Some downright beautiful weather has been present lately here in the U.P., sunshine & warm Spring like temps has it feeling a bit like the end of our cold months.  Some of our snow has been slowly melting and in a few areas some bare ground is actually showing!  Don’t get me wrong, there is still a ton of snow around & it will be quite some time before it is gone (probably June)!  Water levels have come up some a a few rivers and some have been virtually unaffected by the melt off.  I was lucky enough to find a couple players on the way home from a trip down to the Detroit area for the Fly fishing show.  It sure felt good to fish in the sunshine and feel a Steelhead on the other end of the fly line. I think of Spring Steelhead as a gift from above, one’s trophy for enduring the long Winter months.