Philip Smith
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That is really cool, awesome press. I have never been a fan of bamboo, but I think you guys are magicians doing that stuff. I guess I just dont know enough about it, and I am not good enough to use one. I fish with guys who swear by them and spend serious money on them.
Thanks. But you are selling yourself short. Good enough to use one? What does that mean? If you like graphite better than that’s cool, but I’m not sure what ‘good enough to use one’ means. Anyone can cast bamboo that can cast graphite and there certainly shouldn’t be an elite connotation with using bamboo.
There is no alchemy to making these things. I’m seriously a.d.d. and I figured it out. I can’t even make a square wooden birdhouse, but I can make a rod that looks as good as any. Anyone can do it, it just takes a commitment.
Zach, I listened to it yesterday. Man, that is the best one since Bob Behnke…but then I’m a salmonid natural history NUT. I know of a ton of people like me who obsess about 10″ native basin strains than 20″ non-natives. I wish more pubs would figure out a way to make copy on what I have written about and call – “ecofishing”.
I’m on my second pair of Dan Bailey’s Waist High waders and I wouldn’t own anything else. I hate chest highs unless I’m in a huge river. The Dan Bailey’s have pockets on the outside, which is perfect to put a flybox in one pocket and a point and shoot in the other pocket. The reason I’m on the second pair is that the first pair had a leak in the seam after owning about 14 months…they sent me a new pair at no cost.
I’m anxious to see the new Simms products as well. I like Simms stuff even if I can’t afford much of it.
the mighty Kanawha River (pronounced locally as ‘Can-aw’ or ‘Can-awa’). It is a major commercial tributary of the Ohio River formed from the Gauley River and the New River which most from Virginia and North Carolina are familiar with. Simon Kenton, famous pioneer, trapped along the river in the 1700’s (read The Frontiersmen by Allen Eckert) and George Washington surveyed and owned a good chunk of the land.
Used to be a dead river from the chemical valley (world’s largest chemical producer for a long time – Union Carbide – started in podunk little ol’ Charleston, actually Clendenin). It now is a pretty darned good smallmouth fishery.
cool. I took these in Charleston, WV on the fourth…
http://www.vandaliarodworks.com/charlestonfireworks/index.html
What exactly consitutes a Low Res image? That seems to be a broad range. What should I resize my images to exactly?
On a ‘portfolio’ cd, should I put images into organized files based on topics, etc. or just fill the cd with a bunch of different images?
I swear, I need to discipline myself to reading the posts on this forum at least once a day. Not so much to keep up, but to learn the language. I have to reread some of your posts sentence by agonizing sentence to comprehend the concepts. Fast lenses, f stops, ISO, etc. I want to understand this stuff. Correction, I have to understand this stuff if I want to become a better photographer. But gee whiz my non-analytical brain struggles with it. I got into photography for the artfulness and creativity, I never knew I’d have to revert back to analytical mathematics.
Anyway, good stuff guys, keep on posting. Here are a few shallow dof shots from my old Canon 35 mm with kit lens…feeble compared to the rest of the crowd, but I never pass a chance to post photos. These are scans from prints, hence the quality. Now that I’ve got a new DSLR I can no longer concern myself with scanning
Cardboard… jeezzz
Don’t bag on it too much. Most all reel seat stations have to be built up a little bit (unless it is cane
Pure 100% risk. I usually wet wade or wear waist highs. So I just put the neck strap around my neck and under my casting (right) arm so that I can shift the camera around behind my back. I also carry an underwater wrist digital camera for underwater video and a camcorder on a tripod often. I set the tripod video camera up and fish a section, then come back for it. If I didn’t enjoy shooting pictures and video as much as the fishing itself it would seem stupid, but I like taking pictures of fish and fishing as much as I like to fish. That’s the only reason I bought cameras, to take pictures of fishing.
I’m thinking about one of those waterproof waist bags like the Simms Dry Creek though.
Like I told Zach, I live about 50 minutes from Beckley in Charleston and am pretty plugged into the WV fly fishing and internet scene. I don’t know of anyone who would’ve done that on purpose…nor anyone with the know how.
But…my best guess is that it was this guy…
They have computers in West Virginia?
How do they run without ‘lectricity?
bd
We have invented a moonshine still system that channels the unused stream, heat and friction into electricity. It is enough to power dial up, but since they just ran phone lines in a few towns in WV in the past couple of years not many have access.
A-hole
Dude, that’s a great story and a pig brown. Good job.
Being an eastern guy I have NO rowing experience. My uncle lives in Portland, OR and two falls ago I floated the Deschutes with him for 2 days. Feeling bad that he was on the oars the whole time I volunteered. I think I did two 360’s in the first rapid. I must’ve been white as a sheet when I turned to him and said “Ok, your turn again”. I practiced a bit last summer on the New River on smallmouth floats though so I’m ready to get back on it now. Glad to see that someone else struggled with it as a noob.
Basically it is a gigantic jar of paraffin for about $11. I refill my old gink and loon bottles with it. Figure I’ll save around $28,000.00 in floatant cost with one jar of Albolene.
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That said, I still prefer hydrophobic fumed silica (frog’s rear) for more than just cdc. I use it on everything. I like to have a bottle of dessicant too so I can grind the fish slime off of flies after they stop taking floatant well.
Update. I ended up downloading the Photomatix Basic version. Here are a few of the shots that I put together with it in case anyone else was interested in the freeware HDR stuff. These were all either with 2 exposures or 3 exposures. I wanted to do this because when the leaves are off the trees any long exposure shots always blow out the background sky. So I wanted to take some underexposed shots and combine the shadows. The Photomatix Basic did that for me, but there were a few that looked goofy with it.
This one is a little weird. Not sure if I like it. It wasn’t done in HDR necessarily, just combining the shadows.
This one would’ve turned out a little better if I had remembered to turn my circular polarizer the right direction.
