I was hiking in the park at Great Falls, outside of Washington D.C., on the Potomac River. This is where the tidal Potomac ends and the Piedmont Plateau falls to the coastal plain. The area is made up of what my geology prof called "mega-gray-rocks." Big Granite boulders, worn smooth by the water, and covered with pot holes ground out by eons of eddies and whirlpools that have covered them from time to time.
Some of these holes are inches wide and deep, and some of them are six feet or more. They are normally filled with rain water, or flood water after a storm. On this particular day, we were going over a boulder within the spray of the falls, and found a brown trout in a hole about two feet deep and two feet across. The trout was about as big as the hole, and was totally stranded. I reached in and took him out by the tail. He was so tired from trying to get out that he just lay there in my hands. We took him down to the river and released him. I hope that he found his way home. Unfortunately we released him below the falls, so he probably didn't last, but it was better than being caught by racoons I guess. That's the only brown trout I've ever caught. --- Steve, In Maryland ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005
