Danny Fairbrass & Peder Lichtenberg Thinking Tackle

In this Thinking Tackle adventure, Danny Fairbrass travels to Denmark to go fishing for wild carp alongside Danish big carp specialist Peder Lichtenberg. Together, they take on one of Europe's most challenging big carp lakes, searching for elusive wild Danish carp across thousands of acres of open water, lilies and reeds.

East of the Danish mainland lies Lake Sorø - a vast, windswept inland sea where wild carp are few and far between. Battling relentless weather, changing conditions and the sheer scale of the venue, Danny and Peder rely on boats, echo sounder technology and pinpoint rig placement to stay in touch with the fish. Every decision matters, from choosing when to move swims to placing rigs with absolute precision.

This isn't a session measured by the number of bites. It's an adventure driven by exploration, teamwork and the challenge of locating a tiny stock of truly wild carp in one of Europe's most demanding public waters. Along the way, Danny gains invaluable insight into Peder's unique approach to big-water carp fishing and discovers just how much preparation, patience and adaptability it takes to succeed.

Will Danny realise his long-held ambition of catching a truly wild Danish carp?

TRANSCRIPT FOR THINKING TACKLE - DENMARK
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Don't film this.

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Lew, I can't do all of this on my own.
I'll get it, I'll get it.

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You in?
He's trying to film it all.

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Not helping.
I'm filming all of it.

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Get in there!

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East of the Danish mainland, wild,
covered in lilies, and mercilessly exposed

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to the elements is a large body
of water known as Lake Sorø.

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This inland sea contains exactly
the sort of carp I love to catch.

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It's been a dream of mine to fish
with big fish hunter Peder Lichtenberg.

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Knowing the man as I do, I just knew
we were destined for a great adventure.

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This lake was going to be super demanding.

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It would test me to my absolute limits,
but to catch a large wild Danish

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carp would make it all worthwhile.

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Welcome to Thinking Tackle Denmark.

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Fish isn't it.

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Go and get the net.

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You're just shell-shocked, mate.

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No, you haven't got the net back
in the boat, have you?

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Get in there!

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We were greeted by a cold,
wet weather front, not ideal for finding

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a tiny stock of carp in over 1,000 acres.

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As you can see, for June, the carp
fishing weather is absolutely epic.

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The wind is swirling around.

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It was hammering up the other
end a little while ago.

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To give you a sense of what this feels
like,

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Feels like a military operation,
and the boys I've been with last

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weekend will know all about that.
You know who you are.

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We're approaching the bay.

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It looks super, super carpy.

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There are acres of lilies in this bay.

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Our target for this trip
is for one of us to catch one Danish carp.

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Now in camp, we spent some
time getting our kit in order.

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Whether you're doing a night or a week,
it takes just as long to set up.

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Oh yeah, man.

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Next priority was deciding where
we were going to place the rods.

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So if that's going to be left,
where's, where's going to be the next one

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down, sort of in where them trees are
in the reeds, or not as far round as that.

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You see where the birds are?

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Yes.
Probably—

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That'll be rod number 2.

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Somewhere in that area,
I would probably maybe get one

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on the edge of the lily pads.

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You can go further in,
and the next one you see,

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we can move one further out that way.

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That's probably more or less—it's not—

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that's probably what we can do here,
because in the middle it's very, very,

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very silty, and there's going
to be a lot of silkweed.

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I haven't checked with Echo Sounder yet,
but that's my guess.

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With all this commotion,
do you really think they're going to come

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round this close under all the lines
back leaded and everything?

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I don't think they mind.

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It's a big lake, you know,
they're used to boat traffic and you've

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got the big boat going backwards
and forwards and you've got all

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the boats here, you know, I don't think—
Yeah.

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So I think I'll be all right.

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But yeah, it's a possibility.

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But what we can do is we've got a couple
of rods fixed already in our

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heads where they need to go.
Yes.

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But the issue is with some of the stuff we
need to get in the boat first

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just to check the bottom.
We haven't done that yet.

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So we still need to go out to do that.

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Yeah, yeah.

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So me beloved singles are redundant
for this session,

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and me stows, I could use them,
but like this with these standard

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hockey sticks with a real heavy bobbin
on it, after the bite and the bobbin falls

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away, it could pull that out of there
because it's only in there by a magnet.

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In normal fishing conditions for the UK,
that is never an issue because the bobbins

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are never heavy enough and you've not got
your rods 2 rod lengths

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out into the water.

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But for this situation,
they are not good enough,

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so I'm going to swap over to some heavy
black and whites,

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and their hockey sticks.

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The bit that goes up inside actually
locks in position so they can't fall off.

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So that is the name of the game.

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Get rid of the UK stuff and get
on with some European ones.

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Many of you will know that I'm very
particular about the level of my bank

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sticks,
but I'm not sure Peder was too impressed

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by how far I was willing to take it.

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Having not fished big waters for some time
left me woefully unprepared,

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and with kit failing on me that was
clearly not fit for purpose,

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the last one, and there's a rock there.

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I wasn't exactly enjoying
the start of my Danish adventure.

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Why is that not going in there?
What the?

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It must have collapsed in on itself
when I was hammering it.

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We men are simple creatures.

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After careful consideration,
the first line of attack is always

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brute force, which usually doesn't work.

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Oh, look, it's split it now.
But we do it anyway.

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While all this was going on,
Peder had been out in the boat and had now

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returned to tell me what
he'd seen on the echo.

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So this is obviously the swim.
You've got the bar.

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Look at that.
You see the white part there?

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Look at the big shades.
Those are big fish.

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You see there's one there,
that white one there.

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There's one there, there, and there.
That's 3 carp.

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Really?
We can even see, like, the back of it.

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With my limited knowledge of echo
sounders, hearing and seeing all

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this literally blows my mind.

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So how do you know that's a tail?
What's a—

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Well, I can see— What, that whole thing
is a fish and the tail— Yeah, exactly.

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That's the shade of the fish because
obviously— So you've got 1, 2, 3,

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so there's a fish there as well
because that's warped anyway.

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That's the fish we saw before,
that's the tail, that's another

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fish there, the white part.

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There's another fish behind it.

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So these are all big, really big fish.
Right.

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Wow.

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That's mega, mate.
Yeah, but that was out there.

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We'll go out and have a look.

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We can talk loads of echosounders, mate.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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No, you know, it's something I have no
experience of whatsoever, really.

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No.

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Seeing fish, whether it be on the echo or
from the bank, always

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motivates us into action.

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We hastily tied rigs suited to the type
of lake bed they would be landing on.

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When we first arrived at the lodge,
Peder informed me that we'd be fishing

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in and around lilies and reeds.

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I knew immediately that my 20-pound IQ2
wasn't going to be up to the job.

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So before heading over to the swim,
I changed all my leaders over to 30-pound

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Kontour Kamo, which is much
thicker and so far more durable.

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The 15-pound SUBbraid I'd chosen as my
main line paired perfectly with this mono.

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It's also bulletproof
and sinks like a brick.

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I have so much confidence in spinners,
so I upgraded the hooklink material

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to a prototype 50-pound coated braid,
plenty tough enough for this

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demanding situation.

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I had to switch from my favourite cog
setup to a helicopter because the bottom

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was so soft all around the lilies.

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I whipped a 50-pound Arma Kord hair
to the shank as I expected some bream

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to be mucking about with the hook bait.

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This material won't tangle or slip up
and down the hook, so when a carp comes

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along, it will hook aggressively still.

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The shot on the hook would further
enhance that turning effect.

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Peder would be dropping on hard bottom out
in the open water, so he was able to use

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a lead clip setup incorporating a supple
boom made of 30lb N-Trap Soft to still

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allow for some potential debris.

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His hookbaits were a 24mm
hardened Fishmeal with a king crab

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infused pop-up to form a snowman.

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With the last light fast approaching,
we went out in the boat to place my rigs.

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My left rod would be dropped around
a corner of reeds in amongst the lilies

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where we saw some fish earlier,
so my braid would be held up out

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of the water by a pole,
something I'd never used before.

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It looked crude, but but Peder assured me
it would work and keep the line

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out of the lilies on the take.

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The second rod was placed right
in the middle of a lily bed.

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That's it, that's nice.

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This looked like suicide to me,
but who am I to question the great man?

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The third rod went right out to the far
side of the bay

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to intercept any fish using that margin
to enter and exit the lilies.

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Peder is an absolute gentleman, helping
me to place my rods before his own.

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He managed to get his rods in place just
as it was getting dark,

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and we even saw fish topping in the area
whilst he was dropping his rods,

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which certainly filled us with confidence.

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4 rods were spaced evenly
at about 120 metres range.

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Finally, we were fishing.

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Something happened there.

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I don't know if it was
a bite or not though.

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I'm not entirely sure what happened here.

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It made sense to drop the rig
again as we were out in the boat.

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I had spare hooks and baits on the boat,
so changed the hook for a fresh one

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and redropped the rod.

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Once back at the bank, I decided to also
refresh the other rod to the left.

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Just repositioning the Banker rod.

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I've had loads of single bleeps on it, but
it must just be things

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swimming through the braid.

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Remember, we've got braid perched up
in a little hook,

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so there's quite a lot of braid off
the bottom, and obviously it's

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caught in all these lilies.

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I just kept getting single bleeps,
but when we got out there, there was

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absolutely nothing wrong with the rig.

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After a final check of the rig, I placed
it back in and got back to the bank.

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Cheers.

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I wasn't the only one
with occurrences on the rods.

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An occupational hazard of fishing on big
lakes like this is that sometimes

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you get picked up by lure anglers.

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So Peder's rods were out of the game
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Knowing this could be a regular
occurrence, it made sense to prep

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stuff ready for next time.

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Just doing a little bit of boat prep,
um, which I didn't have done

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Yesterday, which was a schoolboy error.

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So not only have I had to retackle
everything to have much heavier,

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much stronger kit on,
um, I really didn't have the right stuff.

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And you should have a bucket like I've got
to my right here that I'm just, um,

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setting up with leads, back leads.

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You know, I got out there earlier
to change a rig

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and had all my cog system but didn't have
the little swivel that goes in the top

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of the lead to turn it into a cog.

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So I had to put the same rig back on,
which is not as efficient as the cog,

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rather than come all the way back because
Peder, bless him, had rowed all the way

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out there through the lilies,
and I didn't have the heart to tell him,

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mate, we've got to go back and get
one tiny swivel that I'd forgotten.

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So while we've got a bit of downtime
and he's re-doing his rods, I've got 4

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hookbaits already tied with hooks on,
shot on the hook, everything.

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They're all balanced up, all ready to go.

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So they will stay in there.

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So if we do get one,
after we've landed it,

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I can change over to a new hookbait,
drop it back in the same position,

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throw some bait round it and come back
to the swim with a fish in the boat

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because we've got
an unhooking mat in the boat.

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And the rig's already
back in position again.

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So, you know, I've got
my multi-tool as well.

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You know, use this all the time.

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My mate's wife, Coe,
gave me that years ago,

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and I thought it was quite unsightly
at the time, but that has

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proved absolutely invaluable.

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I use it every time I go fishing.

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Fishing towel, just in case you've got
to pull for a break or pull the,

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the the hook off of the spinner swivel,
which can be a pain just trying to do it

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in your fingers if they're wet,
and a pair of scissors for redoing

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stuff and cutting stuff.

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So just in these downtimes,
rather than just sitting there or getting

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in your pit and laying there doing
nothing,

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I'm preparing for when it starts to happen
because I suspect we've got

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sun beating into that area.

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We're off the back of the wind.

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We've heard from Peder's mates who are
fishing down in that westerly

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that it's like the ocean down there.

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They haven't seen anything,
they haven't caught anything,

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so they're obviously, you know,
there's not a mass of fish down there.

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So for the time being,
we're going to stay here for tonight,

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but getting prepared
in the meantime is essential.

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And I'll probably be really good at this
by the time we're due to go

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home in sort of 5 days' time.

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I'll have it bang on.

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But that's what happens when you don't
do a sort of fishing for a while.

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So if you are going to boat fish You know,
you need to really get prepared so you do

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it as effectively as possible and don't
waste your time when you're there.

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In the short time I've been prepping
my boat kit,

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Peder had managed to get all of his rigs
refreshed with new baits

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and head back out in the boat
to begin leading around for new spots.

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Fishing is better.

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And redropped all 4 of his rods.

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Seeing a master of his craft at Work like
this really lights my fire to do

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more of this kind of angling.

234
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It was truly inspirational.

235
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The more I looked at the way he does
things, it made me realise how much I can

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be doing to improve the way I fish on big
wild lakes, starting with my bank sticks.

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My original single stick setup was a bit
flimsy, and I worried about them

238
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being pulled forward on the take.

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These were much thicker, longer,
and stiffer, giving me much more peace

240
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of mind that they won't
buckle when I get a take.

241
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Sorry, if I get a take.

242
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Things just weren't happening for me,
so I decided to reposition one

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of the right-hand rods up by the reeds.

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After feeling for harder areas
and dropping a couple of H blocks,

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I settled on a little cove
right next to to the reeds.

246
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Moving from a Heli to a cog
on account of the much firmer drop.

247
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So that is the system for hard
bottom or hard spots in this case.

248
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So it's 6 inches of 50lb coated hooklink,

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fished spinner style, a size 2 Long Shank X

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with a 4g— sorry, 0.4g shot on the hook,

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a 25mm bottom bait just drilled out

252
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a little tiny bit,
Probably about 5mm with a bit

253
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of 8mm cork in there so it sinks.

254
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It's not a wafter, it sinks on the bottom.

255
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A little teardrop-shaped
sinker in the middle just to hold it

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against the deck and then a cog system,
6oz this one.

257
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There's no way that's going to move
in all this wind

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and that's fished directly to a Hybrid
lead clip so when we get the bite on that,

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that is going to eject the lead off
of that lead clip, which is going

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to make it easier for us to get that in.

261
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So that is the technology.
Let's get it on the spot.

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With the rig now in position,
I felt far more confident.

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Now I had to deal with the crosswind
to get a straight line back.

264
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Coming back slightly
upwind is the way to do it.

265
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What I'm doing is basically at Peder's
advice, and I've done this before

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in the boat myself, but you want
to keep upwind of where the swim is.

267
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So the wind's blowing right to left as we
go back, so I'm heading right,

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I'm heading into the wind, tip down.

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I've got 15lb sub braid on as well,
and basically

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as you tighten up when you get back
to the swim,

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your line will basically come back
straight because

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The wind will help it push back straight.

273
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Oh, carp, carp!

274
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You're not fishing far away from there?
No.

275
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That was a carp, mate.

276
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A million percent, that was a carp.

277
00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:24,160
Yeah, look beyond your area,
there's that big slick going across.

278
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Yeah, exactly.

279
00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:27,820
Yeah, look, there was—was that a carp?

280
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Yeah, yeah, that was a carp, wasn't it?
Yeah, definitely.

281
00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:32,600
Yeah, 100%.
That's exactly what I saw.

282
00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:38,720
Yeah, well, in the last 5 minutes,
everything's changed, hasn't it?

283
00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:40,640
Exactly.
That's weird, isn't it?

284
00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,960
And it was like this yesterday evening
when you were putting your rods out.

285
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There was the The wind line was
at about that same sort of distance.

286
00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,120
You've got to get a bite in a minute, son.

287
00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:53,840
What's your feel?

288
00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,400
Obviously we've seen a couple of fish now,
which changes everything, doesn't it?

289
00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:58,480
Yeah, I agree.

290
00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,800
If we don't catch anything
between these 8 rods,

291
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if we don't get a carp between now

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and sort of the end of bite time tomorrow,

293
00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,920
Is that the time to move or what?

294
00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,400
Now we've seen them couple of fish
at the same time we saw

295
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them yesterday, pretty much.

296
00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,640
Obviously you've got it all
sorted earlier, haven't you?

297
00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:22,120
Oh yeah, yeah, that's one thing.

298
00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:26,440
Maybe they're showing earlier
because it's all quiet out there.

299
00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:32,720
What would you say, how long do we give
it in this swim before we get on our toes?

300
00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:39,320
For me, it's sort of like
probably we should be gone by here if we

301
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haven't caught anything
by at least lunchtime.

302
00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,680
That would I say, but right,
preferably maybe

303
00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,600
I would say if I hadn't caught— if I was,
you know, like fishing here, I hadn't

304
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caught a fish by 9 o'clock, that's off.
Really?

305
00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:52,400
Yeah.
Right, okay.

306
00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:53,380
Yeah, that's off.

307
00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:55,840
Yeah, so this is obviously one
of the things on a lot of Danish lakes

308
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that's very popular is the kayaking,
and it can be a challenge,

309
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but we have to share you know,
the water with everybody else.

310
00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:07,200
Have you ever had a bite
while one's been over you?

311
00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:09,920
Yeah, that's happened multiple times.

312
00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:11,560
Right.

313
00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:15,000
It's weird, two shows,
they're both exactly the same sort

314
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of show, probably 10 yards apart, and
since we've been talking, nothing else.

315
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Nothing else.
Weird, isn't it?

316
00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:21,320
Yeah, it is.

317
00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,600
This is the challenge
with places like this as well.

318
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Sometimes it's like we've got a feeling,
like we saw a lot of fish

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yesterday in the shallows as well.

320
00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:32,420
There was there was a lot
of fish in the area.

321
00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:36,080
Got them out there, different things,
and even though you feel you're on them,

322
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you don't get the bite,
you start wondering why.

323
00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,060
I still don't understand
that you haven't had anything.

324
00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,400
Yeah, well, I don't think
they were there today.

325
00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:44,480
No.

326
00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,480
They weren't there when we went out
and refreshed the rigs this morning.

327
00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:49,480
That's true.

328
00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:53,160
We didn't see any, that's true.

329
00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,440
And it is, you know, it's 2
foot deep where that rig is.

330
00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:56,680
Yeah.

331
00:20:56,760 --> 00:21:01,080
You know, literally 2 foot deep and rock
hard, so they are gliding through water

332
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only just big enough to cover them.

333
00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:07,000
So yeah, I mean,
in hindsight, if I could have sculled up

334
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there on my own and dropped it
in and reversed back out and,

335
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,040
you know, or even use the oars or
whatever, I mean,

336
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:15,800
there was something else out there.

337
00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:21,400
No, you have something that
made a ripple there, and that was a grebe.

338
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,520
There's a grebe working
short of the wind line.

339
00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,320
No, not out there, it's towards the spire.
All right.

340
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:34,000
But I still think that, so like, so
I know that obviously you've seen the lake

341
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:38,840
map on here and you talk about the end
of the wind and we went down there

342
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:43,840
yesterday looking before we decided
on this because we saw the fish here.

343
00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,920
So you have got a little bit
of idea what things look like.

344
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:47,240
Yeah.

345
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:51,760
And that's why you try to sort of like,
so already now maybe you've got, like,

346
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for tomorrow, let's say we don't catch
anything, you're really thinking

347
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about that bay down there.

348
00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:01,480
I wouldn't move until we've
got something to move to.

349
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,480
I wouldn't just move for the sake
of moving because it's a big old operation

350
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with all the kit and two cameramen,
you know.

351
00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:10,560
I understand that, but I would.

352
00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:13,320
But you would just go even
if you hadn't seen anything?

353
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,280
If we didn't, if we don't catch anything
tonight, we're moving

354
00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:18,440
I would be moving no matter.

355
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:20,280
Even though you've seen
two show out there?

356
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:22,480
Yeah, if we don't catch anything.
Yeah, right, okay.

357
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:24,520
Yeah, all right, I'll be honest.
Right, okay.

358
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,400
Well, obviously we'd much rather move
to somewhere where we've seen them,

359
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,480
but we know it's going to absolutely pour
with rain,

360
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,120
um, in the morning,
so that isn't going to be fun looking

361
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,440
for fish out in the boat
in the pouring rain, is it?

362
00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:42,160
Um,
yeah, so maybe it's worth one of us

363
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,120
drifting about out there tonight,
you know, this evening,

364
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:49,760
just before it gets dark, and see if they
show somewhere, somewhere else, you know.

365
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:54,160
I'd be happy to move like in the dark,
you know, rather than moving

366
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in the pouring rain, you know.

367
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,240
But, um,
uh, because you can still—

368
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,160
obviously the rig's going exactly the same
spots with the echo

369
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as if it's daylight, don't they?

370
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:04,900
Exactly, you know,
it doesn't make any difference.

371
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:12,800
Um, but, uh, yeah, well, let's
Let's be patient and you never know.

372
00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:19,600
Later that evening, Peder's rod was away.

373
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:26,120
Oh, fish, mate!

374
00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:32,720
Are we undone?

375
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:34,400
Yeah, anchors undone.

376
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:35,780
Both of them.

377
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,320
Is that max power?

378
00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:41,080
No, just more.
Max power.

379
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:42,760
Just give it full.
I'll reel us in.

380
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:43,760
It's not an issue.

381
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,760
Tension was high with this being Peder's
first bite on the Thinking Tackle cameras.

382
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,280
Neither of us wanted to say a single word.

383
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,520
We raced out faster than I expected.
It's a carp.

384
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,120
And after a short battle, we managed
to net the first carp of the trip.

385
00:23:58,680 --> 00:23:59,360
What a result.

386
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,400
There we go.
Yes!

387
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:05,640
Perfect.
In there, mate.

388
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:06,720
Perfect.
Absolutely awesome.

389
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,720
Well done.
Great.

390
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:09,320
Nice one.

391
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:11,200
That is brilliant.

392
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,400
Lovely scales on him.
Yeah, lovely.

393
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,200
Amazing.
Amazing.

394
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,040
Well done, mate.
Thank you very much.

395
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,000
Perfect.
That is absolutely awesome.

396
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:29,960
Got one, mate.
That's perfect.

397
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,080
That's absolutely awesome, isn't it?

398
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,960
That's 24 hours in, we've got one.

399
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:40,400
So yeah, it's already
mission accomplished.

400
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:45,520
There you go.

401
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:47,760
Yeah, man, check that out.

402
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:53,160
Target achieved within the first 24 hours.
Look at that.

403
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:55,280
A 21-pounder.
What was it?

404
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,080
9.3 kilos, mate.

405
00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,880
9.3 kilos,
which is not a monstrous carp by your

406
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:06,080
standards, but it's still our first
Danish carp on Thinking Tackle.

407
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:08,840
I'm over the moon, mate.
Absolutely over the moon.

408
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:10,880
Really happy as well.
Yeah, it's perfect.

409
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,920
Great start.
What a gorgeous, gorgeous creature.

410
00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:17,040
So it shows, obviously,
them fish that we saw showing out there

411
00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:19,320
earlier on when we were chatting did feed.

412
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,560
Is this normal, a last light bite?
Yeah, it is.

413
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:23,720
I would say, yeah.

414
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,840
But we were also in better time getting
the rods out today than yesterday.

415
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,520
Yeah, everything was quiet, wasn't it,
for a good few hours before last light.

416
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:31,080
Exactly.

417
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,480
So, yeah.
So that is one.

418
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:35,200
We need a second one now.

419
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,280
But in the meantime,
we're going to get some pictures done

420
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,280
and admire this awesome, awesome creature.

421
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:56,120
Yes!

422
00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,160
Well done, mate.
Well done.

423
00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:02,400
The darkness will certainly
not slow Peder down.

424
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:07,080
He's replaced rods on much larger waters
than this in far worse conditions

425
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,080
with pinpoint accuracy
in the absolute pitch black.

426
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,240
So for him, this would be a breeze.

427
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,120
We are 36 hours into our session now.

428
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,520
Peder's out in the boat looking for fish.

429
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,760
Um, obviously we're hampered
by the weather today, but we're

430
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:26,160
going to move no matter what.

431
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:31,720
One bite is a brilliant start,
but it is not enough on a lake,

432
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:33,920
um, with some real big fish in it.

433
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,880
And if they were here,
um, we would know about it,

434
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,760
but Getting back to the preparation
of the session, I thought

435
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:42,040
I was prepared, you know.

436
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,840
Peder said bring long banksticks,
so I brought long banksticks,

437
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:51,800
but I didn't bring the long banksticks,
and it's all them little things, you know.

438
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,400
My setup looked cool,
but it was wobbling about like something

439
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,080
in a hurricane, and it wasn't even windy,
and I hadn't even had a bite yet,

440
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,100
so I probably would have had
the rod pulled in if I had.

441
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:08,600
And just to do with the hooks being tied
and have I got a setup for fishing on hard

442
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,960
bottom, have I got a setup for fishing
on soft bottom, all them things,

443
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,480
they've taken me 24 hours to really hone.

444
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,280
The front of my bivvy had a big hole in it
so the mosquitoes were getting through,

445
00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:24,320
so I've now changed that over to the one
that I'd ordered but I'd never put on,

446
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,760
so I was carrying two fronts around
with me, all that sort of stuff.

447
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,240
So now I really feel like I'm doing it.

448
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,480
I can approach this fishing with almost

449
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,000
the same expertise as Peder does.

450
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,920
Obviously, his level of experience is way
beyond mine,

451
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:47,760
and I have to bow to his better judgement
when it comes to swims and spots.

452
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:52,680
But when it comes to tactics,
I think I'm there.

453
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,560
With the rain still bucketing down, Peder
and Scott were back from their search.

454
00:27:57,800 --> 00:27:59,280
Hopefully with some good news.

455
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:15,320
Right, what do you know?

456
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,640
Well, we have been around more or less
everywhere and we have seen

457
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,080
no 100% signs of fish.
Okay.

458
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,360
Anyway, so we went down—
not even on the echo?

459
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:28,280
Not really.

460
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:29,040
Right.

461
00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:31,640
But, you know, it's difficult to say,
obviously, if the fish

462
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,320
are in deeper water.
Yes.

463
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,480
Say 4 or 5 metres further down,
you don't get the same kind of indication

464
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,960
on the echo sounder as you did out here.
Right, okay.

465
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,640
So we haven't really been
looking too much into that.

466
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,320
So we went down in the little
bay behind where we are here.

467
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,280
Yeah, yeah.
There were no signs of fish there.

468
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:49,320
Right.
Didn't seem right.

469
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:54,760
Then there's the bay, the next one,
where there's usually not a lot of fishing

470
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,280
at different times of year.
No Carp Bay.

471
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,180
No Carp Bay, we can call it that.
Yeah, exactly.

472
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,560
Which makes sense.
And that rang true, didn't it?

473
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:03,320
Yeah, that rang true.

474
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:07,280
But we did on the way out,
we spooked a bigger fish in the reeds, but

475
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:08,960
we didn't see what type of fish it was.

476
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,260
So it could have been a pike.

477
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:11,960
Possible.

478
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,480
That's the only other thing it could have
been that size, but it was a big fish.

479
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:15,840
Right.

480
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:20,100
Then we went down into the bay there where
the wind had been hammering in yesterday.

481
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,160
We wanted to find a big weed bed that we
were told about out there

482
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:25,280
to see how that looked.

483
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,720
So the guys were telling us the last
couple weeks that's done fish where people

484
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,960
have been fishing at distance
in holes in the weed.

485
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:34,280
We found it, it's possible,
and there's a lot of different

486
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:38,560
possibilities down there to fish as well
because it's a big area, we can cover it.

487
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:40,600
So that's one possibility.

488
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,320
The next one is obviously up there that we
talked about, which is more like all your

489
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,840
eggs in one basket kind of thing,
because you're going to be fishing

490
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,720
in front in 5, 6 metres of water where
it's really rock hard,

491
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:56,400
and it is a good possibility it might be
a nice place to do the night, just to try.

492
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:57,200
Yep.

493
00:29:58,120 --> 00:29:59,080
Easy to get to.

494
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:03,560
And then there's the bay behind
the peninsula there where we found

495
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,800
also like a big massive weed bed.

496
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,800
In the middle of like, you know,
100 metres out, and there's a lot

497
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,160
of other possibilities to fish.

498
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,880
It's more open than this,
and there will be lily pads to the side.

499
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,960
So that's the 3 things that I
would think that we've got.

500
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,000
Right, and what's your top one?

501
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,640
Either it's down there,
but going up there in this type

502
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,600
of weather, and the wind is pushing
down there, it looks really nice.

503
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:27,880
Yeah.

504
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:32,840
But it's like I tell you,
it's 6 to 8 rods, and it's in fairly small

505
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:34,720
area compared to what we normally do.

506
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,800
Yeah, yeah, but it's a good choice.

507
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:38,540
So is that your top choice?

508
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,400
Probably, yes.
Basically all the pressure is now on you.

509
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,240
I'm absolving myself
of all responsibility.

510
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,480
I wanted to come back and bring you
into the conversation and you just throw

511
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,800
me under the bus and say,
where are we going?

512
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,240
Where do you reckon?
Uh, you've got—

513
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,240
yeah, I think that probably a good
choice would be going up there.

514
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:58,120
Yeah, for tonight.

515
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,640
And then tomorrow we make
a decision from there.

516
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,920
If we catch fish up there,
obviously we can stay.

517
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:03,320
Sure.

518
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,480
But it is a little bit of a—
it's not as wild as this.

519
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,600
It's a bit of a park that we're going
to be situated in, a different thing.

520
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:10,920
Sure.

521
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,000
But, you know, with the weather and stuff,
I think that, you know,

522
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,880
we can get rods up quite quickly today
since— I don't know what

523
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,280
time it is, maybe 2 o'clock.

524
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,360
Yeah, it's 1:10.

525
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:21,880
1:10, I'm sorry.
Yeah, yeah.

526
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,640
So we haven't got that, you know,
it's going to take at least It's

527
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:26,420
a couple of hours to move, isn't it?

528
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,080
Yeah.
The plan was set.

529
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:33,880
We packed everything up as fast as we
could and headed 1,000 yards

530
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,600
to the other side of the lake. off, lily pads.

531
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:39,720
you.

532
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,820
If you want to make
another choice, it's now.

533
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,840
When we got over there,
it was all hands on deck.

534
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:49,720
Teamwork makes the dream work.

535
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,600
So the crew got involved to help
ferry all the kit from the boats.

536
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,240
Team spirit was running high.

537
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,360
A new swim is like a new woman,
and we were all excited to see

538
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:01,520
what the night would bring.

539
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:06,400
Peder and I know how long these big moves
can take, so we both instantly got to work

540
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,880
with camp and began preparing our rigs.

541
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:12,680
It's raining Sven.

542
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,920
Hallelujah, it's raining Sven.

543
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,840
Hey, hey!

544
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,480
With sharp hooks and fresh baits, we were
back out in the boat looking for spots.

545
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,840
Any angler will know that trying to do
anything in the rain takes twice as long

546
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,400
and it's twice as much effort,
so we all had to dig deep to position

547
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,440
the rods and cover it with the cameras.

548
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,760
A tiny break in the weather allowed me
to place my rods with ease

549
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,040
just before the next downpour.

550
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:42,840
Peder wasn't so lucky.

551
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,560
Which felt really unfair
as once again he helped me drop all

552
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,440
my rods in the pleasant conditions.

553
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,680
After what felt like a full day's work
in only a few hours,

554
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:59,040
the rods were in and it was time to turn
in for the night with high hopes

555
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,680
that I'd catch my first Danish carp.

556
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,960
So, mate, I heard your phone
ringing and a bit of chatter.

557
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:25,600
Yeah.

558
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,600
Is it right something's been caught?
Yeah, exactly.

559
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:32,240
A couple of guys from the club 100 metres
further up the bank, they've

560
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:33,640
had a 40-pounder this morning.

561
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,760
So, um,
Just around that corner

562
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,320
then, just up there.
Just around up there, exactly.

563
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:43,320
Fishing 6 wraps out.

564
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:44,840
6 wraps?

565
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,440
6 wraps, just in front of, just off the
drop-off that we were talking about, yeah.

566
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:48,760
Right.

567
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,080
In 5.5 metres of water,
but that's the same sort of depth

568
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,580
we've got our stuff in as well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

569
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,320
Oh man, I mean, I'm pleased for them,
but that would have been

570
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:01,840
a showstopper, wouldn't it?
Yeah.

571
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:03,180
You know, to get a 40-pounder.

572
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,000
So what's your—

573
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:10,360
you know, we've had 8 rods spanned out
maybe,

574
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:15,520
I don't know, what is it, 200-300 metres
between the left and right-hand rods.

575
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:16,260
Yes.

576
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,920
And we've not had, you know,
anything, not even a bream.

577
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:20,720
No, nothing.

578
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:22,780
So does that mean we go?

579
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,920
I would say yes.
Yeah, yeah, that we're moving.

580
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,640
Even though one's been caught?
Yeah, just around the corner, yeah.

581
00:34:29,720 --> 00:34:33,640
Yeah, I think that's sort of like,
you know, we need more than one

582
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:35,240
fish to move on, to be honest.

583
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,120
Yeah, so one capture is not enough.

584
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,360
Like,
it doesn't say that there's a group

585
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,560
of fish in this area,
just a few loners maybe.

586
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,680
Yeah, usually like on this swim
when they catch, it's 2, 3, 4 fish.

587
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,640
You know, you have multiple
bites off the area, right?

588
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,200
Yeah, and we have not had anything,
but they've had one fish down there.

589
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,120
It was a bit like yesterday,
we caught caught that one in the night

590
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,060
and we left anyways, you know,
we decided to leave, didn't feel it.

591
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,440
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know,
it looked really good for a bite

592
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:08,040
yesterday, but multiple captures, mate,
just seemed like an impossibility,

593
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,520
just getting one bite
between all 8 rods, you know.

594
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:18,560
Yeah, I'm not holding any hope
out for a multiple capture.

595
00:35:19,240 --> 00:35:24,480
But mate, you know what was good
Seeing you yesterday, the precision,

596
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:30,600
the echo, the dropping the H-block,
the putting the rig, you know,

597
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:35,360
flicking it out, letting a load of line
off, feeling it down just like I would do

598
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:40,040
with a cast,
single baits being thrown out, you know,

599
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:46,600
tiny little sprinkles of Tigers,
and then keeping that line tight

600
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:50,560
and reversing back up to the to the H
block and then winding it in with one

601
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:54,200
hand, that's all— that's
skills, mate, that is.

602
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,880
Yeah, you know, obviously I know you've
been doing it a long time, but that was

603
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,040
the target for me, to see you doing that.

604
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,720
Okay, so as far as I'm concerned,
it's mission accomplished,

605
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:05,760
do you know what I mean?
That really was my target.

606
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:10,640
I just wanted to see how you went
about your business, you know.

607
00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:15,120
Um, and, um, you know, win, lose, or
draw on here, I want to now go somewhere.

608
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:20,280
It's lit my fire to go on my own
with a boat, no cameras, no nothing,

609
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,800
go somewhere where I'm going to get a few
bites in France

610
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:27,320
and go and do that fishing for a week
and get proficient at it because it's

611
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:32,200
another string to your bow and then
I won't have resistance to it.

612
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:33,720
I won't have anxiety.

613
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:38,520
Like that first day, I was nervous, I was
out of my depth, do you know what I mean?

614
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,280
And whilst I've used the boats
and everything, done all of that,

615
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:46,240
on a new lake with a new fishing partner,
not knowing the drill,

616
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,880
there is a bit of anxiety, you know.

617
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,800
Um,
but I want to get rid of that and sort

618
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,520
of hone my tactics because you can't tell
if the rigs are working because

619
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:56,720
we haven't had any bites.

620
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:01,720
I mean, we're using a very,
very similar rig mechanic.

621
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,560
Hook links are the same length,
hooks are turning in the same way,

622
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:06,960
the baits are the same size.

623
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,560
So I can't see that that's
not going to be working.

624
00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:13,240
No, it's just we're not on them.
Exactly, I agree.

625
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,760
So I think that we should
get everything packed down as quick as

626
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:20,320
and just get somewhere else so we can use
a lot of time on that, on a big area,

627
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:25,080
you know, to have a good look around,
find some likely spots and crack on.

628
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:26,160
Exactly.
Good.

629
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,000
After our morning chat,
one of the crew deployed the drone

630
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:35,000
to record some nice scenics for the film,
and guess what he stumbled across?

631
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:40,440
Yeah, I have no issue with using drones
to find fish or signs of fish on big wild

632
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,040
waters,
as long as you're not affecting the peace

633
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:44,600
and quiet of your fellow anglers.

634
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,880
It's simply impossible to look
at the whole lake in anything

635
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:50,200
less than a couple of days.

636
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,840
It's easy to criticise their use when
you haven't been to this type of water.

637
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:59,080
The task ahead of you is so vast,
you need all the help you can get.

638
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,276
This time we found them by accident.

639
00:38:01,476 --> 00:38:05,080
but I for one will be using them
more on big wild waters in the future.

640
00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:08,440
Whatever your opinion of them,
we had to act on what we'd seen.

641
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:12,440
It was obvious that we needed to position
our rods close to the lilies,

642
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:16,720
and upon further inspection,
there appeared to be numerous large snags

643
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,000
on the opposite bank—
another haven for carp.

644
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,480
Snag fishing carries the risk of losing
many of what you hook,

645
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:27,560
so it's not my preference,
but Peder assured me that we would land

646
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:31,080
a high percentage as the lilies would
either snap or be cut

647
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:32,200
by the Kontour leader.

648
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,640
Once again, with our things all packed
tightly into the boats,

649
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,720
we set sail for another new swim.

650
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,480
Full of confidence,
we both rigged up our rods.

651
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,920
I decided to put one rod on tigers as I'm
sure there isn't a carp swimming

652
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,360
that won't eat a tiger nut.

653
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:56,400
In contrast, Peder had supreme confidence
in his hookbaits because they had worked

654
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,160
on these kind of venues
so many times before.

655
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:04,000
Having the sun on your back after
so much wind and rain felt so good.

656
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:09,240
I was still concerned about losing fish,
so opted to place my rods about a rod

657
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,320
length from the lilies,
equally spaced near where we'd

658
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:13,720
seen the fish on the drone.

659
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:20,360
This was not an open water heavy feeding
situation, This was opportunist fishing.

660
00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:38,920
Other than being in the shower today or
being in my sleeping bag, this is the

661
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,560
warmest I have been since I've been here.

662
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,000
It's been bloody Baltic,
I don't mind saying.

663
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:52,960
June in Scandinavia is not warm, but after

664
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,040
pretty much all day again getting

665
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,000
everything sorted— Peder has been
an absolute trooper

666
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:05,120
helping me get out there to the long
rods and getting them all sweet.

667
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:09,560
We've had to dodge in between
the boats coming along so you don't get

668
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,840
cut off by the speedboat
on the way back in.

669
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,200
Get them captive backleads on as
quickly as you possibly can.

670
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:20,920
But yeah, it's glorious now,
and we've got,

671
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:26,400
I think we've got 5 rods against that far
bank and then 3 rods on the near bank,

672
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:27,560
all different ranges.

673
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,920
I might have just seen one show 3/4
of the way over, I'm not sure because it's

674
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,600
backlit now,
but it's absolutely glorious

675
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:42,800
now and Anyone who fishes big public lakes
will tell you that that last couple

676
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,960
of hours of the day when the sun's going
down and you're all set

677
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:51,680
waiting for some nighttime action is
probably the best part of the day.

678
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,880
The next morning was much
quieter than we'd hoped.

679
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,920
I was beginning to think that the fish had
drifted off, but then I heard

680
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:16,640
some commotion in Peder's swim.

681
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:20,560
I grabbed my life jacket just
in case and ran over to assist.

682
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:22,840
Sure enough, he was into a fish.

683
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,120
It's a fish, mate.
It's a fish.

684
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,480
That's all that matters.
Really, really, really nice.

685
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,100
We've been working hard for this.

686
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:44,680
This is—yeah, perfect.

687
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:47,520
All right, we've got—

688
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,720
well done, mate.
Well done, mate.

689
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:51,580
Perfect.
That's really, really nice.

690
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,440
There you go,

691
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:11,760
lovely upper double, classic Danish carp,

692
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:17,920
caught on a really my favourite Snowman
presentation with a pink pop-up

693
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:23,760
and a 24mm Fishmeal bottom bait caught
right against the lily pads on the other

694
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:28,280
side, opposite side of the bank there,
at 300m range.

695
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:30,400
Lovely fish.

696
00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:34,800
This lake is so low stock that every fish,
irrespective of its size,

697
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:35,800
is a great result.

698
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,360
But we hadn't really
found the motherlode yet.

699
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:43,160
This situation doesn't really give each
angler a fair chance,

700
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,600
considering the direction the fish
were approaching the area from.

701
00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:51,040
It felt like they'd always encounter
Peder's bait first, so he kindly went

702
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:52,760
in search of another area to fish.

703
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:57,320
But not long after leaving,
one of his rods was away.

704
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,480
It's got in something.

705
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:03,120
Right, let's go to the boat.

706
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,360
Don't film this, just let's just
get in and get out there, all right?

707
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:08,440
Don't need to see every single bit of it.

708
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,280
Oh yes we do, Dan, I'm filming all of it.

709
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,800
Oh, the anchor's out here, mate.
I'll get it.

710
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:14,100
I'll get it, I'll get it.

711
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:24,840
Got a net in the boat?

712
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:27,520
Is there no net in the boat?

713
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,720
There's no net in the boat,
is there, either?

714
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:31,440
Oh look, we've got one of these now.

715
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,560
Lew, let's just get us into—
you drive us into the bank.

716
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:39,800
Rather than filming this—

717
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,080
I told you, mate, I'm filming all of it.

718
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:44,440
Watch it.
Go and get the net.

719
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,280
I'll keep this facing forward.
Where's the net?

720
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:52,360
You in?
Yeah.

721
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,240
Go.
You simply couldn't write this.

722
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:59,400
After all those issues, we were now
stranded by a tangled propeller.

723
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:04,160
After Lewis managed to untangle it,
we were finally back out in the the lake,

724
00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:08,040
and that's when we realised this fish was
actually a lot bigger

725
00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:09,400
than first anticipated.

726
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,400
But it ain't a babby.

727
00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:17,320
Right, this is about to go in the net.

728
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:21,200
Get in there, you big ancient mirror.

729
00:44:22,240 --> 00:44:22,920
Get in there!

730
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,400
Well, that is a result for the team.

731
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:37,000
A weird sensation from my point of view,
to have landed my first

732
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,120
Danish carp on Peders rods.

733
00:44:40,240 --> 00:44:42,480
Feels a bit weird,
but it is a joint effort.

734
00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:46,280
I could feel that was in the lilies,
that had taken him in the lilies, and just

735
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,720
steady pressure had got it back out.

736
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,080
He's dumped the lead,
he's come back out the lilies.

737
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:57,400
That's why this 30lb Kamo fluorocarbon
leader is so, so important.

738
00:44:57,720 --> 00:45:00,560
It doesn't cut into woodwork,
slides over the top,

739
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:02,160
but it will still cut through lilies.

740
00:45:02,240 --> 00:45:04,760
I'm sure there's a few lily tops
that have been cut off there.

741
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:07,880
I hope I can not leave this country
on a blank,

742
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:13,680
you know, because this isn't— it's
sort of no man's fish at the moment,

743
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,840
but collectively we've still caught it,
so it's one for the team.

744
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:36,360
Hey, Peder, what have you
done with these hook baits?

745
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:39,600
Oh, we've struck gold!

746
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:42,900
Bosh, thank you very much.

747
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:54,880
So, what's been happening?

748
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:57,640
See, your rod's out of the
water and everything else.

749
00:45:58,280 --> 00:45:59,560
Yeah.
Okay.

750
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:05,560
You just won't even,
you can't even comprehend the drama.

751
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:08,720
Okay, so you've had a bite.

752
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:10,680
Yes.

753
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,760
I've got my trainers off, got these on,
got my thing on, got my hat on.

754
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:16,120
Yeah.
Run for the bite.

755
00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:19,240
Picked up into it,
it's solid out there, right?

756
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,520
Yeah.
So, right, we've got to get to the boat.

757
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,800
I felt it just pulling through things,
but I'm like, we're not going to try

758
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:26,920
and pull it out, we're going
to go out there, right?

759
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:33,160
So we've done it, got in the boat,
the anchor's still connected at the front.

760
00:46:33,240 --> 00:46:33,960
hell.

761
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:37,000
Right, so we've got back out the boat
again, got the anchor off the thing,

762
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:38,880
got out there, got 30 yards out.

763
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,480
You haven't put the net back
in the boat, have you?

764
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:43,080
No, but that's what you
have to start trying.

765
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:45,200
Okay, no, no, no, no, no.

766
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:46,780
Good housekeeping in the boat.

767
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,240
Immediately.
All right, yeah.

768
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,120
So we've had to reverse
back or drive back, right?

769
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,520
He's trying to film it all while I'm doing
it all on my own, and then this kayak is

770
00:46:57,600 --> 00:46:59,040
coming like this, backwards and forwards.

771
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:04,080
I've got the rod like this and I'm trying
to reverse back as well and keep it away

772
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:05,880
from the trees, and he's filming it.

773
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,040
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's not helping.

774
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:09,040
No, no, no.

775
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:13,080
I'm having to shout at him, "Lew,
I can't do all of this on my own." So

776
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:17,320
we've got back to the bank Got the thing,
gone back out, the prop's got

777
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:20,240
totally snarled up in reeds.

778
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:21,880
So now I'm playing it from the bank.

779
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:24,840
I've got it halfway
in from the bank, right?

780
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:29,800
He's then jumped out,
got all the reeds off of the prop,

781
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,400
cleared the prop, pushed us out,
we've gone back out with the thing,

782
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:35,720
played it for ages.

783
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:38,080
It's obviously a good
and it's not an 18-pounder.

784
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:39,600
We've netted it.

785
00:47:40,720 --> 00:47:42,680
And it's a much, much, much better one.

786
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,160
It's one of the ones
that we came here for.

787
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:48,720
Oh my God.
And it's sitting over there in the sling.

788
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:49,720
Is it?
Yes.

789
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:51,320
well done, mate.

790
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:53,920
Well done.
It's a joint effort.

791
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:55,360
That is a joint effort.
You don't get it.

792
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:56,680
You listen, mate.

793
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,440
oh yeah, no, it feels absolutely amazing.

794
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:03,240
It feels a bit weird because neither
of us have caught it, have we?

795
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,480
No, but it's still shared
like we started out with.

796
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:09,320
I know it's what it is.
Yeah, well, mate, talk about sharing.

797
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:12,000
You're sharing all your hookbaits with me
at the moment because I'm just

798
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:13,480
putting them on every single rod.

799
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:17,520
Yeah, and if you want to move,
you can move, all right?

800
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:21,520
I'm quite happy for you to open
the floodgates and let them get to me.

801
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:24,600
Exactly.
Yeah, but I promise you we will move.

802
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:27,040
Okay, so what do you know?

803
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,040
Well, I'm not sharing that now since
you've nicked the fish off my rod.

804
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:32,680
No, no, come on, what do you know?

805
00:48:33,240 --> 00:48:35,880
Well, we went out and had a look around.

806
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:37,880
Down by the island,
you know where we looked?

807
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:40,720
There's probably like
a dozen fish around there.

808
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:42,000
Right.
Yeah.

809
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:44,800
But it's a very, very small area.

810
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:49,440
So, you know, you've got to be fishing
really, really far out to get to it.

811
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:53,120
So that was what we were talking about,
is that I go down there for tonight.

812
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:54,600
Yeah.
When we've got the chance.

813
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:55,680
Catch 2 or 3 more.

814
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:59,440
And then I wanted to leave this area
to you, because now you know where—

815
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:00,760
We've caught them all now.

816
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,040
We've only seen 3
and you've caught 2 of them.

817
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:04,440
What?

818
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,600
Yeah, but mate, I'm going to— I mean,
that's fine by me.

819
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,960
I'll go and put one in the honey hole.
Yeah, exactly.

820
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,200
On my next trip out.
Yeah.

821
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:19,120
But yeah, I've got 2 days left to go, so

822
00:49:19,720 --> 00:49:21,840
I'm turning Granny's picture to the wall,

823
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,440
as we say, and I'm just copying
you exactly, pretty much.

824
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:26,720
No worries.
All right, I accept that.

825
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:28,020
I accept that.

826
00:49:28,240 --> 00:49:31,200
But what we'll do is,
before I go down there,

827
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:34,040
we're not in any hurry, so we need to
obviously have a look at that lovely fish.

828
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:37,240
I'm looking forward to seeing what it
is you've caught, though, off that.

829
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,880
It's got a big, distended vent.

830
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:43,000
It's a long mirror.

831
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,400
I haven't weighed it yet.
We'll weigh it together.

832
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:46,000
Yeah, yeah.

833
00:49:46,240 --> 00:49:50,320
It's got a big, distended vent,
but it's old as the hills, mate.

834
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:52,160
It's ancient.
Lovely.

835
00:49:52,240 --> 00:49:53,080
It's what we came to see.
Perfect.

836
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,800
Perfect.
I'm really, really pleased with that.

837
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:58,120
I'm really happy.

838
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,240
It's obviously mixed emotions.

839
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,880
When you've been doing it a long time, you
want to catch your own fish, don't you?

840
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:04,320
I know.
Do you know what I mean?

841
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,880
But as a team thing,
it's mission accomplished.

842
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:09,480
Exactly.
Yeah, that's what I've got.

843
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:10,760
Yeah, I totally agree.

844
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:12,280
Totally agree.

845
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:15,160
Before we see the fish,
it made sense to reposition one

846
00:50:15,240 --> 00:50:17,160
of my rods closer to the hotspot.

847
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:24,760
This time, feeling super confident,
we raced back to fully admire the prize.

848
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:51,640
Oh God, give it.

849
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:54,400
I've got it, I've got it, mate.

850
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:55,520
I'll do it on my own all the time.

851
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:57,980
This is one of the few
things I can do on my own.

852
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:05,960
Lord, mate, I know, I know, I've seen.

853
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:09,580
Do you want to know how big it is?

854
00:51:09,720 --> 00:51:11,160
Do you want to know
what you could have won?

855
00:51:11,240 --> 00:51:13,240
Do you want to— can I guess how big it is?

856
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:14,820
Yeah, guess how big it is.

857
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:17,240
21 kilos?

858
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:19,360
No.
No?

859
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:23,040
Okay.
50lb 8 ounces.

860
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:24,240
Seriously?
Seriously.

861
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:26,000
My God, no.
Come and have a look.

862
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:27,120
No.
Come and have a look.

863
00:51:27,240 --> 00:51:28,220
Come and have a look.

864
00:51:29,720 --> 00:51:34,960
That's a 50-pounder, mate.
Oh my God.

865
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:37,760
Oh my God!

866
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:40,760
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that is it.

867
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:43,960
That's one of the old originals
that we're talking about.

868
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:46,560
One of the biggest fish in the lake.

869
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:48,280
That's what we came to see, mate.

870
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,440
Oh my God.

871
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:58,760
Check that out.

872
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,400
50lb 8 ounces.

873
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:02,880
This man has done all the work.

874
00:52:03,720 --> 00:52:08,400
All I've done is wind it in,
but I'm happy to be holding it as well.

875
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:11,120
But mate, this is for you.

876
00:52:11,240 --> 00:52:13,240
Yeah, that's absolutely amazing, man.

877
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:16,320
What a way it's turned out, eh?
Look at that.

878
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:17,320
What a carp, eh?

879
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:19,480
What a carp.
Right, we're going to swap round, mate.

880
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:20,640
I want you to pick it up.

881
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:22,700
Go on.

882
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:33,920
Has he got a name, this fish?

883
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:35,760
I don't know, not really.

884
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:37,480
We don't really name the fish.

885
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:41,560
No, no, it's just— well, it's
the Thinking Tackle mirror then, isn't it?

886
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:42,600
Yeah, we call it that.

887
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:46,520
Look at that, what a result!

888
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:50,840
To imagine after all the grief,
all the weather, all the moving,

889
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:55,280
everything else,
and then to come into contact with

890
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:58,400
arguably the biggest fish in the lake.

891
00:52:59,040 --> 00:52:59,280
Argh!

892
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:04,360
That is a mental set of circumstances,
and it just keeps happening

893
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:05,480
on Thinking Tackle.

894
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:07,580
But it's all down to this man.

895
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:32,920
With Peder now on the move for the new
area, I was interested in having a look

896
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:36,720
around the pontoon to my right before
simply putting all my eggs in one

897
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:39,120
basket out by the distant lilies.

898
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:40,840
Yeah, it's good, it's good.

899
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:45,760
So what have I got to do to get a bite?
Look at that!

900
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,400
What have I got to do to get a bite?
Do you know what I mean?

901
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:53,200
Look, under here.

902
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,600
Wouldn't there be carp
living right under here?

903
00:53:58,720 --> 00:54:03,120
There's got to be carp swimming around
in this little bit, hasn't there?

904
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:04,680
Look, loads of weed.

905
00:54:09,240 --> 00:54:10,960
Just see one and I'll put a bait here.

906
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:16,800
While I hadn't seen any carp, I was
curious to see how hard the bottom was.

907
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:19,160
Oh, it's like granite there.

908
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:25,680
Oh, hey, that is like granite.

909
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:28,640
Oh, oh, we got a pike!

910
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:35,040
We've lost our lead,
but we've caught a pike.

911
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:43,240
My first, my first bona fide Danish fish,

912
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:47,600
and he is a crocodile.

913
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:52,880
Nice, that's a classic pike bait,
24mm Fibre.

914
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,060
One minute, one minute,
that's the way, isn't it?

915
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:11,760
Lovely little pike, gorgeous colours.

916
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:16,580
I'm going to smell like a pike
for the rest of the day.

917
00:55:21,240 --> 00:55:24,400
After inspection,
I decided to leave that area and head up

918
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:26,920
to the reeds so I could
begin dropping my rigs.

919
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:31,960
Meanwhile, Peder had arrived in his swim,
had already refreshed all his rods,

920
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:33,760
and began dropping his rigs out.

921
00:55:45,720 --> 00:55:49,680
So we decided to move—
I decided to move here

922
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,160
because the wind is trickling really
nicely, so obviously the water

923
00:55:53,240 --> 00:55:55,520
temperature is quite high here.
It's 21 degrees at the moment.

924
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:59,960
We've already done one rod that's been
put far out that way

925
00:56:01,240 --> 00:56:05,280
on a raised area with a lot of big weed
bed against that, so that's really nice.

926
00:56:05,720 --> 00:56:09,400
Now we're just positioning this in 1.4
metres of water here where the wind's

927
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:11,200
been trickling against these reeds.

928
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:14,880
A little handful of Tiger nuts,
around 20 boilies around it,

929
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:20,200
and then we're going to do the rest
of the rig, of the position them along

930
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:22,160
this bank down here where
the wind is trickling in.

931
00:56:22,240 --> 00:56:25,680
There are some nice lily pads over
on that side and different things that we

932
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:31,920
hope that the fish will get into
or are around that area there.

933
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:35,160
And hopefully, obviously with Dan,
he has already got his rods out,

934
00:56:35,240 --> 00:56:37,100
hopefully he will get into a fish tonight.

935
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:41,200
So we have left him alone up
in the productive area there.

936
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:46,760
With Peder comfortably installed in his
new swim, I was just dropping

937
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:48,760
my final rigs up by the reeds.

938
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:52,080
You can't say I'm not trying.

939
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:04,360
Just getting a few more hooks tied
in preparation for the inevitable action.

940
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:08,920
I'm using a size 2 Long Shank X up against
those reeds over there

941
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:12,480
and those lily pads.
It's a very, very strong pattern.

942
00:57:13,720 --> 00:57:15,560
And one I've got complete faith in.

943
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:19,240
You would have seen me use
this in places like Hungary.

944
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:22,400
to very, very good effect.

945
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:24,600
I just love the way it turns.

946
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:28,920
A long shank hook just turns that little
bit faster because the eye passes over

947
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:33,360
the edge of the lip that little bit
sooner, so it just grabs

948
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:34,640
hold that little bit quicker.

949
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:40,640
And the straight point facing towards
the mouth rather than inwards slightly

950
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:44,720
away as you'd get on a beak pointed hook
I just think it converts more

951
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:48,440
opportunities,
and I'm happy to fish a straight-pointed

952
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:54,640
hook against those lilies out there just
because it's such a thick wire hook.

953
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:58,440
I'm not sharpening it at all,
and when they go in, they stay in.

954
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:01,520
So I'm just fishing it with a simple hair.

955
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:06,000
So I'm tying my favourite whipping knot
up the shank of the hook after I've put on

956
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:10,640
a large kicker
I've cut a tiny little bit of that off

957
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:16,840
and it's just enough to cover up the join
between that and the Spinner Swivel

958
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:20,160
because it's going
obviously on a Spinner Rig.

959
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:24,680
I much prefer the Spinner Rig just because
you can change the hook really easily and

960
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:29,600
in this situation I've got
hooks with baits on and the shot

961
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:33,160
on the hook already threaded
on in the boat in a little pop-up pot

962
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:36,600
so that when I go out there if I do get
a bite and I land one out there

963
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:41,040
I can get the hook out the mouth,
change the rig, go back to the spot,

964
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:44,720
drop it all with the fish still
by the side of the boat or in the boat.

965
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:49,280
And then that is attached to,
let's put this into the wallet,

966
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:53,880
and we'll just keep a load
of these spares for always.

967
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:57,200
Even if I don't use them on this session,
I'll come to another place where

968
00:58:57,440 --> 00:59:00,800
the fishing is demanding
and I'll use exactly the same ones.

969
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:05,120
I'm using 30lb ArmaKord
as the hair because it's quite stiff

970
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:06,920
and I want that with a big bait.

971
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:10,840
I don't want a super supple hooklink
that can potentially tangle.

972
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:15,480
So the hooklink I'm using
here is a prototype material.

973
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:22,880
It's 50lb breaking strain, so it's much,
much thicker than other coated materials,

974
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:27,880
but it's just got a nice
sort of stiffness to it, like

975
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:29,760
semi-stiff I suppose you would call it.

976
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:32,240
It's a lovely colour,
perfect for this lake,

977
00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:34,360
just like a sort of slub brown colour.

978
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:38,480
And the coating doesn't break when you tie
the overhand knots in it,

979
00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:39,280
and that's all I'm doing.

980
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:41,560
I'm doing an overhand knot
for the Spinner Swivel,

981
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:45,600
I'm putting one of our sinkers
on in the middle, and then a long

982
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:51,480
Dark Matter anti-tangle sleeve,
and then another loop at the other end.

983
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:53,160
Pulling them really, really tight.

984
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:56,560
It's really important when you're tying
any rig and you're tying knots,

985
00:59:57,040 --> 01:00:00,920
You want to pull them tighter than
the fish can, so you really give it some.

986
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:05,000
The same with leader knots, and then the
knot can't slip when you pull into a fish.

987
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:07,360
That is the reason a knot breaks.

988
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:11,240
It moves just a tiny bit,
the hooklink slips against

989
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:13,040
itself and cuts through itself.

990
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:18,040
So I'm pulling that super duper tight,
I'm steaming it straight as well before I

991
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:23,360
fish with it, and that is attached
to my favourite cog lead system.

992
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:27,760
Got a few members of the public just
walking past the back of us at the moment.

993
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:33,600
We're in basically a public park and, uh,
yeah, we're just the other

994
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:34,680
side of the path.

995
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,920
So I've got my rods out in the water
and then there's people going down

996
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:39,720
to the beach at the other end of the lake.

997
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:45,080
So yeah, I'm attaching
it to a cog lead system.

998
01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:47,600
It's my favourite lead system
for going out in the boat.

999
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:51,800
I've got 6oz cogs out there,
so you're picking a 6oz lead up

1000
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:55,800
from the centre of the lead,
so it goes from no resistance

1001
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:59,120
to maximum resistance in an instant.

1002
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:03,080
And I've converted my cogs so I can use
them quick-change with

1003
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:04,200
an anti-tangle sleeve.

1004
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:07,080
Normally you create a hinge with a cog
system,

1005
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:10,360
and we've seen on the underwater film,
with a hinge on the hook link,

1006
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:14,000
it can land anywhere on the bottom,
and if it lands back up the line

1007
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:16,600
and the fish comes towards it
in that direction,

1008
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:19,920
it can suck it in, move towards the lead,
and blow it back out again

1009
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:21,080
before it feels the lead.

1010
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:26,720
And that is then all attached to that 30lb
fluorocarbon

1011
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:29,040
with the camo sort of look to it.

1012
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:32,560
It says Kamo on the spool
and it's specifically for leaders.

1013
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:35,920
And as I've said before,
the mistake I've made in the past is I've

1014
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:40,600
used too much of it, too long a length,
and then when the line goes slack,

1015
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:44,000
it all bursts off the spool and it's
going everywhere and it's a pain.

1016
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:49,720
But I've followed Peder's lead and I'm
using it about 15 foot long, a rod

1017
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:51,720
length and a half of these 10-footers.

1018
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:53,880
You don't get it bouncing off the spool.

1019
01:01:54,640 --> 01:02:00,240
It's super, super heavy, really invisible,
and very, very abrasive resistant,

1020
01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:03,240
just like all of the fluorocarbons are.

1021
01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:07,400
And I'm using the hair in this situation
rather than my favourite D-Rig Kicker just

1022
01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:11,120
because there's a lot of bream around,
and if they're constantly picking it up,

1023
01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:15,760
they could end up throwing it down the end
of the D it could end up sliding round

1024
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:17,520
on the D and going inside the hook.

1025
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:20,640
So just to be really careful,
I've got hair on.

1026
01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:22,440
There's no way that hair can tangle.

1027
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:26,520
They can pick it up as many times as they
want and I'm not going to get snarled up.

1028
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,200
So when a carp comes along,
I'll definitely hook it.

1029
01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:31,920
And obviously the last thing to put
on the rig is the shot on the hook.

1030
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:35,640
I'm using the 0.4g
in this situation because I'm using big

1031
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:39,200
baits and big hooks,
and that just basically makes the point

1032
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:41,560
of the hook heavy So as soon as it goes
in the mouth,

1033
01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:45,680
the point is wanting to touch the floor
of the mouth and the fish haven't even got

1034
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:48,600
to move at all and that hook
is starting to pull home.

1035
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:52,080
So the holy grail is getting that hook
link exactly the right length.

1036
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:56,560
It's no coincidence that Peder's using
the hook link around 6 inches as well.

1037
01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:01,040
He's been getting the bites and now I'm
fishing this area completely on my own.

1038
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:05,040
Hopefully I'll be getting one too.

1039
01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:15,920
Peder is taking the piss now

1040
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:17,120
with the old fish spotting.

1041
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:18,920
It's a little bit extreme now, innit?

1042
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:43,320
Alright, let's get this over this side.

1043
01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:53,760
Yes!

1044
01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:57,480
Nice one!

1045
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:00,340
Morning!

1046
01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:00,800
Morning!

1047
01:05:01,720 --> 01:05:05,720
That's a nice wake-up call.

1048
01:05:25,560 --> 01:05:26,200
There you go.

1049
01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:33,120
Very welcome mirror carp
just after first light.

1050
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:38,840
Caught off the reeds
off the first rod there.

1051
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:43,800
Just shows you the importance of moving
on lakes this size is that you can do it.

1052
01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:47,440
Obviously it's still early in the morning,
so we haven't— we're not going to phone

1053
01:05:47,520 --> 01:05:50,320
Dan to see what's been going on with him,
but we'll catch up with him

1054
01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:50,960
a little bit later.

1055
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:54,520
Hopefully he'll have something
to show us as well, I hope.

1056
01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:57,140
But what a lovely fish.

1057
01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:11,440
Hello mate, how you doing?

1058
01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:14,280
Uh, we're being—

1059
01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:17,480
I'm being blown to bits down here
at the end of the wind, to be honest.

1060
01:06:18,920 --> 01:06:23,840
At the moment it's not, um, yeah,
yeah, it's, um, my left-hand rod's tight

1061
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:27,560
and just keeps tightening up where
the undertow is just pulling

1062
01:06:27,640 --> 01:06:29,240
it back in the other direction.

1063
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:33,440
Okay, yeah, I mean, it's not It's pleasant
here, we're not getting the brunt of it,

1064
01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:35,160
but I'll take it.

1065
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:39,280
Yeah, it's, it's, it's, uh, it's,
it's the, the wind is much stronger than

1066
01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:42,200
what they promised yesterday,
so it's going to be a bit of a— we're

1067
01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:44,640
coming down bank because
the fish are here.

1068
01:06:44,720 --> 01:06:46,560
We've caught one this morning.

1069
01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:47,840
Have you?

1070
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:52,680
Yeah, yeah, we've had a 20-pounder,
so nothing, nothing massive or

1071
01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:53,680
anything, but we did catch one.

1072
01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:56,640
And I've seen,
saw a couple of fish yesterday evening,

1073
01:06:56,720 --> 01:07:00,800
and I've seen probably 4 fish this morning
when I got the last rod out, just like

1074
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:03,200
here, 2 fish crossed on the way back in.

1075
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:04,240
Really?

1076
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:06,840
Yeah,
but the conditions down here are like,

1077
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:09,720
you know, it's, it's, um,
you're not going to be able to get any

1078
01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:13,000
rods out before maybe early
evening with this wind.

1079
01:07:13,600 --> 01:07:15,360
Right, okay.
So that's right.

1080
01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:18,440
What, what, what, have you got
any news for me from up there?

1081
01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:19,840
No, nothing, mate.

1082
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:22,400
Nothing, mate.

1083
01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:26,360
This whole week I've just been late
to the party every single time.

1084
01:07:26,840 --> 01:07:27,700
You know.

1085
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:28,520
Yeah, it's starting—

1086
01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:31,080
I've got to be honest, mate,
it's starting to grind me down a bit now.

1087
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:33,000
It's been 5 days of effort.

1088
01:07:33,600 --> 01:07:35,000
Yeah, nothing, you know.

1089
01:07:35,720 --> 01:07:36,760
It's starting to—

1090
01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:40,080
you know, everyone,
everyone has their highs and lows

1091
01:07:40,160 --> 01:07:41,480
in one of these long sessions.

1092
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:46,240
And up until this point,
I've been pretty buoyant, but you know,

1093
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:49,240
every now and again you just hit the wall
and you just think,

1094
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:50,740
what the am I doing?

1095
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:53,560
Um, and that's That's
where I am at the moment.

1096
01:07:54,680 --> 01:07:54,960
Okay.

1097
01:07:55,680 --> 01:07:57,160
I know I'm not .

1098
01:07:57,600 --> 01:07:58,600
I know I'm not .

1099
01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:04,360
I know I'm decent and I'm just never

1100
01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:07,360
actually on them properly or

1101
01:08:07,440 --> 01:08:09,280
just not fishing right for them.

1102
01:08:09,800 --> 01:08:13,240
That was a major mistake,
not fishing tight to the lilies

1103
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:15,440
yesterday, a couple of days ago.

1104
01:08:16,560 --> 01:08:19,840
With that fish crapping my bait out,
you know they've been eating my baits

1105
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:21,800
and I still haven't had a bite and it's
like,

1106
01:08:22,400 --> 01:08:25,680
when you're sitting here for really long
periods and nothing's happening,

1107
01:08:26,440 --> 01:08:29,240
it does play, you know,
it's like plays on your mind,

1108
01:08:29,320 --> 01:08:31,520
the things that you could or
should have done, you know.

1109
01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:34,600
So, you know,
I don't know what the answer—

1110
01:08:34,840 --> 01:08:37,360
we sent the drone up earlier trying
to look at the, um,

1111
01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:43,360
uh, the old original spot,
but it just won't— it's well over a mile

1112
01:08:43,440 --> 01:08:45,080
away and it just won't do the range.

1113
01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:50,280
And, um, obviously we've looked down
the reeds where we'd seen fish before

1114
01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:54,640
opposite me where I've got all
my hookbaits and it's gone very green over

1115
01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:56,600
there now where the wind's blowing in now.

1116
01:08:57,240 --> 01:08:59,480
Of course, yeah, that's
pushing all the algae in.

1117
01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:02,120
I don't suppose you would in the weather.

1118
01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:06,240
This is epic weather,
you know, sunny and windy.

1119
01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:08,480
Brilliant weather.
Exactly, yeah.

1120
01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:11,680
You know, it's just,
where are they, you know?

1121
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:17,640
Yeah, there was 24 hours left.

1122
01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:20,600
I just feel like I'm rotting
away down here now, you know.

1123
01:09:21,160 --> 01:09:24,480
Okay, but would you like
to go somewhere else then?

1124
01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:26,020
Would you like—we could—we can—

1125
01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:28,920
I can come up there instead
of me moving up there.

1126
01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:30,080
We can fish down here.

1127
01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:32,120
There are— there is— there are fish here.

1128
01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:34,720
Yeah, and that's just the way it is.

1129
01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:36,800
Otherwise, oh, you,
you know what it's like.

1130
01:09:36,880 --> 01:09:38,520
A change is as good as a rest.

1131
01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:45,040
You know, and just, you know,
I don't want to just sit here for another

1132
01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:49,000
24 hours just praying
that something's going to happen.

1133
01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:52,320
It would have happened by now if it
was going to happen, wouldn't it?

1134
01:09:52,400 --> 01:09:53,400
Yeah, that's my guess.

1135
01:09:53,480 --> 01:09:55,480
Couldn't have got them
out better yesterday.

1136
01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:57,760
I've baited exactly the same as you.

1137
01:09:57,880 --> 01:09:59,880
I've got the same hookbaits on.

1138
01:09:59,960 --> 01:10:01,680
What more can I do, you know?

1139
01:10:03,160 --> 01:10:05,440
Well, there's nothing much
more you can do there then.

1140
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:08,280
No, I agree.
I agree.

1141
01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:10,960
Well, what we're going to do is we're
going to come up there anyway since we're

1142
01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:13,560
more or less packed up and we can
make a decision on what to do.

1143
01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:19,000
The, um, we had a guy on the phone earlier
on who fished down that Lily Pad Bay where

1144
01:10:19,080 --> 01:10:20,960
we were at in the first couple of days.

1145
01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:23,120
He didn't have anything
last night, nothing.

1146
01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:24,880
Right, okay.

1147
01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:28,440
Yeah, so, um, right, you know,
he said he didn't hear or see anything,

1148
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:30,600
but they could still be in there,
but maybe just not feeding.

1149
01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:31,840
But that was his take on that.

1150
01:10:31,920 --> 01:10:35,760
If you've seen 2 fish jump on the way back
from reeling your last rod in, all the

1151
01:10:37,960 --> 01:10:41,880
All the fish that we've seen this morning
after the wind has picked up have been

1152
01:10:42,320 --> 01:10:44,800
quite a bit off the bank,
over 100 metres off the bank.

1153
01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:48,760
So they're not in the edges
with the wind smashing in like that.

1154
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:51,720
They're off backing off it a little bit,
but they are there.

1155
01:10:53,160 --> 01:10:54,400
Right, okay, okay.

1156
01:10:54,760 --> 01:10:57,960
Well, maybe we'll let the wind die down
and do it, set it a little bit later

1157
01:10:58,040 --> 01:11:02,440
on with the view to, you know,
trying to get a bite on that last morning.

1158
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:06,720
Yeah, I think what we're going
to do is we'll come up there.

1159
01:11:06,880 --> 01:11:09,560
We've packed everything up,
so now we're going to go up there

1160
01:11:09,760 --> 01:11:12,040
and we're going to sit down and discuss
what we're going to do

1161
01:11:12,120 --> 01:11:14,740
and have a chat about it.
But I think this is a good bet.

1162
01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:17,560
Yeah,
yeah, it's a little bit tight in here,

1163
01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:21,040
but the swim is pretty wide,
but we can fish both sides.

1164
01:11:21,320 --> 01:11:22,200
We can have a chat about it.

1165
01:11:22,280 --> 01:11:26,280
So we'll— we need to get going here before
this picks up anymore,

1166
01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:30,040
because at the moment it keeps— the wind
keeps rising and rising we need, you know.

1167
01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:36,240
Yes, yeah, what happens on the hot days is
the sun heats up the air

1168
01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:41,440
by the surface of the ground
and it creates very, very thin air

1169
01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:45,560
and that makes it windier and windier
and windier on these warm days.

1170
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:50,080
As soon as it cools down again,
that air will become more dense

1171
01:11:50,160 --> 01:11:52,640
and the wind will drop, you know.
Okay.

1172
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:56,480
So, but it'll be later on this
evening before it does it.

1173
01:11:59,040 --> 01:12:02,200
Yeah, we will look at the weather
forecast, but we will come over

1174
01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:03,720
and we will decide on what to do.

1175
01:12:04,160 --> 01:12:06,400
But this is a good bet as any.
It looks very nice.

1176
01:12:07,200 --> 01:12:11,080
We will be over in about 20 minutes' time.
We will be back.

1177
01:12:11,720 --> 01:12:13,760
All right, see you then.
See you then, all right.

1178
01:12:13,880 --> 01:12:15,320
Cheers, mate.
Well done on the fish.

1179
01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:16,760
Bye, mate.
Thank you very much.

1180
01:12:17,800 --> 01:12:18,420
Bye.

1181
01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:22,920
We had only 24 hours to go,
so this was the final push.

1182
01:12:23,520 --> 01:12:27,360
Peder was making his way over
while I began packing down my kit.

1183
01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:32,200
On the way to the swim,
the warm summer wind went from strong

1184
01:12:32,480 --> 01:12:37,120
to gale force, sending whitecap waves
into the bay we planned to set up in.

1185
01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:40,320
When we arrived,
it became blatantly obvious that it was

1186
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:42,080
going to be tricky getting the rods out.

1187
01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:45,440
This was windier than anything
I'd ever dropped my rigs in.

1188
01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:49,560
Certainly if we didn't have Peter's huge
aluminium boat, going out

1189
01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:51,000
would have been impossible.

1190
01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:54,840
We rode through the surf and managed
to head out and donk for spots.

1191
01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:01,280
That's 6oz cog territory if ever I saw it.

1192
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:06,560
Before deciding to drop our rods as
the wind began to die down in the evening.

1193
01:13:09,240 --> 01:13:13,040
We scattered rods around the bay,
setting traps to intercept fish

1194
01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:14,600
as they moved into the area.

1195
01:13:18,560 --> 01:13:22,000
As darkness fell, much to our surprise,
one of my rods was away.

1196
01:13:22,720 --> 01:13:27,640
Go there, come on!

1197
01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:29,280
We raced out to the spot.

1198
01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:33,640
Peder charged the boat through the reeds
and into a lily pad field to get

1199
01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:35,080
there as quickly as possible.

1200
01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:37,480
My adrenaline was through the roof.

1201
01:13:37,920 --> 01:13:40,760
This was unlike any boat
angling I'd ever done.

1202
01:13:41,520 --> 01:13:44,840
Peder began ripping apart lily stems
to free the line until all

1203
01:13:44,920 --> 01:13:46,760
of a sudden the fish was in the net.

1204
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:53,040
I was genuinely in shock.

1205
01:13:56,840 --> 01:13:57,840
Oh mate.

1206
01:13:58,560 --> 01:14:00,320
Completely lost for words.

1207
01:14:04,040 --> 01:14:05,840
Wow.
I'm just shell-shocked, mate.

1208
01:14:14,800 --> 01:14:17,760
The next morning followed suit,
landing another fish.

1209
01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:25,880
Get in there!

1210
01:14:26,600 --> 01:14:29,120
Yeah, man!

1211
01:14:29,520 --> 01:14:30,680
Following that, another

1212
01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:38,880
two graced my net!

1213
01:14:40,720 --> 01:14:43,400
Yes!
Get in there!

1214
01:14:46,040 --> 01:14:48,112
Yes!

1215
01:14:48,312 --> 01:15:05,720
yes, pulling the rod out the rest.

1216
01:15:06,560 --> 01:15:08,400
And they were right
on top of it when it went.

1217
01:15:08,480 --> 01:15:09,300
Yeah, I know.

1218
01:15:12,880 --> 01:15:13,840
Death by bacon.

1219
01:15:15,400 --> 01:15:19,480
All right, where's that line at?
It's that way.

1220
01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:21,200
All right, I'm going
to turn the boat around.

1221
01:15:21,280 --> 01:15:21,960
Yeah, hang on.

1222
01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:27,160
This trip had taken a massive U-turn.

1223
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:29,280
Go, go, go, go!

1224
01:15:29,920 --> 01:15:34,520
To go from chasing my tail all week,
feeling like I was going home on a blank,

1225
01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:39,400
to suddenly netting not one but four
fish was simply mind-blowing.

1226
01:15:39,480 --> 01:15:42,040
Look at that big old grey mirror again.

1227
01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:46,120
Get in there!
Yes!

1228
01:15:46,520 --> 01:15:46,800
Yes!

1229
01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:48,200
Oh, my goodness.

1230
01:15:49,480 --> 01:15:53,040
What a morning's angling, man

1231
01:15:54,680 --> 01:15:57,360
look at that, look at that,
look at the width of that.

1232
01:15:58,480 --> 01:16:01,720
That's another 30, isn't it?

1233
01:16:01,880 --> 01:16:04,200
No, honestly, you could not write this.

1234
01:16:07,120 --> 01:16:07,560
Insane.

1235
01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:11,160
We've just been talking about we're going
to have breakfast and we're going to wind

1236
01:16:11,240 --> 01:16:14,000
the rods in because the wind
is coming, it's building.

1237
01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:18,960
2 miles an hour every hour
until it's 30 miles an hour.

1238
01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:24,880
You can imagine what that's like whipping
across 1,000 acres, 30-mile-an-hour winds.

1239
01:16:24,960 --> 01:16:27,160
So we're literally talking about bringing
all these rods in,

1240
01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:28,520
but this was the short rod.

1241
01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:32,800
So I've got a short rod here,
a long rod out there, a short rod there,

1242
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:34,320
and they've all done bites.

1243
01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:35,840
Well done, Dan.

1244
01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:37,440
Thanks, mate.
Congratulations.

1245
01:16:37,520 --> 01:16:38,560
Thank you.

1246
01:16:38,640 --> 01:16:41,720
And if it wasn't for Peders,
knowledge of these big wild pits,

1247
01:16:42,040 --> 01:16:44,920
I'm almost certain this could
have been a very different ending.

1248
01:16:45,680 --> 01:16:48,360
This just proves that life
isn't conquered solo.

1249
01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:53,240
Every win is built on shared effort,
trust, and support.

1250
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:55,600
Crazy, man.

1251
01:16:57,200 --> 01:16:59,600
Yeah, 4 in the morning, pretty much.

1252
01:17:00,160 --> 01:17:02,360
I'm going to say, like,
I'm not going to say I told you so when we

1253
01:17:02,440 --> 01:17:04,380
were on them, you would have more than
one,

1254
01:17:04,560 --> 01:17:09,880
but you did say, oh, it doesn't It doesn't
seem like there was any carp in this lake.

1255
01:17:10,160 --> 01:17:10,320
No.

1256
01:17:10,520 --> 01:17:14,200
Or, well, it seemed like there was
3 and you caught them all.

1257
01:17:14,360 --> 01:17:15,680
That's what it felt like.

1258
01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:20,880
Are you ready for an amazing carp?

1259
01:17:21,040 --> 01:17:26,000
The first one in 5 days
of constant moving, constant being

1260
01:17:26,080 --> 01:17:27,920
out in the boat, constant rig tying.

1261
01:17:28,440 --> 01:17:29,080
Here it is.

1262
01:17:30,080 --> 01:17:30,480
35.

1263
01:17:31,760 --> 01:17:37,000
Pounds of amazing Danish mirror carp.
Look at that!

1264
01:17:37,880 --> 01:17:42,600
If that came out of the car park lake
at Yateley, no one would bat an eyelid.

1265
01:17:42,680 --> 01:17:49,320
Look at it, an old grey crusty carp,
all little withered fins.

1266
01:17:49,480 --> 01:17:53,160
It's obviously spawned,
it's probably like an upper 30

1267
01:17:53,240 --> 01:17:55,200
before it spawned, but look at that.

1268
01:17:56,520 --> 01:17:58,600
As you saw,
a bit of a strange fight.

1269
01:17:58,680 --> 01:18:00,680
Didn't really feel the fish on the end.

1270
01:18:00,760 --> 01:18:02,680
Peder had to do all
the work in the lilies.

1271
01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:07,800
But it was in the net,
and we haven't gone home with a blank.

1272
01:18:08,240 --> 01:18:13,040
But as you've seen, there are
a lot more lovely carp to show you.

1273
01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:19,720
But just for a second, just admire what
I consider to be the perfect mirror carp.

1274
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:21,560
Look at that.

1275
01:18:26,080 --> 01:18:29,760
Now, under normal circumstances,
a 26-pounder

1276
01:18:30,320 --> 01:18:32,680
in the middle of a load of epic
30-pounders

1277
01:18:33,280 --> 01:18:35,880
would just get what we call a grab
and grin, no talking,

1278
01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:37,860
and would go straight back.

1279
01:18:38,160 --> 01:18:44,160
But after 5 days of working my arse off
to get a fish, every single one

1280
01:18:45,080 --> 01:18:47,240
is to be admired and enjoyed.

1281
01:18:48,240 --> 01:18:51,840
So this one was on a Snowman,
Peders hookbaits, the King Crab,

1282
01:18:51,920 --> 01:18:57,560
which is definitely coming back out again,
on top of a very heavy 24mm

1283
01:18:57,680 --> 01:18:59,760
crustacean-style bottom bait.

1284
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:03,160
And he was absolutely nailed, this guy.

1285
01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:09,160
Lovely, lovely, lovely carp.
Look at that.

1286
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:14,040
Well, you thought that first
35-pounder was mega.

1287
01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:16,920
Check out this, 38lb.

1288
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:20,160
Look at that.

1289
01:19:21,120 --> 01:19:25,880
Again, just the perfect,
perfect example of a mirror carp.

1290
01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:31,680
I never expected these Danish carp
to look as amazing as they do.

1291
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:38,160
Just to have one of these
would have made the week, but to have four

1292
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:40,880
It has just blown me away.

1293
01:19:41,120 --> 01:19:44,200
Look at this weather, it's unbelievable.

1294
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:48,200
What an incredible creature, 38lb.

1295
01:19:51,920 --> 01:19:52,580
Wow.

1296
01:19:56,160 --> 01:20:01,320
So the rods are wound in,
the weather is getting biblical,

1297
01:20:02,120 --> 01:20:04,720
and this is our last
fish to present to you.

1298
01:20:05,240 --> 01:20:08,080
And I have to say, it's all
down to this man next to me.

1299
01:20:08,760 --> 01:20:12,880
Um, Peder, thank you so much
for the amount of effort that you put in

1300
01:20:13,440 --> 01:20:19,280
to get us these bites, because it has been
non-stop moving, non-stop towing rigs out.

1301
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:23,720
I've done very little
other than wind carp in.

1302
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:27,520
Uh, so mate, thank you very, very much.
Oh, you're more than welcome.

1303
01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:28,920
It's been absolutely amazing.

1304
01:20:29,760 --> 01:20:33,320
Um, having
you over here for this experience as well,

1305
01:20:33,440 --> 01:20:35,760
and obviously for you to experience these
fish just at the end,

1306
01:20:35,840 --> 01:20:39,160
like we talked about last night,
we're saying it's just

1307
01:20:39,240 --> 01:20:41,440
like you couldn't write it.
No, no, no, you couldn't.

1308
01:20:41,520 --> 01:20:44,400
If you could not write
this storey if you tried.

1309
01:20:44,480 --> 01:20:47,760
No, that's, you know,
and to catch fish of this quality

1310
01:20:48,680 --> 01:20:51,240
at the end, I've— this
has blown me away, mate.

1311
01:20:51,400 --> 01:20:56,280
I shall remember this for a very, very,
very long time, and I think Before I lift

1312
01:20:56,360 --> 01:20:59,560
the guy up, or the girl— Ooh,
alright, mate.

1313
01:20:59,880 --> 01:21:02,640
We should say thank you to the people
behind the camera as well,

1314
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:06,160
and to Peder's family who have
been looking after us with the food.

1315
01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:10,520
That idiot Lewis, who's behind there right
now, and Scotty,

1316
01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:11,800
that had to go home early.

1317
01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:16,320
Those boys have moved with us the whole
way, have endured the weather the whole

1318
01:21:16,400 --> 01:21:19,840
way, the driving rain,
the strong winds, the being out

1319
01:21:19,920 --> 01:21:21,040
in the boat and being thrown around.

1320
01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:23,560
and they've all done it with a smile

1321
01:21:23,640 --> 01:21:26,440
on their face and a biscuit
in their mouth, to be fair.

1322
01:21:27,520 --> 01:21:30,600
So let's lift up this 38 and a quarter

1323
01:21:30,680 --> 01:21:35,200
pound absolute beast of a carp.

1324
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:41,960
Look at that,
look at that, what a creature.

1325
01:21:43,240 --> 01:21:47,200
Now this is spawned out,
this was easily over 40lb And that is

1326
01:21:47,280 --> 01:21:49,720
an exceptional carp for Denmark.

1327
01:21:50,280 --> 01:21:56,880
So to get one on my first ever visit is
just, well, beyond my wildest dreams.

1328
01:21:57,480 --> 01:22:00,000
Let's turn it round
and show you the other side.

1329
01:22:00,120 --> 01:22:01,280
All right, mate.

1330
01:22:01,600 --> 01:22:04,240
If you get away now, your caught.

1331
01:22:05,360 --> 01:22:12,040
He's just the perfect, like the others,
the perfect example of a mirror carp.

1332
01:22:12,200 --> 01:22:14,360
As far as I'm concerned.
Look at that.

1333
01:22:15,240 --> 01:22:18,160
Well, all that's left to say,
ladies and gents, is thank you very much

1334
01:22:18,240 --> 01:22:20,920
for watching,
and we'll see you on the bank sometime.

1335
01:22:21,560 --> 01:22:23,960
Give it a little kissy, and off you go.