What's your game plan for May?

Fish as much as I can before spring football practice starts on the 17th! The N. Fork of the C’da is 30 minutes from my doorstep, the Joe and the Clark Fork are les than 2 hours. The pre-runoff season has been everything I had hoped for.
 
Fish as much as I can before spring football practice starts on the 17th! The N. Fork of the C’da is 30 minutes from my doorstep, the Joe and the Clark Fork are les than 2 hours. The pre-runoff season has been everything I had hoped for.
Hows the N. Fork and St. Joe been fishing for you? Looking to head out that way soon.
 
You'll never out fish a plain gold hook like the OG shad dart. Even if tying flies, I have way too much data to support a gold hook being a difference maker.
Interesting!! I think we should plan a real Bobo photo shoot with a shad or two... inspiration comes every once in a while for me!! Haha!
 
Interesting!! I think we should plan a real Bobo photo shoot with a shad or two... inspiration comes every once in a while for me!! Haha!
Not opposed, but not making any set plans until I get some shakedown trips in with the boat.
 
Going to drive over to the D whenever I can get a whole day to fish, and will work on my scandi/spey casting near home otherwise.

Also, some of the upper Clackamas is finally opening up, so I will probably go check out the fire damage and see how the resident trout and whitefish fared.
 
"Game" plans for May? Quite a bit, actually -
My wife and I are heading to Hamilton, MT to see some friends and then over Idaho 12 and down the Lochsa River exploring parts of Idaho we've never seen, this will coincide with our 50th wedding anniversary (no - I won't go fishing). But then, this isn't what the OP had in mind, I don't think, perhaps more like this:
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Damn covid kept us from getting up to British Columbia for two years. This year we're back! Milehighresort.com is where we stay, it's our staging for access to a number of lakes we've grown to love over the years. Most of the drives take an hour or more from the cabin to the lake, once lakeside, there's a lot of effort put into getting three prams unloaded and all our gear readied for the day. That's some old guy strapping his pram to the top of Herb's truck. We sort of have it down to a step-by-step sequence anymore.

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It's always nice up in the highlands just south of Kamloops, no rain, no snow, no hail, no wind, no mosquitoes. Herb hooked up to a nice rainbow on one of my favorite BC lakes.

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Keith netting a rainbow on another one of my favorite BC lakes.

Herb, Keith and I have been fishing together since the early 1980's. What a way to spend two weeks! Fishing with two great guys, eating good food, exploring beautiful British Columbia and then there's the trout!
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May's not enough, going to spill over into June.
Really cool Pat!
 
Due to the unseasonably cool spring the hatch is late.

But generally first of May is watchin this

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Turn into this

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