Nature Pictures from Trout Streams, Page 3

I caught a nice brookie a few weeks earlier in this pool at the junction of a split channel in the stream. The huge fallen tree is great cover.

This looks like a normal lake at first, but it's actually a natural, shallow widening in the channel of a famous trout stream. On clear days canoeists drift through and watch small trout and suckers swim beneath them. Large brown trout lay hidden in the weeds, and some of them move into the narrows around the lake to feed during prime hatches. They're a fun challenge for any angler willing to brave the mosquitoes.

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.

A perfect brook trout.

Here's a panorama of the junction of the two main branches of an Alaskan river where my dad and I had great grayling fishing on our float trip in that blue cataraft.

The small stream I was fishing is fed by this even smaller, picture-perfect stream.

This smallmouth river was very low during a July drought, but I floated it with my dad in a canoe anyway, and we landed several nice smallies. The weather was too hot for good trout fishing.

A small, old rock wing dam has created an excellent riffle and pool in this classic trout stream.