If a lot of outdoors photography is about being in the right place at the right time, then I would like to suggest that fishing photography is even more so about this, plus a great big serving of luck as well. Sure, when the light goes off you can work on putting yourself in the right position to shoot photos of your mates fishing away (whilst trying to hide where you actually are etc., one of the “joys” of shooting fishing!), but you can’t plan for when fish are hooked, and when you are out there fishing yourself, you can’t always plan for where you yourself will be standing as and when something visually exciting goes off. Saying that though, when the light goes off I’ll be shooting stills instead of actually fishing………...
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Happy New Year, hope you all had a good Xmas, here’s to 2017. Well I reckon that’s me and wading boots done and dusted. My roughly £25 Dunlop safety boots have lasted the three months that I told myself they needed to last before I would wholeheartedly adopt them as my wading boots of choice (check here, and yes, I know, they aren’t actually wading boots), and I am now really keen to see how long they will last before falling apart. But that’s kinda the point here for me - I don’t care if these Dunlop things fall apart tomorrow, because for the price they are firstly an absolute steal with how I’ve been using and abusing them, and secondly and arguably more importantly, these £25 boots have rather effectively highlighted to me just how badly made far too many of the “proper” wading boots are that I have tried over a bunch of years now……….
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Is it really only two days until Christmas? Happy Christmas to you all and my thanks as always for reading this blog - from time to time I do sit down and think about whether I should continue this blog for another year, but I love doing it, I love that people read it, I love getting feedback via comments, emails and various messages, and yes, I absolutely love it when I meet anglers out and about who tell me that they read this blog and that in some way it has helped them with their fishing. Thank you!
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As we near the end of the year and I think about my fishing this year and the fishing I have been around, one thing that really stands out for me is the whole night lure fishing thing, and more specifically, chucking those senkos out, winding them straight in and catching bass and absolutely loving fishing like this. But there’s an aspect to it that has been niggling me for a while and I wonder if there’s a way round it………….
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