Nature Pictures Added July 24th, 2017

Yakima River from WA highway 10 near Teanaway, with rafters floating down.

This pool held two pretty westslope cutthroats

My first westslope cutthroat!

My first westslope cuttthroat, up close

My wife Lena fishing a nice mountain meadow

Small stream fly fishing at its finest

My biggest fish of the day, a beautiful westslope cutthroat trout.

My wife Lena's best fish of the day

This is actually the creek we fished Saturday, far up in the headwaters (like the last half mile) where I doubt even the little Cutthroats roam. We passed it on our way to a hike before driving elsewhere to fish Sunday.

Pretty little coastal cutthroat trout

Mountian lion tracks in the mud on a gravel bar

Closeup of a mountain lion track

Coastal cutthroat

Cedar River Trail -- easiest access I've ever had to a non-roads

Giant tree rootwad overhanging the river with huge boulders dang

It's not all cutthroat -- here's a little 13" rainbow in the net

Elk tracks all over the gravel bars

After an hour or more of getting skunked in beautiful water, I finally found a decent rising trout and got it to hit in this pool. Naturally, I had tied a knot poorly and it broke off on the hookset.