If a lot of outdoors photography is about being in the right place at the right time, then I would like to suggest that fishing photography is even more so about this, plus a great big serving of luck as well. Sure, when the light goes off you can work on putting yourself in the right position to shoot photos of your mates fishing away (whilst trying to hide where you actually are etc., one of the “joys” of shooting fishing!), but you can’t plan for when fish are hooked, and when you are out there fishing yourself, you can’t always plan for where you yourself will be standing as and when something visually exciting goes off. Saying that though, when the light goes off I’ll be shooting stills instead of actually fishing………...
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Happy New Year, hope you all had a good Xmas, here’s to 2017. Well I reckon that’s me and wading boots done and dusted. My roughly £25 Dunlop safety boots have lasted the three months that I told myself they needed to last before I would wholeheartedly adopt them as my wading boots of choice (check here, and yes, I know, they aren’t actually wading boots), and I am now really keen to see how long they will last before falling apart. But that’s kinda the point here for me - I don’t care if these Dunlop things fall apart tomorrow, because for the price they are firstly an absolute steal with how I’ve been using and abusing them, and secondly and arguably more importantly, these £25 boots have rather effectively highlighted to me just how badly made far too many of the “proper” wading boots are that I have tried over a bunch of years now……….
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