I made a brief stop at Roger’s Park along the Mousam River on my way back from a hardware store run yesterday afternoon, hoping to catch the towering sky above the run of the river or reflected in the skating pond. What I found there were fishermen. The rapids above the park attract fly-fishers, and the transition water between the rapids and the more open still reach below is a prime area for Alewive traps.

This is a somewhat classic fly-fisher shot, displaying the concentration of the sport. Fly-fishing is closer to fish-hunting than anything short of spear-fishing. It is a strange combination of talents in fact. There is nothing more graceful in sport than a well cast line…and then, once the fly hits the water, there is nothing more intense than the concentration of the play of the fly, hand on line, and eye on the prize.

Nothing could be more different than fishing for alewive (for more on the Alewive see the wiki). You deploy your trap (relatively sophisticated traps these days) and you go home and watch TV (or to your real job) until it is time to go back and check the traps.

Oh, and I did catch some clouds above the skating pond.

Canon SX40HS. Program with iContrast and –1/3EV exposure compensation. 1) 190mm equivalent field of view. f4.5 @ 1/100th @ ISO 200. 2) 24mm. f5.6 @ 1/1250th @ ISO 320. 3) 120mm. f4.5 @ 1/100th @ ISO 125. 4) 24mm. f7.1 @ 1/1250th @ ISO 320.

Processed in Lightroom for intensity, clarity, and sharpness.