Underwater Pictures, Page 11

A small creek chub hides behind a rock under a cut bank.

Here's the view from inside an algae bloom in a still backwater along a pristine small stream.

A variety of cased caddisfly larvae, probably mostly Neophylax, have clustered along the backside of a rock in fast water. There seem to be some Helicopsychidae larvae clustered along the bottom, and a few other taxa are mixed in. It's interesting that several larvae have especially large stones placed over the front openings of their cases, perhaps to block the case off for pupation.

It does seem to be the wrong time of year for Neophylax to be pupating, but that was the ID given for one of these which I collected and photographed up close.

In this picture: Caddisfly Genus Neophylax (Autumn Mottled Sedges) and Caddisfly Genus Helicopsyche (Speckled Peters).

Here's a view through the stationary den of a type of netspinning caddisfly larva.

In this picture: Insect Order Trichoptera (Caddisflies).

Here a stickleback investigates a little piece of grass in the slack water of a beaver pond on a remote stream rumored to have been great for brook trout at one time. It's now a swampy hellhole ruined by silt-trapping beaver dams, and I found no trout. Wading it in early April, when the ground was only half-frozen, was a nightmare.

Two young of the year brook trout hide in a little spring hole in a remote, crystal-clear small stream.