Nature Pictures from Trout Streams, Page 2

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.

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!

A perfect brook trout.

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

This 15" brown trout took a small emergent sparkle pupa on a large Catskill river.

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.

Chunky male brook trout and the best fish of the day

Here's an underwater post-release picture of a 15" brown trout I caught in a clear Catskill river.

I captured this sunset over one of my favorite holes.