Hey, I'll give ya the nickel version of what her avatar is since she's probably not gonna be posting tonite. We're both tired and ready for an early dinner. It's been a very long manic Monday here in fish picture paradise
It was a pretty busy day that started way too early as it was.
Yup, it's just like when people used to tell me when we were shooting a lot (I dunno - is 30-40K exposures in 4 months a lot?) "Just take a picture". My response was always the same
- well, I wish anyway, but I really couldn't. It's never as easy as it looks, I suppose.
It's like making thousands of plugs and having each one come out
exactly the same - BY HAND. Believe me it ain't fun and ya don't get rich but you can take pride in it, whether you're Portuguese or Polish. Ahhhh, horse****...I'm goin' to the GOP after this post for a cold beer.
Anyway, the woman in the rowboat is Chisie Farrington and the illustrator is Lynn Bogue Hunt, the wildlife artist - you can Google either one. Chisie Farrington was 5' nothing and weighed 102 lbs., had polio as a kid and was partially paralized on her right side - and still held many of the IGFA records for years with her catches of GBT's - the scene pictured in the avatar was the landing of a GBT in the '30's that weighed 720 lbs. Not bad for a girl with a bamboo rod, huh? Her husband Kip was one of the founders of the IGFA way back when and he was as proud of her as anything he had ever done himself, if not more so.
Let that be an inspiration to ya, ladies.
And yeah, I've always said a woman could probably outfish a man IF they used their own skills in the game rather than just a contest of brute strength. Ya gotta be smart to fish smart.
There ya go - I said it. Okay, let's see if we can get a flame war going before the other big girls show - which oughta be anytime real soon.
God knows I'm ready.
Hey, sorry, somehow I knew this wan't gonna be a short story....I guess I don't know any.
It's time for din-din.