Nature Pictures from Trout Streams, Page 116

This large, cold trout stream runs through a vast swamp. The weeds grow in deep silt that harbors a dense population of Hexagenia limbata mayflies.

My dad walks back to the car after a few hours catching grayling.

My dad's first arctic grayling.

Seagulls were perched on the rocks watching for outmigrating juvenile sockeye salmon to get disoriented in the whitewater and bubble up to the surface where they can be grabbed. I caught one of them that hit my fly in mid-air and got hooked in the wing, but didn't get any pictures because I was too focused on releasing it. It was fine.

Small lake seen along the boggy hike into the river

Put-in at Skilak Lake

A muddy, mile-wide cobble bar on the very lower Sagavanirktok (or "Sag") River.