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Travis, the software that comes with your DSLR may have a panorama stitching program. If not, Adobe Photoshop Elements can do it and it costs around $100.
All of them are good rods, mind the TLS.
The TLS’s make decent client rods in the mid flex range. IMHO, they were much better rods when they were in the Trident TLS series…..and even better when they were just Tridents.
The T3’s are great rods, durable and accurate with a fairly light feel. Real work horses in the boat. They really take a beating as boat rods but the T3’s hold up well. Only complaint is the uplocking butt cap will loosen from time to time. You really want these in a mid fles as well, unless your primary concern is streamer fishing (real streamer fishing and not swinging buggers).
The zero g’s are just bad to the bone. Again, mid flex is the key. Very light, fairly durable (not up to the T3’s though). Beautiful rods and a pleasure to fish. Not really a client stick though. A little too pricey of a rod for the common client (as they are much more abusive to equipment than more advanced anglers).
Hope this helps.
T
David K- I thought the idea was Pro’s simply made images the rest of us could’nt and that was why we should hire them and very rightly and appropriately and in many cases so!!!! .
Thanks for all the input- this stuff is making me realize I have to raise my game a few notches- I love that!!!!
David- “take the reader with you”
I have tied tubes a lot. Yep those Deer hair head type patterns work well on tubes.
I like using deer hair patterns on tubes Modularly – so tie various colored/style deer hair
I think with the post stuff to keep in mind – this is nothing new!!!!!!!!!!!
I was using unsharp masks
Mike. I seem to remember that too if its the same piece. An essay or book review or something. I remember it mentioned Walter J. Turrell’s Ancient Angling Authors.
Zach, I don’t think you will find much discussion of it in the old angling literature since it is a modern practice.
I just did a quick search of Walton online, and there is not even an instance of the term “release” in his work, nor “immoral”. He does say, “the taking fish in spawning-time may be said to be against nature.” On a quick skim of Cotton I could not find a reference like to one you were thinking of. In his work, the usual expression for an effective fly is something like, “with this you may kill a trout/many.”
But as the others have pointed out, Walton was always about killing fish in a most conservative fashion, never more than one or a brace or two for himself and perhaps a friend’s meal. He also practiced limited time fishing, more spent waiting and contemplating. Wonder what he would think of fishing all day and catching and releasing 50-100 fish?
It is ironic that the catch and release fishing that first received practice in Great Britain and around which a long standing tradition developed was for coarse fish. Only in the past couple of decades has even a “sporting ticket” become available at many pay fisheries there.
According to that great scholarly reference work WikiPedia, catch and release was first introduced in the states as a management tool in the state of Michigan in 1952 as an effort to reduce the cost of stocking hatchery-raised trout. Lee Wulff promoted catch and release as he observed the Atlantic Salmon population dwindle.
I seem to recall from other sources, the first catch and release area in the country was in the early 1960s in Yellowstone Park, followed later by one on the Battenkill in the mid-60s which Wulff himself supported.
Will look forward to other comments.
Thanks for the “push” all:) it has made me make a few adjustments to my approach , which I hope help.
This working better ? –
Will
Here’s another look. This shows percent of normal precip for the year to date.
http://water.weather.gov/index.php?layer%5B%5D=0&layer%5B%5D=1&layer%5B%5D=4&timetype=RECENT&loctype=STATE&units=engl&timeframe=year2date&timeYYYY=2008&timeMM=7&timeDD=7&product=per_normal&loc=conusMountain Home topped its yearly averge (about 45 inches) around July 4th, Zach.
