Steelhead and Brown Weekend
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Hey guys, a few shots from a couple days fishing this weekend. It started targeting steelhead, but quickly switched over to throwing streamers for browns after one smacked a steelhead streamer. The browns were suprisingly active, considering the water temps were in the low 40’s. We did get one steelhead to go on a streamer/2-hander rig, so that was cool too.
I got a bit more aggressive with the post on some of them. Comments welcome.
Nice set Eric. Might be wetting a line myself for the first time in 09 tomorrow.
Re PP. a couple seem overdone for my taste (contrast??) but not over the top
Its definatly a unique river. I would love to have taken a bunch more shots getting the fly in the mouth and the rod into the picture, but the water was hovering around 41 deg,, and sticking your hands in for more than just a few seconds left them useless clubs. Oh well, maybe next time.
Tim, we were in the lower fly water, between green cottage and gleasons. Let me know if you need someone to fish with…
John, the contrast, as well as a couple other settings are turned up a bit, and it might not be for everyone, but i was going for a bit different look on these. Good luck if you make it out tomorrow.
Nice fish dude! Very nice shots as well. Those browns can definitely keep you busy when the steelies aren’t that hot- our browns over this way don’t get quite as big as those you’ve got there, but they’re still pretty as hell, and a welcome distraction from numb appendages.
Here’s a couple shots from our first week or so of steelbow season…
A nice little lake run brown- shoulda probably pulled the egg though…
I started playing with a few downstream fighting shots that were kinda bouncing around my head lately. I think it’ll take some better glass and more patience to get the shot I’m after, but it’s kind of a fun angle and sooner or later I hope to get a really cool one…
I totally missed the focus on this one- shoulda been on the fish, but I was tits & elbows down in the water, stumbling in the current and trying to stay with the fish thru the viewfinder- it was awesome! Pretty much falls in the almost good category though…
Cheers,
BP
Eric –
Very solid, trout look great. Last brown in the first set is a bit soft; movement I’m betting. Those bastards can be so hard to photograph.
These look like you’re following the ‘wide and wide open’ principle. What’s the exif data on #2? I don’t think I can get that shallow a depth of field out of my 12-24mm f/4, but I also have a 24mm f/2.8 that might just pull this off.
Thanks,
ZachYou’re right zach, i went back and looked at the original and last one of the brown is a touch soft. I guess I was so excited about the colors and the spots, it still got 5 stars in lightroom. haha. It was shot at 1/60, which is lower than i would have liked, but still should have been fast enough to eliminate camera shake. So, it probalby was a little bit of fish movement. I so would have liked to take some more time with that fish to get everything just right, but it was SO COLD that morning, your hands just went numb once they touched the water.
This is where the Auto-ISO feature you guys have enjoyed on most of your nikon’s would be great. I believe its on a couple of the newer canon’s – maybe the 5d mk2 – i guess thats another reason to upgrade. Its nice when the cameras “just work” and you can concentrate on composition, color, focus, etc when you only have a few moments with the fish.
All the shots except the 2 spey rods and the head on brown streamer shot were with the 10-22.
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