Nature Pictures from Trout Streams

A small brown trout jumps at the end of my line. Photo by Sandy Neuswanger.

A small brown trout returns to the clear water from which he sipped my tiny ant imitation on a hot August afternoon.

This beautiful 20 inch brown trout took a dry fly placed very tight against some overhanging alders. I was proud of that cast even before the trout smashed my fly. This brown is so vibrantly colored that as I caught glimpses during the fight I began to wonder if it was not a brown, but a monster brook trout. It turned out to be a very bright red/gold brown trout. The picture, fine as it is, doesn't do the trout justice.

I captured this sunset over one of my favorite holes.

This gorgeous 9" brook trout fell for a size 20 spinner on a glassy spring-fed river.

This beautiful, remote stretch of one of the lesser-known large Catskill trout streams produced my only trout in two days of slow fishing, a 9 inch brown. Better than nothing! In fact, even "nothing" in this setting is really something!

You've really got to see this one full-size to enjoy it. It's my first attempt at a 360 degree panorama stitched together with the latest and greatest version of Adobe Photoshop.

This swift little stream is one of my favorites. It harbors an even mix of brook and brown trout and a mix of insect species very different from other streams I frequent.

This looks like a normal lake at first, but it's actually a natural, shallow widening in the channel of a famous trout stream. On clear days canoeists drift through and watch small trout and suckers swim beneath them. Large brown trout lay hidden in the weeds, and some of them move into the narrows around the lake to feed during prime hatches. They're a fun challenge for any angler willing to brave the mosquitoes.