2017 so far....

Its been quite a year so far for me with work and home life.

I have taken every opportunity to wet  line over the past 8 months and even when I havent had a rod in my hands i have been snapping away on the coastline.

Below are a selection of shots from this year so far....

I unfortunatly lost my father earlier this month.... and with him I also lost an awful amount of angling experience.  I have taken up the mantle of head-fisherman of the household and as such I will be doing a good deal more fishing with my mother and the rest of the family from now on.

Tight Lines old man....... we are gonna miss you

Photospheres

My latest photosphere taken on Blyth beach this afternoon.

Still can't get it perfect.....

There is always one straight line that..well....isn't straight.  I will get there eventually!
My other photospheres can be found on Google Views by clicking the "Photospheres" tab at the tob of this blog.

Views: Blyth Beach by Alan Rodmell

Blyth Beach 18th May 2014

After a scorching hot day yesterday I decided that I needed to get out onto a beach and get a short session in before the end of the weekend.

Fishing is still slow at this time of year but you can still pick up some Flounder, Plaice and a few other species from most marks.

We decided to head to Blyth Beach and fish the tide down to Low Water.  As it happened we did not stay until the tide turned as I had to get up for work this morning.  We picked up a few small flounder each and enjoyed some nice scenery as the sun set.

Randoms

A long shot.......

Fishing is still very slow at the minute.  There are a few reports of odd decent fish here and there but no great numbers of them in any one area.
I had the choice of probably the Middens at North Shields or one of the local beaches last night.  Turns out there was a club match on and most members were in the river which meant that the Middens would have been full of rods.
I decided on giving the Astley on Blyth beach a go.
It was a long shot and I did not really expect anything...... just as well.

f5.6, 1/400s, ISO200 Fujifilm Finepix F660EXR

f14, 1/160s, ISO125 Fujifilm Finepix F660EXR

f13, 1/420s, ISO100 Fujifilm Finepix F660EXR

f10, 1/100s, ISO100 Fujifilm Finepix F660EXR

f10, 1/250s, ISO200 Fujifilm Finepix F660EXR

f3.9, 1/450s, ISO100 Fujifilm Finepix F660EXR

f3.5, 1/800s, ISO100 Fujifilm Finepix F660EXR

On occasion you will find that your camera does funny things when set to automatically select certain settings for your shots.  Most, I have found, will actually produce some outstandingly beautiful yet unusual shots.
While fishing I saw a few planes fly inland over our heads.  I saw the opportunity to get a shot of a silhouette of a plane as it flew into the clouds in front of the sun. Unfortunately with little time to consider my settings I blasted off a few shots before the plane disappeared.
One shot was a bust as it was totally overexposed having been taken with the camera directly pointing at the sun.  The other shot actually held onto a lot of shadow detail although it still looked washed-out and lacking in contrast at first glance.

An Auto contrast adjustment in Picasa gave me this!

f4.4, 1/2000s, ISO100 Fujifilm Finepix F660EXR (Auto Contrast Adjustment)