Nature Pictures from Trout Streams, Page 3

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.

I've caught several trout in this pool. Several were cruising around it picking bugs off the surface while I took this picture, and then I set the camera down to cast for them. I caught two, including a brown of almost 13", from this photographic perch about ten feet above the water. It felt silly lifting them up, but I was short on time and didn't want to climb down.

Here's a pretty sunset over a warmwater lake in the northwoods. It may not be trout water, but I couldn't leave it off the site.

This 20 inch brown trout rose for an Isonychia dry on a hot summer day while no duns were presently hatching. Sometimes during that prolonged hatch the fish look for the duns even when they're not coming off. This one fought so hard I expected something several inches larger, and it allowed me to take a photo post-release.

Here's the first of many new pictures of Alaska that I'll be putting online as soon as I get the chance. It's a panorama of my dad standing and looking across the valley of the river where we both caught our first arctic grayling an hour or so later.

You've got to see it full-size to appreciate it.

This pretty little mountain valley pond held several browns and brookies, not huge but outsized for their small stream, and the water was so clear I could sight-fish for them across half the pond. There was also a school of bullheads swimming laps.

This 26.5" hen steelhead was my biggest trout ever at the time.

The perfect home for a brook trout.

This is the shore of a beautiful island in Lake Superior. To the left is a narrow channel leading to a a large, shallow bay.