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About "Mystery Creeks": I love small streams, but some of my favorite little trout streams are too small and too fragile to publicize here. If you recognize one of these, you already understand why I'm keeping it a secret. These are the kinds of places that lose a little bit of their charm if you see someone else's week-old footprint, and I don't want to do that to them.

Landscape & scenery photos from Mystery Creek # 19

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Me trying to catch some hungry little brook trout on opening day, 2004. From the Mystery Creek # 19 in Wisconsin.
Me trying to catch some hungry little brook trout on opening day, 2004.
StateWisconsin
Date TakenMar 6, 2004
Date AddedJan 25, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraOlympus C740UZ
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This little brookie is my dad's first trout on a fly. It came on opening day of the 2004 early season for trout in Wisconsin. From the Mystery Creek # 19 in Wisconsin.
This little brookie is my dad's first trout on a fly. It came on opening day of the 2004 early season for trout in Wisconsin.
StateWisconsin
Date TakenMar 6, 2004
Date AddedJan 25, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraOlympus C740UZ
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My dad throws a cast on opening day, 2004. From the Mystery Creek # 19 in Wisconsin.
My dad throws a cast on opening day, 2004.
StateWisconsin
Date TakenMar 6, 2004
Date AddedJan 25, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraOlympus C740UZ

Underwater photos from Mystery Creek # 19

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This is my favorite picture of this school of brookies. Notice there are a few other fish mixed in, minnow family mostly. Near the bottom right there's a really big brookie. These trout were densely schooled up near a major spring source during the dead of winter. From the Mystery Creek # 19 in Wisconsin.
This is my favorite picture of this school of brookies. Notice there are a few other fish mixed in, minnow family mostly. Near the bottom right there's a really big brookie. These trout were densely schooled up near a major spring source during the dead of winter.
StateWisconsin
Date TakenFeb 3, 2004
Date AddedJan 25, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraOlympus C740UZ
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I was able to photograph these young yearling brook trout from a distance in the crystal clear water of a small spring. When I tried to get closer, they all hid in the lush vegetation. From Mystery Creek # 19 in Wisconsin.
I was able to photograph these young yearling brook trout from a distance in the crystal clear water of a small spring. When I tried to get closer, they all hid in the lush vegetation.
StateWisconsin
Date TakenJan 13, 2007
Date AddedMar 8, 2007
AuthorTroutnut
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
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From the Mystery Creek # 19 in Wisconsin.
StateWisconsin
Date TakenFeb 27, 2004
Date AddedJan 25, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraOlympus C740UZ
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Several brookies gather in a warm tributary to a trout stream in the winter. This is the same location as many of the other brookie school photos on this site, but it's a couple generations later. From Mystery Creek # 19 in Wisconsin.
Several brookies gather in a warm tributary to a trout stream in the winter. This is the same location as many of the other brookie school photos on this site, but it's a couple generations later.
StateWisconsin
Date TakenJan 13, 2007
Date AddedMar 8, 2007
AuthorTroutnut
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
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There are lots of brook trout here mixed in with a yellow perch at the bottom. From the Mystery Creek # 19 in Wisconsin.
There are lots of brook trout here mixed in with a yellow perch at the bottom.
StateWisconsin
Date TakenFeb 3, 2004
Date AddedJan 25, 2006
AuthorTroutnut
CameraOlympus C740UZ
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Videos from Mystery Creek # 19

Winter trout at a spring creek's mouth
In mid-January I visited a spot where a heavily spring-fed tributary feeds into a river without much as much spring flow, creating an area of (in the winter) warmer water where hundreds of brookies were stacked up.

The video quality's as lousy as in all my early videos, but it's still amazing to see so many brook trout in such a small spot.
StateWisconsin
LocationMystery Creek #19
Date ShotJan 13, 2007
Date AddedJan 30, 2007
AuthorTroutnut
CameraOlympus C740UZ

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