Spent the morning on the upper creek at the bridge and down from the resort. Caught a 15" on an Otter soft egg below the bridge, my first fish since late December. Moved down below the resort and switched to my variation of JT's drowned midge, size 22. Caught a  20-21"  female after a struggle with the obstacles in that piece of water-she ran me under a rock and it took awhile to coax her out. Wouldn't fit in my net and there are no quiet shallow areas there to semi-beach a fish, so I managed to get her head up and drag her by me and grabbed her by the tail as the hook pulled out. Had beautiful color and was in fine shape-didn't appear to be a spawner (as yet?). Held on to her in the water for a few seconds before letting go.  Moved down a ways and committed a major sin-did not check the knot or retie it before fishing again. Hooked another nice fish on the midge-smaller than the first, but a real hard head shaker-the water was shallow and clear enough to watch it do its thing. After a few of those my line came flying by me without the fly.

The water was about 50 deg and the wind started gusting about 11 am with still periods between. Had a few roll casts blown back in my face, but otherwise not bad, especially when fishing/casting east-west in the tree-brush bordered areas.