Have trout fished for 46 years in my homewater.

Love talking about fishing in general.

Hello to ALL.

Len

Hi Len

Great photo, would make a nice christmas card.

ff

I am always snapping photos on stream.

is hard to take photos in cold & snow with digital camera...

but i try.

ever so often i get lucky and take a decent photo

it is 14 degrees here today...

That first photo is amazing, what species do you get in your neck of the wood. I'm in two minds about going fishing tomorrow here in ireland as it may be cold but those photos amke me realise I don't know what cold is.

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Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

has only brook trout in it

they don't mind the cold, that's for sure. Are they wild/naturalised or stocked at that size?

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Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

there is natural reproduction here.

There are also many stocking programs.

Brook trout are the only true natives to my area. Bows/browns have been introduced.

Bows do not reproduce.

The browns have flourished.