Underwater River Scenery Pictures, Page 2

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.

Light beams filter through a wavy surface.

Here's the stream bottom of a newly renovated artificial channel created by the Wisconsin DNR to restore the natural flow of a small stream that had previously been diverted through a series of shallow, water-warming old private hatchery ponds.

Even in the winter there's some green weed growth at the bottom of a healthy trout stream.

I took this picture of the underside of a large slab of ice in a northern Wisconsin river in early February. I got cold.

Light reflected from air bubbles left ghostly wisps in this fairly long exposure picture beneath a riffle. It's got an accidental artistic look.

Here's the underside of a "lunker structure", a manmade undercut bank where trout love to hang out. It's amazing how much I've seen the trout use these things. I've also noticed that the best trout populations I've seen are in streams where lunker structures have been installed.

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