4/26/2018  Thurs
It's Finally warming up here, and Nearly all the snow is melted.
I drove over to Yellow River State Forest today, and fished Little Paint Creek in the campground. 
There were Lots of big fish, rising to caddis flies, as well as other bugs that I  didn't recognize.

I cast a Yellow&Partridge soft hackle (size 16), and very quickly hooked (and after a while landed) an 18" brown trout.  There were several other trouts that size, plus scores of smaller trouts (some of which appeared to be stocked rainbows).   There were only a few people in the campground, and I was the only one fishing when I got there (two people were fishing at the lower ford when I drove out).
I drove up the road that follows Big Paint creek up to Waterville (White Pine Rd), and saw that they done a whole lot of stream work to Big Paint. Right upstream from the State Forest, they put in about six wing dams; and there was new rip rap in many places before Waterville (and some after).