It’s a drastic change from Hawaii to Alaska.  I just spent 19 days in the fun and the sun enjoying Molokai and Maui.  It’s always the changing of the seasons when I get back from Hawaii.  I put away the Clam portable ice shelters and start tying up my spring arsenal of fly’s.  The ice is not safe anymore and the pre-spawn bite is on.  The lake trout are safe until June now and it’s the rainbow trout on a fly rod for the pre-spawn bite.