Almost ready to go

We finally got a stretch of warm, dry weather and it appears we are headed in the right direction. The trees are beginning to show leaves and there are more and more bugs showing up in the air. In the past few days, I have seen some Hendricksons and a number of brown and black stoneflies. I also got my first mosquito bite of the year on Sunday. Water temperatures have reached 50 degrees and one stream was as high as 56 degrees. There are still only a handful of streams that are safe to wade, but it is possible to catch fish if you are willing to work hard for the few you do catch. Silver buggers and brown soft hackles have moved the most fish for me. The warm, dry weather is expected to continue this week and I suspect we will start seeing more bugs in the air and more fish in the hand by the first week of June.