Underwater Pictures from Trout Streams, Page 14

A couple tiny aquatic mites are clinging to this rock.

In this picture: Arthropod Order Acari (Mites).

A big crayfish lurks under a log.

In this picture: Arthropod Order Decapoda (Crayfish).

Two young of the year brook trout hide in a little spring hole in a remote, crystal-clear small stream.

Here a stickleback investigates a little piece of grass in the slack water of a beaver pond on a remote stream rumored to have been great for brook trout at one time. It's now a swampy hellhole ruined by silt-trapping beaver dams, and I found no trout. Wading it in early April, when the ground was only half-frozen, was a nightmare.

Plant life thrives year-round in this spring head, which never dips far below the temperature of the ground water.

Plant life thrives year-round in this spring head, which never dips far below the temperature of the ground water.

There's a stickleback partially obscured along the bottom of this picture.