Your favorite streamside photo
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6xAdams(Jones)
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All these are beautiful. I don't know if it's shading, focus or what, but the width of that fly rod makes it look very heavy - or she's tiny by comparison.
mt_flyfisher
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If you look closely you’ll see she actually has 2 fly rods. Plus don’t forget that in Montana you sometimes need heavier wt rods for the bigger trout you might expect to catch. 😃
Like this brown that a friend of mine caught in this very small stream.
Or better still, this one that another friend caught in a small stream that dozens of fishermen pass over every day, headed to the larger, better known places.
6xAdams(Jones)
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Thanks for the explanation.
While very nice, your photo provides no answer to my girl's eventual question... "What color were her eyes?" 🙂
wildtrout2
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I thought I saw her carrying two rods and wondered if it's a hassle, especially if she's covering a lot of stream?
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mt_flyfisher
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TCWNY
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Same season lol
Jay_H
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I know that spot.
MJMFlyfisher
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This is a picture I took with my phone of a print hanging on my wall so it's probably losing a little in the translation.
1995, Me in the Madison River, MT trying not to get swept away while nymphing that center seam above $3 Bridge.
This photo was in the 1996 Orvis catalog.
I met Andy Anderson (well known fly fishing photographer back in the day) on the water that evening, he sat and watched me land several trout and also take a sweet faceplant into the water!.... and he approached me asking if I would help with a photoshoot.
When I figured out who he was and that it was legit (and this wasn't gonna be porn ,or worse), I modelled for an hour. 😂
He tried all sorts of different "poses", casting, nymphing etc but I was using a dull gray fly line at the time and it wasn't showing up in his viewfinder. (This was film camera days LOL)
So we had to settle for the old rod under the arm, looking in my flybox, pose.
He had 2 cameras on tripods and one handheld and ran through 3-4 rolls of film.....man I wish I had those rolls too.
I gave up the last hour or so of a really good day of fishing but have that signed print he mailed me 6 months later to remember it.
I also rounded up a couple copies of the Orvis catalog it was in.
And from standing in that fast water for over an hour both my legs cramped up completely and at the same time on my late night drive back through Yellowstone park!
Hard to drive a manual 1985 Subaru wagon with no legs....stalled my car and rolled out onto the pavement in the pitch black. I can still remember laying on the cool pavement with seized up hamstrings thinking. "WOW that's a lot of stars!"
And I better move before a bison steps on me.
Lots of memories wrapped up in one dang picture!
1995, Me in the Madison River, MT trying not to get swept away while nymphing that center seam above $3 Bridge.
This photo was in the 1996 Orvis catalog.
I met Andy Anderson (well known fly fishing photographer back in the day) on the water that evening, he sat and watched me land several trout and also take a sweet faceplant into the water!.... and he approached me asking if I would help with a photoshoot.
When I figured out who he was and that it was legit (and this wasn't gonna be porn ,or worse), I modelled for an hour. 😂
He tried all sorts of different "poses", casting, nymphing etc but I was using a dull gray fly line at the time and it wasn't showing up in his viewfinder. (This was film camera days LOL)
So we had to settle for the old rod under the arm, looking in my flybox, pose.
He had 2 cameras on tripods and one handheld and ran through 3-4 rolls of film.....man I wish I had those rolls too.
I gave up the last hour or so of a really good day of fishing but have that signed print he mailed me 6 months later to remember it.
I also rounded up a couple copies of the Orvis catalog it was in.
And from standing in that fast water for over an hour both my legs cramped up completely and at the same time on my late night drive back through Yellowstone park!
Hard to drive a manual 1985 Subaru wagon with no legs....stalled my car and rolled out onto the pavement in the pitch black. I can still remember laying on the cool pavement with seized up hamstrings thinking. "WOW that's a lot of stars!"
And I better move before a bison steps on me.
Lots of memories wrapped up in one dang picture!
