Landscape Pictures of Rivers, Page 3
The appeal of trout fishing is tied to the landscapes in which they live. They need the kind of clean, cold water found mostly in pristine rivers in pristine places that lend themselves to landscape photography. I've begun to take that hobby seriously too, although the best times of day for pictures conflict with the best times for fishing!
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The perfect home for a brook trout.
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.
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A whitetail fawn struggles through strong current to return to its mother. It lost its footing a couple times, and I thought for a moment it was going to wash down to me.
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.
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I'm breaking my rule about naming locations for this picture, since the context adds much to its meaning. This great blue heron is standing on a slab of river-worn concrete silhouetted against the NY Quickway bridge over the Beaverkill River at Cairn's Pool. Several human fishermen pursue trout from one shore while an avian fisherman pursues them from the other.
The Fireweed here grows thick along many roadsides in Alaska, including the Richardson Highway here with a view of the glacial Delta River and the Alaska Range.
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.
The small stream I was fishing is fed by this even smaller, picture-perfect stream.
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