I'm bewitched by you so. That could apply to the Bighorn River for any season, but spring is especially so. Spring means a rebirth of the countryside, a time for life to begin anew. Rainbows are spawning, brown trout fry are swimming up from the gravels, migratory birds are arriving, geese are nesting, and pheasants are mating.
Spring means fields of wild flowers.
Early arrivals include small, inconspicuous flowers such as Hood's phlox, stork's bill, sagebrush buttercups, Nutall's violets, and biscuit roots. As the season progresses, the flowers become taller and showier, e.g., bluebells, penstemons, wild flax, wild plum, currants, chokecherry, prairie smoke, and fringed paintbrush. The insect hatches never really quit the Bighorn River, even in the middle of the winter you will find midges hatching on the most bitter cold days. As March rolls around and the air temperature warms, the midge hatches begin to grow in numbers. Though the trout feed on the emerging midges, usually only the smaller fish feed on the solitary adult midges.