Fat-G

I'll agree with Mr Mojo but adding...the ledges closest to a creek or river channel is my #1 starting place. I've never fished ledges before, but if I did I would try to find the ledge closest to a creek channel, river channel, or road bed with timber.

Where would you guys suggest going for a 4-5 day trip? I was looking at the Dream Lake Lodge in Alabama, and it looks pretty awesome. I would probably go for at least three days, maybe 4-5. Dream Lake has 14 bass boats, and a nice lodge with food that is apparently amazing. That's looking like a good option. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Smoke/Purple Flake

Bass-Brat do you have a favorite senko color? Nicely played my friend. HAHA. As for me, it's definitely Watermelon Black & Red Flake. Love it. bassman- this has nothing to do with this thread, but the fish in your avatar is a HAWG

I've got a Lowrider 7' Carolina Lizard Dragger (7' Heavy, more like a MH) that I'll sell you for $75! PM me if you're interested. I only used it once. That would be an awesome light jig rod.

Yes sir! Catt- Every time I've looked at these, I've thought "Man, these things are big-fish baits." I already love 'em. ;D

Has every thing to do with it. An automatic camera, modern digital, will always select the correct f stop for any given shutter speed. Granted there is no aperture ring but you can still adjust the speed or f stop manually to your liking with a simple press of a button. For fish pics, I just leave it on program and they turn out decently enough, I'm there to fish and pictures are a remote priority. 100000%.........correct, and well said. Fat g, I'm glad the av mode worked well for you, shirt more in focus at f8? Also the lenses on these camera are not the greatest, unless you get into something that you can interchange lenses. My Fuji does not have interchangeable but I can use filters, I really like my polarizing filter. I know my camera at least does this. When your in either Aperture Priority or Shutter Speed Priority, the opposite will be automatic, I guess. It turned out better. I eventually changed the +/- setting to -1 2/3, which let less light into the shot, but helped focus on what the flash covered. This is one of the reasons why I love BR! You guys are awesome.

Just to clarify, setting your ASA to 1600 has absolutely zero to do with opening your aperature to a wide setting. They're two completely different things. Your aperature is controlled by turning a dial on your lens, or turning a dial on your camera that does the same thing as turning the dial on your lens. With newer lenses, you don't even have a F-Stop dial anymore. In any case, your ASA setting should generally be set something like ASA 100-200 for outdoors in the sun, or when shooting with your flash. ASA 400 should be used when your're not using your flash, perhaps at dusk, when there's still some descent light but not bright sunlight, and speeds of 800 or more should be used for things like shooting concerts where you're not using your flash. You can get away with 400 at a concert if you're very selective and wait for nice bright light on the subject. You don't need anything higher than 400 when using a good flash. On digital cameras the higher the ASA/ISO setting the more "noise" you'll get. "Noise" was called "Grain" in the old days of film cameras. The less "noise" in a photo, the better unless you're purposly trying to get a grainy image for a specific reason. Your F-stops are completely different. Your F-stop is one of the ways to control the amount of light that hits your sensor(or film back in the day) The shutter speed is the other. The lower F-stops like F 2.0 allow more light into the camera, therefore allowing you to use a faster shutter speed if you desire. The higher F-stops like F22 let very little light into the camera, therefore forcing you to shoot in much brighter light, or forcing you to shoot with a much slower shutter speed. Also the lower the f-stop you use, the less depth of field you're going to achieve. So for example if you want to take a portrait of your dog and there's some bushes in the background, use a longer lens, and a lower F-stop to purposly blurr out the background so your subject, the doggie, stands out more and doesn't get lost in the background. With shorter lenses like anything from 8mm to around 50mm you'll have trouble blurring out the background by using lower F-stops. The longer the lens, the less depth of field you're going to have in general. F-3.5 on a 135mm lens will give you much less depth of field than a 35mm lens from the same distance, with the same settings. That's what I've been told. So, in the bright sun, with no shade, what should I set the shutter speed and aperture to?

I'm thinkin' the Baby would be good with a 2/0 and 1/16 oz. tungsten weight. Thoughts?

Picked up some Craws tonight. Rage Craw- Summer Craw, Baby Rage Craw- Candy Craw. I'm pumped to fish these. What hook size do you use for the Babys? Weight or no weight?

Can- 1. to be able to; have the ability, power, or skill to: She can solve the problem easily, I'm sure.

Wow-where is the love? If a person can't be bothered to take an extra second or two to add proper punctuation and/or capitalization, it makes them seem unintelligent, careless, lazy, and/or disrespectful. Just my $.02 x2, which makes $.04

Just got back. The aperture priority mode worked very well. The highest setting the SX120 IS has is f8.0. I tried that with the ISO on auto, the exposure (I think? It's the +/- symbol) on 0 at first, with flash. The pics were still very bright,. so I changed the exposure to -1.6. That helped a lot. Thanks guys, I'll try some different settings too. Vinny, I hope it doesn't seem like I'm hijacking the thread. I'm learning too

It will be on a tripod. I'll go try the ap. mode now. Thanks dude.

I caught a 7.5 one time with one eye. I guess she just never saw it coming.

Your picture perfectly describes you. ;D

Right now, I'm going with one setup: Flippin' stick

Nice fish man! Carolina rigs can be killer in the Summer.

koulaid- Megapixels only matter if you're going to enlarge the image significantly, or do a major cropping. Good advice on sun angles. Vinny- I use the same camera for fishing pictures. A good setting for pictures is the Shutter Speed Priority. On a sunny day, set the ISO to 80 or 100, flip up the flash, and set the shutter speed to at least 1600. The SX120 IS has a cool timer feature on it called FaceSelf-Timer. When the camera detects a face, it will take however many pictures you set it to (1-10). It's a good thing to use. You can press the capture button and get set-up in the position you want, then look at the camera so it detects your face. I set it to 10 pictures, so you can get alot of the fish-holding positions, ie. vertical, horizontal, diagonal, etc. With the flash, there is about a 3 second delay between pictures, so you can change grip, hands, fish position, etc. If you're not confident in the set of pictures you took, do it again. I have found the pictures I take under trees (shade) to come out better. The bright-sun photos make my shirt blurry. I'll have to figure that out. Oh, also, like Bass_Akwards was saying, the background really is what makes the fish blend in or really "pop". Wearing a black or dark green shirt is going to "ruin" the picture. Colors like purple (that's why I always wear the baseball shirts for my school), yellow, blue, grey, red, etc. are going to be much better than dark colors. Hope this helps some, Bass_Akwards is the expert on this!

Nice bass dude! Hoss material.

x10, but add Trick Worms.

I seriously wish they would make a GOOD $90-$120 reel. I love my Advantage, and would love a reel just like it but a wee bit cheaper.

I would recommend getting a Vendetta 7' MHF. IMO, it's a better rod than both of those. Next suggestion would be saving a little more and getting a more expensive rod.

What about a 705c? BTW, I settled on the 735c I asked you about earlier. 705 will be pretty close to the rod you have... Sounds like you want something for a little lighter plastics and such.. I'm a firm believer in longer rods as well, and you already have 1 7'3 rod! They help. 704 or 734c it is. That will work well for spinnerbaits too I guess?

What about a 705c? BTW, I settled on the 735c I asked you about earlier.