April 2007 Almanac
This Month: Has the Ice Gone Out? Get Ready for a Whopper.
April Fool’s Day kicks off the 2007 general, open-water, fishing season, and on April 1, fishing feels like an April Fool’s errand because of all the ice and snow.
As April nears May, black flies will be swarming and alder leaves will have grown to the size of a mouse’s ear, two sure signs that brook trout are biting in brooks.
In the first four weeks after ice-out, anglers enter about one-third of all the fish that get into The One That Didn’t Get Away Club, showing that folks catch trophies in the icy waters of the early season.
During ice-out mania, trolling rules as folks chug across lakes and ponds in hopes of tangling with a wall-hanger.