Pictures of Trout, Salmon, and Grayling, Page 20

Mean-looking 17-inch rainbow.

A pretty 8" brook trout.

Here's the official first trout brought to hand with my new small-stream rod, an Orvis Superfine 7' 4-weight. It's an appropriate fish from an appropriate water.

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

An 18 inch brown trout.

My dad caught this 20 inch brown on a sulphur nymph I tied.

Here I am soaking wet holding up a hard-earned 17 inch brown trout. An hour or so before I caught her, I attempted a treacherous crossing over loose gravel, and the river was running high. I found myself treadmilling on my tiptoes to maintain my footing as the gravel slipped beneath me, and I was swept off downstream and swam to shore with a few gallons of 55 degree water in my waders. Being me, I kept fishing.

Brown trout are surprisingly durable creatures. I caught this one with a healed hooking wound in the corner of its mouth and somebody's Copper John nymph stuck in its side. I extracted the nymph and released the fish.