excellent article Mark, yes its always been a difficult area that of self photography with fish, I must say I do like the idea of the swievel screen, in the old days of course we used the bankstick frame method as you mention, when autofocus came on the market and affordable motorwinders, life became a lot easier, by preferance was a specialy adapted cable release with a large bulb placed under the unhooking mat and operated bn the knee, hence you could set the camera on continuous release and just fire away, never been to keen on the timer though especially with large carp, your photographs look very good though Mark