eight foot fly rod strung with mono and cannonballs though... he had just come up from under the bridge... i wonder how he caught them?????lol...
RT- let me know ahead of time when you 'll be up again and i'll be sure to hook up with ya

Bear and gerry, good luck and have fun... hope the best for the weather gerry as that lake can turn in a matter of minutes... bear, maybe we'll finally grab that cold one we've been talking about for a year now...lol

Lucky, agree with ya about 2-3 weeks behind... with this warm rain coming the water might get even colder again before the real warm up as snow melt will be coming

Tuna... lurk on buddy...lol!!! Or should we say yeeehhhaaaa!!!!

retired guy

Took a look at the Lake at Selkirk last week Andy- for about one minute.
Wind had the Grindstone outflow pushed right back onto shore and the rollers were crashing.--Thats why I ended up throwing Crawlers in the Town pool -had intended to drift them in the outflow.  lol.
Agree on the snow melt and temps- up in the woods its still thick in most places above Richland -was walking on over a foot of hard pack up there.

R-TEE, grindstone blew out pretty hard back in early march after that fluke 60 degree day we had followed by rain... the swamps and farm fields went from 12-18 inches to green grass in a matter of two days... the mouth got completely trenched out... i was down there a few days before that happened... wow did it change as it always does. It'll be next year probably when it flattens back out and pushes good water again unless we get some womping rain as its head waters are free of snow now

Water was cold enough to have me taking breaks every hour or so, yeah it's still cold.   Big issue is that we have had very  little rain this spring and what he have had has been a rain snow combo so still cold.  With the warm rains this week it should start to happen in #s
I caught 1 drop last weekend and all the others were fat but firm.  You know how sometimes you pick up a ripe female and any little squeeze will get eggs,  not alot of that.

Well boys, the bubble burst through its seems... time to start pulling rapalas along the undercut banks and time for 3fan to knock the dust off his boat maybe

Wow,  I was going to call in sick tomorrow but now...............       2k is too high  for me to go.   It is even blowing out up North  at over 1k which is where I probably was going to go.   Now this weekend up there......... 

Just what we need to pull new fish into the WNY and Finger Lakes tribs where everything has been low and gin clear.
 
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Clint, i was up there 3 weeks ago and there was five foot... thats athe lot of melt off if theres only six inches now
the res must be full and filling if theyre running 1650... id venture to say your brook trout streams may be blown out... if the rain continues its probably gonna get pretty ugly...

RT, Take a wild guess why im ing at ya....

IMHO-(not- always on target lol)
 Well- this is NOT the beginning of the end of this long Winter but the END itself.
 Might think any fresh ones left out there will finish coming in on this water .
   When the melt is over the waters will quickly  be back to normalcy and  with warming  temps IT will happen pretty quick.
 Hope to be proven wrong bout fish numbers but cant help believing IT will be fast .
 Kinda think about one week from now will be prime. Think the melt will be bout over and the Co. will have time to release  overage by then leading to ground and sun warmed waters..
  Have had some prime Spring Steel fishing fighting GNATS ( arugggh) and they are  about to happen.
  Checking the calender for a trip but the Political schedule is maddening.
  After that- its smallies-slappin UFZ waters for Atlantics- golf - grass cuttin -burnin meat and waiting for late August.

What I do is NOT golf- PGA guys plays golf- There seems no accurate  name for what I do- but do enjoy hitting my little  balls with a long metal stick while waiting for Fall fishing.

About a week late RT the chiggers are out now,  I was swatting them on Saturday.   The peepers just started to peep.   If we get a nice warm day the black flies will be out in force.

Here comes the blow out,   rain is steady and hard.