Short piece in Kayak Angler Mag
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I’ll never be in Zach’s league, but I finally got a short piece on kayak fishing here in Montana in Kayak Angler Magazine. http://www.rapidmedia.com/ka/kayakanglermag_spring14/. It’s on page 38 of the Spring 2014 issue. Some of the pics submitted displayed the IA hat nicely, but they didn’t make the cut. Here’s a couple of others from the day we took the pictures.
I enlisted the support of my neighbor Bruce Richards to tag along to take the photos. Fishing alone as I do a lot made it difficult to get photos for the article by myself. The day we were able to go over to the Yellowstone to photograph, the river was pretty dirty from a recent mudslide. Thus, I took along the ultralight spinning rod just to make sure we’ve have a chance at a fish.
Strategy without Tactics is a Slow Route to Victory, Tactics without Strategy is the Noise Before Defeat - Sun Tzu
Well done.
BTW, that’s a beautiful brown trout – what awesome markings !
Is that the norm on the Yellowstone ?www.dsaphoto.com
A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
BTW, that’s a beautiful brown trout – what awesome markings !<br>
Is that the norm on the Yellowstone ?Do Browns look different from this? They are probably a bit paler in the Spring, but from September through early November they are bright, big and plentiful from Corwin Springs to Big Timber. Caught this guy below Livingston in late September last year on an afternoon driftboat trip I was hosting for some business clients.
Strategy without Tactics is a Slow Route to Victory, Tactics without Strategy is the Noise Before Defeat - Sun Tzu
It’s interesting to me how much brown trout vary. To some extent it’s predictable; I feel like I can tell an Eastern European brown from an American brown based on how they look, and I’ve guessed correctly in photos before. But here in America I think the genetic lines are so mixed up, the main distinction is going to be time of year and to some extent diet. Browns which eat a lot of tailwater crustaceans seem to have richer red spots and a more buttery color. Western browns that prey primarily on classic dry flies and their nymphs seem to favor the teal to turquoise spectrum. Just my observations.
Zach
It’s interesting to me how much brown trout vary. To some extent it’s predictable; I feel like I can tell an Eastern European brown from an American brown based on how they look, and I’ve guessed correctly in photos before. But here in America I think the genetic lines are so mixed up … Zach
To paraphrase Robert Behnke, Brown trout in America are the result of hatchery breeding of all three major strains of European Browns–sea-run, lake forms and stream resident forms. In Europe, each of these forms have their own appearance, although all are the same species Salmo trutta, all genetically the same regardless of outward morphology. Very few true subspecies of Salmo trutta have been identified (mostly isolated populations at the extreme eastern and southern extents of its native range). What is most interesting is that a lot of study being done on introduced populations around the world has revealed that as one scientist put it–a sea trout is a brown trout is a sea-trout. Brown trout adapt to their habitat and go where the food is. Stream resident fish will migrate to sea and sea-trout will migrate to fresh water and stay there if the food supply is adequate. As for coloration, I don’t think there’s any real key to what colors signify where the fish originated from.
There are several books that are very interesting reads on Brown Trout.
* Heacox, Cecil E. (1974). The Complete Brown Trout. New York: Winchester Press. ISBN 0-87691-129-7.
* Graeme Harris, Nigel Milner, ed. (2007). Sea Trout: Biology, Conservation and Management. Wiley. ISBN 9781405129916.
* J.L. Bagliniere, G. Maisse, J. Watson (1999). Biology and Ecology of the Brown Sea Trout. Springer Praxis Books. ISBN 1852331178.
* Elliot, J.M. (1994). Quantitative Ecology and the Brown Trout. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198540906.
* Newton, Chris (2013). The Trout’s Tale – The Fish That Conquered an Empire. Ellesmere, Shropshire: Medlar Press. ISBN 978-1-907110-44-3.Elliot, Bagliniere and Harris are fairly technical, scientific works while Heacox and Newton are more conversational and focused at the layman level. Newton’s book tells the fascinating stories around all the introductions of Brown trout around the world.
Strategy without Tactics is a Slow Route to Victory, Tactics without Strategy is the Noise Before Defeat - Sun Tzu
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