by paul » Tue Mar 28, 2017 1:39 pm
Jersey Devil,
The rivers already shot (most not yet released) for this game include 3 in Connecticut, 3 in Massachusetts, 2 in Maine, 8 in New Hampshire, 2 in New Jersey, 3 in New York, 1 in Pennsylvania and 4 in Vermont. The very first photo shoot I did for this app was through New England, but I was still working out the new photo/video shooting technique to produce the animated scenes, so the quality of the results wasn't always up to my current standards. That's one reason I'm returning to New England this spring.
Of the 18 rivers released, there are actually 5 east of the Mississippi including one in New Jersey, one in New Hampshire, and 3 in Wisconsin. True, there's only 2 in the eastern time zone released so far, but I'm not ignoring the eastern US. The river coming out on April 8th is the Lamprey River in New Hampshire, and the Delaware River in New York will release in May. It will take almost 2 years at a river a week to prepare and release all the rivers I've shot so far, and my release schedule has waters from east, west and Midwest mixed in.
That said, I'm continuing to work on the diversity. This May I plan to shoot:
Letort Spring Branch, PA
Nishisakawick Creek, NJ
Dunnfield Cr, NJ
Paulin's Kill, NJ
Flat Brook, NJ
Sebasticook River, ME
Mattawamkeag River, ME
Penobscot River, ME
East Outlet, ME
Dead River, ME
Kennebec River, ME
Ammonoosuc River, NH
White River, VT
Tweed River, VT
West Branch Ausable River, NY
Kayaderosseras Creek, NY
Clarion River, PA
Spring Creek, PA
Clear Creek, PA
That's the photo shoot plan for May. In April I'll shoot several in Michigan (also east of the Mississippi) a state that I haven't hit at all yet, despite it being the home of Trout Unlimited. Similarly I don't yet have a single water in Alaska, so I'll be shooting there in June. I'm not done shooting the west by any means, either. In September I plan to hit more around West Yellowstone. Next year, perhaps I'll shoot something outside North America. I hear from New Zealanders in particular hoping to see some of their waters added someday, and I'd certainly love to shoot England, Scotland, Finland... The list of places I'd like to shoot is endless.
As I complete these shoots I expect to revise the planned release order, to mix in places from the new shoots with places I've already shot, so some of these new locations don't take years to be released.
At this time the app is very heavily weighted towards trout fishing vs other species, with only one smallmouth bass river released so far. I'll add some more bass waters this year, too. A fair complaint would be the lack of salmon, and for that I need the fish pictures as much as the waters, and I use only photos I've shot myself in this app. The Alaska trip should remedy that. I don't plan to include saltwater fly fishing in this app, but a separate saltwater version might be possible down the road. The animation method I developed for this works quite well with flowing currents, but less so with waves, so surf wouldn't look as good as I would want it to. The same goes for still water fishing. I've shot a few lakes, and will probably publish a few, but conditions have to be right for the water animation to look right using just a few frames, as is necessary to keep the file sizes reasonable.
Pishtech is a one man operation, and the fly fishing app is just one of several that I publish, but I'm working hard to keep expanding the variety in Fly Fishing Simulator.
If you're unsatisfied with the variety of waters, please email me (paul at pishtech dot com) with a copy of your receipt from the app store and ask for a refund.
Paul