OK, I have to vent a little bit today so I hope you can bare with me. I just need to discuss a few things that are really bothering me. First, when a boat is trolling up the side of a bank fishing, you are not supposed to go cut them off and start fishing directly in front of them. I mean come on now, have a little respect! And if you are wondering, yes, this did happen to me today. I was good though, I did not say anything. I have before, but I did not this time.
Second thing that really bothers me has nothing to do with the first. I have just been seeing a lot of people on facebook doing this and it really bothers me. When you catch a fish, if it's not big enough for ya, don't stretch your arm out as close to the camera as you can to make it look bigger. If it's big enough to take a picture, then you shouldn't have to do that. Drives me up a freakin wall people doing this trying to make themselves look good. I mean just have a little since of pride. Wow, this is the harshest blog I've ever wrote, but I just had to get a few things off my chest. And this has been another random blog.
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I'm one of those guys who holds a fish out towards the camera and am not ashamed of it. Not stretched out to a ridiculous extent, but enough to see it nicely in the photo.
ReplyDeleteMy brother took shots of me with a 25 lb. muskie with the fish close to me, and then held away from me somewhat. The pictures with the fish held away from me somewhat look much better than the ones where I held it close. Was that fish not large enough to photograph?
Where I normally fish, a 4lb. smallmouth is a nice catch, and I photograph them. In my opinion, they need to be held out away you somewhat to get a nice picture.
Who's to say except the person who caught the fish whether or not it is worthy of being photographed, or how. They may be recording a special time, and a picture of a fish, no matter what size, may help them remember the event.
Not everyone is a highly successful fisherman or woman and is probably proud of their catch, no matter what the size, if they have taken a photo of it.
I've never looked at this Facebook site, so I don't know what it is all about, but I would say if you don't like what you see there, quit visiting it.
BOATS CUTTING IN ON YOU WHEN TROLLING NEED TO BE TORPEDOED. I AGREE 100%.
I don't think it is wrong to hold the fish out a little bit. The type of person i'm am talking about is the ones that stretch their arms straight out as far as they can in every single picture purposefully and then tell people the fish is bigger than it actually is. That is what gets me frustrated because I can tell the difference. FIRE THE TORPEDO!!! LOL
ReplyDeleteSince I movd to AZ.,( 9yrs now), I havn't done any fishing. too far to travle for any decent fish. I grew up in the upper midwest were I fished all the time. Think I'l plan a vacation for Sept.& go back. Now if I can just remember where my rod & tackle are.
ReplyDeleteYeah finding that fishing equipment after 9 years might be difficult. LOL Good luck on your trip though.
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ReplyDeleteThis is Torpedo Launcher from the first comment above back for a return visit.
I just remembered a time when my fishin' partner and I caught a 30 lb. blue cat and had it hung up on a rope by the ceiling of the fishing dock to clean it. We got the idea that if we stood about 25 ft. behind it and held our hands up so it looked like we were holding on to the rope from the camera's perspective, the fish looked like it was about 300lbs. The way the dock was built didn't give many visual clues that this was a trick shot.
Most fisherman that we showed it to were initially in awe but quickly realized what was going on. What was funny was that we showed these photos around to a lot of people, including quite a few highly educated people and most of them didn't have a clue. We didn't tell some of the people the truth after they saw it just to see how long we could make the joke last. When I saw some of those people a week or two later they asked if I still had the photos on me. They wanted to see them again and show them to more people in the office or wherever they were at. It was a whole lot of fun breaking the truth to those folks. Everyone took the joke with a good nature.
That's pretty funny torpedo. If you have that picture on your computer I could post it as an example, LOL.
ReplyDeleteThe photos are on 35 mm. I can scan them, but how do I get them to you?
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Hey Torpedo. You can email them to me at strangelyrandom@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteI would love to post them on here.