{"id":783,"date":"2014-08-30T01:12:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T01:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=783"},"modified":"2014-08-30T01:12:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T01:12:55","slug":"photographing-fish-when-your-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"Photographing Fish When Your Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trying to photograph a good sized fish when you’re out by yourself can certainly be challenging…and frustrating.\u00a0 I learned the hard way last year, and ended up with a cell phone going for a swim!\u00a0\u00a0Wrestling with\u00a0a fish one-handed, getting it out of the net, removing the hook, positioning everything just right, and then operating your camera for a self portrait often just doesn’t work.\u00a0 Here is a great way to get a beautiful shot:<\/p>\n

Find a spot where the water is calm and only about an inch or two deep, hopefully that you haven’t muddied up yet.\u00a0 Lay your rod down in the water.\u00a0 Holding the leader about a foot above the fish, guide the fish out of the net with the hook still in place and slide it up to your fly rod.\u00a0 In most cases, I’ve found that the fish will cooperate and lay on it’s side for a quick photo….and….you haven’t even needed to touch the fish or take it out of the water.\u00a0 Slide the hook out, and with a little nudging, the fish will slowly move away.\u00a0 Here is a photo I took yesterday while fishing Marsh Creek here in Idaho:<\/p>\n

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A Beautiful Marsh Creek Cutthroat Trout.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trying to photograph a good sized fish when you’re out by yourself can certainly be challenging…and frustrating.\u00a0 I learned the hard way last year, and ended up with a cell phone going for a swim!\u00a0\u00a0Wrestling with\u00a0a fish one-handed, getting it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[3,46,27,4,34,72,9,11],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing-bamboo","tag-bamboo-fly-rods","tag-bamboo-rods","tag-buildling-bamboo-rods","tag-dave-dozer","tag-making-bamboo-fly-rods","tag-marsh-creek","tag-salmon-river","tag-stanley-idaho"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JKLr-cD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}