Big Fish , Small Creek

[TeamProg]

Techincally, it is named a river, and flows high in winter.
After years of rainier weather the water has not stopped in summer. We've had many small, 5" fish but nothing like this 11-12" guy.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Beautiful photos!

How lucky you are to have such a river close by.

Thanks for sharing your wonderful photos!

[TeamProg]

4. Thank you Peggy. Having lived in crowded cities it was a bit of a

learning curve moving to the mountains. So far, so good.

Want to come up and split some fire wood?

[70sEraVet]

2. What kind of fish, do you think?

Too big for a bluegill. Bass?

[TeamProg]

3. There are blue gill and fewer trout. It's not a bass, I'm thinking

Brook trout, it’s not colorful enough for a rainbow.

Bass are a little more square/rectangular with more pronounced dorsal fins.

Hard to tell!

[Mousetoescamper]

5. Nice shots! Looks like brook or brown trout.

[TeamProg]

6. Thanks, that's what I'm thinking too. It doesn't look like a rainbow and rainbow

are I think, found at 5000 feet or higher. We are at 3100.

[usonian]

7. Most likely a Rainbow or Brown trout.

The middle fork of the Chowchilla River is close by, and my home is attacked by mayflies in the spring. Where there are mayflies (and caddis flies and stoneflies) there are trout. Trout are easily spooked, so it's cool that you got photos. Maybe Nessie there isn't spooked so easily. But a bear might be on alert if it reads posts on DU.

[TeamProg]

8. Oh yeah, we have bear. But mostly bathing and peeling bark in search

of termite larva. yeeeeum!