Yep I took it, although what you see is a bit of an illusion. The fish was actually caught and I simply pulled it up out of the water a bit and took the picture... then did a little judicious retouching in Photoshop to make the line disappear. In other words, I cheated!

That was my first fishing trip on the South Fork of the Snake and it turned out to be a dandy. The water was running low and the Cuts were slamming both dry flies and droppers. The best fly of the day was an ugly Turk's Tarantula (not a pretty one like Guy Turk ties). They were slamming that fly, and guy walked over to see what I was using, and as I stripped it in to show him a Brown slammed it! It was that kind of day. You can see the rest of the pictures from that trip here: http://community.webshots.com/album/260558

My personal favorite of all of my fish pictures is "Autumn Brown". You can see that here: http://community.webshots.com/album/232383/1

Just click on the "Autumn Brown" link.

I confess I love taking pictures of the fish I catch. 98% of the time I just pull the fish into shallow water, take the picture then revive and release the fish... without the fish ever leaving the water. I think they are much prettier in the water anyway. I usually put the rod in for scale. What you will usually never see is ME in the picture although there are a couple there in those albums. Nothing ruins a good fish picture more than a gloating human in the background!

Tom


On Nov 9, 2004, at 11:30 AM, jerry wrote:

One of the best trout photos I have ever seen is on Tom Davenport's page:

http://homepage.mac.com/tsmd/PhotoAlbum16.html

It is called "Rise to Fly".

Hey Tom, did you take this picture?  It's an outstanding photo.

Jerry
WY




Tom Davenport

Home Page: http://homepage.mac.com/tsmd
Webshots Albums:  http://community.webshots.com/user/tsmdav



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