Nature Pictures from Trout Streams, Page 2

My girlfriend took this picture with my camera, and I'm not sure how she did it. Instead of being crisp and sharp it has a surreal look like an oil painting, perfect for the scene.

This beautiful 17 inch rainbow fell for a bright wet fly in late July.

A whitetail deer pretends to be a moose, sticking its head underwater to graze on rich aquatic vegetation.

This is a very deep pool in a very clear stream. It's well-known for its brookies, but I neither saw nor caught any in this inviting pool. I drove a few miles upstream and ran into the expected number of eager little fish.

I've caught several trout in this pool. Several were cruising around it picking bugs off the surface while I took this picture, and then I set the camera down to cast for them. I caught two, including a brown of almost 13", from this photographic perch about ten feet above the water. It felt silly lifting them up, but I was short on time and didn't want to climb down.

Here's a panorama of the junction of the two main branches of an Alaskan river where my dad and I had great grayling fishing on our float trip in that blue cataraft.

This 20 inch brown trout rose for an Isonychia dry on a hot summer day while no duns were presently hatching. Sometimes during that prolonged hatch the fish look for the duns even when they're not coming off. This one fought so hard I expected something several inches larger, and it allowed me to take a photo post-release.

Fish don't get any better than this.

This is one of my favorite pictures of a favorite stretch of a favorite river.