Nature Pictures Added October 17th, 2006

Many trout live in this pool, but they're very difficult to approach. The stream is very small and the pool unusually large, so the current is very slow. The trout have all the time in the world to inspect the fly, and they spook extremely easily.

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.

I spent more than an hour casting to several rising trout in this pool and caught only two. Its clear water and tricky currents harbor dozens of free-rising, usually very hard-to-catch fish.