Got any concrete plant pics? The joys of salty brownlining

Saw @Matt B and @Gary Knowels a few times, managed some ambiance shots-
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Nothing a little structural caulk couldn't fix...
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@Stonedfish - you'll be pleased that vice 6wt I got from you has given great joy to my son and I!
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Jack's telling me to go for the double hookup, which we got, if only for a minute or two. The hottest 5 minutes of the day...lots of pods just not a lot of catching, ended up hooking maybe 6, landing three. Small flies did better.
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We saw an eagle chase an osprey and then we figured out where the nest was. You can just see it in the forest background two pics up. This nest is about 400 yards from the ship that Matt and Gary were at, so as much as it is a concrete jungle, there's plenty of interesting wildlife down there....
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Wadin' Boot said:
Saw @Matt B and @Gary Knowels a few times, managed some ambiance shots-
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Nothing a little structural caulk couldn't fix...
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@Stonedfish - you'll be pleased that vice 6wt I got from you has given great joy to my son and I!
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Jack's telling me to go for the double hookup, which we got, if only for a minute or two. The hottest 5 minutes of the day...lots of pods just not a lot of catching, ended up hooking maybe 6, landing three. Small flies did better.
At one point we saw porpoise but couldn't get a photoView attachment 165573
We saw an eagle chase an osprey and then we figured out where the nest was. You can just see it in the forest background two pics up. This nest is about 400 yards from the ship that Matt and Gary were at, so as much as it is a concrete jungle, there's plenty of interesting wildlife down there....
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Good to see Jack sticking some fish with that rod.
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Wadin' Boot said:
Saw @Matt B and @Gary Knowels a few times, managed some ambiance shots-
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Nothing a little structural caulk couldn't fix...
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@Stonedfish - you'll be pleased that vice 6wt I got from you has given great joy to my son and I!
View attachment 165571
Jack's telling me to go for the double hookup, which we got, if only for a minute or two. The hottest 5 minutes of the day...lots of pods just not a lot of catching, ended up hooking maybe 6, landing three. Small flies did better.
At one point we saw porpoise but couldn't get a photoView attachment 165573
We saw an eagle chase an osprey and then we figured out where the nest was. You can just see it in the forest background two pics up. This nest is about 400 yards from the ship that Matt and Gary were at, so as much as it is a concrete jungle, there's plenty of interesting wildlife down there....
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the pic with Matt's little tin boat transposed against the massive ship bow is awesome!!
 
Great photos as usual, @Wadin' Boot. It’s clear you have a great eye when your photos look better than the real thing.

I thought I saw porpoises in the See-ment estuary, too, but they were far away and then one time I saw a pinniped in the same area and convinced myself I was not seeing porpoises up there.
 
Matt B said:
Great photos as usual, @Wadin' Boot. It’s clear you have a great eye when your photos look better than the real thing.

I thought I saw porpoises in the See-ment estuary, too, but they were far away and then one time I saw a pinniped in the same area and convinced myself I was not seeing porpoises up ther
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this guy definitely had a dorsal fin and was not seal sneaky...often the seals will stare straight back, this guy was surfacing every 15 yards before they vanished

Sure the telephoto exaggerates a little, background appears bigger. But in this case you guys were so close to the ship that it is not particularly exaggerating. Where you are the ship's bow would have a V to it, the bow bulb would be visible (the depth marker hourglass gives it away from where I was) and in general it would look way narrower. But 200 yards back the ship proportions come into play. This is the shot before the shot I placed above, you can see how I cropped it, maxxing ship size, the ship's port and starboard are basically vertical, just lucked out on the angles of facing the ship bow. Plus you crouch down in the original and that makes the ship look even bigger...we could almost run a pool on how tall you are based on the depth stick in the background. Seems like if you needed a trig problem to solve for math class this could be a good one...

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I cruised back in there to see if we could locate a pod--hundreds of fish just visible, ghostly under the water's dark surface in the gray morning light--that we previously found in there, and over which we watched Gary strip his little bonefish fly, and a fish peel off and track it, following following following from behind, the fish open and close its mouth and the little fly disappear, followed by an adept strip set and a head-shaking and confused salmon.
 
Dennisoft said:
"One day, you’ll fish for pinks in front of the concrete plant, keeping or letting ’em go — and you won’t know that it’ll be twenty-three months before you’re back there again."
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Jack Handey truth!
 
How would one go about joining this unique and storied angling cult of the concrete plants? Are there special rituals and secret handshakes involved? I look forward to two years from now and hope that I too can partake of this incredible experience. I’ve already started preparing myself by ditching all craft beers and libations in lieu of Busch Light tall boys. Is this a good start?
 
Novinsky said:
How would one go about joining this unique and storied angling cult of the concrete plants? Are there special rituals and secret handshakes involved? I look forward to two years from now and hope that I too can partake of this incredible experience. I’ve already started preparing myself by ditching all craft beers and libations in lieu of Busch Light tall boys. Is this a good start?
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Probably the finest way to enjoy is in something safe that floats and is reasonably nimble. There are legit ships, tugboats, barges and so on that can't make quick adjustments. Independent of your already good start, the spectrum is probably somewhere between living down by the river in a van and checking out the varied public access...
 
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