Camera guy

In the past, AJ & I have had a few guests simply refer to us as "guide". No name, just a label. It's quite endearing. With that in mind, while filming with the New FF tv show last week, I met James, the camera man sent to shoot the show. I quickly identified with him, me as guide, he as camera guy. No names. Just labels. As it turned out, camera guy was a great guy and so into fishing that it killed him to be on the wrong side of the camera. We hit a few great days on the water, with some excellent hatches, rising fish, great takes on small streams - it was exceptional at times. In a great little twist, we bedded down as a thunderstorm raced in, barely skirting us at our location. Phil had just missed a great take and a few fish still rose. But, with graphite sticks on the tri-pod, no filming could happen so camera guy had 5 minutes to spare. True to form, camera guy took a rod and fished to a riser downstream, to no avail. Camera guy figured to fish where Phil (show hosts get named, especially if camera guy catches the fish) had just missed a fish. Sure enough, camera guy hooks up. I guess as a camera guy, if you have to work on a trout stream and you get 5 minutes to catch fish a day, best make it count! Good on you, camera guy.  ;)