Picture or No Picture?

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Permalink Reply by Joel Grafe on April 20, 2010 at 8:01am

i use to take pics or try to at least of every smallie over 5 pounds and largies over 7. but anymore like you said ron i'll toss them back in and wonder why didn't i take a pic.
for me i use to only for the memories of the fish.. anymore though we hardly take any pics unless it is someones first big fish or my kids with a good chance for a good pic.
you question someones thinking on taking pics with medium size fish at tournies or just taking pics of average fish, but you have to understand too that most people don't or wont catch the amount of fish you do or have so to them maybe a limit of 14 inch fish in a tourny is huge or a 3 pound fish to them is a 6 to someone that fishes most the year.
kind of a personal thing like hunting, a doe is a trophy to some but others pass legal bucks wanting a wall hanger????


Larry Austin said:

Most of my pic's are old school. Not alot of digital, so most are in photo albums. I've got plenty of pic's of smallies over 6# (looks like same lake Ron) and some largies 7 and 8#, but one framed picture I see about everyday is my son holding his 10.2# largie he caught about 8 years ago. When I look back at my photo album I'm glad I've documented camping and fishing trips thru pictures. There's certainly more pictures of the kids and friends with fish than me, which to me is very fun to look thru.

Permalink Reply by Dan Wheeler on April 20, 2010 at 8:09am

I think this is a good topic it would be fun to see some old school pics.. myself I usually have someone fishing with me and for some reason or another they take pictures. when I catch em.. and I always get sent the pics with some tag line.. but yeah I remember my first bass it was on kapowsin lake I was like 7 or 8 and the original rapala silver black back it was about 2 lbs and I ate that fish. I rode my bike everywhere to go fishin those were the days.. badger lake randles pond at the time the pond by piggly wiggly and just about every body of water I could ever ride my bike to or make my dad drive me to.. I am gonna have to go through some albums and get some of those first pics.. mostly just to see them myself.. Thanks for bringing that up Ron..

Permalink Reply by Jake Anderson on April 20, 2010 at 8:28am

I can completely understand why better fisherman don't take as many pictures. If I caught countless amounts of 5+ smallies and tons of 7+ largies like some here have, the 3-4lb fish would be without novelty. I like reflecting on pictures. When I cant get out on the water, I like looking back over days that gave up 1 of the few trophy size bass I have caught.
Some of my coolest photos are 2-3lb smallmouth that have great backgrounds, or something else beside the fish.

I don't know if I will ever be good enough to the point where a 3+lb smallmouth will become mundane. Some folks are that good and or experienced, and thats great! I envy those folks to be sure.

Permalink Reply by Daniel Easley on April 20, 2010 at 10:08am

Well said.

Jake "The Snake" Anderson said:

I can completely understand why better fisherman don't take as many pictures. If I caught countless amounts of 5+ smallies and tons of 7+ largies like some here have, the 3-4lb fish would be without novelty. I like reflecting on pictures. When I cant get out on the water, I like looking back over days that gave up 1 of the few trophy size bass I have caught.
Some of my coolest photos are 2-3lb smallmouth that have great backgrounds, or something else beside the fish.

I don't know if I will ever be good enough to the point where a 3+lb smallmouth will become mundane. Some folks are that good and or experienced, and thats great! I envy those folks to be sure.

Permalink Reply by Ben Hanes on April 20, 2010 at 6:16pm

Hobbs, I agree for the most part. However, I got quite a kick out of one of Jordan's pictures...Him and his buddy are holding a mixed bag (Evergreen Lake, I believe), the total weight was probably 4 pounds or so, maybe less! It was great, pretty silly.....Myself I just don't carry a camera around, and my phone sucks, so I RARELY get pictures anymore. Almost all of the biggest fish I've caught, I haven't had a camera. I can think of at least 6 or 8 largies over 8lbs I never got a picture of. My biggest ever, which actually broke my pole, was right around 9 and I never got a picture. Bummer. The picture I have at my name was only taken because my wife and I were on our anniversery fishin out of a 12' aluminum, and was kind of a special time.

Permalink Reply by kzoo on April 20, 2010 at 6:20pm

A picture says a thousand words! They always bring back good memories and these days this digital ones will have the date in the file which gives me documentation when the larger fish were caught on what time of the year. Also documentation of the weather, overcast, sunny, or crappy weather.

I typically take photos of bass (largies and smallies) four pounds and over. I have taken photos of smaller fish, but it was for some other reason, I know they were small, but just wanted to have a photo of me catching something at famous lakes; Lake Forks, Farm Pond 13, stick marsh, Lake Kissimmee, Lake Okeechobee, etc. I wish I could have caught a lunker, but just having a photo of me catching a bass in these famous places will always bring back good memories.

Permalink Reply by Nick Berto on April 20, 2010 at 7:39pm

I took that picture and it was one of those "pictures woth a thousand words", great day with great friends and the fish size did not matter at all!

Ben Hanes said:

Hobbs, I agree for the most part. However, I got quite a kick out of one of Jordan's pictures...Him and his buddy are holding a mixed bag (Evergreen Lake, I believe), the total weight was probably 4 pounds or so, maybe less! It was great, pretty silly.....Myself I just don't carry a camera around, and my phone sucks, so I RARELY get pictures anymore. Almost all of the biggest fish I've caught, I haven't had a camera. I can think of at least 6 or 8 largies over 8lbs I never got a picture of. My biggest ever, which actually broke my pole, was right around 9 and I never got a picture. Bummer. The picture I have at my name was only taken because my wife and I were on our anniversery fishin out of a 12' aluminum, and was kind of a special time.

Permalink Reply by Nick Berto on April 20, 2010 at 7:43pm

I take pictures of a lot of fish I catch, some big and some small but not all. I store all my pics of a memory stick with the date and use them for reference later down the road, it is kind of like my way to keep track of what time of the year fish were doing what (lazy way of keeping a fishing log)...

But "The Snake" brought up another good thought that the background is also great sometimes and I space out at work looking at some of my pics...

Permalink Reply by Steve Hastings on April 20, 2010 at 11:11pm

I do keep a digital camera in the boat just in case there's a special occassion such as new first timers first fish, or something special like my first fish at El Salto bass maybe 3 lbs. Now I'm only taking pix of the new PB's, or nice pair at a tournament for the memory.

At El Salto we stopped taking pictures of the 6lbs and under the first day ... they were all post spawn, fish, huge fish just no bellies.
If it didn't have the big head of a 7+ lb, (again post spawn), no picture was taken. When you catch 100+ fish every day for a week, and so many 3-5lb fish, you just want the bait back in the water for that double digit possibility. I have to say I did take a picture of a huge tilapia, that even the guides gasped at.

Steve

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