Pictures of Trout and Salmon

A small brown trout jumps at the end of my line. Photo by Sandy Neuswanger.

This beautiful 20 inch brown trout took a dry fly placed very tight against some overhanging alders. I was proud of that cast even before the trout smashed my fly. This brown is so vibrantly colored that as I caught glimpses during the fight I began to wonder if it was not a brown, but a monster brook trout. It turned out to be a very bright red/gold brown trout. The picture, fine as it is, doesn't do the trout justice.

A small brown trout returns to the clear water from which he sipped my tiny ant imitation on a hot August afternoon.

This gorgeous 9" brook trout fell for a size 20 spinner on a glassy spring-fed river.

This beautiful 17 inch rainbow fell for a bright wet fly in late July.

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.

Fish don't get any better than this.

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.

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

Here my dad's fighting a very nice arctic grayling, and this photo caught it mid-jump at the end of his line. This one eventually shook the hook, but we both caught many more in the same size range.