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Got a nice vid from the poling platform of my boat as I waded out and did this. I was more excited that the shot came out than I was about catching the fish. It’s more difficult for me to the get the shots I want with the camera than it is to catch the fish. I know that seems a little backwards but it just is.
Shrimp buster.
Reds feeding on shrimp in a shallow creek. It would also appear that the shrimp are out to get revenge on me and the birds and reds are fighting also.
I got that Dicapac cell phone case last week. Well if you watch the video I mention that I got a new phone right before it came. It was time for an upgrade and well.. the case doesn’t fit my new phone. The case is for a clam shell phone. If you want it tell me a story in comments. What happened to you that a waterproof cell phone case would be something that would make your life more complete? Starting now!
Capt Bryan Pahmeier of Titusville, FL is the kind of guide I am talking about
I have talked about this before but it bears repeating. There are a lot of guides on our coastlines. Some are really good. Others not so much. Many will tell you they are flyfishing guides. Most will take anybody out regardless of how the person wants to fish. If you go to the coast and want to flyfish with a guide, there are some things you need to think about. First, the guide should be a better caster than you and if necessary should be able to give you casting pointers. There is a preponderance of redfish tournament anglers out there who also guide. If you hook up with one of these guys and want to flyfish the chances of the guy also knowing anything about flyfishing are small. Second, He should have flyfishing specific tactics in mind. That means specific tides and locations that he knows are good for flyfishing. Not taking you to the places where he normally fishes with spinnerbaits or live mullet and tells you to go ahead and start casting. Third, for redfishing, shallow water is better water. If he is using a trolling motor and expects to be able to sight fish for redfish from North Carolina through North Florida, then he is not fishing shallow enough. Plain and simple. Fourth, he should not be a gillnetter or sympathetic to gillnetters. If so he has a conflict of interest. A flyfishing guide is interested in live fish in the water, not dead fish rotting in a net.
A flyfishing guide is a specific entity. Not just a good fishing guide who lets you use fly tackle, but somebody who has put a lot of thought into it. He ties his own flies and probably has patterns he ties that don’t have a name, but just work because he has made a personal observation. I could go on and on but I think you get the picture. When you want to hire a guide for flyfishing in the salt, ask specific questions about flyfishing. There are too many good flyfishing guides out there to get stuck with a bait chunker.
Redfish: Copperhead
Fly: Copperhead (Bend Back)
Boat: Copperhead Skiff
Don’t you just love synergy?
I got so sick of junk coolers falling apart; handles falling off, hinges breaking, etc, that last summer I finally went ahead and got a Yeti. I am not disappointed. When I think of the money I have spent on junk coolers over the years….grrr. Now I have one I can pass down to my kids. I use this thing as a seat, a platform and of course as a cooler. Check out the video:
Sure the initial outlay of cash is higher than something you’d get at Walmart or whatever, but there is appreciable savings over the long haul. I will never own a cooler that is not a Yeti again.
I have lost 4 phones the past two years due to water related accidents. Let me just tell you that cell phones and saltwater do not mix. The poor phone goes through these death throes and vibrates and shakes like crazy as all the wiring is affected by the minerals in the saltwater. It finally gets really hot and the last time I did it there was actually smoke from inside the camera. No amount of soaking in rice or taking out the battery to dry it will help with an phone immersed in saltwater. That is why when I saw this product I was so excited. It promised to protect my phone from any water intrusion at all, even to the point of saying the phone can be used underwater. I don’t know about you, but I find it difficult to speak underwater. they probably mean to use camera, or maybe the manufacturers see a future race of merpeople needing mobile phones in Atlantis.
Anyway I shot this little video. Not exactly a pro videographer, but you’ll get the point:
I also used the case on my current phone that is activated and had a rather lengthy conversation with a fellow guide friend of mine who just happened to be driving past a major electronics chain store. He went right inside and checked them out as we were talking. He said sound quality was good on his end. On my end it sounded just like I was talking to somebody on the phone through a plastic waterproof membrane. I could hear him plainly and had no trouble understanding him. Overall I would rate this product to be exactly what it says it is. I am not planning on purposely dunking my phone in saltwater but I usually carry it in my pocket when I am fishing. My accidents have occurred when I have had to get out of the boat quickly for whatever reason. With this case I will have one less thing to worry about.
Chek out the cases here: Product Page
…and their full line of stuff here: Accessory Geeks
In case you were wondering what all the fuss is about:
This is what it looks like
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