Stream Check
With the warm weather we've been having, I've been curious about conditions on my home waters up on Rainy Mountain. The only way to satisfy that curiosity was to explore the mountain and check things out...trout streams specifically. It was a great day for a road trip, and I enjoyed the day quite a lot. Yes, there was a rod packed and loaded in the cab's rear seat....just in case. The higher I went up the mountain, the more snow and ice there was. Most of the streams I enjoy fishing are at the higher elevations, and they were covered with frozen snow. With temperatures in the 60s, it was melting at a pretty good rate. I knew there wasn't going to be any trout rising to a dry fly, but I enjoyed floating a fly in those few small areas of open water anyway. Nope, I didn't see any trout. It will be interesting to see when spring hits the mountain and trout activity begins...soon I hope. Down at the base of the mountain, where there was no snow, quite a few trucks were p...
