Even the thought of that first spring hatch gets our juices flowing. The air temperature numbs our fingers. The thick polypro longjohns under our waders barely keep the cold from seeping into our legs. But despite the misery, we know that those early-season hatches will set the table for the trout's first surface feasts of the year. Those first hatches can be maddeningly difficult: The trout, despite their winter-induced hunger, don't seem to "garbage feed." They are selective when they should be indiscriminate. They take tiny naturals and let our imitations sail by. But the early-season riddles can be solved. And the tactics and fishing places recommended by the experts we've asked for advice should help fly fishers across the U.S. and Canada fulfill their spring dreams. Whether we attack these challenges at the tying vise or onstream, we all share the same expectations--a fly that disappears in a liquid ring and that first tight line of the year. The Editor.