Piscatorial Perfection

In time, I realized I was not out to catch a fish but more to simply be in their presence on their rivers. My pole was retired for a camera and a never ending obsession to capture them most perfect in their natural habitat.

Fall's color pallete
Nature's finest art
Colorado's Greenback Cutthroat; back from extinction
The opportunist scans
Rosebud wild and scenic; browns in the mountains
The deep green and pastel red of a fall brookie
Rainforest Coho, its headwaters protected; Olympic National Park
Last light Cutthroat perusing the evening smorgasbord
Eagle eye; a midging Golden trout
Missouri river 'bows
Snake River Cutthroat beneath the Tetons
Descendant of the ocean going steelhead, a native inland Rainbow; Kootenay region
Desert cutthroat; Lahontans once grew to 40 pounds
Relegated to high mountain trickles; from beneath the snow a Yellowstone Cutthroat heads upwards
Dual species perfection
The surface feeder; peak Westslope Cutthroat on the Blackfoot River
Dancing in the far north; grayling fill all the riffles
Yellowstone River, Montana
Reflection perfection above the interlopers
High Country Yellowstonbe Cutthroat
High Country Westslope Cutthroat
Falls bounty
Dolly Varden, Coho, Bristol Bay, Alaska.jpg
small creek action
Beaverhead River spinnerfall
tailing for damsels
Brookies fall billboard
Kokanee tackling the falls
Over under fall brookies
Cascade Mountain Coho and steelhead
Sockeye Salmon, Nushagak river, Bristol Bay 19.jpg
Chum Salmon, Bristol Bay, Alaska iw.jpg
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