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Angling Fish - by James Rickard

Knowing how deep the water is where you fish is important because you have to know how deep the water is to have an idea of where the fish are.

That can be done with an electronic depth finder or simply being familiar with the area you fish.

Here are some photographs that show how much water levels can vary in the same location during different times of the year.


looking up the Allegheny River
looking up the Allegheny River



I'm not sure which is which but one shot was taken in February and the other one is from around November. They both have the same idea. Here's another shot of the same basic view.
looking up the Allegheny River



Now, look what happens in the summer when water levels drop. AND these are typical for this location.
looking up the Allegheny River in summer

looking up the Allegheny River in summer


Here's another shot taken this past summer with a similar perspective.
looking up the Allegheny River in summer

Here are a few more shots illustrating the same idea but looking in the opposite direction.
Looking down the Allegheny
Looking down the Allegheny


When it finally warms up, we get this.
Looking down the Allegheny in summer

Looking down the Allegheny in summer



Until next time--watch yourself and watch your line!
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Matt Hayes--fishing and photography

August 20th 2008 01:13
Here's a website I discovered and really enjoy because it combines two of my passions--fishing and photography.

The owner of this site, Matt Hayes, is a U.k. angler and photographer who has a great screen presence. I've been exploring this site and surfing the web to find out all I can about him and I think he's become my favorite non-American angler.

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I wanted to kill two birds with one stone on this post. Aside from getting some material for my blog, I wanted to try out a new camera at the same time and today was warm enough that I could get out and put it through its paces.

Although I have no intentions of turning this blog into some sort of fisherman's diary, I will say that things went pretty well although there are some points I still want to work on. Newer cameras do so many things! The main thing I have to work on is remembering how to change settings. I guess that's not a problem if you always shoot on AUTOMATIC but, to really get good shots or anything very creative, you have to learn to shoot on MANUAL. Yeah, yeah! I know--that defeats the purpose of AUTOMATIC. Here's my take on that--AUTO is fine if all you want is a record of an occurrence. That way of thinking began with the Kodak Brownie. (Photography buffs will know what I mean!)

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Photograph your trophy

January 3rd 2008 04:52
I've mentioned catch and release in passing before. What happens if you get that once in a life time catch and want to show it off? In the past, when you got that "trophy catch," you had to choose between throwing it back and keeping it. You could get a trophy but it was pretty well the end of the line for the fish. Now days, you can get your trophy and the fish gets to live to be caught again.

All you need to do is take a series of photographs of your catch and a life like replica suitable for mounting can be made. Todays reproductions are far superior to what was available just a few years ago. In fact, the technology available today can create trophies that are so life like that they rival anything in nature and certainly look better than anything found in fishing lodges when you were a kid.

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Photography under the sea

November 9th 2007 02:44
Sea Nettle


If you frequent Orble, you may have found a GREAT site that I look at almost every day. Katyzzz, stand up and take a bow because I'm taking about photography tips.com.au. She has some very helpful information in her blog plus a lot of super photographs!

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