We were finally able to make the trip out in April, historically one of the best months for 15 plus pound fish. We were encouraged when we looked over the bridge and found a pod of 4-5 pound fish. After rigging up, I headed up to the cable and worked my way downstream, taking a couple of casts whenever a fish was spotted, which wasn’t often. The water was extremely low and the algae and weeds had built up on the river bottom, making the fish tough to spot. After not finding many fish in the top section, I decided to head down to the bottom of the catch and release section and work my way up. As I was working my way upriver, I spotted a nice male in a riffle. As I got in position to cast, a huge female came tumbling up the river, rolling in the current. This fish was a monster in the 12-15 pound range. I took a couple of casts, only to have her shoot upstream. We lost track of her, but we soon heard Rob upstream screaming about a huge fish. We ran up river and sure enough, there she was. We took turns taking casts to her as she swam back forth between us. We couldn’t get her to take the flies and she soon scooted up into a riffle and disappeared. I continued to work my way up river and managed a nice hook jaw male in a pocket above the large pool. We headed back up by the bridge were Rob and Tim picked up a couple of smaller fish and I landed a nice 21 inch female. Rob came down stream and landed a 23 inch male rainbow and Tim also pulled a nice fish out of the pod, a 20 inch rainbow. I hooked 4-5 more fish in the 20-22 inch range, only to have the hooks pull out or have them wrap the line around rocks and break me off. When we returned to the river the next day, we discovered that it had snowed. There was about four inches on the ground and it was continuing to fall. We spent some time fishing the pod of rainbows by the bridge, but didn’t managed to land any. Not wanting to fish in the snow and wind, we headed off to the Pan. The flows were around 50 cfs and the best flies were black beauties, miracle nymphs, candy canes, and black biot emergers.