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Whoa! How many times has someone started on about  😮
“The good old days” Â ::)
Hope this isn’t too cheesy  :-[ but…It happened to me again last night and I had to pull the last remaining hair out just before I went into a diatribe about…
These ARE the good old days!!!!
Not cheesy, just Carly Simon, Simon. On second thought, maybe it is cheesy :-).
Love the bend in the river shot as well, John. Those always work well.
All the best with the surgery,
Scott
Brett,
I’m very new to this so I’ll tell you what I did for my first purchase.  I could only afford one good(not incredible) lens so I went with the Nikon 18-200.  Being a rookie I figure it is capable of doing most everything I would need at my current skill level.  Unfortunately, it hasn’t been out fishing yet, mostly just around town and at home.  I’m very happy with it so far.  I also bought the 50mm 1.8.  I bought the 50 for taking a lot of portraits of my daughter.  I know its not the best portrait lens out there, but it is a lot of bang for the buck IMO and I really like the lens.  I’ve used these two for about 4 months now and feel very comfortable that they were good purchases for starting out.  That being said, I envy anyone with a 70-200 2.8  😉 and would love to have a Tokina 11-16 2.8 as an ultra wide.  The 50mm 1.8 has showed me how great fast lenses are, which has pointed out some of the weaknesses of the 18-200.  Unfortunately for me the 70-200 2.8 won’t be in the budget for a long time, but the Tokina may be with a birthday approaching. Â
Heres a few results from the 50mm 1.8. Â I know you can look at some of Neal Osborn’s stuff if you want to see some good results from the 18-200. Â I probably have more stuff right now that would show the shortcomings of the 18-200 than how good it is, but thats because I often try to use it for things it can’t do well(stopping fast action), which is my fault not the lens’.
Zach, if you haven’t seen this, you might get a kick out of Lee Wulff’s guide poling the canoe around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q6-6A3vCpo
Being in Canada, I suspect he used spruce. Down here you might have to try poplar or ash.
Be sure to watch the second part also.
Scott
I’ve seen the same “breaching” behaviour up here even well past spawning time . I’ve often wondered if they were trying to rid themselves of
