Your quest for a trophy spring rainbow may have to wait for a while. Numbers are ok, lots of smaller/medium fish eager to smack a BWO or small spring caddis if it is not blown out. Quite a few 8 inch browns up there from last seasons DFG planting at Crowley. The bigs are scarce and spread out right now.

As a matter of fact, I had more fish spawning in my home court (McGee Creek) two weeks ago than I do currently. Scouting the tribs is proving that the fish are not moving in numbers yet and it has nothing to do with water temps. We have had some cold storms granted, however my water temp gages on McGee have had mid through upper forties last week with only a few fish honeymooning. The warm snap next week will get them moving and I'll update here for sure if things improve for the bigs.