Nature Pictures from Trout Streams, Page 148

Sunny fall colors

Sunny fall colors

This little Lake Ontario tributary looked beautiful in mid-November, but I found no lake run fish.

The four tallest peaks (on the horizon, from this perspective), from left to right, I think, are Mt Hayes, 10,065-foot Aurora Peak, and a "double" peak that is actuall Mt Shand (left/foreground) with the peak of Mt Moffit sticking up in the background to the right of it

Aurora Peak. You can also see a bit of the Maclaren Glacier on the very left hand side of the image

Moonrise over Mt Sanford. An unusually clear view of this mountain from 90 miles away on the Denali Highway

This was my first Atlantic Salmon ever, a 23" landlock from a Finger Lakes tributary. It rose up from the murky water, gulped my bright streamer near the surface, and sank down, almost like the rise form of a trout sipping a tiny bug. I set the hook and landed the fish after a fight that exceeded my high expectations.

Igloo Creek

It just feels wrong that no trout rose up from this ledge pool to smack a Royal Wulff. There doesn't seem to be much of a trout population here.