Woodcock, rainbows and browns

I returned to my friend's farm, where they grow native plants and we'd helped with their spring prairie burn.

The fields were now green, the lupines in bloom.

While walking through the fields, a woodcock flushed  right under my feet and I almost stepped on it's nest.

On their suggestion, I  tried one the lower sections of one of my favorite creeks in the area and a tributary of  of the creek. I didn't get far however, as the water was brown, banks steep with near quicksand in some areas and almost impenetrable vegetation on either side. I moved higher up the creek to a section I hadn't fished for a while, where the water was clear and banks manageable. 

A good afternoon, I run into a bunch of small rainbows and browns. But the little ones always seem to hit before the big ones, dark shadows following behind.  All the larger fish were all browns,no dropback rainbows to be seen I guess they are all back in the lake. The biggest fish of the afternoon was a brown ~ 40 cm, pictured just before it swam away.