Nature Pictures Added June 5th, 2007

This fish almost got me into the coveted "20/20 club." It's a 20 inch brown caught on sulphur-flavored Galloup's Cripple tied on a size 18 3X-fine dry fly hook. It's also my biggest fish to date from the Catskills.

Early morning sunshine beats through the trees, heating the water up for a Drunella hatch.

A few nice trout were rising in this deep pool during the tail end of a morning Drunella hatch, but I didn't manage to fool them.

This above/below shot has Gonzo fishing on top and a beautiful tea-stained little Pocono stream on the bottom.

A pretty small-stream brookie.

Here's the valley of a trout stream after a rainstorm.

An afternoon thunderstorm left mist in all the valleys along this limestone spring creek in Pennsylvania.

I was stuck sharing a long pool with several other fishermen on this popular spring creek, but I had the best fishing (the tail of the pool) all to myself, because it took the most walking to get there. The dusk hatch was extremely intense, complex, and difficult.

A trout stream valley covered in mist after a spring thunderstorm on a hot, humid day.

Panorama of a trout stream valley after a May thunderstorm.

An 18-inch Catskill brown trout.

This is a common sight on the large Catskill rivers in early May, a mother goose guarding her nest. They like to nest on midstream islands where anglers are prone to walk from one fishing spot to another, and they do not back down. This one was hissing at me and I didn't want to get any closer.

This is just one of several nearly identical browns I caught on this spring day.

Mating toads, a common sight on Catskill rivers in early May.

This might be the most impossible fly-casting situation I've ever seen, a thicket along a creek which normally has relatively easy casting.

This popular Catskill stream was a bit crowded on one of the prime days of the Hendrickson hatch.