Pictures of Trout, Salmon, and Grayling, Page 20

My dad attempts to pose with a 20-inch brown trout he just caught. We took a "good" picture first, but I think this one is much better!

Lena's first trout on the fly -- a heavily colored male brookie of a respectable size for his tiny stream. I left her with the rod and a nymph and walked downstream to man the camera, then I turned around and she was waving this trout around in the air. A pleasant surprise!

This school of young-of-the-year brook trout was basically trapped in a pool in a remarkable little brook trout stream stricken by drought. The adult trout population seems to have been wiped out by the drought and a previous flood, but the young trout are as thick as minnows.

The picture is taken from above water with a polarizing filter and a telephoto zoom lens. There is one other picture of them.

A pretty 8" brook trout.

Mean-looking 17-inch rainbow.

This 26.5" hen steelhead was my biggest trout ever at the time.

This 15 inch football-fat brown stuck around for a picture after being gently released.

Here I am soaking wet holding up a hard-earned 17 inch brown trout. An hour or so before I caught her, I attempted a treacherous crossing over loose gravel, and the river was running high. I found myself treadmilling on my tiptoes to maintain my footing as the gravel slipped beneath me, and I was swept off downstream and swam to shore with a few gallons of 55 degree water in my waders. Being me, I kept fishing.

An 18 inch brown trout.