fishing for the camera

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Ron Mc
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fishing for the camera

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Sorry I don't have my usual close-up shots of fish here, but all these shots were taken from "behind
the scenes" by my buddy Jimbo.
We got to work with Kevin Townsend and The KT Diaries production team last week, filming a show
on Guadalupe bass conservation.
They filmed a day at the Johnson Creek Hatchery, and another stocking fingerlings on the South Llano.
They asked me to take KT fishing, first day catching our Texas brook trout in their home water, and
the second, getting some bigger fish on the camera for "viewers".
Jimbo came along for those two
days, as well, and he managed to get a few photos and videos for us - albeit at distance.
Jimbo also did a great job providing fly boxes and advice, rounding out our ability to keep KT on fish.
Kevin is a famous tarpon guide out of Port O, has produced this show for a few years, and is used to killing
a dozen rods every year on 200-lb. fish.
But he laughed and giggled all day catching endemic Guadalupe bass and long-ear sunfish in their natural
habitat.
Here are KT and me getting in at our undisclosed location
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Nice thing was, I walked up and caught the first fish, right where I said it would be.
Our Guadalupe of the day was a 15-incher, a lunker for an endemic bass, and Craig, our US Marine camerman,
got some good close-up shots. (we did give him a workout for the day.)
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fish live here
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KT got several Guads for the camera walking into the chute and pool on the right
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and a few more at this tailout
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going downriver, with my southpaw and Kevin's wrong-hand-wind, we gravitated toward left bank (him) and right bank (me)
Kevin is behind those trees catching fish
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they're taking close-up video of a long-ear sunfish here
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in the next fast run through a cypress tunnel, KT told me water this fast in the Rockies wouldn't hold trout
I told him just to keep up the roll-cast-and-swing and the ruts in the dolomite would get him a couple of fish
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and they did
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getting late in the day, but this is where Kevin was laughing - catching fish after fish on Jimbo's popper
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last chute (shoot) of the day
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I fished my Floyd Burkett Guadalupe cane rod, and KT fished my SA System 5 and Hardy Golden Prince.
Used to fishing telephone poles for tarpon, he was more than delighted with the action of the glass rod, and
I believe he will give some time on the show to our discussions of cane and glass rods, and the value of
mid-length, mid-weight rods for fishing the water above.
Next day, big water and big fish,
he would be back to TFO graphite, and I fished my Izch parabolic 6/7 glass.

next day, up early in the dark for our big fish shoot on an undisclosed aquifer recharge creek
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OK, this is the right place, umm, except Kevin is wearing the wrong hat - 5 minute break guys, while Erin runs for the right hat
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we only needed a couple of big fish for the camera, and this is sight-fishing in gin-clear water
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to some big persnickety largemouths who have seen it all
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glorious water
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my turn
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Great shot, Jimbo!
I think they had all they needed, but now we're in to gratuitous fish-catching
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filming the release underwater
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the view off the dam
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winding down for the morning
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While we had fished for 10 on the previous day, we got everything we needed in 2 hours on this day.
It was great to be a part of it.
Thanks to Mick and Gary Garrett of TPWD for getting us involved - what we got out of it was a promise of a
tarpon trip with KT, and I'm sure we will take him up on it.
But we also got a chance to tell the
story of endemic Guadalupe bass and their conservation to a wider fishing audience.
Great times.

Unfortunately, KT Diaries doesn't air in San Antonio, but it should air in a few months in Austin, DFW and Houston.
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Post by Brian F. »

Great photos and story as usual, Ron. Good to see you getting in the water again.
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Post by Richard Lodge »

Thanks for sharing that, Ron. Neat story and a lot of interesting photos that show what was going on. Looks like a great river.
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