Nature Pictures from Trout Streams, Page 9
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Beginning of Alpine Creek
This is not a sunset picture, but a midday picture in Alaska in the winter. The sun is low in the sky all day at that time of year.
This tiny spring creek is extremely fertile, and I sampled many interesting insects I didn't find anywhere else. The water was completely open even though other nearby spring creeks were frozen over and the snow was three feet deep.
What could be better than catching wild brookies below a waterfall?
Date AddedOct 4, 2006
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
Here's another of my very frigid early nymph sampling sites.
I had hoped to sample some nymphs here, but I didn't bring an ice auger.
This 20 inch brown trout rose for an
Isonychia dry on a hot summer day while no duns were presently hatching. Sometimes during that prolonged hatch the fish look for the duns even when they're not coming off. This one fought so hard I expected something several inches larger, and it allowed me to take a photo post-release.