Nature Pictures Added June 13th, 2019

One of the nicest brown trout of the trip

19.25 inch brown

The storm approaching in the distance chased my wife and I off the water, and we got set up to sleep in the car just as the heavy winds and lightning really started pounding the valley.

18.5 inch brown

Mountain whitefish

View up from the river

The main waterfall at the head of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

The Yellowstone River emerging from Hayden Valley. I briefly hooked and then lost a very nice cutthroat trout here, just a few yards downstream of the boundary above which no fishing is allowed. I wasn't even planning to fish, just stopped to take this picture and saw the big trout rising rhythmically to Paraleptophlebia duns. It was too much to pass up.

Bison crossing the Yellowstone River

Bison crossing the Lamar River in Yellowstone

Swans in the Yellowstone River's Hayden Valley.

A lone bison feeds in the background across a meadow reach of the Gibbon River.

My wife Lena trying to catch a small-stream trout in Yellowstone.

This was the only fish either of us managed to catch in Nez Perce Creek on this day before the bison got a bit too close for my wife's comfort and we rushed back to the car.

Firehole River Sunset

My nicest Westslope cutthroat to date (17 inches) struck an unfortunate dead-looking eyeball pose in this photo, but I promise it was released healthy and vigorously swam away.

Windward shore of Henry's Lake, a source of the Henry's Fork of the Snake River.

View back toward Henry's Lake from the road that heads west toward the Centennial Valley

My nicest Cutthroat Trout yet, a beautiful 18-incher. I'll remember this fish forever.

My first native Arctic Grayling caught outside of Alaska! It was one of a few I caught around that size, while my wife caught a bigger one around 15 inches.

Big Sheep Creek canyon

Small westslope cutthroat trout on the Bitterroot River