Nature Pictures from Trout Streams, Page 11

This school of young-of-the-year brook trout was basically trapped in a pool in a remarkable little brook trout stream stricken by drought. The adult trout population seems to have been wiped out by the drought and a previous flood, but the young trout are as thick as minnows.

The picture is taken from above water with a polarizing filter and a telephoto zoom lens. There is one other picture of them.

This porcupine seemed to be feeding on the filamentous green algae that had accumulated around the tip of a fallen cedar sweeper on a classic piece of northwoods trout water.

This 15 inch brown trout is the fattest I've ever seen in my life. It's not full of eggs or anything; it's just in astonishingly good condition. It took a Hexagenia limbata nymph imitation in the evening before the hatch.

My friend Brad Bohen holds up a nice fly-caught smallmouth.

Several anglers fish the tail of a famous pool, loomed over by a Catskill mountain.

I was looking for king salmon, but this fallfish was the biggest fish I found. Maybe if I had photoshopped it enough I'd have something to brag about...

This incredibly expensive estate holds most of the land on a prime upper stretch of one of the midwest's best trout streams, and it's the envy of hundreds of anglers who float by it every summer.

A strong rapids feeds into this famous salmon pool on a tributary of Lake Ontario.