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Underwater Pictures from Trout Streams, Page 3
Browse through all the underwater photos on this site below, or pick a category on the right.
Several brookies gather in a warm tributary to a trout stream in the winter. This is the same location as many of the other brookie school photos on this site, but it's a couple generations later.
This little pool shelters some eager small-stream brook trout, though I caught or frightened them before I took the picture. You can see this pool from above the water, too.
This flash photo freezes the turbulent underside of a shallow riffle in a clear trout stream.
StateNew York
LocationSalmon Creek
Date TakenMar 29, 2006
Date AddedApr 6, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
This Brachycentrus "Apple Caddis" struggled more than its kin in escaping its pupal skin, enabling me to take an underwater picture of it from directly below. This is sort of a trout's eye view, but I used the flash for the picture so the transparent shuck (
Shuck: The shed exoskeleton left over when an insect molts into its next stage or instar. Most often it describes the last nymphal or pupal skin exited during emergence into a winged adult.) appears far brighter than it really is.
In this picture: Caddisfly Species Brachycentrus appalachia (Apple Caddis).
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Here's an underwater view of the pupal shucks of several already-emerged Brachycentrus numerosus caddisflies.
In this picture: Caddisfly Species Brachycentrus appalachia (Apple Caddis).
Here's one of my first test underwater pictures with the Pentax Optio WPi. It's a very shallow riffle in a clear trout stream.
StateNew York
LocationSalmon Creek
Date TakenMar 29, 2006
Date AddedApr 6, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
Can you spot the brook trout in this picture? This is a good example of how they seek cover when a danger (my camera) approaches.
There are lots of brook trout here mixed in with a yellow perch at the bottom.
There are several mayfly and stonefly nymphs clinging to this log.
In this picture: Mayfly Family Baetidae (Blue-Winged Olives) and Stonefly Family Taeniopterygidae (Willowflies).
In this picture: Mayfly Family Baetidae (Blue-Winged Olives) and Stonefly Family Taeniopterygidae (Willowflies).
StateWisconsin
LocationEighteenmile Creek
Date TakenMar 19, 2004
Date AddedJan 25, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraOlympus C740UZ
The rock wall across the picture is at least 15 feet away -- this is extremely clear water in a tiny Catskill stream. This plunge pool to a large waterfall holds many brook trout in the 8-9 inch range but they hide too well to spot in this photo.
StateWisconsin
LocationCouderay River
Date TakenJun 30, 2004
Date AddedJan 25, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraOlympus C740UZ
Jargon Defined:
Nymphs: The juvenile, underwater stages of mayflies, stoneflies, dragonflies, and damselflies and other aquatic insects whose juvenile stages are covered by hard exoskeletons. The word can also refer to the fishing flies which imitate these creatures, in which case it is used as a blanket term for flies imitating any underwater stage of an invertebrate (except for crayfish and leeches).
Here's an underwater view of the pupal shucks of several already-emerged Brachycentrus numerosus caddisflies.
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