Ice is mostly gone

Sorry I'm posting this a bit late, it turned into a busy couple of days. We went to check out the water at Vallecito on Thursday, finding some open water around the dam. Up toward the North end we found more open with some nice areas to fish. A guy at the Schank House showed us a picture of a big Pike he'd caught earlier. We were landing stocker trout around the dam, many with Pike teeth imprinted on their side. These are the plus size stockers they put in last fall, they really fight hard. Both days we managed a few "real" fish, big 20" male rainbows with their spawning colors ablaze, but most of the catch was stocker fish. I noticed last year this same thing this time of year. We didn't catch too many stockers through the ice (well... they're all stockers, but how long they've been in there gives me the term) but it seems there are heaps of them now. Odd. Either way, I was fishing small wooly buggers near the ice, Lisa was using a variety of shiny metal spoons. She outfished me. What else is new?