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Without a doubt the WB affects picture quality. My Pentax K10 has a neat little trick. Take your picture, press the Fn button, select WB and the last picture you took appears and you can select the different WB options and watch the pictue change right before your eyes. However, if your ISO is too low when shooting indoors, adjusting the WB won't do squat. Not sure about Nikon or Canon though.

Well Thom it works for us at this point in time. I'm sure that as time goes on our occasional fishing outings will be fewer and fewer. But for now it just something we both enjoy. Without a doubt we are one of the lucky ones.

Yeah, I figured I'd get a range of responses...haha. I guess since we didn't have any custody issues to work out things turned out for the better. But I don't think getting back together is an option. We both know this, so all we talk about is fly fishing.

Not water proof, but rather water resistant. World of difference here. Be careful.

We've always heard that Time heals all wounds, but I think fly fishing is a close runner up for doing the same thing, at least for my ex and I. She loves to fly fish and has come into her own as far as her skills go. While there were other issues that caused problems for us, we never once argued about fishing. She usually wanted to go with me but sometimes couldn't. And if I went alone, she was fine with that too. I hope there are other guys on here that don't have to argue with their wives or girlfriends about fishing. Sadly I know a few that almost have do every time. Well, she called the other day and wants to go up to BTW to fish tomorrow. I said fine. This is not the first time we've fished together post-divorce, so I look forward to it. She doesn't tie flies, so I told I would. Only difference now is I charge her a $.50 a bug. That free ride is over. Her call made me wonder if there are others with similar stories about how fly fishing has affected their lives in such unintended ways.

I own the latest digital SRL camera by Pentax (K10). Wonderful outdoor photos but does tend to underexpose indoors. But with a better flash it does just fine.

Well fished up and down BTW today. Started at Parker and worked my way up to the Lure Only section, but didn't catch a thing. Very slow. Next, went up to the dam and hooked one. That's it! I was about to give up and decided instead to go to the old Catch & Release section. Once there it was a slow start but by 1pm the fish just turned on and I caught a ton. It was a blast. Used my usual beadhead sowbug pattern. What started out as a very slow day turned into a hoot.

Went and fished the Little Red this past weekend and snapped this up at the park.

I snapped these today while fishing the No Bait Zone. Thought you regulars who know the area well would appreciate the scenery.

Anybody else go to this thing or we're ya fishing?

Good choice! I bought my new Pentax K10 back in Feburary from Jason and he has been good to work with ever since. Very helpful.

Yep, it's happening on streams everywhere in Arkansas. I have to tell people every time I fish on Beaver tailwater what the slot limit, etc., is. More sadly is that there are those who know better and don't obey the law.

Snapped this at Parker Bend below Beaver Dam.

Oh great! Now Trey and I have to drive 3 hours instead of 45 mins. to see your ugly mug. That just makes me want to... but we'll do it anyway. Best of luck Steve.

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Not exactly Don. It's from 1993, taken by one Fred Smith and, much to my surprise, a real photo. It's technically a waterspout. Found this story: accuweather.com We need to send ol' Fred to the Pacific Northwest to find bigfoot since apparently he's the luckiest photographer on the planet. ecce out...

Phil, if someone is shooting in RAW format, the post processing one can do is remarkable. I've read on lots of photography message boards about how doing post processing is like cheating. For example, in jpeg format, the dynamic range (shades of color) is 256. In RAW, it's about 4,000, so there's lots to work with in this format. Trust me, photos can be "faked" in all sorts of ways. Wow, just wow! What more can one say about it?

Maybe I've seen too many reruns of the 'Wizard of Oz' but notice that all the trees are perfectly focused. Your F-stop would have to be wide open with a slow shutter speed to boot just to get any sort of image in these conditions. Also, when the lightening occurred, parts would have been over exposured. I've taken numerous photos on sunny, mildly windy days and to obtain the level of focus you see here in such extreme conditions makes me wonder about the validity of this picture. Moreover, if the statement in red is true, I find it even more incredible to believe this is a real photograph, and not something that has been "photoshopped" to a very large extent. Think about it. To not only snap the photo at the same time as the lightening strike but to have the funnel cloud nicely centered in the photo and not even knowing it was there in the first place? Photographically speaking, this is would have to be the most perfectly timed picture ever taken! Am I the sole skeptic here? Maybe I am. If I'm wrong, I want to meet the person who took this and rub their head so I can win the next lottery!

Ok, Dano, here they are: Camera: Pentax K10 Lens: Tamaron 70-300mm Focal length: 300mm Aperture: F22 Shutter speed: 1/80sec. White Balance: 5560k ISO: 400 Saturation: 1 Contrast: 2 Sharpness: 2 Metering: spot And no, I didn't use a telescope to take it, just my tripod. The detail without the use of a telescope I thought was pretty dang good. ecce out...

Thought it was interesting enough to post.

It's very consistent Dano. Try 'em, you'll like 'em!

A troubling problem I'm noticing up here on the Beaver tailwater with regards to the slot limit is that slot fish (13-16 inches)are being released alright, but they are basically "dead fish swimming" if you get my drift (pardon the pun). The bait fishermen are, for the most part, putting these fish back but only after they took 5 minutes digging out the hook (bait fishing hooks up here are to be barbless, but most are ignorant of that aspect of the rule changes. I know, they tell me so). Case in point, one guy just up from where I was fishing a few weeks back had a nice brown hooked deep, and since he didn't have the proper tools, worked several minutes on getting the hook out. With blood streaming from the gills, he asked me to measure it. I could clearly tell it was a slot fish, but lied and told him it wasn't. The fish wasn't breathing and was motionless. My rationale: Rather count it as part of his limit than to put a dead fish back in the river only to have him turn around and take out another. Minimize your losses I thought. His intentions were in good faith, but the fact remains: A dead fish on a stringer or in the water still equals a dead fish at the end of the day. With the summer rush upon us, fishing at JFK park will dramatically increase and many scenarios, like the one mentioned here, may become common place unfortunately. But I take this to be the price of slot limits and if they do produce larger fish in better numbers, then so be it I guess. ecce out...

Here's the camera I took them with. Glad you like them!

I just liked these shots, so I thought I'd share them with the group.