Nature Pictures from Trout Streams, Page 8

I strike at a hit in an inviting piece of dry fly water.

A nice little brown from a waterfall pool.

This 15 inch brown trout is the fattest I've ever seen in my life. It's not full of eggs or anything; it's just in astonishingly good condition. It took a Hexagenia limbata nymph imitation in the evening before the hatch.

A strong rapids feeds into this famous salmon pool on a tributary of Lake Ontario.

This partial solar eclipse today was most prominent across parts of Siberia, the Arctic Ocean, and Scandanavia, but I caught the outer edge of it here in Fairbanks, Alaska. I went out to a quiet spot next to the Tanana River behind the airport, and shot this composite photo of several short exposures of the sun during the eclipse, and one longer exposure at the end, capturing the thin clouds that crept into the frame.

This rock formation overlooks a grayling stream on the central Alaskan road system.

I won't say where this picture was taken. I wouldn't want to give away anyone's secret little stream.

The sun slooowly sets over a crystal-clear grayling stream.