Trout Closer 2012

[MJL]

It’s the last day of September which marks the end of trout season for many stretches of river. If there is one thing I’ll miss, it’s stalking the river banks for colourful brookies. The last few days I was able to spend a couple hours in the morning stalking small streams for these pretty little jewels. The streams are cold, the bugs are gone, the leaves are turning orange, most other river anglers are salmon fishing elsewhere, what’s not to like?

 

1 brookie at the crack of dawn. I got to test out my remote flash system which involved climbing a tree at 5:30am to strap my 2 camera flashes and then falling into the river. I was soaked but at least I got 1 picture out of it

 

 

 

Hide & seek

 

 

It really is an Atlantic salmon this time

 

Had to sort through a lot of these...I was surprised when I caught a few on muddler minnows swung down & across.

 

 

Male brookie in spawning colours

 

The red dots on the brookies from one stream were almost glowing underwater.

 

 

 

 

Bye for now brookies, hello steelhead!

 

Cheers

 

Mike

Edited October 1, 2012 by MJL

[Musky or Specks]

Those picture actually do brookies justice.

[grt1]

beautiful pics thanks for sharing

[adolson]

Wow! I love these pics almost as much as I love these fish.

[mistaredone]

Stunning pics! Well done

[Walleye'm Fishing]

Fantastic shots of some fine lookin' brookies

[Live2fish85]

Those are something awesome pictures.

[Jet]

I guess we have our designated cameraman!! Awesome work Mike.

[johnl]

those underwater photos are awesome thanks for sharing is that an atlantic ?

[davey buoy]

That's one heck of a camera you have!!!!beautiful shots!!!!

[crappieperchhunter]

Thx for sharing those shots. Great way to start my day

[Rustic-Fisher]

Amazing pics!

[Roy]

They're fantastic, Mike. Some great captures there. Thanks for letting us see them.

[Twocoda]

Stand up a take a bow Mike...Freakin EXCELLENT shots... Big Props for your technique

[solopaddler]

Beautiful litle fish and even nicer photos. Very cool Mike.

[castgame]

beautiful! perfectly captures the magic of brook trout. this is exactly what makes these my favourite fish -- out of this world colours and cold, clear, clean water. thanks for sharing

[mepps]

Beautiful shots man!

[fishnsled]

Incredible shots Mike!! Thanks for the report!

[mattyk]

some really nice pictures!

[Spiel]

Stunning photos Mike.

 

Thanks for dropping in this morning, it was great to see you again and get some of the details and efforts required to get all these wonderful pictures.

[BillM]

Mike, great pics as always!

[Lunkerhunter]

wow those underwater shots are by far the nicest i have seen. was that as a result of your lighting thing you mentioned? or just the camera and clear water?

[NAW]

You sure are getting dialed in on the underwater camera! Great shots

[misfish]

Super pics Mike.

[Guidofisherman]

Very impressive, clear underwater shots. Would you mind sharing your camera settings and technique used to get such great shots. I get the "falling out of the tree" part.