Good news for anglers with a serious case of spring fever! The ice has cleared off of most of our area lakes, and with warm daytime temperatures, there should be some great fishing coming up. I checked on Roses Lake the other day and found the ice gone and anglers lining the shore and out in boats. One boat just pulled in as I arrived and the young boy who was tying up to the dock hefted a nice stringer of rainbow. Roses is a particularly good bet as the small lake was planted with 12,000 rainbow last fall, so getting a limit of 11-inch rainbow here should be very easy. I even saw a bass boat working the shoreline reeds while I was there but I didn’t get a chance to visit with him. I can’t wait to get out on this one myself. I had a ball here last year catching rainbow trout and then fishing for largemouth bass. This was after I hit Lake Chelan for silvers! Makes for a great day. The weather conditions a looking good for a great April Fools Opener in the Columbia Basin. The opener falls on a Tuesday, but there will be plenty of anglers turned out for this one, and the weekend should be a dandy.