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Beaver pond brookie....
The Art of Photography and Flyfishing
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dave lackey
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Brad, your photos look so nice....
Film, settings?
Hope to do half as well next month but need to gear up before then.😉
Film, settings?
Hope to do half as well next month but need to gear up before then.😉
thomasw_
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Living in beautiful, super natural British Columbia, it is only a matter of time before a man casts his first fly! I am a long time lake, river and ocean fly fisher. But my primary love is trying for rainbow trout, especially the sea-running Steelhead. I love the diversion almost as much as film photography with my RFs. I tie my own flies, too. At one time, I was even the President of the Totem Fly Fishers, the oldest fly fishing club in BC. Roderick Haig-Brown, the author of "The Western Angler," was one of the founding members. Fly fishing does dovetail well with RF film photography in so many ways.
maddoc
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It is very interesting to read the various comments here. 🙂 Me, I have never tried fly-fishing but my wife did before we got married. Maybe I should give it a try some time, too....
Brad Bireley
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Thanks Dave. I think the 3 above photos are all on Fuji 400. I'm hoping to use up a bunch of Kodachrome 25, 64, & 200 on some fall flyfishing. Especially portraits of our native brook trout in full spawning colors! The biggest goal is to photograph the brook trout in spawning colors with my crown graphic.
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Oh well...here's another. I owned a small fly fishing shop in NC PA in the late 90's. I guided on the streams & presented slide shows to local TU chapters back then. This photo of the brown trout was to show that our trout here are too big to fit on one slide! 🙂 That's an elk hair caddis in the corner of the trout's mouth.
dave lackey
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Gabor,
By all means you must try it especially if you have an understanding wife about such things. Marriage made in heaven.😉
BTW, I have yet to take the M3 along with the Summarit lens and capture any images. I guess I am waiting for my fall trip to the Great Smoky Mtns. in October where the scenery and trout are!
Brad,
Are all these pictures from the Crown Graphic?
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Not from the crown graphic. All 35mm from various cameras.
dave lackey
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As cool weather approaches (I hope soon as it is still 90 F today), I have locked in on a project. The traditional bamboo fly-rod. On a recent trip to visit Bill Oyster, I observed his rod-making class in action and was given the grand tour. What a delightful host!
Here is the first image of the project:
Leica M3 Ilford 400 Film
Here is the first image of the project:
Leica M3 Ilford 400 Film
jan normandale
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Brad, don't forget to use up your Kodachrome before December!
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tokengirl
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Fly fishing is what brought me back to photography after being away from the camera for over 20 years. Too many nice places not to take pictures of.
Sometimes I catch a fish too. 🙂
Sometimes I catch a fish too. 🙂
jmooney
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Fly fishing is what brought me back to photography after being away from the camera for over 20 years. Too many nice places not to take pictures of.
Sometimes I catch a fish too. 🙂
Beautiful pics!
What kind of fish is that?
tokengirl
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Thanks, that's a baby yellowtail snapper. Really fun to catch when they get bigger.
ebino
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^ not fun for the fish. 🙂
DaveP
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Check out Zach Mathews site, he combines fishing and photography. Some nice shots.
http://www.itinerantangler.com/photoblog/index.php?x=browse
http://www.itinerantangler.com/photoblog/index.php?x=browse
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Some portraits of my spey flies.....all on Kodachrome 200
paulfish4570
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I tend to equate RF photography with limb-lining for flatheads ... 🙂
dave lackey
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Actually, look at fly-fishing this way... we harrass fish, true... but we are really making friends!
From the fish's POV, he/she is just minding their own business looking for protein to suck in with minimal effort to justify going after a bug in the water. The fish goes after a tempting fly that just hit the water surface and BAM!, the fish has no idea just what the hell is going on and he is fighting hard, expending a lot of energy and does not know anything other than some nice angler pulls him out of the water, takes a sharp thing from his lip and releases him back into the water with a well-meaning wish for him to be happy and grow...🙂
Kind of like a fairytale with a happy ending.:angel: (Albeit one contrived by the fly-fisher 😉, but a friend has been made).
tlitody
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Hmmmm, in my experience any trout caught by me experiences a crack on the head with a priest and that's the last thing he ever knows. I fish to eat otherwise I leave em alone.
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