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The Beaverkill is perhaps the most famous fly fishing stream in America, largely because of its history, and it can still be a good one if you don't let its history spoil your expectations.

Almost every pool has a name and a story or three in the great works of fly fishing literature.

Landscape & scenery photos from the Beaverkill River

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This 15" brown trout took a small emergent sparkle pupa on a large Catskill river.

StateNew York

LocationBeaverkill River

Date TakenAug 24, 2004

Date AddedJan 25, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraOlympus C740UZ

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Here's an underwater post-release picture of a 15" brown trout I caught in a clear Catskill river.

StateNew York

LocationBeaverkill River

Date TakenAug 24, 2004

Date AddedJan 25, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraOlympus C740UZ

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StateNew York

LocationBeaverkill River

Date TakenOct 9, 2004

Date AddedJan 18, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraOlympus C740UZ

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I'm breaking my rule about naming locations for this picture, since the context adds much to its meaning. This great blue heron is standing on a slab of river-worn concrete silhouetted against the NY Quickway bridge over the Beaverkill River at Cairn's Pool. Several human fishermen pursue trout from one shore while an avian fisherman pursues them from the other.

StateNew York

LocationBeaverkill River

Date TakenOct 9, 2004

Date AddedJan 25, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraOlympus C740UZ

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This is Cairn's Pool on the Beaverkill, possibly the most famous pool in all of trout fishing.

StateNew York

LocationBeaverkill River

Date TakenMar 22, 2005

Date AddedFeb 1, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraCanon EOS 20D

On-stream insect photos from the Beaverkill River

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Caddis on Catskill cobble.

StateNew York

LocationBeaverkill River

Date TakenApr 16, 2005

Date AddedFeb 2, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraCanon EOS 20D

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Here are the empty nymphal cases of Isonychia bicolor mayflies which hatched in early fall in the Catskills by crawling out onto a rock.

StateNew York

LocationBeaverkill River

Date TakenAug 24, 2004

Date AddedJan 17, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraOlympus C740UZ

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I'm not sure what the caddisflies in this tight cluster are doing, but I'd guess it has something to do with mating. They scooted all around the rock, with some flies leaving the cluster and new ones coming all the time.

StateNew York

LocationBeaverkill River

Date TakenMar 22, 2005

Date AddedJan 24, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraOlympus C740UZ

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An ant struggles to escape the surface of a Catskill stream. The black dot on the right is the ant's shadow on a rock on the bottom. I can see how this would appeal to a trout. Even I kind of want to eat the thing.

StateNew York

LocationBeaverkill River, Horton Bridge Pool

Date TakenApr 16, 2005

Date AddedFeb 2, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraCanon EOS 20D

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StateNew York

LocationBeaverkill River

Date TakenMay 7, 2005

Date AddedMar 25, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraCanon EOS 20D

Closeup insects from the Beaverkill River

Male Ephemerella subvaria (Hendrickson) Mayfly Dun View 9 PicturesI collected this male Hendrickson dun and a female in the pool on the Beaverkill where the popular Hendrickson pattern was first created. He is descended from mayfly royalty.

Collected April 19, 2006 from the Beaverkill River in New York
Added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on April 22, 2006

Female Ephemerella subvaria (Hendrickson) Mayfly Dun View 9 PicturesI collected this female Hendrickson dun and a male in the pool on the Beaverkill where the popular Hendrickson pattern was first created. She is descended from mayfly royalty.

Collected April 19, 2006 from the Beaverkill River in New York
Added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on April 22, 2006

Male Epeorus vitreus (Sulphur) Mayfly Dun View 4 PicturesThis is my favorite mayfly from 2004, and it appears on my popular Be the Trout: Eat Mayflies products. Check them out!

Its identification is really up in the air. It might be a late-season vitreus dun but it may very well be one of the more obscure species in that genus.

Collected September 2, 2004 from the Beaverkill River in New York
Added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on January 25, 2006

Ephemerella invaria (Sulphur Dun) Mayfly Nymph View 8 PicturesThis small Ephemerella invaria nymph was at least a month away from emergence.

Collected April 19, 2006 from the Beaverkill River in New York
Added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on April 21, 2006

Isonychia bicolor (Mahogany Dun) Mayfly Nymph View 7 PicturesThis Isonychia bicolor nymph from the Catskills displays the prominent white stripe sometimes characteristic of its species. This is the first such specimen I've photographed, because members of the same species in the Upper Midwest have a more subdued stripe (and were once thought to be a different species, Isonychia sadleri). The striking coloration on this eastern nymph is more appealing.

Collected April 19, 2006 from the Beaverkill River in New York
Added to Troutnut.com by Troutnut on April 21, 2006

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