It was just an any old kind of day.

With the prediction calling for a warm sunny day I went looking for caddis.  They aren't hard to find as there are both hatchers and egg layers on all of the freestones (BK,BR, BE).  Went out at noon with the little red line in the thermometer at 60 (up from 32).  The egg layers were active but I didn't see apple caddis duns on the water until about two.  The Hendricksons made but a token appearance from 3:00 until I headed back to camp at 4:30.

Rested up and went back to the same area at about 6:30.  With the temp going up into the 70's, I expected to finally see some may fly spinners, I didn't. There were fish rising in the slower parts of the big pools but many of the rising fish were eating something subsurface. There were spent caddis (a few) on the water and some were being eaten  You had to look for noses. It was not the night I hoped for.

The fishing?  You won't hear me complain, not even a little bit.  Why?  It's still April.  Many (most) years I don't catch a fish until the last week.  I've enjoyed consistently good fishing since the 18th of the month.  That's 10 days of bonus fishing.  Today I had rising fish all day.  No they weren't all eating off of the surface but they were all targets and enough of them liked my fly to make it a good day.  Never saw another fishermen while I was in the water and not one boats went by!

The 3 year old browns.  It was just a matter of time before I had to talk about the big 2018 year class of browns.  Have caught enough to know that they will be the mainstay of our fishing this year.  They measure between 13.5 and 16 inches in length, with most 14 to 15 inches.  If you scroll back through the DRC successful angler  photos you will see a bunch of them.  

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