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Deschutes River Fishing

Summer Steelhead is my favorite time of the year. It’s been a good season so far. Not a lot of fish but consistent fishing, plus some Salmon to help out the freezer. Open seats available for August 2024!

Jason Poe with a 25# Chinook on Steelhead gear.
Patti and Wyatt getting in on the action.
Patti with her first steelhead of the day
What I thought was a cool shot of an Osprey
Eric with a nice steelhead
Eric with another one
Wyatt hooking fish again
Wild one released unharmed
Eric with a nice Chinook
Barton trying to release a steelhead
Jeff with a nice wild steelhead
Big steel
Joe is getting them
And another
Brad with his fish of the day
Jason just before he hooks a big chinook up
Steel
Jason with a nice native
Lenard with a really nice steelhead
Eric just whacking them
More steel
12# of meat!
My beautiful smoking hot wife flexing
Pretty nice keeper I’d say.
Mark with a small but feisty one
Here she is again with an action pose
Eric helping land his buddy Cameron’s fish
The General with a nice fish.
Zach released this steelhead.
Zach landing a keeper
It’s been a good season and I hope to see you next year!
Senior and long time fishing buddy Don Webb (RIP) you guys.
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Another cold windy day!

Doing our best to get camp ready. The camp guys have been busting it. Almost completed setting up guest tents. Fishing should be good tomorrow. More pics to come.

Who’s living in there I wonder.
Another hole something has been living in.
Cap making sure everyone is doing okay.
Stihl sitting there, no Mosquitoes this year, heavenly!
New carburetor for the baby Yamaha. Put a new tank and new carb on the big Yomommaha, also.
One shower stall ready.
Working on stall number two. Drying out my pillow that got wet last night.
Trying out the Outback tent from Cabela’s.
Camp almost up.

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A windy day today.

At least the sun is out and things are looking better. Going to start more effort to catching a King from camp today.

My Dad’s green door we painted as a prank. I doubt he enjoyed our horseshit with him but he always seemed to laugh at it.
Painted the front pink. Hahahaha
Ears just a flapping in the wind.
The wind is starting to blow!
Senior’s old purple boat that was supposed to be blue.
Year 33, sitting on this beach. Not the boat, just me.
Living large.
Doesn’t like the bumps in the boat.
The kitchen looking closer to being ready.
The greater yellowlegs
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A windy day today.

At least the sun is out and things are looking better. Going to start more effort to catching a King from camp today.

My Dad’s green door we painted as a prank. I doubt he enjoyed our horseshit with him but he always seemed to laugh at it.
Painted the front pink. Hahahaha
Ears just a flapping in the wind.
The wind is starting to blow!
Senior’s old purple boat that was supposed to be blue.
Year 33, sitting on this beach. Not the boat, just me.
Living large.
Doesn’t like the bumps in the boat.
The kitchen looking closer to being ready.
The greater yellowlegs
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Beginner Photography

Wildlife Photography can be the most rewarding, yet challenging photography for photographers… These are some shots taken over the last year with the new Nikon D850 and the Nikon 200-500 MM lens… Knowing nothing about F Stops, aperture speed, ISO settings and other numerous settings for this camera, I watched hours of YouTube videos and podcasts to figure it out…

Here are some things that helped me figure out the Nikon D850 camera and Wildlife Photography…

First thing that became apparent to me was with a big lens on zoom you shake too much when hand held shooting… So shooting at a higher speed takes out some of that blur and some of that wiggle, unless on a tripod of course… With that, make sure you up your ISO to allow more light to get to your light sensor with that fast shutter speed…  So higher ISO when shooting faster shutter speed… That will allow the pic to be clear with no blur and plenty of light getting into the photo…

Second thing that became important was to take practice shots randomly to make sure you have the right settings for when that bird or deer pops up and you’re ready to go… Having missed a lot of great shots because the settings were wrong, cost a lot of  pictures that could have been amazing but turned out too dark or too bright…  So now checking my settings with some quick practice shots help make sure not to miss those shots…

Thirdly, practice practice practice… Take lots of photo’s and use lots of different settings, this will help you know automatically what settings you need to be at depending on what conditions you are shooting in…

These are some basic tips for beginner to novice photographers like me…