Below is an image taken yesterday on Silver Creek. The Callibaetis have been pretty strong but this fish was honing in on midges and really, really small midges.
A Silver Creek Rainbow. Late April, 2015
Release. Silver Creek.
A fall release.
Release. Fall. Silver Creek, Idaho.
Below is a quote from the author David James Duncan in the documentary film, Damnation. He is talking about hatchery steelhead and salmon versus wild:
“The wild fish are genetically diverse whereas a hatchery clone is a bunch of first cousins fucking first cousins you know. So you end up with a bunch of badeeps. They are immediately being inbred out of existence. It really is like trying to replace, Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart with Yanni, Yanni and Yanni. No diversity.”
Silver Creek Rise Form
A swallow & rise form. A Silver Creek trout beat the swallow to the goods (a flying ant).
Swallow & Rise Form. Silver Creek, Idaho.
Brown Vs. Rainbow
I shot the images below on Silver Creek a few mornings ago during a pretty prolific Trico Spinner Fall. The two fish, a brown in the foreground and the other a rainbow, rose or at least attempted to take the same Trico Spinner. I had never documented this before...