Trinity River Photo Report
Last weekend I joined up with our very own MSP (Mike) and a couple of his buddies to try our luck on the Trinity.....it turns out that we totally forgot our luck back at our houses because nobody landed a single adult, in fact only two were hooked out of 4.5 days for Mike and his friends, 2.5 days for me. I hooked one adult and it got off after a fun series of jumps and runs, it shook the hook out while thrashing around at the surface in the slow water of a pool. Brian, also hooked and lost an adult. Thankfully that group of guys was very fun to hang out with, that way the trip wasn't heavily tainted by the foul stench of skunk.
The first day I arrived it rained and poured on us the whole day and I only got a chance to take a few pictures.
Here are some pictures from my new 17-50mm Tamron lens, which I am pleased with.
Mike and His dog Elliot (AKA Dog Boy) fishing in the rain the first morning when I arrived. The Fall colors have started to change but they have not fully changed yet.
Mike's old friend Brian fishing amongst the Trinity's beautiful Fall colors.
I even got a few artsy shots in before the down-pour started, causing me to get my camera out of the rain. Here's on of those shots:
Luckily for me the second day offered much better weather to bring out my camera and have fun taking pictures. And since the fishing was soo slow I had more time to spare to play around and take a bunch of pictures. The rain was intermittent and the cloud cover offered some very nice diffused light, perfect for taking pictures. I took over 400 pictures this trip, way less than I expected to. Here's a sample of pictures from that day.
Mike's buddy, Rich, after some heavy editing to bring out the clouds in the background.
Mike's buddy, Brian, fishing the beautiful Trinity.
Mike fishing by "his" rock.
And of course this photo report would be incomplete if I didn't post pictures of our group's mascot: "Dog Boy."
Here's a fun shot of Dog Boy
Here's a hilarious shot of Dog Boy in action.
Luckily Rich caught and landed the only reasonable fish worthy of a picture was this small half-pounder that rich caught.
During the first day of my trip we noticed a bunch of Isonychia mayflies emerging, but unfortunately it was raining too hard to break out the camera to get pictures of them emerging. Luckily the second day I got a chance to test the macro capabilities of my new lens. I'm pretty satisfied with what the new lens produced:
After taking some close up shots of mayflies I decided to play around with taking product style artsy pictures of my gear.
Let's start this off with the obligatory shot of a Kiene's hat.
My single-handed seven weight rod and cool Waterworks reel.
My spey rod in the water.
Here's a few other spey rod/reel shots:
Here's a few shots of the guys:
Three old friends, Mike, Brian, and Rich.
Me with Rich, Mike and of course Dog Boy. (Too bad Brian isn't in the shot, but thanks to him for taking the picture, as I am usually the trip photographer I do not have very many pictures of myself without a fish in my hands.)
Here's a nice shot of me, taken by Brian, with Rich fishing in the back ground.
I had a great trip, even with the lack of cooperation of the steelhead. I made some new friends, drank some alcohol, played some cribbage, tied some flies and fished amongst the beautiful scenery of the Trinity in the Fall.
(Unfortunately I can only restrict this post to ONLY 20 pictures. I will post more on a reply right below this post.)
Last edited by Adam Grace; 10-11-2008 at 03:54 PM.
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Adam Grace
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