Couple of good lookin' fish!

[7Pines]

Had a fantastic WI opener showing two groups the ropes at the lodge.? Midges and caddis were really coming off, so the fishing was stellar.
If there is a sharper looking fish that swims our waters, I haven't caught it yet.  The colorations of these brookies is nothing short of awesome.

Chunky 'bow that went aerial a few times before finding the bottom of the net.

[7Pines]

Yepper, tough to beat those three.  A drake woodie laying over the breech of a good O/U or old Wingmaster. 8)

[Dr.Bob]

Gorgeous!

I bet that was a blast.

[GRIZ]

Trout don't exist around my parts supposedly but I have had minnows look allot like them yrs ago when I trapped minnows. A little kid said he caught them next to here also. I believe I made another post about it here. My ? is is there a certain temp that they need or just a certain environment?

[7Pines]

Yes, trout have a number of environmental requirements, but tolerate a pretty wide range of each specific requirement...HUH?!
Cool water that doesn't exceed about 70-degrees, a higher degree of dissolved O2 (riffle water that allows for the atmospheric O2 to be more efficiently absorbed.  Brookies require cooler, more oxygenated water than 'bows and brownies), deeper pools to evade predators, bank cover, suitable spawning habitat, proper gradient that is neither too steep nor too flat.  Too steep and the necessary "slack" water is diminished, and too flat and the streambed collects sediment that doesn't foster the invertebrates that trout rely on...jeepers, it goes on and on.
Oh, and if the surface is too slack all the way through and the water is too stained, it just soaks up the sun and raised the water temps too much.  Riffle/rapids water refracts light.
I need to go back to school!
Dan