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I fully agree Eric – I can see the use of this stuff in studio situations with direct downloads as you shoot for billboard sized images, but 10 -12 mp is all you’ll ever need for magazine work. They need to focus on detail now and finer tuning.
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Mat McHugh took us to this spectacular place. This was the mouth area of a spring creek and there were fish everywhere.
The take.
The fight.
The fush.
Simon hooked up in the spot where “there were no fish”.
To a “small out of condition Waiau rainbow”.
Hi Guys, First time here – looks like a great site. I’m an Aussie.
Just wanted to add to this NZed thread but should point there’s a lot of competition between Aussies and Kiwis, we’re like brothers who can go pretty hard at each other but when push comes to shove we’ve also died for each other. This rivalry sometimes gets warmed by what we call “sledging” – taking the piss in another’s language so don’t be dismayed by some of the exchanges.
I had a great time on the South Island this year and really enjoyed fishing with a bunch of guys, great guys including Simon and Matt (but whatever you do don’t let them blindfold you) – it was a “mouse” year when a brazillion mice hatch in the beech forests and migrate, of course they have to cross rivers and lakes and the fish eat them and grow very big. It happens every 7 years or so. We fished for them on lake Monowai which is surrounded by beech forest and we caught some big fish (thats bug fush in the local dialect). The eel stories here reminded me of this – we fished on into dark and I was in a floatboat. Eels also like mice. When I returned to the big boat they shined a torch onto me and there was half a dozen BIG eels swimming around my legs – I didn’t know they were there and nearly shat myself. Only the night before I’d been telling the guys the story of the homopsychosadistic notoriously murderous gangster Kray brothers and their favourite form of torture, which invloved live eels. I got out of the boat pretty quickly.
We had some sensational fishing on the Waiau, a big river full of big rainbows. Simon and I floatboated it one day, drifting about 5 miles of it and had an incredible time getting to rarely fished stretches of water and the ‘bows were stacked up everywhere we went. We went back there the next day to drift it again and at the boat ramp met a guy who said “There’s fook all fish in here, they’re all small and poorly conditioned anyway. That shot of the rainbow Simon’s holding was from the day before and we were stunned by this guys attitude. Simon went and fished right where this guy had been and hooked and landed a beautiful fish. I’ll run a string of images from my trip with a few brief captions.
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