In the last few weeks I've made three different trips to photograph the fall colors on two of my favorite small trout streams and one new one. The catching ranged from bad to worse, but the fishing was outstanding. I never really managed to find a spot where all the reds and yellows were...

Since I finished the 20-month overhaul of Troutnut.com about a month ago I've been catching up on lost time, trying to make up for all the fishing I missed as I computer-programmed my way through May and June. I put most of my new stream pictures online yesterday, with a bunch of new bugs -- a...

I've been selling stuff in my website's new gift shop a little more slowly than I'd like. I'm sure it's partially just because it's in its first month and traffic is always slow at first, but I'm also looking for feedback to help me improve my designs and figure out what people want. I'm...

I just updated my website with photos of about 33 new critters, mostly adult mayflies, some really cool caddis pupae, etc. And I changed the look of the whole site to be a little cleaner and more professional (I think). I'd love to hear any questions/comments/recommendations/criticism/etc...

Every time I go fishing now I take my camera with its underwater housing and when I'm done playing with the trout I roll up my sleeves and play with the bugs. I've just added the pictures from my last several trips to my website... got some pretty neat ones. :) Here's the list of new...

Through a lot of trial and error I've finally arrived at the right camera settings and techniques to take some really cool underwater photos of mayfly and stonefly nymphs and various larvae in their natural habitat--clear, wild trout streams. Some of them turned out really well... it's like a...

Yesterday on the Namekagon River in northern Wisconsin I noticed a really strange behavior among some Ephemerella mayfly nymphs (the genus that includes the Hendricksons and the Sulfurs). They were swimming by the hundreds up off the bottom and wiggling all the way to the surface as if they were...

I made up a neat little quiz to see how well most people know their bugs. (Well, they're not all technically bugs, which is why I say critters!) Post your guesses before you peek at the answers... let's see who does best. :) 1: (common or scientific name for the family) 2: (common name for...

I've been working my tail off for the last six weeks or so running around the waist-deep snow in the woods of northern Wisconsin to stand in half-frozen rivers collecting insects to photograph for my site... and now I've FINALLY got it online! I'll continue to expand it, but at the moment I've...