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[cohoslayer1]

While fishing with some friends i have come with these questions.

why is it that everyone must have a picture of a steelhead? why can't they just look and let it go? Is a picture actually worth a million words? why can't you just write about ti in your own words and feel what you felt the day you cough it? The finall question is: Is a picture worth a life of a beauty steelhead?


I can see that if you bonk the steelhead a picture is defiantly worth taking.

tell me what you all think about taking pictures.

[Boozi]

The fish wont die. If it can handle jumping up rapids and hittin rocks on the way up. Im pretty sure bein lifted out of the water for 2 seconds wont do much harm

[younggun]

Or how some of us are old school and dont own a digital camera yet.

[Boozi]

^^^ hahahaha
Or how some people own realllly slow camera's (cohokid)

[Fish Assassin]

Yes, a picture is worth a thousand words. The reason why people take pictures of the fish they catch is the same reason why parents take pictures of their kids. It's the same reason why hockey players gather around to have their picture taken of the Stanley Cup when they win it. Pictures last a lifetime. It chronicles history.

There is nothing wrong with taking a picture if the fish was handled properly.

[chronic]

Or how some of us are old school and dont own a digital camera yet.

but your younggun, how could you be old school?

[Fish Assassin]

Or how some of us are old school and dont own a digital camera yet.

but your younggun, how could you be old school?

 

[itosh]

Perhaps you should catch one first, take a pic and then in a years time see if you would ask the same question.

I think each pic will bring back some memories of that certain day.  As an example, I will look at a certain steelhead pic I have and I will always remember the good company of the day, my fear of losing the fish, why didn't the photographer take a better shot but most of all I will remember that I have never seen anybody run the 100m dash over a bouldery river bank as fast as I saw Rodney do it that particular day!!  Woulda made a fully steroidized Ben Johnson look bad!!    (Thanks for the pic BTW)

Or perhaps you have caught so many steelhead that they aren't a special fish for you anymore?

Pictures, and not just steelhead pics, ARE worth a thousand words and then some.... IMHO.


Shane

[younggun]

ok i cant afford one and my parents dont trust me with their's, happy!?

[tnt]

I have been taking pictures of steelhead since I was 12 years old,so thats fifteen years now. I have always packed a camera, do I feel it hurts the fish if you take care and attention, not at all, why do I take pictures, for all the memories with family and friends, I have my little brothers first steelhead on film, I have his first hatchery on film, I have pictures of a triple header on steelhead, with family!!!
today alone we photographed three awesome 12-17 LBs bucks that we hooked fishing the rip rap of the upper river. we chased fish just for the picture.
I guess some people dont have that great picture,or never make  the effort to take a great picture. Whether its a steelhead a smelly white spring or a carp, as long as you do your do diligence when taking a picture you should never be afraid of taking a snap or 2.

[TheBaiter]

i take a picture of my fish whenever i can so when im old i can look back on al the fish that i caught

[Ribwart]

I will take pictures, but never if it puts a fish at risk for a lower chance of survival. I'd rather just release it safely than anything else. I rarely post any of the fish I catch, but keep the pictures as part of a journal, for memories and reference sake.

The only time I will take pics of a fish that is to be released is while it is being revived, a quick 1-2 inch lift out of the water for a second and a pic can be taken in the few short moments it takes for the fish to revive. If it revives before a pic can be taken, no skin off my back.

Otherwise any other pictures I take are of hatchery fish that have been killed, then some more creative pictures can be taken. Having said that though, I rarely keep a hatchery, I release them. Some anglers can't understand why I don't kill my hatchery fish...While in turn, I can't understand the need to kill every hatchery fish you catch. I have kept two hatchery fish over the years, that's it.

If an angler has a fish on and he is on his own, I will usually walk over and offer to help tail it, I find this often contributes to better fish handling and avoids those embarrasing instances when someone struggles endlessly with a fish just to get a picture of it...usually the angler is quite glad for the help, and I'm sure the fish is too...

rib