Morsie
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I don’t know how a slim beauty can replace a Bimini, both have different applications. Biminis just take a little practise but I think that saltwater fly fishing with out Biminis is like food without onions.
The Aussie connection is similar to a Huffnagle but you use a nail knot in the shock tippet instead of the overhand knot.
The double uni is good but in tests the triple turn surgeons beats it hands down, its a beautiful knot when tied properly.
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I have used the slim beauty but prefer – for simplicity and speed, as well as strength – a well tied triple turn surgeons knot. The Aussie connection is what i would use in a tournament situation or if I was chasing extreme
world records.For mono to single strand wire I use an Albright variation – 5 turns down and 4 back up with the tag exiting the opposite way to the entering tippet.
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Try using a shorter stroke length that’s more suited to a faster rod.
In my view one of the most fascinating “experiments” you can conduct in fly casting is to use a multitude of different line weights on the same rod. Its a fantastic way to learn about the relationship between rod bend and stroke length.
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Greg Brown is a wonderful musician I like to listen to, he’s a fly fisherman as well and has some lovely subtle little references.
I like a lot of country music, and love listening to it on a long drive through the rural lands, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Guy Clark, Steve Young. Then there’s Hendrix and Neil Young and Dylan, lots of Rolling Stones, early Springsteen, (The Wild the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, Greetings from Ashbury Park) Van the Man (Astral Weeks, Its too Late to Stop Now – double live album – blow your friggin mind) The Pogues, Joy Division – then there’s the stuff my son’s pass on to me Flogging Molly, Great Big Sea, Black Keys, Kings of Leon, then for the big open country there’s Beethoven at full noise, now we’re talking!!Never ever while fishing. I was once on a marlin boat where the deckhands played ACDC at full noise, that was my idea of HELL (I don’t mind ACDC normally) and I’ve never wanted to put myself in that position again.
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So Dave by “around here” do you mean IA, home, or in the country town you’ve recently moved to? Did you read right down through the definitions? 😀
This could be dangerous, stand by for reports.
Have a great new year, Morsie
It certainly makes the fitting a little tighter and at times, if you’re in a hurry it can be momentarily frustrating. It is a very good fit. I think around water and on boats and places where cameras can get banged around (the outdoors generally) its great stuff. I made a decision a few years ago to not be too precious with my gear because its a tool to do a job, not a family heirloom. In light of that its great stuff because with it on your camera it means you can get away with not being so precious.
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I’ve had it on both my 5D’s (in different colours) for a couple of years. I wouldn’t be without it, I think its fantastic and look forward to getting the 7D version. I have never noted it as being slippery. It takes some getting used to because your controls are mostly hidden but you work it out.
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The jumping fish shot or general action shot was what I was really missing Zach – lots of splashes and not much else. The high frame rate solves that, now there’s issues of focus, but at least there’s fish in the frame now.
Missed this opportunity, was away fishing in the build up to the monsoon season in the Northern Territory. I thought this would make a dramatic cover.
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Here’s another shot, in this instance I dug a trench in the sand to stand the fish up so I could get a good profile, so much better than lying it on the sand with its eye exposed to the full sun of the Northern Territory and me looking to avoid shadow on the subject. There’s plenty of water around its gills all the time and I packed its far side with sand to hold it up. I planned what i was going to do before landing it and with the fish still on the line in the shallows dug the trench with my heel and prepared the camera.
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There’s a few things you can do to help you get good pics when shooting solo.
1. Don’t panic – if you treat the fish well you have plenty of time.
2. Always keep the fish on the leader until you’re ready to let it go – ie don’t fish barbless. A fish on the leader will settle down very quickly. tether it with the leader in the weeds or in a hole in the gravel while you set up your camera with the right lens for the shot. Take this time to study possible options. The fish actually release a lot better because they’ve had plenty of recovery time.
3. Have a range of possible shots in your head and then experiment.
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Kendall, I’m being a stubborn old bastard so I’m sure the problem is mostly mine. My filing system is done by trip names and dates, for example Northern Territory Dec ’09. On the course of a 10 day trip cards are downloaded daily to this file on my laptop and daily edits are done there. I don’t want to catalogue this file onto my laptop because its not going to be stored there when I get home, I don’t want 15 gigs or whatever of RAW images stored on my laptop, so they go onto a couple of hard drives when I get home. This is when the problems begin. When I move the file to the hard drives I want to delete that file from the desktop and work from the hard drive. The chain is broken and all kinds of work is required to re-establish the links. As DA says they want you to work their way, but I want to work my way.
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Lightroom – great for editing – absolutely sucks for filing and access. I still use it and have a system worked out that works for me. I probably need to spend more time working it out properly but couldn’t be bothered. There are some functions in there that are just so good I’m prepared to put up with the cataloging crap just to use them.
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When editing a piece for a magazine the difference between what I read on screen and what I read as hard copy is so vast I can barely relate the two. Somehow the two read quite differently (to me anyway). I always do my edits on paper.
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David I have. I have the 599 and have been using it now for a few months. It is a heavy and powerful rod that punches well above its weight. It loads very well and very easily, I have used it with 3 heavy nymphs and a big strike indicator on a very windy day with the wind coming into my face from the right shoulder at around 2 o’clock, the kind of angle that is very uncomfortable. By using a Belgian cast (I was using Rio’s new nymph line) I didn’t hit myself once in a long session. I have used it to fish a team of wets in lakes as well. Its a deadly thing, it roll casts beautifully. HOWEVER in my view the 5 is too much rod for most trout fishing outside heavy water stuff. In my opinion the 4 is a better option for most waters. The 599 will be dynamite in New Zealand on the bigger rivers. The 7 and 8 must be monsters, steelhead rods for big water.
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FFFMCCIAnother shot of one of those gliders skimming the lake’s surface. I wonder if they ever collide with the birds that inhabit the place. This guy is really moving, probably over 100 mph. This lake has GREAT flats fishing for carp, I’d caught a couple when the gliders started coming in and soon put the rod down.
And these guys were having a dogfight.
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Just a couple of pics shot with the 7D on a 4 day road trip that was meant to be 10 days – 110 degrees every day – and night, fires busting out all over the place so I decided to come home early. Daytime light was terrible, I’m pretty happy with the results. The focus seems to be inconsistent but I that down to me not being used to the new system. When its on its really on.
These gliders were coming in at well over 100mph so the 8fps was useful, shot at 1250 ISO and f8@5,000/sec. This was the first real shooting did with the camera using a 70-200f4 and a 1.4 extender – the camera had not been calibrated with the extender attached. results were scratchy but I would put that down to having to track them. They were skimming the surface of the lake I was camped on by only a few feet and were still a good half mile from the landing strip. There was so much heat the lift on these things must have been incredible, I reckon they would have been struggling to get them down.
As always, when you skip several generations of technology this camera is going to take a little time to get used to.
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