Stuck with bass fishing in Dungarvan

Not exactly "shore angling" but...










Got afloat for today, to check new place. Few takes and this one. Nice fight, few shots and... back where it belongs.

Congratulations man! All the time spent finally payed up. I'm happy for you!

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.

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


http://youtube.com/watch?v=Op9mBbo92Ik

Can I ask what bait you are using for bass fishing??? I'm new to this!

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? viewforum.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

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/

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:

lovely fish, great pictures... nice work

Hi Sanderus, nice pics n fish ,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 .
Arthur.

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!