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didn't realize there were trout in Belgium.. nice..

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+1. Nice!

Thanks for the photos - awesome!

The barbels I have seen in this river are pretty small - 12"-14", maybe they will grow up someday. I have caught them on hare's ear nymphs but the weapon of choice is the worm fly.

On the other hand I have hooked into some pretty big chubs, once getting into a pair simultaneously on a sedgehog and caddis pupa. The bigger one was 18", the smaller 15". This happened miles upstream of the area in the photos where the stream is maybe just 10' wide. Chubs are normally very hard to entice but a beaver had just gone through the pool three seconds before and that must have made them lose their wits. Not much chance of that situation repeating itself.

In case you are wondering beavers have been reintroduced in Europe just very recently and with no natural enemies they are flourishing, perhaps excessively. I find it somewhat ironic that having spent 20 years in Canada I have now seen way more beavers in Belgium in just the last couple of years.

Yes, indeed. Raptors are a main predator of fish, and very possibly the reason why a trout can see upward so well. It isn't just us -- we're a recent threat, relatively.

I was at a Trout Unlimited meeting just last evening, where it was noted that many trout in the shallow "Dream Stream" here in Colorado bear talon marks.

Beaver in the USA are moving up in the world, this family has Satellite TV. Hudson River, near Saratoga NY.

What a lovely piece of water. Looks like the water levels there are doing alright unlike here where the rivers are very low.

Nice browns as well. I really like those red spots showing up brilliantly.