Landscape Pictures of Rivers, Page 7
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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I've caught several brookies in this hole, although on the day of this photograph I found none.
The high gradient kept this stretch of the river open despite the frigid winter temperature in central Alaska.
A small, old rock wing dam has created an excellent riffle and pool in this classic trout stream.
Many trout live in this pool, but they're very difficult to approach. The stream is very small and the pool unusually large, so the current is very slow. The trout have all the time in the world to inspect the fly, and they spook extremely easily.
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Here I was unsuccessfully trying to find some lake-run fish that would have been stopped by the impressive barrier in the background. I didn't see any fish.
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I took some neat underwater pictures of salamander larvae in this pool a few weeks earlier.
Nice smallmouths and muskies inhabit this wide warmwater river.
I'm in this picture casing into the riffle above one of my favorite pools. The fishing was fine, but the catching wasn't so hot. I got one strike on my carefully tied nymphs and two on my cheap foam strike indicator.
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