Troutnut.com User Flyguy212 (vinnie)

My best pike of the trip taped out at 30.5".

My dad finally broke his long, uncanny fishless streak with this nearly 2 inch long common shiner caught on a size 22 Serratella imitation during a Trico spinner fall. Heh heh.

A large caribou walks through the bed of a glacial river in Denali National Park.

Talk about a bad hair day. This chartreuse/everglow deceiver had been through about 15 northern pike already.

The NY DEC has installed these trout habitat improvements on a small upstate stream. I found that most fish in the stream orient to them.

What could be better than catching wild brookies below a waterfall?

A black bear cub shimmies down a tree trunk near one of my favorite trout streams.

Fish don't get any better than this.

One strange evening on a classic trout stream had brought me nothing but fallfish (albeit nice ones) when I cast outside the main current flow at a fish rising to little flying ants in a back eddy. It took and, much to my surprise, it was a sunfish I'd never seen before! Turns out it's a red-breasted sunfish, a common species in the East.

A perfect brook trout.