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I got a copy too.
It’s indeed very different from any other fly fishing movie I’ve seen so far.
Very professional filming as well as great script. Pretty much a documentary worth of National Geographic broadcasting.Great topic!
I think John is right about getting used to the main lens and trying to work with it.
But it sure is tempting to get a ultra wide lens and start shooting those magazine cover pictures! 🙂Are these wide lens shots only domain of SLR’s or are there any compact cameras which come close in terms of wise lens as well as manual capabilities?
I wasn’t talking specifically about the video, but about the pictures used in the magazine.
The videos are fine as they come. Just short clips of a certain situation that’s worth a view.
Great picture-book.
I would have liked a bit more explanation of where they are fishing, what equipment they are using, which settings they use, etc.Holy smokes!
What an amazing place. Great pictures. The fish pictures are a bit boring by the way. Too much nice browns. 😉I would love to see a bamboo fly rod in this scenery too.
You say AA won’t make a digital-only subscription but there’s what I would like as an overseas reader.
The real magazine subscription for international readers are petty much 60% shipping costs. This makes a subscription to the magazine pretty pricey.I would love to subscribe to the digital version for a smaller fee than a overseas subscription.
And maybe a buy-per-issue would be great idea too.Jay
Yeah I’ve seen it.
But I really want a SM3. The SM2 is about the same size and capacity of my St George 3 inch.thanks anyway Cameron!
Jay
If you want to be traditional, put a Hardy LHR Lightweight (my preference), a Ballan or if money is no object and you on being around 5 years for the delivery, a Bogdan.
Quite an odd suggestion in terms of classic reel styling.
The English style reels are basically Hardy and Young reels with the knock-offs like DIngley’s, Meeks, etc.
The American S-style reels are the Vom Hofe reels and the knock-offs being many including Ballan, Peerless, Bogdan, Adams, etc.
Both two styles are very different in styles and I’m pretty sure, one likes the English and hates the other or the other way around.
Well, this stuff is so difficult because it’s all in the eye of the beholder.
Basically any cheap reel is as good as the high end stuff since the fish you’re after will hardly scratch the surface of the machinery.
I’d say, go for your ‘gut feeling’. 😀
My personal taste?
I prefer a classic English reel on boo. Say a Hardy Lightweight series like the Featherweight or if you want something more solid a small Hardy Bougle.
These reels are simple but effective click-and-pawl reels. No need for any train stopping cork drags.Jay
With handling I also meant stripping line.
Obviously, when fishing streamers you strip a lot faster (and more frequent) than say fishing dries or nymphs. But nonetheless if you fish the whole day with dries and/or nymphs (I fish 99% of the time with nymphs) there’s still a lot of stripping involved. Not as quick & jerky as fishing streamer.
In fact, there are times you need to react to a quick take and you’ll strip a short distance of line pretty close to striking a streamer take.
If you are primarily going to be stripping line in, I would stay away from sharkskin. It will shred your fingers up. You could wear a glove to prevent this if you wanted.
In my opinion, it’s a better dry fly line and the best nymph line out there.
Now, this is an interesting observation.
The Sharkskin line seems to be made from a different concept than other lines made so far. Sharkskin’s concept seems to be based on minimal surface contact with anything it encounters. Be it water, guides of a rod or human skin (hand).
Now, this does look fine if it’s casting the line further than any other line, float higher than any other line and pick up better than any other line. But the physical characteristic of this line seems to have conflicting goal when it comes down to actually fishing with a fly line. In fly fishing we keep the line in our hand because this way we can manipulate the line and feel the strike of the fish. So if the Sharkskin cuts ones skin as a result of handling (this includes stripping) the line while fishing, there must be a fault somewhere along the thought what Sharkskin is supposed to be…
Am I making sense here?
Jay
I have been using bobbins made by Frank Materelli for god know how long. Still going strong. These bobbins are no frills and very elegant (if anyone cares..).
These bobbins make sure the tension put on the spool of thread is kept pretty (not TOO) tight so I can put the right amount of thread pressure on the fly I’m tying. That’s what you should look for in my opinion.
Regular dries & nymphs: regular length
Bass bugs/streamers: long tube versionJay
