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Artistic view of a Male Pteronarcys californica (Pteronarcyidae) (Giant Salmonfly) Stonefly Adult from the Gallatin River in Montana

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Pteronarcys californica

The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.

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Lateral view of a Male Baetidae (Blue-Winged Olive) Mayfly Dun from Mystery Creek #308 in Washington

This dun emerged from a mature nymph on my desk. Unfortunately its wings didn't perfectly dry out.

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27" brown trout, my largest ever. It was the sub-dominant fish in its pool. After this, I hooked the bigger one, but I couldn't land it.

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This sky was the perfect scenic complement to the wide-open marsh where we were pike fishing.

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These caches are used by Alaskan natives to store supplies for pike-harvesting season in this network of sloughs and lakes. That's a raven on top of the left one.

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A cow moose with her calf clamber out of the slough we were fishing for pike.

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Talk about a bad hair day. This chartreuse/everglow deceiver had been through about 15 northern pike already.

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Minto Flats in Alaska

I took this picture after midnight, when the pike fishing was still hot.

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Minto Flats in Alaska

Out in this pike slough we made an interesting fine, a long-decayed moose carcass. Against my protest, my dad lifted the skull out of the water as a potential souvenir. However, it wasn't quite broken down to nothing-but-bone yet, and it smelled horrible, so it went back in the river.

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