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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
There’s a reason why I usually stick to close ups of fish and not my disturbing likeness. But that doesn’t mean I have to put up with your shit timmy 😉
On a more serious note, it’s been awesome to be out fishing again!!!
Here’s a few more pics from last week.
A couple of nymph-eaters…
And after 4 days with decent stoneflies hatching, I finally saw one rise. He went 2 or 3 more times as I was tearing off my nymph rig, and then he ate my 3rd drift. My best from that river, and so far this season- well worth the price of admission!
Lee was upstream with the net, so I got the camera out and figured I’d just land him by hand. But when I got him close I decided a net was in order. LEE!
Not bad for the first riser of the season!
Nothing like being back on the water!
Just checked my email after being out of town all weekend, and I got an email from the AA editor “Just making a routine check” to see if I got paid- the day after I posted about it on this thread. Kind of a weird coincidence, but it’s cool of him to check on it, and he should be able to help me get this figured out.
Hopefully you’re issues work themselves out too Will.I hear ya dude, just before new year’s our buddy Mr. Monahan took an interest in a shot I took this fall.
My thoughts on drifters vs rafts, for what its worth…
We’ve been tossing this around for awhile now trying to figure out the next great river musky rig. Drifters are the ultimate in comfort as far as the fishing is concerned, and you can get them through some pretty shallow stuff if you need to. A couple of our floats have a few drag-through spots when the water’s down, but not too bad.
There’s a lot of good water that would be sketchy in a drifter though, whiplash can get to be an annoyance if you’re bouncing through some of the big time rock gardens. Rafts will get through that crap with a lot less issues- they bounce and slide through rocks instead of ramming them. They’ll take big rips and waves a lot better too with a self-bailing floor. Not quite as comfy to fish out of though, a solid bottom is nice for walking around in.
Basically it boils down to what you plan to use it for. Kinda like a fly rod. If your main floats can be done in a drifter, there’s no reason to get a raft. But if you’re looking to do some skinny water, pack in somewhere, or run whitewater, a raft is probably the best option.
Lately we’ve been really thinking about the johnboat option. It would be really nice to be able to row, run a little outboard, or use a push pole, depending on what you’re doing. A 14-16 ft flat bottom is an ideal platform for that, and could be outfitted with casting platforms, and should be fairly stable. The cost would be a lot less too. We’ll see if it comes together.
Very cool flies Mike! You’ve got the right idea with the suspending action. My buddy’s been tying some big ass deer hair headed creatures that we fish on heavy sinking tips.
… and they work 😉
Nice shots fellas!
With winter in full lockdown mode up here we’ve gotta get out and occupy ourselves somehow.
I’ve been wondering, and this seems like a good spot to ask, what kind of difference is there in quality between the cheap polarizers and the high end stuff?
I know there is a huge difference in polarized sunglass lenses, so I imagine there is a similar difference in filters, but I’ve only shot with one that was in the 40-50 dollar range.
I’ve got the same camera, and I got into a polarizer for the tamron lens I’ve got on it for around 40 bucks or so.
Thanks, Tim. I remembered them, but I couldn’t remember where I’d seen them. I need Brian to email me ASAP.
Phil
Email sent!
John
This is a fundamental change in the economic system that has served us well for 200 years.
Well maybe that’s one good thing that could come out of all this.
Granted I’m really pretty worthless when you get me away from water so take this for what it’s worth, but it seems to me that this whole system is beyond screwed up. Some dudes get rich while others bust their ass for little to no reward, while at the same time a great deal of tax money is pissed away keeping convicted criminals comfortable in prisons where they basically lead the same worthless lives that they did on the streets. All the while adding to an absolutely unimaginable national debt.
Don’t question our national morals, however, since we provide aid (that must be financed in most cases cause we really don’t have any actual money anymore) to anyone from a struggling country to a third generation welfare family without even the slightest intention of ever working.
We don’t need to sit here and argue whether or not this system has worked over the past 200 years- I mean a bunch of lumber barons got rich by raping the nation’s original stands of timber, and more got rich by digging, drilling and dredging any mineral or fossil fuel they deemed useful, and most recently the trend has been to bulldoze whatever is in the way and put up more houses! All in the name of progress mind you- we’ve managed to elevate ourselves to a ridiculous standard of living. So great standard of living we have that many countries around the world despise us for it. And rightly so- if all the so politely named ‘developing’ countries were to achieve ‘progress’ as we have, and begin living as we do there would be a global colapse.
The way I see it the basis for the entire model is GREED, and if we keep expanding our society, eventually there won’t be enough sh*t for all the pigs. Politicians want to talk about returning to ‘normal growth,’ but we can’t go on growing at a steady rate forever- we live in a very finite world. Believe it or not I’m a pretty optimistic dude, but I do think that this economic stuff might be the beginning of something much more serious. We’ll see I guess.
Sorry for the rant, but this seemed like as good a place as any to blow off a little steam. I’ll stop before I get too much farther out there ;D
The meat hook paws of my buddy dynomite dan don’t do it justice, but this is my biggest brule brownie from this fall
Nice shots Lee! Who’s the ugly bastard in the green jacket?
Seriously though, musky on the fly is probably one of the ultimate extreme’s of our sport.
Steelhead lured me away from a normal life with a good job, benefits and all that crap, but these cold-blooded killers have started tempting me to warmer waters. It doesn’t hurt that I’ve had the luxury of fishing with one of the true innovators of the sport (that’s him below with the hawg).
Here’s a couple more shots for ya!
A buddy just turned me on to this site, and after looking it over I gotta say it’s friggin sweet! I’m just another fish bum who recently cleared out his bank account on an entry level DSLR, it’s cool to see what other people out there are shooting, and maybe even get a little feedback.
Here’s a little fish porn offering from a recent musky outing…
