Blooming Brookies

[Onslow]

Damn Doug, you had to spill the beans?  I looked at your pics today for the first time and couldn't believe nobody else had guessed a stocker.  Fins be all jacked up and the beak is a little worn, tale-tale signs.  Don't feel bad, NCWRC stocks like crazy on top of wild fish all day, every day too.

The ole eyes of mine are no longer 20/20.  Getting old is a bitch.

[Dougfish]

Good stuff Doug.  Were these camera phone pictures or regular camera?

Good ol TG-1. With polarizing filter.

[Woolly Bugger]

Good stuff Doug.  Were these camera phone pictures or regular camera?

Good ol TG-1. With polarizing filter.

Do you get any vignetting from the filter ?

I do at the widest setting but it is eliminated when I zoom in a bit

[Woolly Bugger]

I'm gonna fess up, bitches. That big boy at the end is a stocker.
My boy Paul wanted to start earlier on stream two than I do.
It was at a section that they stock over wild fish. VDGIF justification? They stock sterile triploid brookies.
And some biguns. This was the first stooger I've ever caught out of there. It takes more effort than state employees usually exhibit to get the fish down there. Above and below two falls, so they aren't going anyway except the frying pan. I broke off a big boy on hook set right before this.
Then I noticed a fish under an undercut rock right in front of me. A submarine. 20"+? brookie. The distance between his white edged fins was greater than any native that day. Well, he was not stupid enough to bite.  The 14-15" fish pictured hit the next offering of a cheeseburger and fries. Wet sock fight. If I had shown it's tail, it would have been a dead give away.

I said, "stogger" when I saw it.

[benben reincarnated]

Good stuff Doug.  Were these camera phone pictures or regular camera?

Good ol TG-1. With polarizing filter.

Do you get any vignetting from the filter ?

I do at the widest setting but it is eliminated when I zoom in a bit

Keith, I think it depends on the adapter you use.  Do you have the olympic adapter or an aftermarket one?  I have an aftermarket one and it steps up the size pretty quick as opposed to some of the smaller sized filters so I don't get the vignetting.  I'll have to look at the numbers on mine when I get home if I remember to.

[Woolly Bugger]

Oly adapter/40.5 mm polo

[Woolly Bugger]

@benben, nevermind, my vignetting is caused by my manly lens hood..... not the filter....

[JWJ]

Love wild azalea. Saw lots of it turkey hunting in the mountains this weekend.

[Stone-Man]

Doug,
Helluva nice fish report,but the flowers were absolutely terrific . Guess I need to quit bream fishing and get back to the woods and try to keep up with you and the flowers 

Good stuff,Sir -- fo real

  JT

[Dougfish]

Thanks JT! Flowers pay the bills and are are a passion for me.
I do like me some bream, though. Cut my teeth on them.