Carter Simcoe
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I’ve been using Irident Digital’s RAW Developer for most stuff, so yeah, they’ve been at 72 to save space. Of course I can just open the original RAW file and make one at 300 pretty much instantly.
yeah, I haven’t been planning on trying to print anything at 72dpi, thats just been for messing around with on the computer.
Cool, thanks, I really value your opinions.
I might be PMing you later about the Bicubic Smoother if it’s not intuitive. I’ve got CS2 and have been resizing using the “resize image” (or something) option under “help” (I think). It’s got a “wizard” thing that pops up, asks you if it’s for printing or the web and you go from there… is that going to do it differently?
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ahhh… nevermind, just saw you said enlargements.be careful and don’t skip the suncreen though because they are thin and a lot of them don’t actually block the UV rays.
An Ambassador huh??………..
Completely off-topic, but still worthy of note
The person guiding your fellow ambassador Hayes Wauford holds the distinction of being the first person I’ve ever seen wearing a HAD while trout fishing.
Sigh…
As in wearing it like a sun mask or just as a bandana or something?
Well I never meant to imply it was going to be the cat’s ass for fighting a steelhead in your river or a brown on light tippet (didn’t even know what you fished for untill just now) Just that it’s a proven effective method of landing large fish that’s got it’s place.
I do see what you are saying now about lifting the weight with JUST the rod.. And while it would still be theoretically possible (just have to stand on a ladder or something to get the angle on it) my reply to when the last time I’ve ever caught a brick would be when’s the last time you caught a fish without a line?
No we’re talking about lifting with the butt of the rod, not just the line.
Back to my original statement, you can’t lift a 6 pound weight with the rod expecting the leader to break before the tippet does.
Of course but I’m not seeing where you said that though. This is what I read:
Just a point for those who think the leader should break before the rod.
If you think you can put as much force on a rod as you want and the leader will always break first, try tying a 6 pound brick to the tip top of your rod and pick it up.
I can easily pop up to about 16lb tippet with a bend in the rod if I want to.
There is no substitute for using a properly set drag to tire the fish with the rod bent
We aren’t so much talking about tiring out a fish as we are talking about getting it back up to the boat after it’s pulled a lot of backing.
You don’t always fight fish, the way Ian, Zach, and myself are saying, just when you need turn them from something or pull them up out of the depths and it takes precident over absorbing more of the shocks. Being able to do this with the butt of the rod and not just the line coming off the reel (which seems to be how you are understanding us) is key, it will give you a lot more leverage and slightly better shock protection than nothing at all.
Jamie Howard demonstrated the technique Carter was talking about with a coffee can of concrete and a pulley in Chasing Silver, if I recall correctly
I’m pretty sure that’s where I picked it up from.
I’ve actually stopped teaching people how to do this. Once someone learned, fish were being brought to the boat waaaay too green.
That’s great advice from Ian who’s no doubt witnessed and tried to help correct more poor fish-fighting-form than myself.
oh shit.. ha ha.. sorry man… should have added that you ought to start w/ small one pound-ish weights and work your way up….
Normal “casting position” though? You want to be in normal “big ass fish fighting” possition… get down low on that thing.
See you did learn something though, you popped it right in the middle, which means that’s where you were applying pressure. Now when you can make one blow up at the stronger butt section of the rod you’ll know you did everything up untill that point “right”.
** I don’t want to be causing any more of ya’ll broken rods now… So if anyone else wants to try it, and I suggest you do, be patient w/ it. Some of you might not lift even a pound (and feel free to start lighter than that) off the ground for a while depending on what size rod your using… It takes practice, start w/ your heaviest rod, lightest weight, and take your time. Once you find a weight you can lift relatively easy then mess around with rod angles and see if you can find a spots where lifting it becomes easier still, increase the weight a little and repeat.
try tying a 6 pound brick to the tip top of your rod and pick it up. Bet I know what is going to happen.
Sorry, but lifting 6lbs with an 8wt is a pretty simple task (with the right practice) if you properly apply the preasure from the butt of the rod.
This is one of the best exercises you can do if you’re wanting to lay the hurt on some big fish with light tackle:
Get some weights and something secure about 2 -3 feet of the ground that you can mount a pulley to (truck bumper/trailer hitch works well), run the line through it and start pulling. Start at really low angles and work upwards from there, you’ll figure out where the best preassure points on your rods are. Some of ya’ll are thinking this over too hard, no offense. It’s like casting, you’ve got to get out on the lawn and practice if you want to be even halfway good at it.
