Nature Pictures from Trout Streams, Page 9

Here's my first trout of 2005, a 17-inch brown, photographed underwater after release.

This is my friend Brad's English Setter named Penny, framed against a sunset during the short drive between landings after a float trip.

Jedi Master Mishka, the mighty 6-week-old labrador retriever puppy, investigates my largest brook trout ever (as of June '06). He quickly approved of the fish and then tried to eat my sock.

Disclaimer: Before any C&R evangelists go for my throat, I'll point out that this is the only trout I've kept all year, and it inhaled my dry fly directly into its gills and ripped one of them out during the fight. It was mine or the herons'.

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

I believe this is the highest free-falling waterfall in the East. The pool below it is off-limits to fishing but probably isn't that great, anyway -- by all accounts the stream's trout population is mediocre at best.

This beautiful brookie comes from a very remote, crystal-clear small stream in the Catskills.