Pictures of Fish Underwater, Page 2

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.

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

A school of large common shiners feeds in a frenzy on Tricorythodes mayfly spinners which were all over the surface on this July morning.

Late May finds many trout streams brimming with tiny minnow fry in large schools.

Here's a school of creek chubs.

Several small minnows (bluntnose minnows, maybe?) mill around in this still backwater of a small trout stream.

Hundreds of creek chubs and common shiners take the long path around me through the barren shallows of a silty backwater area. It looks sort of like a Mars landscape, doesn't it?

A huge school of creek chubs and common shiners rushes past me.