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Not a bad home if you're a brook trout.

Several brookies gather in a warm tributary to a trout stream in the winter. This is the same location as many of the other brookie school photos on this site, but it's a couple generations later.

This flash photo freezes the turbulent underside of a shallow riffle in a clear trout stream.

The rock wall across the picture is at least 15 feet away -- this is extremely clear water in a tiny Catskill stream. This plunge pool to a large waterfall holds many brook trout in the 8-9 inch range but they hide too well to spot in this photo.

This little pool shelters some eager small-stream brook trout, though I caught or frightened them before I took the picture. You can see this pool from above the water, too.

I love this mossy plant on so many of the rocks in this stream.

I was able to photograph these young yearling brook trout from a distance in the crystal clear water of a small spring. When I tried to get closer, they all hid in the lush vegetation.

Here's one of my first test underwater pictures with the Pentax Optio WPi. It's a very shallow riffle in a clear trout stream.

Hundreds of cased caddisfly larvae live on this log in a small brook trout stream.

In this picture: Insect Order Trichoptera (Caddisflies).