The famous nocturnal Hex hatch of the Midwest (and a few other lucky locations) stirs to the surface mythically large brown trout that only touch streamers for the rest of the year.
This one pretty clearly keys to Kogotus, but it also looks fairly different from specimens I caught in the same creek about a month later in the year. With only one species of the genus known in Washington, I'm not sure about the answer to this ID.
Glad you didn't give away all the good fishing holes on the Denali Highway. Lived up there for 23 years and that road has some of the best Grayling fishing I've ever seen. I know there are a dozen little streams names Fish Creek in AK, but am wondering if the Fish Creek in your pictures in the same as the one on the Denali Highway. Nice Job
Troutnut on Mar 9, 2012March 9th, 2012, 11:36 pm EST
The Fish Creek in my pictures isn't the one on the Denali Highway. It's true there's good grayling fishing all up and down that highway, but the same can be said for most of interior Alaska if you do some leg work off the road and explore.
Jason Neuswanger, Ph.D.
Troutnut and salmonid ecologist