Nature Pictures from Trout Streams, Page 11

I won't say where this picture was taken. I wouldn't want to give away anyone's secret little stream.

Here's the valley of a trout stream after a rainstorm.

This 15 inch football-fat brown stuck around for a picture after being gently released.

I spotted this moose calf resting in the snow across the road from the river I was photographing in Alaska in late February.

After the Hex hatch has been going for a few days, it doesn't take much to get some big fish working. This 18 inch brown revealed himself with one or two rises to sporadic bugs during a dud of a dun emergence.

This is my first-ever lake trout, caught on a spinner before we stopped to unpack the fly rods near the beginning of a 4-day float trip. I caught another of about the same size soon thereafter. The coloration is incredible compared to other lakers I've seen -- a much more believable cousin to the brook trout.