Heavy runoff over the past two days has rivers across the U.P. high and dirty-please use caution when wading right now. The past two days air temps have been in the mid to upper 60’s, the snow melt from the high country is moving downhill fast into our river basins. It is now safe to say that Spring is here to stay as the forecast is calling for temps in the lower 50’s for the near future. I was amazed to actually see a few buds on a tree yesterday on the river! Water temps are in the upper thirties currently and a few more Spring Steelhead have been trickling into the Lake Superior and Lake MIchigan streams. The long slow painful wait for Winter to end is finally over-this Winter was downright miserable with cold temps & late snows. I can’t remember a Spring where it has been more satisfying to see the chrome sides of a fresh angry wild Lake Superior Steelhead on the end of a fly line!