Walleye

Got out for an hour during daughter’s horse riding lesson. Caught a couple of nice walleye, and lost a couple too. The first was about 22” and the second 25”. The second one (first picture) is so skinny, it hardly looks like a near-master-angler (26”). But with such proportionally large fins, it’s a really cool looking fish! Like a freshwater sea robin (ok maybe that’s a stretch). Finished the session with another 18” largemouth hog! QUESTION: which photo/hold do you like better for the bass - horizontal or vertical? (Geeky photo notes: Vertical is the classic bass hold, but I sometimes have a hard time placing it ideally in the frame. Horizontal seems to highlight the belly, but requires at least a finger under the tail to properly support the fish. I take all my fish photos in standard 1.0 perspective, relying on forced perspective to make the fish look bigger rather than distortion. I also value good fish handling at this point of my fishing career. That means I never hold a fish by the gills, and therefore always have fingers somewhere in the shot. So it’s an artistic challenge to find the best composition where the fish looks good (big but natural in my opinion), my hands don’t look distracting, and the background looks good too. Of course it’s a debatable matter of opinion whether one should even try to make a fish look bigger in a photo. I could write an essay on it, but you know where I stand. However, the degree of forced perspective is still a gray area to me. For example, the vertical bass picture here is extreme compared to most of my pics. It’s 18” and I’m presenting it as bigger than my entire upper body. That’s crazy in one sense, but the fish and my face are both in focus, so from a photographic standpoint I think it works. It’s a bit more extreme than I would choose from a documentarian standpoint, but it’s the shot I would choose for a magazine cover if I were the marketing director.)

Parked at the boat ramp like we I owned it tonight!

First time ice fishing of the year, caught 1 walleye we, we seen whitefish swim by on the camera but had no interest on the bait

2 walleyes, we were going for whitefish but theyre to smart at this lake

Fun day with my buddy broke my pb walleye at 22.5 and another 22 also catching a 3.5 bass is a good day and good fights on all the fish