Grandpa Merrill @ FRC

Grandpa with the first rainbow of the season

Grandpa & Rob made an early season visit to the FRC this morning and were rewarded with bright, fat, feisty rainbows.  Weather was sunny and calm (as shown in the photo).  You know it will be a great day when the windmills in the hills surrounding Ellensburg are standing idle!

Grandpa got this one on a black bugger.  I tied on a shimmery cone-headed green bugger and was rewarded with other rainbows.  No action at all on the prince or other nymphs.  They were hungry and wanted food.  Very small mayflies had hatched and were dancing on the surface, but relatively little surface action.  Surface water temp was 48 so fish are still waking up.

The battery for my trolling motor decided to not hold a charge any longer so we ended up rowing, but it was quite nice when you are not fighting the wind.  :-)

A great way to start the week!