The exhilaration of seeing a 3-inch brook trout pounce on your fly, fight like there's no tomorrow, leap out of the water, and bust off.

The thrill of casting a line to rising rainbows on the world-famous Au Sable River, hooking up again and again, and reeling in bluegill after bluegill.

The awesome power of casting to tarpon and bonefish on the flats and catching jack.

The raw confidence of knowing that you, alone, without any help from a guide or a how-to book, can snag any juniper bush, any tag alder shrub, any low-lying mangrove branch...anywhere.

This is the Dan Carpenter Fly Fishing Experience.

Photos from Colorado trip June 2001

[Upper CO River whitefish] [Upper CO River pic1 pic2] [Roaring Fork catch]

Two San Juan bruisers from February 2001 (pic1) (pic2)

Some Animas River 'bows from February 2002

(Animas #1) (Animas #2) (Animas #3)

Au Sable White Fly Hatch, August 2002

(A bow) (Gammo) (Gammo en banc) (Gammo's bow) (Bow at night on white fly) (Bow the next morning)

A Cattaraugus Creek smallie, August 2002

(the fish) (the falls)

Swift River, October 2002

(the fish) (the y-pool)

Colorado Trip May 2003

(A Spinney Reservoir brown) (Another) (A Spinney bow)

(Rick Hall gearing up for the Pan) (a brown from the Pan)

(a monster brown from Spinney in the net) (monster in the hand)

Boneheads Canada 2003 [coming soon]

Boneheads Canada 2005 [coming soon]

Nice brown from the Millers' River, May 2007 [pics, in pdf]

Pictures from Colorado, June 2007 [pics, in pdf]

Boneheads Canada 2007 [coming soon]

Lots of wild fish from Michigan, Summer 2007 [pics, in pdf]

Montana fishing, February 2008 [pics, in pdf]

[my cousin pete with a 21-inch brown, jaw the size of John Kerry's]

[me with a nice brown #1] [me with a nice brown #2] [nice brown in the hand]

STEELHEADING PICS

My first wild Pacific Steelhead on the fly (Rogue River October 2003) (pic1) (pic2) (pic3)

Buffalo Steelheading -- Cattaraugus Creek (December 2007) [pics, in pdf]

Pic of Largest Steelhead from December 2007 trip, about 27 inches [JPEG (note: appr 4mb file)]

I occasionally post as "Professor Steel" at the Steelhead Site. Check it out.

Note: All of the trout, steelhead, salmon and bass in these pictures were released. An occasional walleye was kept, because nothing (and I mean nothing) beats a fresh walleye filet with a side of Labatt's.