Stuck with bass fishing in Dungarvan

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Re: Stuck with Bass fishing in Dungarvan

#41 Post by standerus »

Not exactly "shore angling" but...


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Got afloat for today, to check new place. Few takes and this one. Nice fight, few shots and... back where it belongs.
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Re: Stuck with Bass fishing in Dungarvan

#42 Post by Tomaszek »

Congratulations man! All the time spent finally payed up. I'm happy for you!
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Re: Stuck with Bass fishing in Dungarvan

#43 Post by Ronnach »

Well done man, they are wonderful photos and lovely looking fish. Nice to see all your persistence paying off with a good run in the end :)

By the way what camera do you use, the photos are top class.
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Re: Stuck with Bass fishing in Dungarvan

#44 Post by standerus »

Pentax K-7.
It is a bit oldsih, medium level ASPC format DSLR camera. huge plus it is water resistant - going well with splashes, humidity and dust.
It won't survive sumbmerging, but... no nikon would propably survive my recent trips :D

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Re: Stuck with Bass fishing in Dungarvan

#45 Post by Mollyrocks »

Can I ask what bait you are using for bass fishing??? I'm new to this!
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Re: Stuck with Bass fishing in Dungarvan

#46 Post by tomgrey »

standerus wrote:
tomgrey wrote: Did you use a tripod for the pics of yourself with the fish or had you got a companion? Don't think I would feel safe bringing my good camera to the beach while fishing. Have heard of two many horror stories involving cameras ending up at the bottom of a rock pool or in the ocean. Wouldn't mind so much If I had a companion there with me but most of my fishing is done on my sweeny todd.

Maybe you could stick up a post in the cameras and photgrapy section on the site if you find yourself bored with a few mins to spare. I am sure with the compliments your getting on your photo's you could pass on some tips? http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/bull ... m.php?f=29

Best of luck
Photos were taken by an angler fishing close to me. I carry a small tripod from LIDL, it is small, barelly able to hold DSLR camera but... I'm already packed as a mule when fishing, so carrying a normalnDSLR tripod, that weights ap 3 kg is not an option ;)
If it's to windy - I use rocks etc to place camera. But - there is not much of control than and pics are usually pure "documentation", as both quality is not very good, and they tends to show a bit too much ;) .
As for drowning the camera - I use Pentax K-7 with WR lenses - this camera is fairly sealed and waterproof. Though - it will not survive submerging it in the water, some splashes and humindity is not affecting it - you can rince it under the shower.
I carry it in a fairly waterproof bag, but - I must say, that few times as I was covered by a wave (I often go far) I poured water out of the bag. Any Nikon would be probably long dead, but pentax is live and kicking :D

As for advice, I don't feel im on the level allowing to give any advice to anyone, I'm just starting, and... don't have much to say.
I can only pass advice given to me by my more advanced frends:
-always shot in RAW, not jpg format
-always keep you RAWs
-Use M - manuall setting, it will help you to learn faster
-Lense is more important than body - good lense will make a decent photo with a poor body, and even the best body won't make any good with a poor lenses.
-If limited by budget it's sometimes better to go for an older model of body and better lense, than a new model with kit lense.

I try to apply to those guidelines given to me by well more advanced guys.
But honestly - I'm rather a novice, both to Bass fishing (I caught only 5 so far) and photos...
Thought maybe you had a smaller compact with optical lense. But you might be right about the nikon, I have a nikon d7000 dslr, supposed to be weather sealed, propably ok with a few light splashes or some moisture on the outside but wouldn't like to try and rinse it in the shower thats for sure. I'd be afriad of getting even a few grains of sand near my camera just incase they scratched some of the optics.

I was thinking of picking up something specially for fishing without the worries. A good waterproof camera. Found this site.. http://waterproof-camera-review.toptenreviews.com/
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Re: Stuck with Bass fishing in Dungarvan

#47 Post by standerus »

Many friends use Panasonic Lumix either FT2, or FT3.
Quality of photos is very good!
Used to have Sony Nex 5N - few nice tricks in that camera, but... it was not sealed, once as I took a dip, broke a finger trying to save the camera from submerging...
Useless for fishing, though it was taking nice photos:

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Re: Stuck with Bass fishing in Dungarvan

#48 Post by doggy »

lovely fish, great pictures... :) nice work
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Re: Stuck with Bass fishing in Dungarvan

#49 Post by cortaz »

Hi Sanderus, nice pics n fish :P ,the english gent that took some of the pics, Michael, had a few there over the next cupple of days, the fish you hooked n lost, could they have been mullet?, there were large numbers of em in the area at the time, feeding on seaweed flys/maggot, accidently foulhooking there is quite common.
Glad you got a few fish :P .
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Re: Stuck with Bass fishing in Dungarvan

#50 Post by standerus »

Hi Cortaz
Hard to say, so far I got only one mullet so... I can't say. Though - as I am a bit obsessed with bass at the moment every time I'm connected with fish I think it's bass :)
But it felt like a take, maybe missed, honestly - hard to say.
Glad to hear that Micheal got few, he travelled far for them and spent a lot of time, I'm happy to hear that it payed for him!

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