Wildlife & Related

[hatidua]

I've seen some of your pictures like this before, and always wondered how one gets a picture like this. Seems like fish don't hold still and you can't see what you're shooting. Is it just luck through volume?

In deep/er water, you can approach fish slowly and get very close, often within several inches depending on species and their breathing requirements (tuna have to keep moving, barracuda can sit completely still, etc). When it comes to bonefish or permit in water that is less than a foot deep, photos are typically either via a remote camera that is planted on the bottom and triggered remotely, or the photos are made while the fish is still hooked. The bonefish photo I posted above from a few weeks ago was still hooked and I simply held the leader with my left hand while aiming the camera with my right hand. Light fluorocarbon fishing leader material essentially disappears underwater so it doesn't vividly show up in most photos. Fish will naturally point into current so you just let them 'tread water' in the current and snap away.

[Irving]

Oh cool, thanks.

[Irving]

Nothing special, but everyone loves catching crayfish.

[Bailey Guns]

Yeah...there are some the size of small lobsters in the Snake River here. Haven't actually seen a live one...just the remains of them after the birds feasted on them.

[Bailey Guns]

Just picked up a couple of cheap game cameras. Anxious to get them located to see what roams around here at night.

[William]

This guy was hanging in the yard for a few hours. Lucky for him the stamp on my "Sparrow" hasn't arrived (j/k).

[Irving]

I might not have thought anything of this particularly fancy bird crap I saw the other day, if it weren't for the owl poop discussion earlier. This looks to be mostly bug exoskeletons. At one point I accidentally knocked this loose and it rolled down the roof and broke apart. Prettiest poop I've ever seen.

[hurley842002]

Went up to Summit Lake yesterday, snapped a few pics.





This guy was following my youngest around, bird was probably big enough to fly away with my kid.









Not sure what these were, look like Dino tracks lol.

[Irving]

Nice pictures. I like that bird.

[hurley842002]

Nice pictures. I like that bird.

Thanks, my son liked him too.