Pictures of Fishermen (and Women), Page 2

Me trying to catch some hungry little brook trout on opening day, 2004.

My dad throws a cast on opening day, 2004.

This little brookie is my dad's first trout on a fly. It came on opening day of the 2004 early season for trout in Wisconsin.

Original Watercolor

I cross a small river after an unsuccessful attempt to find some fall-run landlocked salmon. This picture was taken shortly after another very nice wider picture of the same spot.

Photo by Elena Vayndorf.

This is my largest brook trout ever (as of June '06). Disclaimer: Before any C&R evangelists go for my throat, I'll point out that this is the only trout I've kept all year, and it inhaled my dry fly directly into its gills and ripped one of them out during the fight. It was mine or the herons'.

I was stuck sharing a long pool with several other fishermen on this popular spring creek, but I had the best fishing (the tail of the pool) all to myself, because it took the most walking to get there. The dusk hatch was extremely intense, complex, and difficult.