I don't have any real good fireworks pics but here's my fishing ones

Welcome to Day 186 :) Today is going to be double duty... I had planned to post some settings for the fireworks tonight. However .. none of mine turned out LOL .. so I can tell you what not to do ...
Do Not us an aperture of f/5.0
Do Not use an ISO of 400
Do Not use a shutter speed of 1/8
Not one of my shots will be worth viewing without major post processing .. I was so excited and there was so much going on that I totally spaced on checking my settings.

That being said maybe some of you can figure it out and tell me LOL.


Today is mostly about Fishing on the Lake. So whatever that means to you. Whether its you fishing ... someone else fishing .. birds catching fish .. boating equipment used for fishing .. it's all about the locations and sport of Fishing. Here are a few examples to get us started .. I look forward to seeing what y'all come up with.

Fishing,Crabbing exposition Depoe Bay Ore.

A couple of trips

#1 was a striper caught at the dock there. Now I want to include a story here, please put up with me...

The Last Striper

Always nice to get back home and that was what I did in this one October many years ago. Spent a week with my mom and neighbours who had been family friends for nearly a half a century and it was nice and the warmth of it all was exactly what I wanted at that time as I had previously retired and now had time to travel and get back to my roots more often. We would walk down to the seawall mornings for coffee and muffins at my mom’s favourite table overlooking the water and always she would see someone she knew and they would chat a bit. Yes, we lived in a very small town.

This one afternoon I decided to go fishing after supper and I prepared my pole and canoe and all and later on I brought the canoe down to the beach and paddled out to lighthouse and anchored off of the point. Fishing from a canoe on Long Island Sound is rarely seen and in fact, I’ve never seen another canoe out there but it was all I had and it suited me fine and besides I was not that far from shore either. I was all alone, not a boat in sight and I noticed a large ripple heading my way. A ripple can only be bait fish and if they are rippling that means that bigger fish are chasing them, and in this case either blues or stripers. I waited and cast out and immediately got a hit and brought in a striper, and quickly cast out again, and got another hit and another striper. I looked up and eight boats were following the bait, as were the gulls. Boy, that happened quickly.

Before we go any further, I respect limits, I was taught like that as a kid. These two were two inches short and I was going to put them back in the water but something, a premonition maybe, but something told me to keep them. I paddled back to the beach and on my way I was happy as we were leaving the next morning and I knew that my mother loved stripers and I thought that I would fillet them and she could have a dinner the next day of fresh striper and save the rest for the winter. Came back to the house after sunset and set to the task of filleting my catch and she was so happy to have them.

Left the next morning and that was the last time I saw her alive.

Premonitions? Yes, I believe in them, do not go against them anymore, they are there for a reason.

Welcome to Day 186 :) Today is going to be double duty... I had planned to post some settings for the fireworks tonight. However .. none of mine turned out LOL .. so I can tell you what not to do ...
Do Not us an aperture of f/5.0
Do Not use an ISO of 400
Do Not use a shutter speed of 1/8
Not one of my shots will be worth viewing without major post processing .. I was so excited and there was so much going on that I totally spaced on checking my settings.

That being said maybe some of you can figure it out and tell me LOL.


Today is mostly about Fishing on the Lake. So whatever that means to you. Whether its you fishing ... someone else fishing .. birds catching fish .. boating equipment used for fishing .. it's all about the locations and sport of Fishing. Here are a few examples to get us started .. I look forward to seeing what y'all come up with.