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Dave: Remind me to bring it and I will gladly throw it in the boat for you to cast. Careful though, these double handed things are addicting.
Mike: I was referring to the 8wt Scott A3, which actually felt pretty meaty to me. From what I understand, the 6 wt. is another story though and is quite weak with bigger fish.
Tim: The B2X line of rods seem to be real finicky with line choices and the 11′ #7 is definitely no exception. The reason why I got the rod was because the guy who sold it to me couldn’t find the right line for it…sucker. 😎
When I got it, I lined it with a #7 steelhead taper. With that line it fished ok in short on Elk and the other Erie/OH tribs but didn’t do the things a switch rod is so good for.
Going to a #9 steelhead taper definitely helped in that aspect and doesn’t seem to overload the rod at all. With the #9, I can turn over a polyleader or indy rig with a snap-t or double spey. It isn’t the line I use if I am dedicated to swinging flies all day, but is a good all arounder for those days when I am switching back and forth.
For swinging or even a bit of indy fishing, the SA Single Skagit 360 gr. (I mistakenly said 320 above) has been awesome. It loads the rod pretty deep (which I like) and I can reach out just about anywhere with a sink tip and good size intruder on the end. I took an old steelhead taper and cut it to leave about 10-15′ of back taper for a running line, which I loop to the skagit set-up. This is the line I grabbed 90% of the time this season.
I’ve also heard good things about the Beulah Elixir lines on the B2X, but I haven’t had the chance to throw one yet.
I’ve been fishing the Winston B2X 11′ #7 for a few years now and have nothing but good things to say about it.
Db
To be honest I gave up on assuming any photograph was somehow natural a long time ago. I think the whole concept that somehow photography was anything other than simply a different way of representing a chosen point of view or subject matter through the mediation of technology is a throwback to the times when photography was trying to differentiate itself from painting/drawing etc . “photography is more real” ” photography is an accurate depiction of reality” etc etc
I think the whole issue of transparency when it comes to the image producer is a more important point.
Why people are annoyed/dissapointed etc is that they would like to believe that previously mentioned photographic “truth” and have been let down. I guess we still hang on to that “depiction of reality” thing for some reason.
Tons of examples of that … not sure what the outcome of the following actually were but..
http://seabed.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/forum.tmpl?issue_id=20040701&forum_index=3&start=50
and famously
http://www.naturephoto.hu/home/index_eng.html
I’m puzzled why any photographer would see any photograph as anything other than “fake” versions of reality and like others puzzled why a photographer would want to perpetuate the myth that photography at its core is anything other than a skilled or unskilled fabrication. Not suggesting that you dont share my puzzlement but I do find the need for folks to hang on to that myth hard to sort out.
Will
DB
I have worked with a phototrap/flash/positioned camera a fair bit lately. While I am a fan of Fran Lanting ( though even he does a lot of pre planning and tech)and the whole slogging it out approach , it takes a ton of research / planning and pre visualization to figure out how/when and where to setup a trap/flash/staionary cam. In truth it is probably more work and research if you are working towards illustrating a defined narrative than the take what you can find and make something out of it approach, which I have also taken on many occasions.
Will
While not claiming to have anything other than my grade 12 high school english background to fall back on –
