Rainbow trout from the Williamson River, Oregon, July 2021.
Coho salmon smolt from British Columbia. Collected from Trapping Shoal Creek on Guilford Island, 15 June 2018.
Willow/Whitehorse cutthroat trout from Squaw Creek in Steens Mountain of southeast Oregon, July 2021.
Illustration of a juvenile brown trout (Salmo trutta), Don Zaroban and I collected this specimen from Idaho's Boise River.
Chinook salmon (post-smolt) from Johnstone strait, British Columbia.
Steelhead parr (Oncorhynchus mykiss), a specimen from Oregon's North Umpqua in 2019.
A "chrome" or "ocean bright" steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss), as they would appear in the ocean, estuary, or having just arrived in freshwater.
This specimen from the University of Washington collection, drawn for a project on salmonids in British Columbia.
A Steelhead in "post-smolt" stage; i.e. fully scaled, in or migrating to the Pacific Ocean.
Northern sunfish, formerly considered as a Longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis)
Opah (Lampris guttatus), illustrated for Fishes of the Salish Sea and Puget Sound.
Coastal cutthroat trout parr (Oncorhynchus clarkii clarkii) collected in British Columbia in 2018. From
a tiny specimen, not yet 2" in length.
Bowfin (Amia calva) female. Guy Ernsting and I trot-lined this specimen from Mingo Swamp in SE Missouri in 1988.
Originally illustrated for Fishes of the Central United States.
Coastal Cutthroat trout, from Puget Sound, Washington, October 2019.
A beautiful Mexican trout from the Río Sinaloa watershed.
A "golden rainbow trout," (aka "Palomino"), an amelanistic form of Rainbow trout. Developed from a mutant by the West Virginia Dept. of Wildlife in the 1950s.
NOT the same as the "California golden trout" native to the Sierra Nevada.
A female Coho Salmon in spawning colors, taken from the Capilano River in British Columbia, October 2019.
This specimen collected and photographed for me by Dr. Dave Neely, from Lake Ontario in New York in 2016.
