UNDERWATER - The Manor

Our NEWEST Underwater film takes underwater carp fishing to another level as Monster Carp favourites Tom Dove and Neil Spooner arrive at a stunning five-acre gravel pit on a mission unlike any other. Their target? The biggest fully scaled mirror carp in the UK - the legendary fish known as The Lord of the Manor.
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Armed with some of the finest tackle and most effective tactics developed on waters across the globe, the pair face a monumental challenge.
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To gain a crucial understanding of what happens underwater, the three strategically positioned underwater cameras become Dovey and Spooner's eyes beneath the surface, revealing the carp's movements and behaviour in unprecedented detail. With real-time insights from below, every decision could make the difference between success and failure.
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As if the challenge wasn't tough enough, the pressure is intensified by fellow Korda anglers and podcast hosts Damian Clarke and Tom Stokes, who are waiting to take over the lake the moment Dovey and Spooner's session comes to an end.
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With time running out and the clock constantly ticking, the question remains: Can they achieve the seemingly impossible and capture Britain's most sought-after fully scaled mirror carp on camera before their opportunity slips away?

TRANSCRIPT FOR UNDERWATER - THE MANOR
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We are fishing for the biggest
fully scaled mirror in the country.

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What did I say?

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Yep, that's the one.

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There's usually an extended intro building
the excitement for what's to come,

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but like the film, we are doing things
a bit different this time round.

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Every time I see a glimpse
of anything, I'm like, hey!

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I'm not sure if we've said it before,
but we are on a mission to catch the

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biggest fully scaled
mirror in the country.

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A 60-pound crown jewel,
crème de la crème of British carp.

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Oh my Lord!

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No need to milk this one, that's about
as exciting as it's ever going to get.

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I've written down, this is for the editor,
for Shaun, we are going to catch it.

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I've written this at the beginning.
Yeah.

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So when it's all done,
you can say I said it.

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Told you, weren't a fluke.

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But if we don't catch it,
I'll rub that out.

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Yeah, rip that page out, can't you?
Yeah, that's fine.

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Location: The Manor.

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A 5-acre, super weedy,
ultra-clear heritage venue in

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the heart of the Test Valley.

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The stock is said to be around 100 carp,
but the biggest challenge with small lakes

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is that these fish are never far away from
rigs at any time, so they have

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seen absolutely everything.

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So we really had our work cut out for us.

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I'm going to give you a bit of an update.

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We are about 24 hours in,
the camera's been put in.

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We've got 2 spots and we're going to wait
for fish to come in, feed, clear the bait,

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put more out, and then hopefully we're
going to gain the confidence of the

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fish before we actually start fishing.

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A little bit like you
would do floater fishing.

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Yeah, exactly.
You know what I mean?

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Get them confident,
put a hookbait out, get a bite.

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Yeah.

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Along with the 2 main spots,
we had a 3rd spot with a smaller test

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camera on it synced up to a phone.

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We were going properly
Big Brother on this lake.

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The big fully had nowhere to hide.
Yeah?

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What's that?

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Oh!
That's a nice one.

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Is that one of them commons?

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Come on, come on, eat it,
drop— Eat, eat, go down.

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It's one of them opposite
of commons mirrors.

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Mirrors.
That's what that was.

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As this trip goes on, the notes
are gonna get shorter and shorter.

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Carpbackground.

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Over the next few days of staring into
screens, there were

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definitely carp background.

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So much so, some of us were
getting a bit too relaxed.

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I sharted the other day.

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Actually, the other day,
pushed a fart out and it—

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no!

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Fish on the left-hand spot.

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I think the hardest part of the underwater
trips, right at the very outset,

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you're doing them in the spring and you're
spending lots of time watching carp cruise

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past the spot without any thought of
dropping down to eat what we're

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trying to put in front of them.

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And I guess it hits home why I want
to fish zigs so much in the spring.

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They're cruising around,
they're using any energy they've got just

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milling around the lake,
not really thinking about

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eating loads and loads of bait.

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And a well-suspended bit of foam would
probably catch them,

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but that's not what we're here to do.

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This bit of this trip does its best to
suck the life out of you, doesn't it,

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and the confidence,
but I'm not going to let it.

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No, it's not going to.
We shall not allow that.

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History does say though that it takes a
long time for them to

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sit and eat on the spot.

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So you're sitting there the first few
days, it's boring, but you know it's going

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to take a long time anyway, so you're just
going through the motions, aren't you?

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Every day, up early.

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Slow start.

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Slow start, gal.

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We were ticking through what
was supposed to be feeding days.

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I'm not going to lose my mind with this.

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I'm determined not to.

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First using a mix of boilies, pellet,
and corn, and then in combo with a special

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nut mix that Justin, the fishery owner,
had started using on the venue.

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Not only did we have underwater cameras at
our disposal in these areas,

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we had drones too.
Let's have a look.

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Oh yes, there's another one.

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There he is.

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We told you we were going
Big Brother on its ass.

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It's a real big fat wobbler.

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And instead of carp feeding on our spots,
they were rinsing the shallows,

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so much so that we decided that
would become one of our main spots.

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Kevin, message from Jacko.

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He said you look a right in them shorts.

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It's always like this the first few days.

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It takes a while to settle in and get what
we came for, but once we did,

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it was like winning the lottery.
Yeah!

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Yes!

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Yes!

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Well done, lads.
16.

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16.

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Another 2 fish.

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Mate, there's another one
coming in from the right.

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Okay, now we're in.

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You never know that they're going to feed
until they actually feed in

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front of this larger camera.

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It's always a worry of ours.

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And there's always so much
riding on these trips.

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We've got so many people here,
so many man-hours go into it,

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and to actually see them feed properly on
the camera is the biggest—

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they're back in numbers.
There's 3 of them.

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Yes!
He's quite a small one, him.

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Look, look, look, look,
he might be on the edge of your frame.

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Oh my God, it's on!
Oh my God, it's on!

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Oh my God, it's on!
Oh, it's on!

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Oh, it's on.
Look, look, look.

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And another one.
Oh my God, look how good it looks.

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He's coming down.

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4 days in and we had
feeders on the main spot.

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Sweet, sweet, sweet.

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And not only that, they continue to the
point of us now having a little crew.

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So let us introduce the
cast of the underwater.

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White Patch.

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Underwater is on.

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OG Crinkle.

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Ah, Crinkle's nice.
I like Crinkle.

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What a guy.
What a character.

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What a lovely fellow he is.

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The Butler.

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He's the butler to the Lord.

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He's just cleaning the spot so it's
convenient for the Lord

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to come in and feed.
Okay.

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That's what he's doing.
Is that what it is?

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That's what all good butlers do.

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You gotta prep a zone.

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I didn't put two and two.

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Hopefully the Big 'un.

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That is it.

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And some whose names need
a bit of explanation first.

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He's got a really crisp
bum hole, that one.

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Have you noticed that?
No.

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We're going to have to call
it bum hole, aren't we?

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Starfish.

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No, it's not starfish,
it's like a proper bullet wound.

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But more on that later.

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We said to the lad at the
Farnborough Show we would do a fish bump.

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Neil we've lost it.
No, we were doing this.

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This little— Yeah, the lad.
No, I do remember actually.

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I said we'd do a fish bump.
What is it then?

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It's swimming like a fish.
Fish bump.

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We've done a fish bump.
There you go, boys.

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There you go.
Said we'd do it.

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That has to go in, Shaun Ladd.

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I'm only going to record this now
if something different happens.

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Yeah.
Oh, there.

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That's different.
I haven't seen him before.

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Definitely haven't had him in.

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That is definitely a new fish.

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I'm trying to get a picture of these now.

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So we've got— dusk is
unreal at the moment.

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Yeah, joke.

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Like you said earlier,
now's when we'd be recasting our rods,

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getting ready for the night ahead.

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Could be absolutely ruining chances.

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I think that's a really
important takeaway from this.

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We've noticed that every single time we do
one of these, dusk, certainly this time

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of year, seems to be really productive.

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There's always fish in there feeding.

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But normally this time of night I would be
getting my rods ready and almost everyone

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does because you've obviously
got the whole night.

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You want your rigs fresh for the morning,
but maybe we're missing a

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really important time on dusk.

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If you got your rigs ready at 3, 4 o'clock
in the afternoon, you'd get one now.

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Yeah.

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Whereas normally you're trying to hit the
clip and getting it done just before dark.

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It's something I've noticed actually
over the last two Underwaters, I'd say.

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And it's really evident in this one,
that in the evening, the feeding spells

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are as strong almost as first light.

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So, normally for me,
dusk is nowhere near as good as first

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light, but actually, when I look at my own
fishing, I'm always putting my rods out

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right at the last minute,
and that had cost me fish in the past,

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I'm sure of it, because when you see how
hard they're feeding,

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you're definitely missing an opportunity
if you're not set and

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ready to go at that time.

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So from now on, and I've done it a little
bit already, I'm going to make sure that

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I'm putting my rods out at 6,
7 in the evening if it gets dark at 9,

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instead of doing it at the last minute,
because I'm definitely losing fish.

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With the light fading fast,
I went out to rebait the spots with a

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little less than a kilo of Cell and
Essential Cell 10mm, corn,

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and a bit of juji, aka the nut mix,
to keep them grubbing around all night.

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We've been rebaiting as soon as we turn
the cameras off each night to hopefully

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make sure we had traffic for when
we turned them on in the morning.

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In your own fishing,
you'd want to top up a few Spombs going

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into dark, as unlike us,
you'd have rigs out and if all is well,

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you'd be getting bites,
after which you'd top up a few Spombs.

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So just a slight tweak on
what we were doing here.

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Today's the day, boy-chee.

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It is indeed.

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I've got all my stuff.

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I feel like a kid when he goes fishing,
you know, when you get

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all your little bits out.
Yeah, got me catapult.

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I've got a receiver that
we definitely don't need.

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No, it's nice to see it go off anyway.

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Adds to the excitement.

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What have we got then?

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No bait, no fish.

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Yeah, which is perfect really, isn't it?
Well, it is really.

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Gives you a chance to get your rods out,
no disturbance, put a bit of bait out,

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a little bit of zhuzh.
A bit of zhuzh, eh?

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Yeah.
Yeah, I like it.

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Excited?

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Yeah, I am.

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Come on.

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The moment was upon us at last.

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6 days in and it was finally
time to deploy the rig.

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The technology was what I always use,
a spinner rig made up of a 5.5-inch,

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25lb Boom hooklink, a size 4 Krank,
and a 12mm Pineapple Goo soaked

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pop-up fished on a helicopter setup.

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Going by the previous underwater,
the rig is ultra-effective when you spread

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the bait out and force the carp to
drop down onto it almost as a single.

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But we're fishing on small clean patches
amongst big banks of weed, so we've

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had to bait tighter than we'd like.

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Whether that would be detrimental to the
rig's effectiveness,

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we'd have to find out.

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I like it.
Game on.

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Do you like it?
Game on.

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Yeah, it doesn't look
like much bait, does it?

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No,
that's like— felt like between 5 and 10

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handfuls of both boilies,
so Cell and Essential Cell,

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so probably 15 handfuls, I reckon.
Yeah.

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And then 5 sprays of corn,
which felt like there's like a lot of

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items out there, but it looks
like there's nothing there.

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00:11:28,205 --> 00:11:32,360
Yeah, I do think a lot of it gets obscured
anyway, so you're not seeing every bit.

227
00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,040
You can see where I said a few
bits are caught up in the weed.

228
00:11:35,065 --> 00:11:36,055
Look.

229
00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:38,700
But they're just going to knock
them down as they swim through it.

230
00:11:38,725 --> 00:11:42,895
Now we're already over a week into the
session and the type of bottom that we

231
00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:46,935
want them to feed on, we've been feeding
and we just can't get them to touch down.

232
00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:51,655
So when you've got a spot at the opposite
end of the lake in the shallows where

233
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they're feeding aggressively,
the first thing we notice is that it's on

234
00:11:55,800 --> 00:12:00,415
really chunky gravel, which ordinarily
we'll do everything to avoid,

235
00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:04,775
but sometimes your hand is
forced into casting out.

236
00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:06,000
That's what you had to do.
Yeah.

237
00:12:06,025 --> 00:12:10,015
And results say in the past that it's not
good, but we actually don't

238
00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,215
know why at this stage, do you?
No.

239
00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:14,400
The rig looks okay.

240
00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:20,215
It's presented because it's a pop-up,
and I guess we'll find out why it isn't

241
00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:24,320
good, but I still don't fish on it.
I don't like it.

242
00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:29,095
The main thing for me is— not the main
thing, there's lots of

243
00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:30,360
important things, aren't there?

244
00:12:30,385 --> 00:12:34,560
One is that you convert
when you get picked up.

245
00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:37,015
Yes.

246
00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:40,935
The second thing is that you get picked up
in the first place, and you get picked up

247
00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,800
a number of times for the amount
of fish that are in the swim.

248
00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:49,800
So, and for you to get picked up,
you've got to, one, have good presentation

249
00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:56,735
And sometimes to definitely have good
presentation, you've got to downgrade

250
00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:58,520
your effectiveness a little bit.

251
00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:05,095
Slightly longer hook link like we used,
and a pop-up which might not get picked

252
00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,760
up as much, but also is more effective.

253
00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,975
So it's sort of like,
I feel like this rig is in between.

254
00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,640
I know I'm going round in circles here.

255
00:13:12,665 --> 00:13:15,200
No, but I hear what you're saying.

256
00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,880
So I sort of feel like you
get the presentation there.

257
00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,920
No matter what, because it's a slightly
longer hook link than Dan would use.

258
00:13:21,945 --> 00:13:25,160
Dan would use like a 3 or 4-inch hook
link, which is super effective,

259
00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:29,520
but also you don't get the right
presentation a lot of the time.

260
00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:34,415
I think this— that's why I think this rig
is so good, because it's the perfect

261
00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:38,615
middle ground as well as being
super effective, I believe.

262
00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:41,495
And you can feel that when
you're fishing, can't you?

263
00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,740
A lot of the time when you've got fish on
you, you cast it out and you get a bite.

264
00:13:44,765 --> 00:13:47,655
Which means it's presented,
you've got a good pop-up on or a good

265
00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:50,780
hookbait on, which means they want it
and they're getting it in their mouth.

266
00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:55,775
And it actually does convert at
least half the time, I think.

267
00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,295
Hookbait is so important as well.

268
00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:00,935
Yeah, because it can be as effective as
you want it to be, but if it's not getting

269
00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:02,480
picked up, it ain't getting picked up.

270
00:14:02,505 --> 00:14:04,200
Exactly.

271
00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:11,480
You've got to treat the teabag
with respect, like a good woman.

272
00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,655
It was a very cold morning,
and if it wasn't due to get warmer in the

273
00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:19,680
afternoon, we'd say fishing in the
shallows wouldn't be our first option.

274
00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:23,735
But the first thing to warm up is the
shallows, so we had high hopes for

275
00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:27,335
traffic once the sun started coming up.
Come on!

276
00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:29,095
Come on!

277
00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:30,135
Come on!

278
00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:31,855
Yes!
Yes!

279
00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:32,895
C'mon!

280
00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:34,175
C'mon!

281
00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,240
What are you?

282
00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:38,975
Come on.

283
00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,840
If he drops now, he's in the zone.

284
00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:55,295
Come on, come on.

285
00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,240
I can see his shadow coming over here.

286
00:14:58,440 --> 00:14:59,560
He had a little— he's
just having a little—

287
00:14:59,585 --> 00:15:00,900
he's had a little look.

288
00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,095
He had a look.
He didn't spook though, did he?

289
00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:05,295
No.
Very happy to be here.

290
00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,575
So exciting, this is.

291
00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:08,920
What time was that?

292
00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,295
I don't know, Neil.

293
00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,280
Even after a bit of zhuzhing midday,
there wasn't much of a response.

294
00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:20,375
So rather than fish for carp that weren't
there, I reeled in, rested the spot,

295
00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:22,375
and redeployed it around 4:00.

296
00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:26,575
Taking what we've learned about carp
activity, getting the rods out before dusk

297
00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:30,295
so it's ready for when the carp return
rather than getting it out as they

298
00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:32,480
return is our biggest take-home so far.

299
00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,455
There's one.

300
00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:37,775
Look.

301
00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:39,175
He's there.
White patch.

302
00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,055
He's back.

303
00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:43,680
Oh, he's really close.

304
00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:50,495
The contrast between the freezing cold
mornings and the warmer evenings

305
00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:52,855
was as stark as it could be.

306
00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:56,760
The carp were moving faster,
coming into the shallows more frequently,

307
00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,935
but we were still waiting
for that first touchdown.

308
00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:01,480
He likes a feed.

309
00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:04,240
Butler might be the one
that gets the party started.

310
00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,375
I think he might have been
here every day, Butler.

311
00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:09,535
Is he?
Yeah.

312
00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:12,375
Butler, Butler, Butler.
Where's Crinkle?

313
00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:14,320
That's what I want to know.
Butler, Butler.

314
00:16:14,345 --> 00:16:17,055
The evening felt like it
was slipping away from us.

315
00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:18,680
Falling off.
That's quite bad.

316
00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:23,080
And the Carplantis tadpoles seemed to
have got a visa to come and ruin our vibe.

317
00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:25,720
Oh, aren't they close, Tom.

318
00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,015
But all was not lost.

319
00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:33,255
We finally had some
classic underwater action.

320
00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,320
Yeah, yes!

321
00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:37,820
Another one behind it as well.

322
00:16:37,845 --> 00:16:41,815
Great, come on, come on!

323
00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:43,940
He's going to be close,
he's going to be close.

324
00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:50,695
Keep going.

325
00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:52,520
Is that Butler there?

326
00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:54,500
Butler's going to go down and grab it.

327
00:16:54,525 --> 00:16:55,920
Is he going to come on?

328
00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,800
No, he's a bit too far behind it.

329
00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:00,560
Butler's going to have it.

330
00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,175
Thank the Lord.

331
00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:08,800
Come on, come on, Butler, we'll have you.

332
00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:14,860
I don't recognise it.
Oh no, it's that new little zip linear.

333
00:17:14,885 --> 00:17:16,420
Here's a bigger one behind.

334
00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:18,975
We'll take you in.
Here we go, come on, we'll take you, boy.

335
00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:19,720
That's very good.

336
00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,480
Oh, it's on.

337
00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:28,500
I can't tell.

338
00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:37,520
Are we going to get one?

339
00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:39,895
Yeah, of course.

340
00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:41,455
Little straparoonies on.

341
00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:42,735
Yeah.

342
00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:43,920
What are you saying, butler?

343
00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:45,735
Yeah, butler.
Yeah, butler.

344
00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:47,440
Bang on line.
No, he's turned off.

345
00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,575
Butler, Butler!

346
00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:55,695
Mate, there's 3 of them!

347
00:17:55,720 --> 00:18:03,895
There's 3 of them, Neil Zip linear!

348
00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:05,375
4 of them.

349
00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,140
Yeah, the other one,
that one up top's bigger.

350
00:18:07,165 --> 00:18:08,535
Yeah, that's a lot bigger.

351
00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,880
Yes, yes, just go down
and take that pop-up.

352
00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:12,660
Go down and take the pop-up.

353
00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:16,095
Go down and take it.
Go down and take it, you're joking!

354
00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:17,500
It's eating your—Take it!

355
00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:18,775
Yes!
Take it!

356
00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,215
Take it!
Oh, how did that not take it?

357
00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:24,120
How did he miss it?
He's still there.

358
00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:26,600
How did that not take it?

359
00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:32,295
I can't believe he didn't have that.

360
00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,060
It just, it just, it just didn't take it.
It just didn't take it.

361
00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:36,175
He already had a mouthful.

362
00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:37,320
What's this one coming out?

363
00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:41,775
I'd right prefer him though,
Gal, wouldn't you?

364
00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:42,240
Oh yeah.

365
00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:49,255
He's gonna come back.

366
00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:51,015
Drop.

367
00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:57,495
No, that's a good fish, that, mate.

368
00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:00,520
Good fish, mate.

369
00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:12,175
It's going to be butler.

370
00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,160
It's going to be butler.

371
00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:19,440
Oh, that's a new fish.

372
00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:21,820
No, I thought it was a
little zip linear, wasn't it?

373
00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:26,560
Looked like a plain,
plain zip linear to me.

374
00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:30,600
Is that butler there?

375
00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:38,055
Yeah, I would prefer that common to come
back, mate, if I was Being honest,

376
00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:40,960
I think it's going to be Butler.

377
00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:50,500
Oh, there's a bigger one behind him.

378
00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,615
You eat it.

379
00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,040
Oh my God, is that common?

380
00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:01,400
Go on, eat it, eat it,
eat it, eat it, eat it.

381
00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,560
How can you miss it?
How can you miss it?

382
00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,160
Eat it!
Oh, it's wafting up.

383
00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,200
How is he not eating this?

384
00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,080
How is he not eating this?

385
00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,480
I thought he was going to just
go down and nab it, didn't you?

386
00:20:23,505 --> 00:20:24,695
He turned, didn't he?

387
00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:26,560
He's now sitting up a
bit higher now though.

388
00:20:26,585 --> 00:20:34,815
He's like pushed the hook
Sitting now, looks like it's sitting.

389
00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:36,000
Here he comes, here he comes.

390
00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:37,560
Just eat it.

391
00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:39,055
Eat it.

392
00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:41,520
Sound like you're talking
to one of your kids.

393
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:43,600
Eat it now.

394
00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:51,855
Oh my God,
you're fishing in 3 or 4 foot of very,

395
00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:59,655
very clear water on big bits of gravel,
and that is like the opposite scenario

396
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:01,160
in which you want to fish a pop-up.

397
00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:05,615
But our hand is forced because of the
gravel, and we also just want to try

398
00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,600
things that we've caught on in the past.

399
00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,815
I didn't want to get into, like,
doing some mad stuff right away just

400
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,375
because of the scenario,
you know what I mean?

401
00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,640
I wanted to see exactly how
our rigs acted out there.

402
00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:21,535
Yes, it was completely ignoring it.

403
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,200
Was it because it was too yellow?

404
00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:24,810
Was it because it didn't
like the pineapple?

405
00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:28,480
Was it because it was 2 inches off the
bottom in 4 foot of very clear water?

406
00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:32,535
I think it was probably more that it was a
pop-up, but it wasn't good to see

407
00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:34,580
them completely ignore it, I must say.

408
00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,815
Heartbreaking.
Heartbreaking.

409
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:39,880
You put your best hookbait
out that you have.

410
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,295
Yeah, it's hard for me, though,
in that scenario to go, oh,

411
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:44,640
that means that they're not good.

412
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:48,735
Because I know they are,
which is why I always keep going back to

413
00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:52,335
them, because I just know that in a
real-life scenario, they're the things

414
00:21:52,360 --> 00:21:53,840
that get picked up all of the time.

415
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,575
So it is weird to see them being ignored,
but obviously the scenario is

416
00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,400
slightly different, so weird one.

417
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,775
Our old mate Butler always seemed to get
the party started by

418
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:05,000
bringing in more fish.

419
00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:06,860
That's a bigger one, innit?

420
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:08,160
Take it.

421
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:15,120
Oh, oh, Crinkle, no,
no, date hole, come on.

422
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,960
But as the tension was building,
was my hook bait choice good enough?

423
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:23,920
You are on the line.

424
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:28,040
If you are not, if you're not,
if you don't eat it, if you don't eat it,

425
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,080
you're gonna eat it, you're gonna eat it.

426
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:42,920
Mate, he ate it along with your rig.

427
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:50,360
There is bait and fish and tadpoles
and weed flying everywhere.

428
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,655
The only thing that's remaining—

429
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:54,695
come on, this one.

430
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:55,760
What fish is this?

431
00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,415
Huh?
What fish is that?

432
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:01,980
I think it's butler, innit?

433
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,760
No, date hole!

434
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,175
Is it?

435
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:10,400
Yeah, look at his little bum.

436
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:14,455
I think he's pooing as he's eating.

437
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:15,880
He's pooing along.

438
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:17,960
He could eat it.

439
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:21,720
He looks like he's eaten
everything else by the looks of it.

440
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,480
Their mouths are very close to the bottom,
aren't they, when they're feeding?

441
00:23:27,505 --> 00:23:28,500
They are, yeah.

442
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,175
I thought the chunky gravel would mean
that they'd be eating off the top of it

443
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,320
and that, but actually they're like
getting their heads right in the crevices.

444
00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:45,050
I'm not going to lie, I'm going to
be distraught if I don't get one out.

445
00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:46,760
It's like it's not registering.

446
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:48,360
That's what it's like.

447
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,055
It's there, it's in his eyeline.

448
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:51,160
They're not spooking off of it.

449
00:23:51,185 --> 00:23:55,295
No, it's not like they're seeing
the line or the lead core or the—

450
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,120
no, definitely not.
It's like it's not registering as food.

451
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:02,735
Go on, he's close, isn't he?

452
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:11,215
Come on, come on, come on, get, get in!

453
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:16,055
Oh my God, what fish is that?
Is that—

454
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,175
it was date hole—

455
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,295
the hook bait, I think was in his mouth.
No, it didn't go in.

456
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:22,760
Did it not?

457
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,520
No.
He doesn't want— they don't want it.

458
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,620
If that was the right hook bait,
I'd have caught one by now.

459
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,295
Turn!
Take it, take it!

460
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,760
He went hell.

461
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,415
Whoa, what fish is that, gal?

462
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,880
That's a bigger common.

463
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,655
I know, he's dumpier.
It's a different one.

464
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:46,060
That's a different fish.

465
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:56,255
Oh my God, we've had so many near misses.

466
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:57,535
That last one was outrageous.

467
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,015
In fact, two there were outrageous.

468
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:00,080
This common's going to have it.

469
00:25:00,105 --> 00:25:01,375
All right, let's talk it on.

470
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:02,415
Come on then,
this common's going to have it.

471
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,335
It looks, it looks different.
Go on, eat it.

472
00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:05,760
You won't, you ain't got the guts.

473
00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:07,480
You won't eat it.

474
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:09,400
Go on, prove me wrong.

475
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,320
Eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it.

476
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,695
Eat it.

477
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:18,960
Turn left.
He's come back round.

478
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:32,455
Can you say something to me?

479
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:33,800
I don't know what to say to you.

480
00:25:33,825 --> 00:25:35,335
Say something.

481
00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:36,560
They hate your hookbait.

482
00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:40,535
No, I can't really.

483
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:44,320
Yeah, give us— huh?
No, it's not done.

484
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,295
It's not done.

485
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:54,815
We've got— you can, you can— ah, no,
it's not literally— take it, take it,

486
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:58,655
take it, take it, take it,
take it, take it, take it.

487
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,255
He's gone.
Huh?

488
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:03,200
He's turned off.

489
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,880
Why are they not taking it?

490
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:13,575
Neil talk to me.

491
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:17,400
It's like just flying, flying,
coming in from the right.

492
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,000
Look, it is like there's so much food.
He's going to take it.

493
00:26:21,120 --> 00:26:22,015
He's not going to take it.

494
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,720
It's like there's so much food on this
spot that gets buried,

495
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,060
but that's what they're— oh, he's close.
He might have got it.

496
00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:29,160
Have you?
Oh, he's done ya.

497
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:32,375
He's just done you.

498
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,240
That was in his mouth.
That was up in the air.

499
00:26:34,265 --> 00:26:38,335
This has been the worst evening ever.

500
00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:41,840
You should have reeled in when we said
at least you wouldn't have got done.

501
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:42,880
What fish was it?

502
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,495
Possibly date hole.

503
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,520
I'm not sure who took it.

504
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,120
I can't believe that.

505
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,320
You can see my leadcore off the bottom.
Yeah, you got done.

506
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,135
I deserve to be done
with that hookbait on.

507
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:57,980
What a—I'm going to have to reel in.

508
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,695
You are.
What a terrible way to end the day.

509
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,055
Probably fun for you.

510
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,280
No, probably fun for you.

511
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:11,560
What have I got to take from this?

512
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,895
I would say they don't like the hookbait
for whatever reason,

513
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:20,400
whether it's because it's off the bottom
or because of the flavouring, maybe.

514
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,080
I would say probably more
because it's off the bottom.

515
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,895
And I got done.

516
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,940
I don't know how well it went in its mouth
because the clarity is so good,

517
00:27:29,965 --> 00:27:34,615
but the fish was in the way of it going in
its mouth, so I didn't

518
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,255
really get to see it.
I definitely got done.

519
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:38,780
The Leadcore was off the bottom.

520
00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:42,335
The only time it went in the fish's mouth,
it was right on dusk.

521
00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:45,680
These fish are eating right on
the cusp of it getting dark.

522
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:47,680
And I'm gonna have to reel in now.

523
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,960
Neil, you can take the
mickey out of me if you want.

524
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:53,200
I would not do that.

525
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,015
Just bringing back memories.

526
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,015
Barely moving, look, between mouthfuls.
His head's down.

527
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:05,380
There's another one at the back.

528
00:28:05,405 --> 00:28:07,480
You see, they're feeding very confidently.

529
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:12,200
Another one here, but very close to
the bottom and on very small items.

530
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,615
And moving very slowly as well.

531
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:15,900
Would you say they're moving that slowly?

532
00:28:15,925 --> 00:28:17,940
They're moving pretty slow.
Yeah, they are.

533
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:24,095
The big problem here is that they're not
upending and then going

534
00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:26,255
to pick up another bait.
No.

535
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:30,295
The space between them picking up 2 or 3
baits is that, because the baits are

536
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:34,735
really small and close to the ground,
whereas you really want them moving 3 or

537
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,215
4 foot before they pick up 2 or 3 baits.

538
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,180
And this is the problem with the juge.

539
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,120
Oh, was that me being done there?
Why would you do that to me?

540
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:44,215
But it is, though, isn't it?
It looks great.

541
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:45,120
It's got them feeding.

542
00:28:45,145 --> 00:28:50,080
But for the way we normally fish,
this is not— this is not effective.

543
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,560
You're making it difficult for yourself.

544
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:03,455
It was my first day in front of the
cameras, and it was exciting

545
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,400
but also terrifying.

546
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:10,015
Seeing Dovey's pop-up barely even
be registered threw us for a loop.

547
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:14,815
But my usual go-to is a wafter anyway,
so I was starting with that alongside

548
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,215
increasing the amount of bait.

549
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,575
The carp seemed more turned on when more
bait was out there, but we ran the risk of

550
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:26,135
creating a feeding situation that
would really hamper our chances.

551
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,975
More bait equals slower feeding and less
effective hooking opportunities,

552
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:36,375
or less bait, far less traffic but likely
to hook the single carp that came in.

553
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,535
These are not going to get
away with it today, Neil.

554
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,760
It's all swings and roundabouts.

555
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,480
He's been done yesterday
on a yellow pop-up.

556
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,135
Multiple.
Well, not done, they just didn't want it.

557
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,260
Spoon, what are you going with?
I think I'll go for a yellow one, geez.

558
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,015
Idiot.

559
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:53,320
I'll put Match the Hatch out.

560
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,660
I'll just put a
Cell Bottom bait out there.

561
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:57,880
Yeah, I think the boilies
ain't the agg though.

562
00:29:57,905 --> 00:30:00,240
What do you reckon you say?
How yellow is your bait?

563
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,400
It's actually quite yellow, mate.
How's yours?

564
00:30:02,425 --> 00:30:04,735
Yes, it's that sort of bright yellow.
Yours?

565
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,815
Mine's more of a dull yellow, but you
know, it's still that sort of yellow.

566
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,700
I've caught so many carp on yellow,
I'm just going to stick with yellow for

567
00:30:10,725 --> 00:30:12,520
another— we've only been here 8 days.

568
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:14,000
Well, it ain't half cold.

569
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:15,575
How is everyone this morning?

570
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,500
We were just doing our
Neil and Tom impression.

571
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,615
Yeah, yeah, you have to wait for the edit.
Huh?

572
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,050
You have to wait for the edit.

573
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:24,080
It'd be worth the wait.

574
00:30:24,105 --> 00:30:26,100
You don't look good in it, I'll tell you.

575
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,880
Outside of being ripped a new one,
the day had started positively.

576
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:36,160
We'd put in a lot more bait the previous
night, and when we turned the cameras on,

577
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:37,600
all that bait was gone.

578
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:39,880
There ain't a grain left.

579
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,320
And carp was still in the
swim looking for more.

580
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,375
Oh, carp.

581
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:46,735
Two carp.

582
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,440
Which so far hadn't happened.

583
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,455
So with the bait mix out—

584
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,240
I can see why you're good at darts, mate.

585
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:59,600
You haven't missed a throw.
And the rig in.

586
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,175
First time.

587
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:05,815
First time.

588
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:07,240
Works every time.

589
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,415
Admittedly, after a tonne of
miscasts the editor has kindly cut.

590
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,095
Perfect line, too long,
too close to the camera.

591
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,015
You're a bit long of shot,
mate, to be honest.

592
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:17,160
I didn't even see it, mate.

593
00:31:17,185 --> 00:31:21,640
Mostly the hunt was was on.

594
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:24,480
Instantly, this wafter looks better.

595
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,000
The rig was similar to Dovey's but with a
few key differences:

596
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:34,255
a spinner rig with 7 inches of 25-pound
Boom hooklink, an anti-tangle sleeve,

597
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:39,575
a size 4 Kamakura Krank,
and a Pango Goo'd yellow dumbbell wafter,

598
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,095
as Rossiter has already
rinsed me about earlier.

599
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:43,215
Idiot.

600
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:47,440
I prefer lead clips and especially so
seeing as we're fishing over gravel,

601
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,015
albeit very chunky gravel,
and the rig needing to sit above

602
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,720
any random debris isn't a concern.

603
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,895
And unlike my usual running lead clips,
I'm fishing them fixed so the lead drops

604
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,760
off due to the amount of weed in the swim.

605
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,800
You tell me when you're ready, Kev,
and I've got a few questions

606
00:32:03,825 --> 00:32:05,160
to buzz at my friend Neil.

607
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,095
You're a idiot, do you know that?
Oh, I know.

608
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,640
It's actually tough to be
around you sometimes, I think.

609
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,800
Sometimes I really like you and other
times I think I would not have

610
00:32:13,825 --> 00:32:16,095
been friends with you at school.
Mm-hmm.

611
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,135
The rig looked great.

612
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,520
The Dark Matter tubing was heavy
on the deck and out of the way.

613
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:26,015
The rig extended perfectly and the Pango
wafter hookbait was so similar to the

614
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:30,375
Essential Cell Freebies that I
couldn't see the carp ignoring it.

615
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,800
But this is both a
positive and a negative.

616
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:37,480
It was behaving like a Freebie in that it
was in crevices between the chunky gravel,

617
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:41,775
Carp were happy to feed in there,
but also the gravel might prove

618
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,640
a nightmare for my hook point.

619
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:48,535
Baiting was a few handfuls of 10mm Cell
and Essential Cell soaked all night in

620
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:52,335
Cream Smart liquid,
which replicated the milky nut sludge we

621
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:56,255
were using but didn't contain all those
little bits that might have been

622
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,615
preoccupying and slowing
down the carp's feeding.

623
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,000
And a bit of sweetcorn,
as it's always a winner.

624
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,895
Reflecting on yesterday,
I would say I've done two things

625
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,220
that I wouldn't normally do.

626
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:14,080
What one was, was just fishing on
this gravel in the first place.

627
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:18,095
If I was having a proper feel around,
I would have cast onto that.

628
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:19,480
You'd have found out the back.

629
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:21,360
Yeah.

630
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:26,215
And because I was on the clay,
I would then put my normal bait out,

631
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,975
which would have been just bigger items,
10mm, 15mm, corn,

632
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,600
say Tigers if you allowed them.

633
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:37,535
And I think if them bigger items were on
that, it would have been attractive enough

634
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:44,015
to get them feeding, whereas because we're
on this thicker gravel, I feel like them

635
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:45,880
baits have fallen into the crevices.

636
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:47,415
It didn't really look as much.

637
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,320
So then I ended up putting a small
amount of that sludge out as well.

638
00:33:50,345 --> 00:33:50,575
Yeah.

639
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,480
And I think there's probably the sludge
out and the crushed boilies and everything

640
00:33:53,505 --> 00:33:58,895
that we'd put in previously,
and they're feeding really close and tight

641
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,335
to the bottom, and I really think
that makes them difficult to catch.

642
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,175
Yeah, I've heard you say
that a lot over the years.

643
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:04,215
Yeah, it just definitely does.

644
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,000
So then in that situation,
then you need a shorter hook link and a

645
00:34:07,025 --> 00:34:08,900
smaller hook bait that's on the bottom.

646
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:13,335
Whereas I was like, I'm feeding,
partly feeding something I wouldn't

647
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:17,415
normally feed onto a bottom I wouldn't
normally fish on, and it's creating the

648
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,720
feeding situation I don't want,
which is them like really,

649
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:23,880
really close to the bottom like that.

650
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,960
You're almost creating the sort of
situation that we see when Dan fishes.

651
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,495
Yes, because Dan loves that type of mix.

652
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,375
He loves getting them like
really competing close in.

653
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,855
He's got 3-inch rigs on,
which is perfect for that situation.

654
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:36,640
Yes, it is.

655
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,455
Tom's working.

656
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,440
Good.

657
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:45,815
Yep.

658
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:50,175
I just think sat with us, you know,
might be quite nice looking

659
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:51,840
after the receiver and that.
Yeah, got it.

660
00:34:51,865 --> 00:34:54,100
Just let you know that
was Tom Rossiter shot.

661
00:34:54,720 --> 00:34:57,040
You'll be able to tell.
I'm not on it.

662
00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:01,080
He's done you.

663
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,815
He's had you right over there, Tom.

664
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,175
Despite the high hopes throughout
the morning, nothing materialised.

665
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,920
The carp moved out of the shallows and
into the open water,

666
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,015
which gave us the opportunity to spend
that time looking for

667
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,680
more open water spots.

668
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:23,055
It wasn't until gone 2 that we started to
see some more traffic, which was a few

669
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,000
hours earlier than we were used to.

670
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:27,695
It's getting so hot this week.

671
00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:29,920
24, 25, 25, 24.

672
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:34,720
It's probably worth noting as well that
this is an unusually hot period for April.

673
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,455
This is normally still cold,
still a small amount of bait,

674
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:42,960
but actually they're starting to
spawn everywhere around the country.

675
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:47,120
Like, 4 or 5 of the lakes we know are
being shut now for spawning,

676
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,415
and they normally don't shut until the
very end of May, beginning of June.

677
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:52,600
So it's crazy, doesn't it?

678
00:35:52,625 --> 00:35:56,060
It's weird, but that's how quickly
things can change with water temperature.

679
00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:00,215
It's almost like now we're getting, like,
a really condensed period of

680
00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:01,935
spring in the space of a week.

681
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,895
Yeah, we're getting almost nothing
happening the week before last to them

682
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,440
eating loads of bait and possibly
spawning in 2 days' time.

683
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,295
If the carp were going to show up early,
then my rig had better

684
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:14,735
be out there early too.

685
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:19,975
These Pangos just—
cranberry orange Pangos.

686
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:24,040
Yeah.
By about quarter past 3, I was fishing.

687
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,415
You like it?

688
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:29,520
I like it.

689
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,615
Bit of water.

690
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:35,720
Rehydrate for the afternoon sesh.

691
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:39,120
Right, I need to set up now.

692
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:41,055
No messing around, Tom.

693
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,575
2, 3, maybe 4.

694
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:44,760
It might be one behind him.

695
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:46,940
That's a better—4, 5.

696
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:52,535
6.
Oh my God, 7.

697
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,495
1, 2, 3, 4, 7, mate.

698
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:59,415
You are going to— oh my Lord,
have mercy upon us.

699
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,575
That's the most we've
ever seen at one point.

700
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,855
Come on, that's, that's quite big.

701
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,400
And that mirror,
that might be— no, it's a common.

702
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:07,495
It's a common.
That's the big one.

703
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:08,280
That's the big one.

704
00:37:08,305 --> 00:37:11,015
Oh my God, come on, come on,
come on, come on, come on.

705
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:11,520
Touchdown.

706
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:20,175
Here he comes.

707
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:32,280
No, that was cray cray, mate.
What is that?

708
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:43,320
It's even That looked
massive from a long way away.

709
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:44,960
Do you not think?

710
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,215
It looks massive.
Huh?

711
00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:49,640
It just filled up there.

712
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:56,255
Well, you've got the big group of big fish
in early, early, early,

713
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,535
early, and snuffling.

714
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:02,040
The spot was out of hand,
but we needed fish to drop down.

715
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:04,720
They want to eat this food.
Yeah, they do.

716
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,935
They want to see someone
else doing it first.

717
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:09,880
This is when you need Butler in.

718
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,560
Yeah, Butler will get the party started.

719
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,980
Well, that's what he's there
to do, uncover the food.

720
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:16,360
That's his job.

721
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,575
It's all covered in cling film,
he undoes it, people eat.

722
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,840
And right on cue, he's gonna
eat them boilies off the top.

723
00:38:21,865 --> 00:38:23,520
Is that Butler?
Hey, he's Butler.

724
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:25,080
So what did I just say?

725
00:38:25,240 --> 00:38:27,735
You said we needed Butler
to get the party started.

726
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,120
Come on, Butler, get the party started.

727
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:35,415
Butler.
Oh yes, yes, touchdown!

728
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:36,735
Butler's in the zone.

729
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,495
We said we'd be happy
with him as fish number 1.

730
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:45,495
Yeah, these tadpoles,
can't really put a swipe on now.

731
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:46,700
Not when he's there.

732
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:51,895
But worse yet, a great big ball of weed
drifted over my lines, dragged my lead,

733
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,480
and blunted the hook in the process.

734
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:58,760
And it couldn't have come at a worse time,
but it did bring up an important issue.

735
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:03,415
Kamakuras are the sharpest hook,
but durable they are not,

736
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:07,135
and fishing them on the deck among
essentially rubble meant this sort of

737
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:08,920
thing probably would have happened again.

738
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:14,295
So I changed to a normal size 4 Krank and
a heavier lead to hopefully stop any

739
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,000
weed drift pulling my rig from the spot.

740
00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:21,160
This is the problem with
using a bottom bait.

741
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:26,215
In any situation,
but especially when you've got big chunky

742
00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:29,535
gravel,
because you don't know what you're landing

743
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,575
on,
and you're at the mercy of what's on the

744
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:38,415
bottom for what presentation you get,
which is why I always default to a pop-up,

745
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:43,375
even though it's not always the best thing
to get picked up in with a perfect lie,

746
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:50,295
if you like, but it does present,
whereas with a wafter, this can happen.

747
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,975
The last one went down the back of a rock,
and then this one's just sort of

748
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,800
sitting weirdly on the side of it.

749
00:39:56,400 --> 00:40:00,575
They'll probably just pick
it up, but it's weird.

750
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:01,640
What we saying?

751
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,480
Do you weirdly like it?

752
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,920
No, I don't hate it.
It's weird.

753
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:17,160
Is that good or is that really bad?

754
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,215
Well, we don't know because we don't know
if we've ever been picked

755
00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:21,360
up with it like that before.

756
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:23,280
No.
Do you want to leave it?

757
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,120
My point is a little bit is,
is that this is what would happen,

758
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:32,735
but then at the same time we get to see
what's happening and you've only got a

759
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,120
couple of, you know,
you've got an evening today.

760
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,655
The chunky gravel was a sticking point.

761
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:44,095
I had a stiff hook link on,
an anti-tangle sleeve.

762
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:48,175
It clearly hadn't tangled due to those
factors, but the chunky gravel meant it

763
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,535
still wasn't presented,
and it was more likely to catch

764
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,480
the hook point, as we've seen.

765
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:57,280
For science, we wanted to work it out,
and going from what we were seeing on the

766
00:40:57,305 --> 00:41:00,615
test cameras out in open water,
this was still the spot we

767
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:02,255
were getting the most traffic.

768
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,135
As the old adage goes,
fish where the fish are.

769
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,840
We just had to work out this gravel.

770
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:09,440
Oh, freaking hot.

771
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:11,935
Mm-mm-mm.

772
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:13,640
Butler, Butler's just come straight in.

773
00:41:13,665 --> 00:41:16,520
We're sitting here mowing
down food and so is he.

774
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,620
Mate, he might just go
for it straight away.

775
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:26,040
Oh!
I thought he was just going to nail that.

776
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,920
No, he went, he moved away
from that though, didn't he?

777
00:41:28,945 --> 00:41:29,360
Yeah.

778
00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:32,200
He went to take it.

779
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,100
He was like, something
ain't quite right there.

780
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:38,120
Why is it hanging down
off of a cliff face?

781
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:42,580
Do you reckon that was
a presentation thing?

782
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,760
He didn't spook, did he?
I'll tell you what he did do, though.

783
00:41:47,785 --> 00:41:49,360
He went to take it.

784
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,120
That's the first fish that's
fed next to it, went to take it.

785
00:41:52,145 --> 00:41:53,575
Oh, he's coming from that side.

786
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,600
Had a little feed, then come to the Pango.

787
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,575
It's Crinkle back!

788
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:08,160
Crinkle's back from outer space.

789
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,840
Come on, Crinkle, come back round.

790
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,080
Crinkle is back.

791
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,455
OG Crinks.

792
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,455
Oh, your yellow kicker is
doing you proud there, I think.

793
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,655
I agree, I really do.

794
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:22,680
Yeah, that little fluffy colour.

795
00:42:22,705 --> 00:42:28,535
It's green or it's just or it's black,
whatever colour, then all of a

796
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:29,920
sudden your swivel stands out.

797
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,455
Yeah, but with that, it looks like
there's a bit of corn and a bit of boilie.

798
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:34,020
Yep.
Doesn't it?

799
00:42:34,045 --> 00:42:36,600
Yep.
As I've said, I like it.

800
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:41,600
Feels like it should be OG Crinkle
or the Butler to get us off the mark.

801
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:47,320
Well, Crinkle would be the
best one, the best OG to get.

802
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,095
We've only got 10 minutes left.

803
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:55,255
We've got a reel in at 7.

804
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,495
As soon as that clarity started
getting bad just now, I was in.

805
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,855
Straight in.
Yeah, come on, Butler.

806
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:02,900
It's a good line.

807
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,200
It's a very good line.
Is he gonna take it?

808
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:07,320
Is he or is he not?

809
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,415
He's close.

810
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,320
He is close.
Come on, Butler.

811
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,760
Come on, buddy.
Come on, come on.

812
00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:18,095
Go on.

813
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:23,135
Oh, he just— oh, he just did
a little— he didn't want it.

814
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:26,160
He wafted me wafter and didn't want it.

815
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,040
No, he didn't want the pango.

816
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:33,520
He went to eat and he was like,
no, don't fancy it.

817
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:34,960
That was close.

818
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,680
Oh well, he wasn't bothered
by how it was sitting.

819
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:39,975
It didn't— it didn't spook him.

820
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:41,320
Is that him again?

821
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:47,535
He's a weird feeder.

822
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:48,695
I'm going to stick by that.

823
00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:50,855
Don't start having a go at my butler.
I'm going to have a go at him.

824
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:52,335
Don't start having a go at my butler.

825
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,900
It's like the amount of times
you've seen him mouth to nothing.

826
00:43:54,925 --> 00:43:57,535
Huh?
It's like he mouths at nothing.

827
00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:59,400
No, but he went to eat that.

828
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,320
Start having a go at butler.

829
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,160
Butler really was our bestie that evening.

830
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:11,000
Oh, he's going to go and take it.

831
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:14,800
Oh, he's attracted to that smell.

832
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:16,780
He keeps—He keeps coming.

833
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:19,775
He goes in that same area.

834
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,975
He keeps going to that same
area every single time.

835
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:22,640
Yeah, he does.

836
00:44:22,665 --> 00:44:26,375
He's touched that bait nearly 3
times and he's been in 4 or 5.

837
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,175
Yeah.
But we were running out of time.

838
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:33,415
Fish were clearly feeding off the back of
the spot in the clay on what we thought

839
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:37,415
might be loads of natural surfacing due to
the dropping light levels and kicking

840
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,575
it all up, making vis pretty dodgy.
Go on!

841
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,040
Oh, you went for that one, he got
that one straight down the old gullet.

842
00:44:44,065 --> 00:44:47,335
Save the day, Butler!

843
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:57,200
Oh yes, he's mowing them down,
he's mowing them down!

844
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,600
Mowing them down.

845
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:05,520
Come on, come on.

846
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,455
He don't like it.
He doesn't like it.

847
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:11,695
He does not like that.

848
00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:13,680
Butler is not an idiot.

849
00:45:13,720 --> 00:45:14,735
No.

850
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:19,135
So regarding Rossiter rinsing us earlier,
my theory was that Dovey's pop-up was

851
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:23,600
being ignored because it was a pop-up,
not because it was yellow.

852
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:28,295
After all, we'd seen them mowing down
Essential Cell, But in this case,

853
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:32,800
pop-up or wafter, yellow clearly wasn't
a good hookbait in this situation.

854
00:45:33,240 --> 00:45:36,120
If it was a good hookbait,
it would have been taken by now.

855
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:39,535
Outside of whether the rig was efficient
or not, it should have

856
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:41,015
been eaten at least.

857
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,695
Have you got any, like,
what little brown pop-ups have you got?

858
00:45:43,720 --> 00:45:45,520
Or little cell-coloured
pop-ups have you got?

859
00:45:45,545 --> 00:45:47,455
I'd have to look through my tubs.
Okay.

860
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:48,660
Is that what you fancy?

861
00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:52,520
Maybe.
Come on, Butler.

862
00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:54,480
It's a good line for the first hookbait.

863
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,080
No, it's not.

864
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,080
He's there.

865
00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:02,815
He's not going to eat that.
No, he's not.

866
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:04,775
He's really not going to.
You need something else to come in.

867
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:05,960
I really, really believe it.

868
00:46:05,985 --> 00:46:08,615
I agree.

869
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,855
I think your card is
marked on the side of the—

870
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:11,320
Yeah.

871
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:15,280
If Butler had our cards marked,
got the hump with Butler now.

872
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:16,920
He's not my friend today.

873
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,575
Then hopefully OG Crinkle would oblige.

874
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:21,615
Come on, Crinkle!

875
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,495
Just touch down—

876
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,215
crinkle!

877
00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:27,375
Ohh!

878
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,215
Ooh!

879
00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:38,255
Mate,
he looked like he was

880
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:40,240
going to go down strong.
He did, yeah, he did.

881
00:46:41,240 --> 00:46:42,920
It looks like I'm float fishing.

882
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,655
Oh, the wafter's wafting again.

883
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:50,600
He looked like he was going down to it.

884
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:56,800
Butler's done his job,
he's got Crinkle to touch down.

885
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:05,095
Come on.

886
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:06,720
Do you think he's gonna take it?

887
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,655
When the fish are in the swim,
it looks more ridiculous the

888
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:10,940
way the hookbait is sitting.

889
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:13,880
It literally looks like I'm float fishing.

890
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,080
Upon reflection, the hookbait
was in a ridiculous position.

891
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:21,560
Carp were mainly coming in from the back
beyond the weed,

892
00:47:21,720 --> 00:47:25,855
and my hookbait was behind a rock,
completely invisible to them.

893
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:29,895
But I got a good drop when casting,
and this is just one of those

894
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:31,640
things that sometimes happens.

895
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:36,880
You'd expect a bite, but then nothing, and
when you recast, it goes straight away.

896
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:41,440
Something like this could be happening,
so worth proving that if nothing else.

897
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:45,400
But all that coping goes out the
window when a biggun approaches.

898
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,640
Oh no, no.
Oh, big common!

899
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:52,080
Come on, come on,
come on, come on, come on.

900
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,540
This is the one, this is the
one that was in last night.

901
00:47:55,565 --> 00:47:57,200
The one that ignored me.
Yeah.

902
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:04,760
He might take this.
He's got a chance.

903
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:06,640
This is perfect line.

904
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,280
Perfect line.
Go on, go on.

905
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,120
Perfect line.
Come on, get it.

906
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:15,375
No way, mate.

907
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,760
That's exactly what he did to the pop-up.

908
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:21,600
No way, that was so close.

909
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:23,480
Oh my, I thought that was it, Tom.

910
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:35,480
No.
Oh, my goodness.

911
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:40,240
It's crazy that every— it's like
the same moment of both nights.

912
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,215
Yeah, it's within a minute.

913
00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:43,215
Yeah.

914
00:48:43,240 --> 00:48:45,480
In 2 minutes' time, I got ejected.

915
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:50,895
When most of the hopes lie in carp coming
from a very specific angle to even see

916
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:53,695
the hookbait, the gravel is an issue.

917
00:48:53,720 --> 00:48:56,840
For present— for presenting rigs.

918
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:59,400
It's like nothing's
sitting right, you know.

919
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:00,975
It just isn't the one.

920
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:04,400
Look, that's going to go
straight for it, mate.

921
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,695
Neil, go down!
Oh, he did.

922
00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:11,280
He heard you.

923
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:13,960
But look, he, he,
he couldn't be at a worse angle.

924
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:24,655
He hasn't got the turning circle.

925
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:26,895
He's literally circling it.

926
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:31,455
My biggest fear is that I think we wasted
that evening just to prove that bad rig

927
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:34,840
positioning will definitely
not do you any favours.

928
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:36,055
You're welcome.

929
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:38,720
We sort of said for science,
as we kept saying,

930
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:42,760
you wouldn't know if you were fishing over
that type of gravel and you've cast out 80

931
00:49:42,785 --> 00:49:46,135
yards, for argument's sake,
and you've got a drop, you've got a donk,

932
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:48,120
you'd be leaving it no
matter how it would sit.

933
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:52,695
So it was a real good opportunity in that
situation to see if your rig is sitting

934
00:49:52,720 --> 00:49:55,560
over like that, do the carp care?
Would you get a bite?

935
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,360
Well, yeah, they cared.
No, you didn't get a bite.

936
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:03,535
They didn't even—
there was one near it, I think.

937
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:04,880
No, and the big common did as well.

938
00:50:04,905 --> 00:50:09,240
Did similar thing to you where it sort
of almost didn't recognise it as food.

939
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:13,055
But it comes back to us not
wanting to fish over chunky gravel.

940
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:17,160
Yeah, these are the things that you're not
going to know that you've got that issue.

941
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:19,060
You've got a drop,
you think it's all perfect,

942
00:50:19,085 --> 00:50:23,375
and it could be sitting so
badly and you've got no idea.

943
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:25,580
You sit there thinking, yeah, here we go,
the rod's on the spot,

944
00:50:25,605 --> 00:50:26,940
I'm going to get a bite.

945
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:32,735
Yeah, that's why we will always try and
fish that hard sand, because 9 times

946
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:34,200
out of 10 you're presented well.

947
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,340
It's like, I know we keep saying the same
thing all the time,

948
00:50:37,365 --> 00:50:42,655
but it's like you first need presentation,
because if it's not presented, it can't

949
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:44,360
go in their mouth or they won't take it.

950
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:49,480
And most of the time you're not
presented well on that bottom.

951
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:51,960
Exactly.
That's the reality of the situation.

952
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:03,080
Pink hookbaits are pretty notorious
for being the ones on underwater films.

953
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,720
Despite not working as well as a yellow in
my own fishing,

954
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,560
But so far that hasn't been the case here.

955
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:13,080
If I was watching this from afar, I'd say,
"They don't like your hookbait,

956
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:17,615
lads." With a few fish feeding already,
putting out a squid goo-infused 12mm

957
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:19,880
Mainline pop-up felt like a good bet.

958
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:23,480
If one came down and took it, we'd know
it was the pink's time to shine again.

959
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:24,735
That's the one I had, one of them.

960
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:27,335
I know loads of people that absolutely
swear by this squid goo,

961
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,880
Elliott Gray being one of them,
Darrell being another one.

962
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,615
You don't really need to know much more.
And Spooner.

963
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:35,760
There you go.
It's the colouring.

964
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:45,535
The big three like this hookbait,
so it's good enough for me.

965
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:47,140
It's the right colour pink.

966
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:51,200
I'm going to clip it on me spinner
rig and then we're ready to go.

967
00:51:51,720 --> 00:51:53,000
Okay, where's the old waders?

968
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:59,655
With Spooner left high and dry,
I put a bit of bait out and the

969
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:01,200
rig went out for the first time.

970
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,040
I don't know how he
managed to not do that.

971
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:10,895
Yeah, no, I can't argue with you.

972
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:13,760
The pop-up looked good,
but we were concerned that it was really

973
00:52:13,785 --> 00:52:17,520
the only presentation that was viable
due to the chunky gravel issue.

974
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,480
We decided this would be
the final day on this spot.

975
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:24,375
We're going to quickly get into a stage in
it where all we're

976
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:25,400
talking about is gravel.

977
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:27,655
Because we can't do anything else.

978
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:31,240
The gravel is narrowing the
scope of what we can do.

979
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:35,255
Yeah, we discussed fishing solid bags or
mesh bags with crushed boilie for a

980
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:38,375
hookbait to sit on top of,
but the tiny particles would end up

981
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,680
getting lost between the rubble
and we'd be in the same situation.

982
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:45,335
Plus, we came to the conclusion we just
wouldn't recommend fishing

983
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:46,775
on this type of bottom.

984
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:50,735
The chunky gravel traps bait between it
and causes the fish to root around and

985
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:55,175
slow down, which in turn makes them harder
to catch, which then means you'd have to

986
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:59,400
fish a shorter hooklink that won't present
very well on this really rough bottom.

987
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:03,720
We'd spend the day with one eye on the
spot and the other on the test camera.

988
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:06,360
Where is the biggun in here?

989
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,415
Where are you, biggun?

990
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,935
Earlier in the session,
we'd seen a few smaller fish in and around

991
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:17,415
the tree line, but as time went on,
we were seeing more and more bigger fish

992
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:22,055
in there in the mornings and afternoons
particularly, whereas our current

993
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,800
swim was mainly an evening spot.

994
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:29,175
The bottom looked a lot smoother and much
more versatile to present on,

995
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:33,160
and luckily fishery rules allow for
a bit of stalking during the day.

996
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:37,480
I'm just going to put it out there,
today is going to be a good day.

997
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:40,920
All right, I don't know
what it's going to be.

998
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:43,540
Okay, whether we're going
to catch one off of here.

999
00:53:43,565 --> 00:53:45,720
Yeah, or we're going to
see the big one on here.

1000
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:49,560
Everything about it felt perfect.

1001
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:02,400
3.
Oh yeah, he's a better fish.

1002
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:06,640
Big fully, mate.
Is that it?

1003
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:09,960
That ain't big enough.
I don't know.

1004
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:12,400
That is— I don't know.

1005
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:16,615
I don't know, gal.
What's this?

1006
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:19,615
What's this?

1007
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:21,055
That's the common.

1008
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:22,120
It's bigger than that.

1009
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:26,160
We need to watch that again.

1010
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:29,135
Do we?

1011
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:33,575
Please.

1012
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:34,800
Why has that gone blue?

1013
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:39,640
Don't worry about that, son.

1014
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:41,400
What side was it?

1015
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:43,360
Left side, wasn't it?

1016
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,015
It's it, it's it!
That is it!

1017
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:48,695
Look, that's the S-scale.
Yes!

1018
00:54:48,720 --> 00:54:51,615
What did I say just
literally a second ago?

1019
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:52,840
There, look, look at that.

1020
00:54:52,865 --> 00:54:55,135
You cannot mistake that S-scale.

1021
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:58,255
Oh my God, it's under the tree, Gal.

1022
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:00,240
It's under the tree,
we're going to catch him.

1023
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,000
Look, Bruce!
And he's feeding.

1024
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:07,415
Spitting everywhere.

1025
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:09,455
That's definitely it, 100%.

1026
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:13,575
Seeing that biggun on that camera was one
of the most exciting moments for me in

1027
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:17,160
underwater history, for like my own
personal sort of doings with it.

1028
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,815
The session starts now.

1029
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:23,255
I know, again, we always say this,
but so much time and effort and so many

1030
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:27,655
decisions and everything go into these
sort of things, and ultimately you don't

1031
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:30,935
think it's going to go well because
it's difficult for it to go well.

1032
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,480
So to actually see it on the
camera, we were like, okay.

1033
00:55:33,505 --> 00:55:35,280
There she is.

1034
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:36,720
Oh my Lord.

1035
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:42,855
Oh my God.

1036
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:44,615
The weather was getting better.

1037
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:46,280
We were close to getting a bite.

1038
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,360
It all looked like it was
going to fall into place.

1039
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:56,335
But the biggest decision for us then was
was, do you leave the test camera there

1040
00:55:56,360 --> 00:56:00,215
and just go and fish in front of the test
camera without causing more disturbance

1041
00:56:00,240 --> 00:56:01,920
because it's already there feeding?

1042
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:05,800
But the reality is, was you
could barely see the bottom.

1043
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:10,135
And if we made that decision,
we had a better chance of catching the

1044
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:12,160
biggun, but the footage
would have been useless.

1045
00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:15,520
So it's like, then you have
to say, why are we here?

1046
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:17,295
We're not here just to catch it.

1047
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:18,540
We're here to see how it feeds.

1048
00:56:18,565 --> 00:56:20,615
To see how it picked up the hookbait.

1049
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:23,120
If it does, you need to see all of that.

1050
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:28,800
So in the end, we decided to take the
test camera out and put the big camera in.

1051
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:35,015
But my worry was that it causes so much
disturbance that a fish like that is

1052
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:37,535
likely to move off and never come back.

1053
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:40,095
But I was stuck between
a rock and a hard place.

1054
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:46,015
So for me, that's a core memory of that
whole situation because it was like I'm

1055
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:49,535
having to make this decision,
but deep down I knew that there was a big

1056
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:51,560
possibility of it completely ruining it.

1057
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:55,735
There's Butler.
Butler's down there, the little—

1058
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:57,935
the little—

1059
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:00,920
oh, I can't believe that.

1060
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,640
What a sneaky little Butler.

1061
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:08,575
He's down.
He's cheating on us.

1062
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,320
He's cheating on us on a different spot,
but he doesn't know that

1063
00:57:11,345 --> 00:57:12,400
we know that he knows.

1064
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:15,960
He'll come back here like, well, here he
is, been in the back of the weed all day.

1065
00:57:15,985 --> 00:57:17,120
But we know different.

1066
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:20,535
We knew we were gonna see it today, gal.

1067
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:23,800
Well, you said about 11
seconds before we saw it.

1068
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:25,695
Prediction 1 came true.

1069
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:29,815
Prediction 2 of catching one on this
spot was still up in the air, though.

1070
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:33,055
While we were locked into the test camera,
OG Crinkle was a very

1071
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:35,840
frequent visitor on Main.
Come on.

1072
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:38,975
Come on, Crinkle.
He's interested.

1073
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,855
He's interested, Crinkle, isn't he?

1074
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:43,800
Now, wouldn't that be a nice first fish?

1075
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:48,855
We deserve a fish off of this
spot before we move, don't we?

1076
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:52,375
Yeah, he might feed.

1077
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:53,440
He's got lower down.

1078
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:54,975
He's in line with a pop-up.

1079
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:56,040
Is he going to go for it?

1080
00:57:56,065 --> 00:57:58,015
No, not interested.

1081
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:00,735
Well, he does look sort
of interested in feeding.

1082
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:01,575
Yeah, that's what I mean.

1083
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,400
I'm not saying that he didn't want the
pop-up, he's just sort of,

1084
00:58:04,425 --> 00:58:07,960
he's getting close to having
a little, a little schnaffle.

1085
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:11,080
I'm expecting carp to drop straight onto
it and take it with speed,

1086
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:13,440
much like we've seen on
Carplantis Underwater,

1087
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:16,280
and that just wasn't happening here.

1088
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:18,935
Too blatant in here.

1089
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:21,200
I think with these bright ones,
they're either the right colour and you

1090
00:58:21,225 --> 00:58:25,520
get them, like, from out of the blue,
or they ignore them.

1091
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:30,160
The period before lunch was
almost constant traffic as well.

1092
00:58:30,185 --> 00:58:32,200
Feed, feed.
See, he's following it now.

1093
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:33,340
He's going to take it.

1094
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:39,255
Oh, he looked like he was
coming straight for it.

1095
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:39,700
Yeah, he did.

1096
00:58:39,725 --> 00:58:42,095
But unfortunately,
it was just proving what we had

1097
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:43,680
already thought to be the case.

1098
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:46,280
I'd really love to just catch crinkle now.

1099
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:48,000
I really, really would.

1100
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:50,160
Yeah, it would set a
lot of things at rest.

1101
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:52,120
Yeah, it would be lovely.

1102
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:56,975
We had to make the best of what we were
fishing over, and the more we saw

1103
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:58,800
crinkle, the more I wanted him.

1104
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:02,055
So our thoughts went back to
potentially fishing a mesh bag.

1105
00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:05,455
I was going to say,
we are always trying to learn something.

1106
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:09,520
So I think the fact you're going to put a
bag of some sort on there tonight,

1107
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:14,655
if that gets picked up quite quickly and
you get a bite, we'll have learned that if

1108
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:17,495
we do have to fish this coarse sort of
gravel, because you can't find

1109
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:18,495
a lot else, you fish a bag.

1110
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:20,120
I think in a bag is the right way to go.

1111
00:59:20,145 --> 00:59:24,960
Be that a solid, be that a Hooked On bag,
it's a way to get around what is otherwise

1112
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:27,415
an awkward thing to present over.

1113
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:32,775
But you're right, we are ultimately
waiting for today to end to get up there.

1114
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:33,980
That's what's happening.

1115
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:36,135
Everyone at home would
be exactly the same.

1116
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:37,735
They'd probably be there
now with a rig on the spot.

1117
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:39,975
Well, you would, wouldn't you?
Yeah, because you'd just be fishing.

1118
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:42,255
You've seen it, you'd lower your rig in
and you'd hope that's

1119
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:43,320
the one that picks it up.

1120
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:47,895
The midday heat being enough for the fish
to move away and start bathing on the

1121
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:51,455
surface,
we decided to swap the test camera out for

1122
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:56,480
the proper one in the treeline swim, ready
to hit the ground running the next day.

1123
00:59:56,720 --> 01:00:01,495
And while we were away sorting it,
OG crinks was on the chunky gravel having

1124
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:05,575
a right old time, and we
were determined to catch him.

1125
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:07,080
This is right up your street.

1126
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:09,840
That is a Golden Honey pop-up.
Oh yeah.

1127
01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:12,175
Yeah, brown.

1128
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:13,655
Yeah, they're them.

1129
01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:15,360
Okay, one of them's gonna go on next.

1130
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:24,095
Okay, I think we could get the biggun on
that and all these little brown pop-ups

1131
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:26,320
that Spooner's got, the little honey ones,
they're Cell pop-ups

1132
01:00:26,345 --> 01:00:27,720
with honey goo on them.

1133
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:29,575
Um, they look absolutely perfect.

1134
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:31,855
They're dark, they don't look like they're
going to be in your face too much,

1135
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:34,880
but they aren't very buoyant because
he's had them for about a year.

1136
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:40,680
And put so much goo on them that you
can even tell the inside has gone brown.

1137
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:44,160
But I'm going to put a little bit of cork
in there just to make sure they're buoyant

1138
01:00:44,185 --> 01:00:47,480
enough to hold that hook up for the
duration of the time it's out there.

1139
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:53,240
This is exactly why we say sometimes to
rest your swim,

1140
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:57,975
because no matter how inconspicuous you
are, the fish definitely

1141
01:00:58,000 --> 01:00:59,975
know that your line is there.

1142
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,815
It doesn't often stop stop them from
feeding, but it will make

1143
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:03,720
them feed cautiously.

1144
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:05,960
And it's always the same
on these underwaters.

1145
01:01:05,985 --> 01:01:08,760
You reel the rod in,
the fish come in and eat with gusto,

1146
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:12,120
and eat exactly where your line's been,
where they haven't been

1147
01:01:12,145 --> 01:01:13,240
whilst it's out there.

1148
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:16,680
So reeling in for a little while,
letting them come in and feel free,

1149
01:01:16,720 --> 01:01:19,495
and then putting it back out there might
mean that they've built up the

1150
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:21,000
confidence and you get them quickly.

1151
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:24,600
It's worked in my own
fishing a lot, that has.

1152
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:29,055
I mean, you think this is a
one rod on one spot.

1153
01:01:29,080 --> 01:01:31,895
Imagine having 3 lines going to one
spot with tight lines going in there.

1154
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:33,160
They know it's there for sure.

1155
01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:38,895
The rig was the same: a spinner,
size 4 Krank, 5.5 inches of

1156
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:41,440
25lb boom on a helicopter setup.

1157
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:45,215
The difference was the 12mm Honey goo
pop-up and a little hooked-on

1158
01:01:45,240 --> 01:01:46,800
bag of Cell Boilie Crumb.

1159
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:50,655
The bright pop-ups in this shallow,
ultra-clear water wasn't it,

1160
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:54,000
so something that mimicked to match the
hatch but had an ultra-strong taste.

1161
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:56,960
Along with a little pile
of crumb just felt right.

1162
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:02,095
Obviously it's a darker pop-up,
so it doesn't stand out as much,

1163
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:07,255
but where it's landed near some of the
higher ground but landed alongside it,

1164
01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:09,215
it doesn't look like a pop-up at all.
No.

1165
01:02:09,240 --> 01:02:10,760
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, I do.

1166
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:14,895
That's primo.
That's the best cast we've had.

1167
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:16,680
Yeah.
I feel like that's the one.

1168
01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:21,440
Not far from the hook bait.

1169
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:23,775
What was that?

1170
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:26,320
One's just dived in from the corner,
not far from the hook bait.

1171
01:02:26,345 --> 01:02:28,775
Oh, that's really good.
He's literally just come in.

1172
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:30,575
Where is the hook bait?
Here.

1173
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:33,240
He was about 6-8 inches the other side.

1174
01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:37,535
There's a Linear that's done a fly by.

1175
01:02:37,560 --> 01:02:39,895
Crinkle's been nowhere and he's flown in.

1176
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:41,040
Where is it there?

1177
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:42,655
He's on line for it.

1178
01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:44,640
Oh, he's turned away at the last minute.

1179
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:48,580
Sorry, mate, I was just getting the
colours sorted out on the screens.

1180
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:53,815
Oh, —

1181
01:02:53,840 --> 01:03:00,160
Yeah, it's coming back,
it's coming back, it's coming back.

1182
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:08,455
Come on, Crinkle, come on.

1183
01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:10,080
This is close, this is close.

1184
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:12,160
Go on.
He's got it.

1185
01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:14,300
No, he didn't.
Just turned away at the last minute.

1186
01:03:14,325 --> 01:03:15,920
Oh, did that go in his mouth?

1187
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:18,520
No, he spooked off it.

1188
01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:19,775
Did it go in though?

1189
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:21,240
No, didn't go in his mouth, mate.

1190
01:03:21,265 --> 01:03:22,520
That was half close though.

1191
01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:28,660
We need to watch that back.

1192
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:33,040
First time one come in and fed,
and we come super close on a brown one.

1193
01:03:33,065 --> 01:03:34,135
Super close.

1194
01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:35,520
What happened there?

1195
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:44,400
I actually think that
got caught on a stone.

1196
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:45,535
The hook link.

1197
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:47,375
It didn't look like it had
full extension, did it?

1198
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:49,455
It didn't go into his mouth,
but I don't think that's

1199
01:03:49,480 --> 01:03:51,000
actually because of the buoyancy.

1200
01:03:51,025 --> 01:03:55,695
Now, looking at it here,
that— are we saying if it was more

1201
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:57,200
buoyant, would it have gone in his mouth?

1202
01:03:57,225 --> 01:03:59,655
No, it wouldn't have.

1203
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:01,440
No, something was holding that back.

1204
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:03,695
Wouldn't it?

1205
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:05,975
Yeah, it looks very weird, though.

1206
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:10,295
I would say in general that the fish's
power of sucking in is much,

1207
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:12,080
much more powerful than we think it is.

1208
01:04:12,105 --> 01:04:13,815
Like, stones often go in.

1209
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:17,400
So the difference between a slightly
smaller bit of cork in the bait,

1210
01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:21,655
I'm not sure makes a massive
difference on how it goes in.

1211
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:24,640
It might make a difference on how it's
presented because of how slowly it kicks

1212
01:04:24,665 --> 01:04:27,160
out and how buoyant it
is for the presentation.

1213
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:31,215
But I think if they decide to suck it in,
you could have lead in that

1214
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:33,055
and it's still going in.
It's still eating it.

1215
01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:35,695
Yeah, so I don't— yeah,
I don't think that was the problem there.

1216
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:36,560
Just watch it again.

1217
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:39,175
Yeah, you just—

1218
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:46,375
I just, you know, it didn't go— it didn't
go in that, that second time, did it?

1219
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:50,175
I think it's caught on something
on the bottom, isn't it?

1220
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:51,120
It's a chunky gravel.

1221
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:54,095
How many times can we blame the gravel?

1222
01:04:54,120 --> 01:04:56,975
Oh, we've got loads Loads.
Yeah, okay, that's fine.

1223
01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:58,455
Years, I'd say.

1224
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:01,855
It's not a coincidence the first time he's
come to eat, that hook bait

1225
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:02,735
nearly went in his mouth.

1226
01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:05,255
No, the other ones haven't
even nearly gone in his mouth.

1227
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:07,140
He liked the smell of it.
He liked the taste.

1228
01:05:07,165 --> 01:05:08,440
He tried to eat it.

1229
01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:11,255
Science.
Science.

1230
01:05:11,280 --> 01:05:14,040
With a little extra cork to stop the
pop-up from leaning over,

1231
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:15,800
we were back out on the spot.

1232
01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:17,800
Come on, come on, go back down.

1233
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:20,380
Right there.
If you tip now, you're close.

1234
01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:23,960
I think they can see the line, mate.

1235
01:05:23,985 --> 01:05:29,560
I really think they can see the line
in like 4 foot of gin-clear water.

1236
01:05:30,160 --> 01:05:34,040
Yeah, when you go and wade out,
you can see it quite clearly.

1237
01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:37,620
So unless it's on— even if it's on
the bottom, I think they can see it.

1238
01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:41,255
This is like really difficult
conditions, isn't it?

1239
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:41,575
Yeah, yeah.

1240
01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:43,895
Once it— especially with the sun still
being up, everything's

1241
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:44,495
heightened, isn't it?

1242
01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:46,180
That's obviously why
they're more confident.

1243
01:05:46,205 --> 01:05:49,255
Confident as the lights
fade, or part of it.

1244
01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:50,480
There was a trade-off here.

1245
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:54,295
We were fishing for a ridiculously large
fish in a very weedy lake,

1246
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:55,960
so we had to step up our gear.

1247
01:05:56,280 --> 01:06:00,975
Stronger unfortunately means thicker,
and being in such shallow, clear water,

1248
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:02,920
we sacrificed presentation.

1249
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:06,600
Again, everything is a constant
balancing act of variables.

1250
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:09,540
He's there, step next to that white round
one that looks like a little tennis ball.

1251
01:06:09,565 --> 01:06:11,800
Come on.
Oh, it's Butler.

1252
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:14,095
Oh, you cheat!

1253
01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:15,535
Oh, you want to come back now?

1254
01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:17,320
Oh, you want to come back
and eat our food now, do you?

1255
01:06:17,345 --> 01:06:18,535
All right, that's fine.

1256
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:19,975
Well, I hope you eat the
one with the hook in.

1257
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:21,495
Yeah, okay, fine.
How about that, Butler?

1258
01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:23,320
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you know what it is?

1259
01:06:23,345 --> 01:06:25,255
Unbelievable.
Do you believe him?

1260
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:26,535
I can't believe him.

1261
01:06:26,560 --> 01:06:31,920
Come on, come on.

1262
01:06:33,080 --> 01:06:36,000
These are the— these are one of these
two are what we want to catch first.

1263
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:36,600
Yes.

1264
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:38,975
They've fed the most.

1265
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:44,335
I think Crinkle was the first feeder we
had at all, and Butler has been a staple,

1266
01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:45,920
even though he's a cheat.

1267
01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:50,600
We would love him on the bank.

1268
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:52,840
Crinkle's going to be close here.

1269
01:06:52,880 --> 01:06:54,760
Crinkle knows that rig's there now.

1270
01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:59,400
I'm telling you, he won't go anywhere
where the line is, where the rig is.

1271
01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:05,800
It's not a coincidence that as soon as I
reeled that rig in, he was eating

1272
01:07:05,825 --> 01:07:07,800
all over where the rig was.
That is true.

1273
01:07:09,840 --> 01:07:12,175
It's very clear water, this.

1274
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:14,400
Very shallow and very sunny.

1275
01:07:14,720 --> 01:07:15,800
Another one dropping in.

1276
01:07:15,825 --> 01:07:18,960
They're not going to get better
conditions to see in this than this.

1277
01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:20,440
There's your one.

1278
01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:22,880
He's— come on, one coming down.

1279
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:25,455
That's close.

1280
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:27,040
That's right on line.

1281
01:07:29,320 --> 01:07:30,880
I don't know if he's just done you.

1282
01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:33,520
Did he?
I don't know.

1283
01:07:34,080 --> 01:07:36,215
I think he might have.
He shook his head like that.

1284
01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:37,120
I think he might have.

1285
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:40,735
Okay.

1286
01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:43,695
So he's come down for that hookbait.
Yes.

1287
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:46,535
Straight at it,
like typical underwater footage.

1288
01:07:46,560 --> 01:07:49,120
All right, he didn't get hooked,
but he wanted to eat that.

1289
01:07:49,145 --> 01:07:54,240
I think it's the non-bright hookbaits,
the duller hookbaits,

1290
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:57,095
are more likely to get picked
up in that shallow, clear water.

1291
01:07:57,120 --> 01:08:00,695
Yeah, I think generally,
I don't think they normally are, but in

1292
01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:02,360
this situation they were better for sure.

1293
01:08:03,080 --> 01:08:06,695
I know I sound like a broken record,
but this is exactly why I prefer

1294
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:08,960
presentation over efficiency.

1295
01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:15,335
Sometimes you see something and you learn
something new, and sometimes what you

1296
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:20,600
think— no, sometimes what you already
know, what you already know is cemented.

1297
01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:21,975
Is that right?
Yeah.

1298
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:26,335
Okay, and one of the things that is
cemented in this one is that, for me,

1299
01:08:26,360 --> 01:08:31,360
presentation is far more
important than efficiency.

1300
01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:37,840
Because if you can't— if the hook can't go
in the fish's mouth in the first place,

1301
01:08:38,240 --> 01:08:39,895
you can't get a bite.

1302
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:44,055
So you can have something that's super
effective, as in it will convert more

1303
01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:48,880
bites, but if it doesn't go in as many
mouths, there's no point in using it.

1304
01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:52,415
And there is a middle ground,
and I really believe that

1305
01:08:52,440 --> 01:08:54,535
middle ground is a Spinner Rig.

1306
01:08:54,560 --> 01:08:58,535
It's very efficient,
but also with a stiff boom hook link and a

1307
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:03,375
helicopter rig, most of the time it's
presented, and that's

1308
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:04,775
the most important thing.

1309
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:09,495
I'm happy to lose the efficiency for the
presentation, so the presentation means

1310
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:15,095
that it goes in more mouths, and over the
course of a year, you just get more bites.

1311
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:16,380
Are you having that, or—I am having that.

1312
01:09:16,640 --> 01:09:18,600
I've heard you say it quite a
lot over the years, to be fair.

1313
01:09:18,625 --> 01:09:22,255
It does.
It's really, really, really important.

1314
01:09:22,280 --> 01:09:26,880
And I think if people really understood
that and put that into their own fishing,

1315
01:09:27,520 --> 01:09:30,800
that's the idea that
will change your year.

1316
01:09:31,400 --> 01:09:33,175
Big shout.
No, it is.

1317
01:09:33,200 --> 01:09:34,095
It is.

1318
01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:37,480
Because if 50% of the time you're not
presented and

1319
01:09:38,360 --> 01:09:44,040
them times it converts 4 out of 5 times,
say, out of 10 bites, then you get 4 fish.

1320
01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:50,615
But if you've got— if it's presented 10
times and it's 6 out of 10 effective, it's

1321
01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:51,815
still more fish on the bank, isn't it?

1322
01:09:51,840 --> 01:09:53,320
There's more fish throughout the year.

1323
01:09:53,345 --> 01:09:55,920
And I think that is the way it is.

1324
01:09:56,440 --> 01:09:59,960
So I will always go for
presentation over effectiveness.

1325
01:10:01,480 --> 01:10:03,640
Come on.

1326
01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:10,520
Yeah, I don't know if he—
did he get it in again?

1327
01:10:10,680 --> 01:10:11,440
I don't know.

1328
01:10:18,520 --> 01:10:19,720
I thought that was it.

1329
01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:27,095
He's feeding so good.

1330
01:10:27,120 --> 01:10:32,680
This is exactly the feeding
situation you don't want.

1331
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:36,920
Their mouths are so close to the
bottom and they're moving so slowly.

1332
01:10:38,040 --> 01:10:40,415
Yeah, it's a really good
example of that, isn't it?

1333
01:10:40,440 --> 01:10:41,015
It is, yeah.

1334
01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:45,575
And then even if— I don't know if the
hookbaits are going fully in, but they're

1335
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:48,255
sort of going in and out so quickly.

1336
01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:50,560
It's not like they're going down and
taking it and it's like

1337
01:10:50,585 --> 01:10:51,575
deep in their mouth.

1338
01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:54,080
No, they're not engulfing it.
Engulfing.

1339
01:10:56,080 --> 01:11:00,600
The brown pop-up is infinitely better.

1340
01:11:03,840 --> 01:11:06,020
Oh, he's been forced back
down because of that fish.

1341
01:11:06,045 --> 01:11:07,240
What fish is it?

1342
01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:10,000
Is it piglet?

1343
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:13,460
Date hole?
Yeah, it could be day owl.

1344
01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:14,720
Come on, date hole.

1345
01:11:16,400 --> 01:11:19,060
He's not far away from you.
You only just pressed record.

1346
01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:20,980
No, I pressed it the other time.

1347
01:11:21,200 --> 01:11:25,815
Come on, turn right, turn right, turn
right, eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it.

1348
01:11:25,840 --> 01:11:29,520
Did he eat it?

1349
01:11:31,600 --> 01:11:35,615
The rig had been done again,
but it did give us more proof that the

1350
01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:39,720
Honey Goo hookbait was definitely more
attractive than what we'd been using,

1351
01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:41,800
certainly more than the bright pop-ups.

1352
01:11:42,280 --> 01:11:45,920
Feeding small items on this
gravel is just causing aggro.

1353
01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:48,880
They're too slow and
too close to the bottom.

1354
01:11:49,360 --> 01:11:52,535
It's either going in its mouth and they're
doing it, or the hook point's gone over

1355
01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:54,120
either way, it's just causing aggro.

1356
01:11:55,800 --> 01:11:57,655
Yeah.

1357
01:11:57,680 --> 01:11:59,895
You need a really short hook link on a
bottom bait, really,

1358
01:11:59,920 --> 01:12:01,760
to get them when they're feeding like
this, but then you can't do

1359
01:12:01,785 --> 01:12:03,180
it because of the bottom.

1360
01:12:04,280 --> 01:12:08,095
As long as the rig kept resetting,
which it was, and the hookbait kept being

1361
01:12:08,120 --> 01:12:10,120
attractive, then we'd get another chance.

1362
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:14,575
But the day was very quickly quickly
running out, leaving us with one more roll

1363
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:17,680
of the dice, and it was
Crinkle who we were betting on.

1364
01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:20,400
That's Crinkle, innit?

1365
01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:24,935
Come on, Crinkle!

1366
01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:26,015
Come on, Crinkle!

1367
01:12:26,040 --> 01:12:27,280
Two of them right next to each other.

1368
01:12:27,305 --> 01:12:30,255
Come on, upend!

1369
01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:33,135
Upend, you idiot!

1370
01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:34,175
Come on, Crinkle!

1371
01:12:34,200 --> 01:12:37,240
Come on, Crinkle, save the day!
Go on!

1372
01:12:37,480 --> 01:12:46,095
Come on, come on, this is it,
come on, this is it, come on, yes!

1373
01:12:46,120 --> 01:12:48,840
Oh my God, how upended is he?

1374
01:12:49,880 --> 01:12:53,495
Go on, he's got it,
he's got it, he's got it, yes!

1375
01:12:53,520 --> 01:12:54,975
Yes!

1376
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:59,400
Yes!
Yes!

1377
01:13:04,480 --> 01:13:08,495
Come on, Crinkle.

1378
01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:11,175
I mean, I'd prefer all this weed not

1379
01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:19,655
to be on my line, but come on, Spooner.

1380
01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:22,640
Come on.

1381
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:33,920
Yes!
Is he much smaller than we thought?

1382
01:13:36,840 --> 01:13:39,335
Oh God.

1383
01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:43,215
Oh, sweet, son.

1384
01:13:43,240 --> 01:13:46,575
It's crinkle as well, mate.

1385
01:13:46,600 --> 01:13:47,975
He sucked that hook bait in.

1386
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:53,855
We have learned— well,
we've learned that definitely yellow and

1387
01:13:53,880 --> 01:13:55,560
definitely definitely
pink are not the ones.

1388
01:13:55,585 --> 01:13:58,600
That brown one has been,
I reckon, in 4 or 5 mouths.

1389
01:13:59,720 --> 01:14:01,800
It's Crinkle.
He was in from the very beginning.

1390
01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:03,415
First one that we had feeding.

1391
01:14:03,440 --> 01:14:05,240
The very first one that fed on the spot.

1392
01:14:05,265 --> 01:14:06,415
Yeah, true.

1393
01:14:06,440 --> 01:14:08,920
I loved it that we caught
OG Crinkle straight away.

1394
01:14:09,200 --> 01:14:11,600
He was the first, like you said,
he was the first one in.

1395
01:14:11,625 --> 01:14:16,615
He was eating loads of grub and he was one
of the ones that we had

1396
01:14:16,640 --> 01:14:18,535
sort of gauged the size on.
Yeah, it was.

1397
01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:20,215
Yeah, he got a little bit bigger in it.

1398
01:14:20,240 --> 01:14:23,215
I remember seeing him when he rolled and I
was Oh, God, he's not as

1399
01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:24,240
big as I thought he was.

1400
01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:27,375
It's like when you see a famous person on
telly and you see them in real life and

1401
01:14:27,400 --> 01:14:28,720
they're much shorter
than you think they are.

1402
01:14:28,745 --> 01:14:30,095
Do you know what, though?

1403
01:14:30,120 --> 01:14:32,280
It's a perfect way of going into tomorrow.

1404
01:14:32,320 --> 01:14:33,575
Oh, yes.

1405
01:14:33,600 --> 01:14:37,775
We've got a hookbait that they definitely
like, and we've got a spot where we've

1406
01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:40,655
seen the big ones feed,
and we've got Crinkle in the net.

1407
01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:42,335
Get in there, boys!

1408
01:14:42,360 --> 01:14:44,095
Yes!

1409
01:14:44,120 --> 01:14:46,815
I think it had to be
between him and Butler.

1410
01:14:46,840 --> 01:14:48,820
Yeah, they were the two, weren't they?
They were there from the start.

1411
01:14:48,845 --> 01:14:49,980
From the get-go.

1412
01:14:50,440 --> 01:14:51,720
Yeah, but yeah, OG Crinks.

1413
01:14:53,480 --> 01:14:57,880
There he is, old Crinkle Boy.
Come here.

1414
01:14:58,040 --> 01:14:59,935
Little mouth.
Yeah, tiny little mouth.

1415
01:14:59,960 --> 01:15:01,055
I didn't realise it was that small.

1416
01:15:01,080 --> 01:15:02,800
I actually thought it was
damaged, but it's not.

1417
01:15:02,825 --> 01:15:04,200
It's just a tiny little mouth.

1418
01:15:04,480 --> 01:15:06,335
Solid as a rock.

1419
01:15:06,360 --> 01:15:08,280
Proper barrel little fish he is.

1420
01:15:08,520 --> 01:15:12,775
He's eaten, I reckon,
4 kilos of Cell, and Essential Cell.

1421
01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:17,720
My hook bait's been in his mouth twice we
think, and we got him third time lucky.

1422
01:15:17,760 --> 01:15:19,560
What a beautiful fish.

1423
01:15:19,680 --> 01:15:21,095
We've watched him for so many hours.

1424
01:15:21,120 --> 01:15:23,140
It's nice to have him on the bank,
and to be honest,

1425
01:15:23,280 --> 01:15:25,120
catching one is just a bit of a relief.

1426
01:15:25,920 --> 01:15:27,600
We've been here for a long time already.

1427
01:15:27,625 --> 01:15:29,135
These fish are very tricky.

1428
01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:33,095
They're small water fish,
and they're proving it, aren't they?

1429
01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:36,200
They are indeed, but one has tripped up.

1430
01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:38,500
Fitting that it's the first
one that fell on the spot.

1431
01:15:38,525 --> 01:15:40,040
Yes.
We've learnt a lot as well.

1432
01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:42,080
The yellow ones and the
pink ones aren't it.

1433
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:46,495
And we've got a spot just on the other
side of the lake that

1434
01:15:46,520 --> 01:15:47,640
the big'un is feeding on.

1435
01:15:48,040 --> 01:15:51,200
There's lighter gravel, and I think
we're going to catch the big'un.

1436
01:15:51,720 --> 01:15:52,440
Watch this space.

1437
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:07,680
We know now for a fact that the big'un,
the crème de la crème, the 60lb fully,

1438
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:11,240
has fed on this spot in the last 24 hours.

1439
01:16:11,760 --> 01:16:13,775
Huge pressure.
You're using your Jag eye?

1440
01:16:13,800 --> 01:16:15,255
I'm using me Jag eye.

1441
01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:17,340
Does that work with
them blue moon glasses?

1442
01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:18,775
Yeah.

1443
01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:21,320
Whilst I couldn't wait to put a rig in
front of it, there were

1444
01:16:21,345 --> 01:16:22,920
a few things stopping us.

1445
01:16:23,440 --> 01:16:27,895
A, fish were in there feeding immediately,
which is the first time we've seen them

1446
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:30,040
there since putting the proper camera in.

1447
01:16:30,200 --> 01:16:34,335
And B, light levels around this part of
the lake were much lower,

1448
01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:37,400
so the viz wasn't completely ideal.

1449
01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:39,920
Sitting on me hands,
getting me rig ready so that everything's

1450
01:16:39,945 --> 01:16:44,095
perfect, because it's not every day you're
putting a rig on a spot where, you know,

1451
01:16:44,120 --> 01:16:48,080
a 60-pounder fed the day before, is it?

1452
01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:50,055
No, the pressure's on today, isn't it?

1453
01:16:50,080 --> 01:16:52,620
Every time I see a glimpse of
anything, I'm like, is that it?

1454
01:16:53,440 --> 01:16:56,735
The facts are it's probably
within 10 yards of this spot.

1455
01:16:56,760 --> 01:16:59,560
It's probably in the snag just to the
left, and it's probably eating

1456
01:16:59,585 --> 01:17:01,255
some of these boilies this morning.

1457
01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:05,295
So often when one hookbait proves to be
successful, every fish

1458
01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:06,615
is willing to take it.

1459
01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:12,080
So I went in with the 12mm Honey hookbait
that had caught OG Crinkle,

1460
01:17:12,320 --> 01:17:16,440
this time as a wafter due to the spot
being a typical fine gravel,

1461
01:17:16,480 --> 01:17:18,200
which is my go-to approach.

1462
01:17:18,640 --> 01:17:23,455
It was still a spinner made up of 7 inches
of 25lb Boom and a size 4

1463
01:17:23,480 --> 01:17:24,760
Krank fished on a lead clip.

1464
01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:29,215
The most nerve-wracking cast and
presentation I've ever

1465
01:17:29,240 --> 01:17:30,415
had to put in the water.

1466
01:17:30,440 --> 01:17:32,240
We're lucky it's under arm.

1467
01:17:32,640 --> 01:17:35,120
I think we're screwed
otherwise, aren't we?

1468
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:40,775
Carp was stirring up the nearby clay
areas, feeding on the bait that had rolled

1469
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:45,335
down the shelf from the previous night,
which was annoying for camera viz,

1470
01:17:45,360 --> 01:17:48,695
but fishing-wise,
a little bit of murkiness to disguise

1471
01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:50,535
everything is exactly what we want.

1472
01:17:50,560 --> 01:17:51,880
Exactly what you want.

1473
01:17:52,240 --> 01:17:54,815
It's another major take-home for us.

1474
01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:56,880
Light levels are so important.

1475
01:17:57,360 --> 01:18:01,535
It's no coincidence that when it's been
ultra clear and bright, fish are more

1476
01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:04,720
cagey and more aware of our rigs and line.

1477
01:18:04,960 --> 01:18:07,640
As soon as dusk comes,
or you're fishing a spot with cover

1478
01:18:08,240 --> 01:18:13,015
or it's just a cloudier day,
carp feed with much less caution and are

1479
01:18:13,040 --> 01:18:15,400
much more likely to take your hookbait.

1480
01:18:16,240 --> 01:18:20,520
Though, we just had to wait for
a clear moment to deploy the rig.

1481
01:18:21,880 --> 01:18:22,855
He's a decent common.

1482
01:18:22,880 --> 01:18:24,175
He's a nice one, rounded.

1483
01:18:24,200 --> 01:18:25,840
He looks like the old tolpits common.

1484
01:18:26,480 --> 01:18:28,095
Did you fish tolpits?
No.

1485
01:18:28,120 --> 01:18:29,535
No.

1486
01:18:29,560 --> 01:18:32,655
There was a lot of traffic and a lot of
bait eaten, which was

1487
01:18:32,680 --> 01:18:34,600
really clearing the viz.

1488
01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:37,040
I mean, are we just going to
record constantly on this?

1489
01:18:37,160 --> 01:18:40,455
Well, it's like bloody
London Aquarium down there, Gail.

1490
01:18:40,480 --> 01:18:41,375
It is.

1491
01:18:41,400 --> 01:18:44,040
We were even visited
by some familiar faces.

1492
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:45,120
That's OJ Crinkle.

1493
01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:46,935
What's he doing up here?
What's he—

1494
01:18:46,960 --> 01:18:48,520
he's just had a hook in his mouth.

1495
01:18:48,840 --> 01:18:51,000
They're all up here, gal.

1496
01:18:51,040 --> 01:18:54,960
With the fish traffic slowing down,
it was about time to get the rig out.

1497
01:18:55,320 --> 01:19:00,415
I threw out a few handfuls of 15mm
Essential Cell, partly to get the distance

1498
01:19:00,440 --> 01:19:04,880
right because I couldn't afford to mess up
the cast in a spot like this,

1499
01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:09,695
but also we've seen this particle and
small bait mix slow the carp down to a

1500
01:19:09,720 --> 01:19:14,375
crawl, and using bigger baits would,
in theory, make them move between

1501
01:19:14,400 --> 01:19:16,840
mouthfuls and make them easier to catch.

1502
01:19:20,120 --> 01:19:21,200
Yeah, we'll take it.

1503
01:19:22,600 --> 01:19:25,280
Yep, go on, slacken off
and get out of there.

1504
01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:28,800
We couldn't fish like this on the other
spot, so it felt like we

1505
01:19:28,825 --> 01:19:30,640
had a real chance now.

1506
01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:42,720
Fish!
Yes, mate, he's close to you already.

1507
01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:47,240
Really close.
First one, he's very, very close to you.

1508
01:19:48,120 --> 01:19:49,960
Where's the pop-up there?
Uh, what's the—

1509
01:19:49,985 --> 01:19:52,575
there, it's just— if he keeps coming—

1510
01:19:52,600 --> 01:19:53,760
what fish is it?

1511
01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:55,600
Don't know, but he's very close.

1512
01:19:56,040 --> 01:19:58,080
Come on, come on.

1513
01:19:58,600 --> 01:20:00,100
He's not a small one, is he?

1514
01:20:01,360 --> 01:20:02,580
Might be that common.

1515
01:20:03,360 --> 01:20:04,320
Oh no, he's not small.

1516
01:20:04,680 --> 01:20:06,640
There might be another
one behind it as well.

1517
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:11,895
I'm really pleased because obviously
you're in there for quite a long time.

1518
01:20:11,920 --> 01:20:13,240
I'm hyped.
I feel hyped.

1519
01:20:13,440 --> 01:20:15,480
But you're in there, you know,
you're baiting up, you know,

1520
01:20:15,505 --> 01:20:17,375
you're within inches of them.

1521
01:20:17,400 --> 01:20:20,175
I'm having to spod to clear the weed.
Yeah.

1522
01:20:20,200 --> 01:20:21,375
Then get the line down.

1523
01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:23,460
I've done all that and
they're in that quickly.

1524
01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:26,960
It's far more relaxing when
it's not your rig out there.

1525
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:34,095
I'll have hairline like you in a couple of
hours, hopefully, and I can have a go at

1526
01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:40,760
you for the next 10 years like you had me.

1527
01:20:42,880 --> 01:20:44,240
Get off your phone!
Oh!

1528
01:20:44,360 --> 01:20:45,520
It actually made me jump.

1529
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:47,040
I'd send an email, don't you mind?

1530
01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:50,080
I don't care, mate.
I don't care, mate.

1531
01:20:50,120 --> 01:20:53,960
The carp were definitely more
cagey with the rig in the water.

1532
01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:57,880
We were using heavier stuff than we
normally would because we were essentially

1533
01:20:57,905 --> 01:21:04,160
fishing for one fish, a 64lb fully, if
we hadn't already made that clear enough.

1534
01:21:04,560 --> 01:21:08,575
So that could have been causing the
rest of the stock to be more wary.

1535
01:21:08,600 --> 01:21:11,180
In order just to perhaps make the swim a
little bit more attractive,

1536
01:21:11,205 --> 01:21:14,255
I've just crushed up some boilie,
laced it with Smart Liquid,

1537
01:21:14,280 --> 01:21:16,960
and just dropped a few,
almost like little groundbait balls of

1538
01:21:16,985 --> 01:21:20,815
crumb and chop,
and they've landed around the hook bait,

1539
01:21:20,840 --> 01:21:22,800
and they're just breaking down now.

1540
01:21:22,880 --> 01:21:25,280
Just put a little bit more taste in the
water, see if we can entice

1541
01:21:25,305 --> 01:21:26,360
them back down again.

1542
01:21:27,160 --> 01:21:30,615
The juge worked in that fish were coming
through, but not a

1543
01:21:30,640 --> 01:21:32,400
great deal dropped down.

1544
01:21:32,440 --> 01:21:35,295
Just swirl back down and eat.

1545
01:21:35,320 --> 01:21:39,255
They are just not— they know we're
fishing for them, don't they?

1546
01:21:39,280 --> 01:21:40,620
I think Crinkle did yesterday.

1547
01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:42,760
Yeah, he did.
Apparently they're eating on your spot.

1548
01:21:42,785 --> 01:21:44,095
Your spot.
Your spot today.

1549
01:21:44,120 --> 01:21:46,415
This spot.
The spot down there.

1550
01:21:46,440 --> 01:21:47,440
No lines in the water.

1551
01:21:47,560 --> 01:21:49,760
They've barely— when we've been there
fishing from, they've barely ate

1552
01:21:49,785 --> 01:21:51,500
at this time of day down there.

1553
01:21:51,600 --> 01:21:54,220
I'll tell you what I'm going to do,
which is going to be interesting.

1554
01:21:54,245 --> 01:21:56,580
I'm going to change over
to fluorocarbon tomorrow.

1555
01:21:57,240 --> 01:21:58,535
See if they—

1556
01:21:58,560 --> 01:22:00,160
just see what their reaction to it is.

1557
01:22:00,880 --> 01:22:04,960
Yeah.
Good shout.

1558
01:22:07,280 --> 01:22:13,680
Oh my God, you just squirted
your sausage all over me again.

1559
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:16,760
Unlike my sausage,
it ended up being an anticlimax.

1560
01:22:17,880 --> 01:22:22,815
Rather than stubbornly fishing the spot
waiting for perhaps a non-existent chance,

1561
01:22:22,840 --> 01:22:27,200
I decided to reel it in and return to
the chunky gravel spot for the evening.

1562
01:22:27,400 --> 01:22:30,735
But despite a rig change to solid bags,
which apart from the

1563
01:22:30,760 --> 01:22:32,415
occasional close call—

1564
01:22:32,440 --> 01:22:33,960
pick it up.

1565
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:36,120
Just keep going.

1566
01:22:36,400 --> 01:22:41,040
Oh, did nothing to change our fortunes.

1567
01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:46,400
A day full of promise fizzled
out into a pretty sad end.

1568
01:22:46,920 --> 01:22:54,735
Well, it's currently

1569
01:22:54,760 --> 01:22:57,455
Sunday the 4th of May.

1570
01:22:57,480 --> 01:22:59,095
The lads are due to come back tomorrow.

1571
01:22:59,120 --> 01:23:01,415
They've been away for a couple
of days seeing the family.

1572
01:23:01,440 --> 01:23:04,680
Dovey wasn't very well, but anyway,
that's not what you want to hear about.

1573
01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:06,980
They're due to come back tomorrow.

1574
01:23:07,240 --> 01:23:09,860
We've been keeping an eye on the spot,
keeping the bait going in,

1575
01:23:09,885 --> 01:23:12,615
and the reaction has been insane.

1576
01:23:12,640 --> 01:23:17,135
I don't know how well you can see that,
you'll have the footage anyway, but yeah,

1577
01:23:17,160 --> 01:23:20,215
the reaction's been absolutely insane.

1578
01:23:20,240 --> 01:23:25,800
The fish are super confident,
clearing out the spot as we speak,

1579
01:23:26,400 --> 01:23:28,655
and they just can't get enough of it.

1580
01:23:28,680 --> 01:23:32,120
There's 4 fish in frame
right now, all feeding.

1581
01:23:33,040 --> 01:23:36,080
Hopefully this continues when
the lads turn up tomorrow.

1582
01:23:36,320 --> 01:23:37,655
Where is that fully?

1583
01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:41,320
I don't know, but I don't
think it's too far away at all.

1584
01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:52,840
Fully rested and having gotten over
being ill, we hit the ground running.

1585
01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:56,040
Little, little slag.

1586
01:23:56,080 --> 01:24:00,600
Having the weekend away meant we
had well and truly rested the spot.

1587
01:24:00,880 --> 01:24:04,560
We had gotten too excited when we saw the
big'un feeding on it before,

1588
01:24:04,920 --> 01:24:09,615
and when we moved on it the following day,
the fish just backed off when really we

1589
01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:14,055
should have primed it a bit longer for
them to gain confidence, which,

1590
01:24:14,080 --> 01:24:16,055
from the look of it, they definitely had.

1591
01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:18,960
Look at that one in front of
the— Well, that is insane.

1592
01:24:19,160 --> 01:24:21,560
The crew had fed the spot consistently
while we were away,

1593
01:24:21,640 --> 01:24:23,535
and the carp were on it.

1594
01:24:23,560 --> 01:24:27,880
So much so that they had blown in a fair
bit of debris which might cause problems,

1595
01:24:28,040 --> 01:24:30,280
but that's fishing and
it couldn't be helped.

1596
01:24:30,440 --> 01:24:31,360
Sorry, not sorry.

1597
01:24:31,400 --> 01:24:33,460
Yeah, we're trying to
catch the bloody big ones.

1598
01:24:34,120 --> 01:24:37,160
Taking notes from Spooner's session and
what we've learned so far,

1599
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:39,080
I'd made changes to the rig.

1600
01:24:39,240 --> 01:24:41,480
It was still a spinner,
but now I was using a Snowman,

1601
01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:45,480
and because it was essentially a bottom
bait, I like to fish that on a lead clip

1602
01:24:45,505 --> 01:24:48,760
with a Hybrid Stiff hook link and a little
bit of putty on the hook,

1603
01:24:48,880 --> 01:24:50,320
but more on this later.

1604
01:24:51,200 --> 01:24:55,055
With the amount of carp on the spot and
ideally needing to get it out first time,

1605
01:24:55,080 --> 01:24:57,000
it meant getting the
rig in was a nightmare.

1606
01:24:57,240 --> 01:24:59,560
Yeah, this would be a
stupendous time to put a rig in.

1607
01:24:59,600 --> 01:25:03,255
And the surface weed wasn't helping,
meaning we'd have to drag a Spomb through

1608
01:25:03,280 --> 01:25:05,400
it just to clear some space for the line.

1609
01:25:06,240 --> 01:25:07,400
Carp back on spot now.

1610
01:25:10,080 --> 01:25:11,775
Right, I know you don't want me to put the
pressure on, but this is a

1611
01:25:11,800 --> 01:25:13,280
fantastic time to put the rig in.

1612
01:25:13,760 --> 01:25:16,535
Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

1613
01:25:16,560 --> 01:25:18,100
Oh, he's back feeding anyway.

1614
01:25:21,800 --> 01:25:26,735
Ready, rolling.

1615
01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:28,935
Yeah, it's bang—

1616
01:25:28,960 --> 01:25:30,335
it's literally bang centre.

1617
01:25:30,360 --> 01:25:32,455
I mean, it didn't look like it
kicked away as neatly as Spoon's.

1618
01:25:32,480 --> 01:25:35,520
I can't really see how it's landed,
but I might— I can see your hook

1619
01:25:35,545 --> 01:25:39,895
bait in terms of sitting in the spot.
That's pretty good.

1620
01:25:39,920 --> 01:25:41,800
I would take— I would
definitely take that.

1621
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:47,055
And now we wait.

1622
01:25:47,080 --> 01:25:49,895
Yeah, I don't think we're gonna be
waiting too long before there's something.

1623
01:25:49,920 --> 01:25:52,160
Not necessarily getting a bite,
but I think there'll be— there's one!

1624
01:25:52,185 --> 01:25:53,100
There you go.

1625
01:25:54,560 --> 01:25:55,695
And we're back.

1626
01:25:55,720 --> 01:25:57,575
Let's see if they see the line or not.

1627
01:25:57,600 --> 01:26:03,255
Oh, big common!

1628
01:26:03,280 --> 01:26:09,895
See, on an incredibly Good line.

1629
01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:13,320
Oh, come on, this will be funny.
I need to get my waders on.

1630
01:26:16,680 --> 01:26:18,540
Does he know there's something wrong?

1631
01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:27,255
Is he feeding behind it, or is he—

1632
01:26:27,280 --> 01:26:28,975
that is a decent common, isn't it?

1633
01:26:29,000 --> 01:26:35,160
Yeah, it's not the one with the
Please, is that little Butler?

1634
01:26:38,800 --> 01:26:40,880
We've got to catch Butler.

1635
01:26:41,920 --> 01:26:46,360
He's eaten half of the bait we've put
in the lake, no matter where we put it.

1636
01:26:58,280 --> 01:27:04,175
Come on, decent common.

1637
01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:05,935
Get up that shelf.

1638
01:27:05,960 --> 01:27:09,760
Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up.

1639
01:27:11,880 --> 01:27:13,760
Come on, come on.

1640
01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:19,480
Oh my God, that was close.
Oh, it still is.

1641
01:27:19,505 --> 01:27:20,920
It's in.
Is it in?

1642
01:27:22,680 --> 01:27:23,840
You got him, you got him!

1643
01:27:28,880 --> 01:27:37,840
Boys, can we get my waders?

1644
01:27:52,960 --> 01:27:54,400
Reminiscent of Dan and Damo, mate.

1645
01:27:55,480 --> 01:27:57,360
Put my waders on.

1646
01:28:01,640 --> 01:28:04,440
Cheers, buddy.

1647
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:08,680
Try and get around here.

1648
01:28:22,280 --> 01:28:37,240
Right, okay, okay, that's a bit insane.

1649
01:28:39,040 --> 01:28:41,200
Might have to get out the boat for this.

1650
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:49,080
Whatever you need to, mate.

1651
01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:52,280
Yeah, get— jump in the boat, lads.

1652
01:28:52,600 --> 01:28:57,080
Is it moving?

1653
01:28:57,600 --> 01:28:58,180
No.

1654
01:28:58,320 --> 01:28:58,980
Okay.

1655
01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:11,440
I think it's quite a good common.
It looked good.

1656
01:29:12,240 --> 01:29:13,735
Certainly bigger than Butler anyway.

1657
01:29:13,760 --> 01:29:15,440
I think Butler was out the back with it.

1658
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:22,900
Tell me what you want me to do,
Tom, when you want me to do it.

1659
01:29:22,960 --> 01:29:24,360
I can get that if you want.

1660
01:29:31,120 --> 01:29:32,640
Yep, okay, mate.

1661
01:29:41,320 --> 01:29:42,700
There we go, we saw a kick then.

1662
01:29:42,725 --> 01:29:44,080
Yeah, we're on still, right?

1663
01:29:44,680 --> 01:29:45,820
Um, do you want me to net it?

1664
01:29:45,845 --> 01:29:47,960
Huh?
Oh God.

1665
01:30:00,080 --> 01:30:02,840
Lovely, these little rods.
Great, aren't they?

1666
01:30:03,320 --> 01:30:05,055
Do you think he's 30 pounder this.

1667
01:30:05,080 --> 01:30:06,400
Well, he looked it.

1668
01:30:06,640 --> 01:30:10,520
Just, um, back off with it with
the engine so we're out of there.

1669
01:30:11,320 --> 01:30:12,535
So we're out?

1670
01:30:12,560 --> 01:30:13,615
Yeah, just go out.

1671
01:30:13,640 --> 01:30:15,760
I don't want to— we're
drifting into the snag.

1672
01:30:16,440 --> 01:30:17,935
Mike do you wanna swap sides.

1673
01:30:17,960 --> 01:30:19,375
The fish is turning us, mate.

1674
01:30:19,400 --> 01:30:21,520
The fish is Just reverse out.

1675
01:30:27,160 --> 01:30:30,175
That was absolutely quick.

1676
01:30:30,200 --> 01:30:31,920
That's the quickest
spot in underwater ever.

1677
01:30:31,960 --> 01:30:33,080
It must be.
Got to be, innit?

1678
01:30:33,105 --> 01:30:36,680
Do you know what that shows?
The importance of pre-baiting.

1679
01:30:37,160 --> 01:30:39,800
Yeah, the rig's good, obviously,
because it works straight away, but it

1680
01:30:39,825 --> 01:30:41,920
means a lot when they take it confidently.

1681
01:30:42,720 --> 01:30:44,015
Yeah, that just— whoosh—

1682
01:30:44,040 --> 01:30:45,175
didn't even think about it.

1683
01:30:45,200 --> 01:30:48,480
It was almost like like he was on the
spot where the bait was for a while.

1684
01:30:52,280 --> 01:30:53,360
This is so tense.

1685
01:30:53,760 --> 01:30:57,440
I just really want to get this in.

1686
01:30:58,520 --> 01:31:06,080
Here we go.

1687
01:31:11,560 --> 01:31:12,420
Get in there!

1688
01:31:13,280 --> 01:31:14,080
Yes, boys!

1689
01:31:18,200 --> 01:31:20,000
That is insane.

1690
01:31:20,440 --> 01:31:24,160
We have been here about 45 minutes.

1691
01:31:25,240 --> 01:31:29,640
The rig had been in the water 5 minutes,
I reckon, 10 minutes maybe at a max.

1692
01:31:29,720 --> 01:31:30,000
Maybe.

1693
01:31:31,160 --> 01:31:33,360
First fish that come in
had a little snuffle.

1694
01:31:33,920 --> 01:31:37,680
Second one came in,
nailed about 4 boilies, and then

1695
01:31:38,200 --> 01:31:41,200
Took my Essential Cell with a little
yellow tipper on top,

1696
01:31:41,600 --> 01:31:43,680
and it is a decent 30lb common.

1697
01:31:44,360 --> 01:31:46,535
Get in there!

1698
01:31:46,560 --> 01:31:47,855
What have we learnt?

1699
01:31:47,880 --> 01:31:51,375
We've learnt that this rig is very
decent first time off the bottom as well.

1700
01:31:51,400 --> 01:31:52,880
The one that you weren't
so confident in being.

1701
01:31:52,905 --> 01:31:57,655
Well, I just thought they're not normally
as good as pop-ups, and second of all,

1702
01:31:57,680 --> 01:31:59,655
baiting up is so,
so important if you can do it.

1703
01:31:59,680 --> 01:32:01,135
It means they're very confident.

1704
01:32:01,160 --> 01:32:02,720
They're coming in looking for the food.

1705
01:32:03,600 --> 01:32:05,700
And they'll even take
a bit of disturbance.

1706
01:32:06,240 --> 01:32:07,740
Right, let's go back to the bank.

1707
01:32:08,400 --> 01:32:09,600
get in there.

1708
01:32:15,200 --> 01:32:20,015
When I look back at when I was,
if you like, trying to catch a specific

1709
01:32:20,040 --> 01:32:25,135
carp, pre-baiting played a massive part.

1710
01:32:25,160 --> 01:32:28,215
Being able to go down to the lake when
you're not fishing just to put—

1711
01:32:28,240 --> 01:32:29,040
there was never a lot of bait.

1712
01:32:29,065 --> 01:32:32,760
I was never putting kilo upon kilo in,
but I could go down after dark,

1713
01:32:33,440 --> 01:32:37,160
put a couple of hundred, maybe 300 boilies
into the same area with regularity.

1714
01:32:37,480 --> 01:32:42,280
It feels like when you then go fishing,
it feels like you've got a cheat code.

1715
01:32:42,400 --> 01:32:45,455
Yeah, you have, because you've got
fish eating in an area with no lines.

1716
01:32:45,480 --> 01:32:47,960
They've got like a free meal,
and all of a sudden there's three little

1717
01:32:47,985 --> 01:32:51,240
rigs dotted amongst them,
and you do catch quickly.

1718
01:32:51,320 --> 01:32:54,020
Yeah, maybe not the one you want quickly,
but you know, you've got it going.

1719
01:32:54,045 --> 01:32:58,335
It's going to be so much easier to get a
fish to pick up a boilie off of a spot

1720
01:32:58,360 --> 01:33:00,735
if he's already eaten 1,000 off of it.

1721
01:33:00,760 --> 01:33:02,695
200.
200.

1722
01:33:02,720 --> 01:33:04,655
Sorry, 200, 300.
No, but it is, though, isn't it?

1723
01:33:04,680 --> 01:33:08,055
If they've been confidently eating there
and every time they see a bait there,

1724
01:33:08,080 --> 01:33:10,975
they go and pick it up and it's not got a
hook on it, by the time it has got a

1725
01:33:11,000 --> 01:33:13,495
hook on it, they're eating it properly.
And this proves it.

1726
01:33:13,520 --> 01:33:15,760
That's what we saw.
They're eating it confidently.

1727
01:33:15,785 --> 01:33:19,080
And if you can get them eating
confidently, then you catch them.

1728
01:33:19,840 --> 01:33:20,760
Cell everywhere.

1729
01:33:21,640 --> 01:33:23,400
Don't want the bank,
don't matter about that.

1730
01:33:23,425 --> 01:33:25,200
That's for the rats.
Get it for free.

1731
01:33:31,160 --> 01:33:35,080
What a cracking bit of fish that is.

1732
01:33:35,200 --> 01:33:38,440
34lb 10oz common and probably one of the
ones that's been in the swim,

1733
01:33:39,000 --> 01:33:42,840
this one and the shallow end,
to be fair, over the last 9 days.

1734
01:33:43,280 --> 01:33:45,615
This filming is tough,
but it's so rewarding when

1735
01:33:45,640 --> 01:33:47,175
it happens quickly like that.

1736
01:33:47,200 --> 01:33:50,895
Like I said, we'd been baiting for the
last couple of days without putting a rig

1737
01:33:50,920 --> 01:33:53,280
in there, and that meant this fish was
really confident when it

1738
01:33:53,305 --> 01:33:54,660
took back the hookbait.

1739
01:33:54,880 --> 01:33:58,080
And it did, it was really confident,
got him straight away.

1740
01:33:58,800 --> 01:34:02,975
Gives a massive thumbs up for that rig,
and I'm obviously just really pleased to

1741
01:34:03,000 --> 01:34:04,935
get a decent one on the bank like this.

1742
01:34:04,960 --> 01:34:05,840
Thank you very much.

1743
01:34:07,280 --> 01:34:09,300
Let's go and tell his big old fully pal.

1744
01:34:11,520 --> 01:34:12,640
Cracking fish, that.

1745
01:34:19,320 --> 01:34:24,215
He's slow, but he just had the hook bait
in his mouth for a long period of time.

1746
01:34:24,240 --> 01:34:27,295
He's opened and closed his mouth a couple
of times with it in there

1747
01:34:27,320 --> 01:34:29,680
because he's just so confident.
And then you get him.

1748
01:34:30,520 --> 01:34:32,375
And everything was perfect.

1749
01:34:32,400 --> 01:34:33,980
He came in at the right angle.

1750
01:34:34,320 --> 01:34:37,215
My lead is to the left here, isn't it?

1751
01:34:37,240 --> 01:34:38,300
The hook link's dead straight.

1752
01:34:38,325 --> 01:34:42,320
And it's come onto it like that and
it's just got him straight away.

1753
01:34:42,760 --> 01:34:44,815
What a good moment, Gal.

1754
01:34:44,840 --> 01:34:46,840
It's gone in and closed his mouth.

1755
01:34:47,240 --> 01:34:49,215
It didn't tighten the
hook link or nothing.

1756
01:34:49,240 --> 01:34:52,375
No, it was towards it.
Yeah.

1757
01:34:52,400 --> 01:34:54,240
Pre-baited, good hook bait, good rig.

1758
01:34:55,160 --> 01:34:56,895
Carp fishing.

1759
01:34:56,920 --> 01:34:58,295
Yeah, completed it.

1760
01:34:58,320 --> 01:35:01,095
What you saw there was
practically real time.

1761
01:35:01,120 --> 01:35:03,480
It was as quick as you'd possibly want.

1762
01:35:03,560 --> 01:35:05,440
Now the rig and a bit
of bait was back out.

1763
01:35:06,200 --> 01:35:09,175
Unfortunately, the spot had
sprouted a bush in the commotion.

1764
01:35:09,200 --> 01:35:10,740
I'm not so keen on the bush.

1765
01:35:11,600 --> 01:35:13,420
want it trimmed back a
little bit on that one.

1766
01:35:14,080 --> 01:35:16,140
Yeah, prefer it just
not to be there really.

1767
01:35:16,440 --> 01:35:17,440
Any at all?

1768
01:35:18,640 --> 01:35:20,600
No, prefer it without it.

1769
01:35:24,440 --> 01:35:25,720
You would prefer it without it.

1770
01:35:25,745 --> 01:35:26,760
We did well there.

1771
01:35:27,440 --> 01:35:29,600
I was really trying to look at the screen.

1772
01:35:29,920 --> 01:35:32,895
I would prefer it without the bush there
though, especially at the top there.

1773
01:35:32,920 --> 01:35:34,975
Well, yeah, because they do often come in
from the back there,

1774
01:35:35,000 --> 01:35:35,975
don't they, from the snag.

1775
01:35:36,000 --> 01:35:39,280
I don't know whether the spot's just
looking better the more vegetation there

1776
01:35:39,305 --> 01:35:41,615
is in there, do you know what I mean?

1777
01:35:41,640 --> 01:35:42,720
Yeah, I do.

1778
01:35:43,000 --> 01:35:50,120
Yeah, I get this a lot.

1779
01:35:50,880 --> 01:35:53,575
Oh, he's looking, he doesn't like it.

1780
01:35:53,600 --> 01:35:55,560
I think he's got a mouthful.
has he?

1781
01:35:56,040 --> 01:35:59,960
Yeah, I'm more in the camp of
that they see things now and look.

1782
01:36:00,200 --> 01:36:02,840
Are you, yeah, a little bit.

1783
01:36:03,200 --> 01:36:07,215
Yeah, I still think the most important
thing obviously is that you get them

1784
01:36:07,240 --> 01:36:11,335
feeding right, and that's whether
you can pre-bait or not, you know.

1785
01:36:11,360 --> 01:36:14,100
Yeah, create the right feeding
environment, they get confident,

1786
01:36:14,800 --> 01:36:15,800
and that's it done.

1787
01:36:16,480 --> 01:36:16,960
Yeah.

1788
01:36:23,880 --> 01:36:27,520
It's a bit worrying that it's
just him coming back all the time.

1789
01:36:28,960 --> 01:36:30,615
He might do a butler
though and get the others.

1790
01:36:30,640 --> 01:36:33,380
That's just what I was going to say.
This could be the butler of this zone.

1791
01:36:33,405 --> 01:36:35,400
He's going for your hook bait.

1792
01:36:35,720 --> 01:36:38,415
Okay, yeah.

1793
01:36:38,440 --> 01:36:39,935
He doesn't like something.

1794
01:36:39,960 --> 01:36:41,680
It's this light, I'm telling you.

1795
01:36:44,320 --> 01:36:45,640
He's not coming into the light.

1796
01:36:45,920 --> 01:36:48,680
Stokes saw the same thing
during his time at Carplantis.

1797
01:36:49,000 --> 01:36:53,120
Whether or not carp can see in detail,
enough to spot rigs is debatable,

1798
01:36:53,400 --> 01:36:56,360
but they definitely are able
to discern light and dark.

1799
01:36:56,520 --> 01:37:00,335
We see it time and time again when light
levels dip, whether that's approaching

1800
01:37:00,360 --> 01:37:04,160
nighttime or the spot clouds up a bit,
carp are easier to catch,

1801
01:37:04,280 --> 01:37:08,495
and the effect is even more apparent
on these shallow, clearwater spots.

1802
01:37:08,520 --> 01:37:12,655
We've seen carp eat around the spot and
around structures that provide cover way

1803
01:37:12,680 --> 01:37:16,415
before they get to the spotlighted parts,
and I believe that would be true whether

1804
01:37:16,440 --> 01:37:19,935
our rig was there or not,
but the fluorocarbon mainline did seem to

1805
01:37:19,960 --> 01:37:22,495
help confidence levels
this morning for the bite.

1806
01:37:22,520 --> 01:37:26,015
But then we had pre-baited for a
number of days, so the jury's out.

1807
01:37:26,040 --> 01:37:28,960
I would say pay attention to light levels
in your fishing though,

1808
01:37:28,985 --> 01:37:30,655
especially on clear lakes.

1809
01:37:30,680 --> 01:37:34,215
It's not quite the smoking gun,
but there was a bit more cloud cover at

1810
01:37:34,240 --> 01:37:37,615
this point and the carp were
definitely starting to move back in.

1811
01:37:37,640 --> 01:37:38,480
Another one.

1812
01:37:41,040 --> 01:37:43,040
Some regularity back on this spot now.

1813
01:37:43,160 --> 01:37:49,215
Yeah, it has been an hour and a half-ish.

1814
01:37:49,240 --> 01:37:51,160
Yeah, another one over the top of you.

1815
01:37:51,600 --> 01:37:54,295
Oh, he's gonna be close,
he's gonna be close, very close.

1816
01:37:54,320 --> 01:37:56,400
Is he gonna take the pie?
Is he gonna take it?

1817
01:37:56,800 --> 01:37:59,095
No, but he was very close.

1818
01:37:59,120 --> 01:38:00,375
Two different fish, these.

1819
01:38:00,400 --> 01:38:03,815
He came straight down in
that zone though, didn't he?

1820
01:38:03,840 --> 01:38:04,400
Yeah.

1821
01:38:06,560 --> 01:38:07,920
We're going to get a chance soon.

1822
01:38:09,000 --> 01:38:10,335
Yeah, I don't recognise that one.

1823
01:38:10,360 --> 01:38:12,400
No, quite a nice carp though.
Quite a big one.

1824
01:38:12,520 --> 01:38:13,320
He's feeding well.

1825
01:38:13,360 --> 01:38:19,535
I tell you what,
that 0.33 fluorocarbon thin nano tubing,

1826
01:38:19,560 --> 01:38:22,400
they're not seeing that as much
as they were the other kit.

1827
01:38:24,240 --> 01:38:26,200
Agreed.
They're definitely not.

1828
01:38:27,120 --> 01:38:28,655
Agreed.

1829
01:38:28,680 --> 01:38:30,655
I'm going to get a chance here, gal.

1830
01:38:30,680 --> 01:38:34,335
Bush or no bush, which is
personal preference, of course.

1831
01:38:34,360 --> 01:38:36,760
In this case, it was obstructing the carp.

1832
01:38:38,040 --> 01:38:40,855
That's done exactly what
you just said, that bush.

1833
01:38:40,880 --> 01:38:43,360
Yeah, it's diverted him off, innit?

1834
01:38:43,520 --> 01:38:48,135
But again, this would all be unknown
usually, and when you might be expecting a

1835
01:38:48,160 --> 01:38:53,175
bite and you don't, it could simply
be something totally random like this.

1836
01:38:53,200 --> 01:38:54,820
Into the background, don't they?

1837
01:38:55,000 --> 01:38:56,880
I don't know, but he's on a good line.
He's low enough.

1838
01:38:56,905 --> 01:38:59,175
He's on a great line if
he doesn't see my tip.

1839
01:38:59,200 --> 01:39:00,760
Another one coming in this way.

1840
01:39:01,360 --> 01:39:02,400
What one is it?

1841
01:39:03,400 --> 01:39:05,040
Go on, go on, go on.

1842
01:39:05,080 --> 01:39:08,480
Oh, didn't spook, just didn't
drop at the right angle.

1843
01:39:09,440 --> 01:39:11,080
Which one's this one?

1844
01:39:11,600 --> 01:39:15,120
Is that a liner, do you reckon?

1845
01:39:16,360 --> 01:39:20,760
Oh my God, he could feed
right behind him here.

1846
01:39:21,520 --> 01:39:23,015
He's going down.
Is he going to take it?

1847
01:39:23,040 --> 01:39:24,480
Is he going to take it?
Is Is he going to take it?

1848
01:39:24,505 --> 01:39:27,320
Is he going to take it?
He's going to take it, surely.

1849
01:39:29,040 --> 01:39:30,920
I beg to differ.

1850
01:39:32,280 --> 01:39:34,000
That was very close.

1851
01:39:35,120 --> 01:39:36,440
Oh, it's a common, that one.

1852
01:39:36,800 --> 01:39:37,800
You can't tell, can you?

1853
01:39:37,825 --> 01:39:40,080
Because there's another
one coming in here.

1854
01:39:40,880 --> 01:39:43,040
It's going to be the biggun.
Be the biggun.

1855
01:39:43,840 --> 01:39:44,615
Be the biggun.

1856
01:39:44,640 --> 01:39:46,160
This is when we want
the biggun to come in.

1857
01:39:46,185 --> 01:39:49,080
Yeah, bit of cloud,
bit of excitement in the area.

1858
01:39:57,280 --> 01:39:59,840
It's a common.

1859
01:40:01,280 --> 01:40:04,800
Just turn up out of the blue.
He's a good'un.

1860
01:40:07,080 --> 01:40:09,575
He's close.
He's close.

1861
01:40:09,600 --> 01:40:11,000
He's close on the close.

1862
01:40:12,040 --> 01:40:13,215
Come on, come on.

1863
01:40:13,240 --> 01:40:15,240
One more, one more, one more.

1864
01:40:15,600 --> 01:40:17,455
Come on, he's looking at it.
He's looking at it.

1865
01:40:17,480 --> 01:40:18,535
One more.
He's going to take it.

1866
01:40:18,560 --> 01:40:20,000
He's going to take it.
No, he fed next to it.

1867
01:40:20,025 --> 01:40:21,215
He fed next to it.

1868
01:40:21,240 --> 01:40:22,335
He's going to take it.

1869
01:40:22,360 --> 01:40:24,680
He's not going to take it.

1870
01:40:27,040 --> 01:40:29,815
Oh God, that was so close.

1871
01:40:29,840 --> 01:40:32,160
That was very, very, very, very close.

1872
01:40:34,680 --> 01:40:36,520
He's crying.

1873
01:40:39,360 --> 01:40:40,920
He's a nice common, that.

1874
01:40:41,360 --> 01:40:43,920
Is that a nice classic shape?

1875
01:40:46,400 --> 01:40:48,200
Yeah, he is.
I don't think he's very big.

1876
01:40:49,200 --> 01:40:49,895
Oh, that one.

1877
01:40:49,920 --> 01:40:52,240
This is what I wanted
it to be like all along.

1878
01:40:52,320 --> 01:40:52,920
Here we go.

1879
01:40:54,920 --> 01:40:57,495
I thought that was Butler
for a minute, but it's not.

1880
01:40:57,520 --> 01:41:00,735
Got the wrong Mui.

1881
01:41:00,760 --> 01:41:02,335
Scaley 20.

1882
01:41:02,360 --> 01:41:03,615
Another one coming in.

1883
01:41:03,640 --> 01:41:04,695
Two more coming in.

1884
01:41:04,720 --> 01:41:06,580
I've got to get a chance
here, gal, haven't I?

1885
01:41:06,640 --> 01:41:08,455
Turned away.

1886
01:41:08,480 --> 01:41:10,895
He's turned the one— they've
all turned away, Tom.

1887
01:41:10,920 --> 01:41:13,440
What great footage this is.

1888
01:41:13,920 --> 01:41:18,935
If you, if you take out of the, um,
equation the one you hooked, okay,

1889
01:41:18,960 --> 01:41:22,280
that came in off the back of being very
confident, 2 days of feeding,

1890
01:41:22,560 --> 01:41:27,895
all of these have done what you'd expect
fish to do over a bed of bait—

1891
01:41:27,920 --> 01:41:29,040
eat around the edges first.

1892
01:41:29,065 --> 01:41:33,215
They're doing exactly what a stereotypical
carp should, or we expect to do.

1893
01:41:33,240 --> 01:41:34,175
Yeah, no, 100%.

1894
01:41:34,200 --> 01:41:36,655
It's like if you, if you put them out with
the spod, it'd be your left-hand

1895
01:41:36,680 --> 01:41:38,160
rod that goes, not your middle.
Yeah, exactly.

1896
01:41:38,185 --> 01:41:39,735
This is your middle rod.
Exactly.

1897
01:41:39,760 --> 01:41:42,000
You are bang in the middle of the spot,
so it's going to get a chance.

1898
01:41:42,025 --> 01:41:43,740
It might just take a bit longer.

1899
01:41:44,160 --> 01:41:46,240
I hear you, Neil.

1900
01:41:48,280 --> 01:41:48,880
Come on.

1901
01:41:58,400 --> 01:42:00,055
Dive bombed, oh he wanted that one.

1902
01:42:00,080 --> 01:42:02,695
He could see your one and have that.

1903
01:42:02,720 --> 01:42:04,120
Up, pace, up, pace, up, pace.

1904
01:42:05,760 --> 01:42:06,855
What are you doing?

1905
01:42:06,880 --> 01:42:08,135
He's chewing.

1906
01:42:08,160 --> 01:42:11,480
Here he goes, another little snuffle.

1907
01:42:11,640 --> 01:42:14,160
Come on, you entered me screen on here,
so I know you're close.

1908
01:42:15,480 --> 01:42:16,720
He's close.

1909
01:42:16,760 --> 01:42:19,840
Oh, I think he heard us.
I think he heard us.

1910
01:42:22,360 --> 01:42:23,880
How close was that?

1911
01:42:26,240 --> 01:42:29,280
Still not, still not going
to get it in the mouth yet.

1912
01:42:29,400 --> 01:42:31,720
No, neither is a lot of that
bait around the hook bait.

1913
01:42:31,745 --> 01:42:33,440
No, no, no, middle section.

1914
01:42:34,720 --> 01:42:37,160
They're still tidying the spot up for you.

1915
01:42:37,440 --> 01:42:40,055
Come on, give us enough time for
that biggun to come in, please.

1916
01:42:40,080 --> 01:42:41,640
Let's make it all happen, all of us.

1917
01:42:43,400 --> 01:42:45,800
Question for you.

1918
01:42:47,120 --> 01:42:49,535
I'm just imagining it going into swim.

1919
01:42:49,560 --> 01:42:53,495
So
We've seen on other underwaters when

1920
01:42:53,520 --> 01:42:57,240
you've got the hook bait bang on,
they come in and charge at it.

1921
01:42:58,440 --> 01:42:59,440
You've caught on it.

1922
01:42:59,960 --> 01:43:01,695
Do you feel it's the right hook bait?

1923
01:43:01,720 --> 01:43:03,360
Sorry, do you feel it's
the perfect hook bait?

1924
01:43:03,385 --> 01:43:08,000
I don't feel it's the perfect hook bait,
but what I don't want to do,

1925
01:43:08,440 --> 01:43:10,935
because there's two scenarios for me.

1926
01:43:10,960 --> 01:43:14,480
There's one where you're about to get a
bite here, so you're already recording.

1927
01:43:16,160 --> 01:43:17,360
This is going to be close.

1928
01:43:18,240 --> 01:43:20,040
Looking too much.

1929
01:43:21,840 --> 01:43:23,320
Yeah, there's two scenarios for me.

1930
01:43:23,345 --> 01:43:25,920
One in which you want them to eat the
hookbait first,

1931
01:43:26,560 --> 01:43:30,295
and another where you think they love
the bait and they're eating a lot of it.

1932
01:43:30,320 --> 01:43:33,015
Yeah, and we know that
they're eating loads of bait.

1933
01:43:33,040 --> 01:43:34,060
You're already recording?

1934
01:43:34,320 --> 01:43:34,695
Yep.

1935
01:43:34,720 --> 01:43:37,400
You know they're eating loads of bait,
so I want something that's

1936
01:43:37,425 --> 01:43:38,660
pretty hatchy-matchy.

1937
01:43:39,400 --> 01:43:40,720
Hatchy-hatchy, hatchy-matchy.

1938
01:43:41,320 --> 01:43:42,255
I agree.

1939
01:43:42,280 --> 01:43:45,620
I think there's another hookbait you could
try that you might get a quicker bite,

1940
01:43:45,680 --> 01:43:47,855
but it's not necessarily
the be-all and end-all.

1941
01:43:47,880 --> 01:43:51,520
No, and I can't put 3 rods out there and
see what one works best,

1942
01:43:51,560 --> 01:43:53,160
which is what I would normally do.
No.

1943
01:43:53,185 --> 01:43:56,655
If I put the wrong hookbait
out in here, I miss the chance.

1944
01:43:56,680 --> 01:44:00,815
So I'm better off with something that I
know works most places

1945
01:44:00,840 --> 01:44:03,775
that will get picked up.
That's close.

1946
01:44:03,800 --> 01:44:05,175
That's really close.
That's in.

1947
01:44:05,200 --> 01:44:06,040
That's in his mouth.

1948
01:44:06,760 --> 01:44:15,615
Yeah, yes!

1949
01:44:15,640 --> 01:44:18,160
It was only a matter of time.

1950
01:44:19,600 --> 01:44:26,895
Still recording, Tom.

1951
01:44:26,920 --> 01:44:31,520
I don't like being that close to
your Johnson, I'm not going to lie.

1952
01:44:36,120 --> 01:44:43,000
That's right, that's right.

1953
01:44:43,440 --> 01:44:50,680
Oh my God, this is absolutely
stripping me, this thing.

1954
01:45:00,280 --> 01:45:02,895
That rig don't half get
them quick, don't it?

1955
01:45:02,920 --> 01:45:05,375
Yeah, instant.

1956
01:45:05,400 --> 01:45:06,880
If that's in, that is not coming out.

1957
01:45:08,680 --> 01:45:11,220
You going to try and, Where you going?
I'm going to dive down here again.

1958
01:45:15,400 --> 01:45:15,880
Oh God.

1959
01:45:24,960 --> 01:45:29,735
Trying to get away from the snags.

1960
01:45:29,760 --> 01:45:35,375
That was smooth.

1961
01:45:35,400 --> 01:45:36,560
Made that look easy.

1962
01:45:39,800 --> 01:45:46,720
This fish absolutely stripped
me to the left-hand side.

1963
01:45:48,680 --> 01:45:50,655
Justin, the owner, had said he'd got rid
of all of the snags,

1964
01:45:50,680 --> 01:45:52,775
so it's safe down there,
but you never know if it's just a little

1965
01:45:52,800 --> 01:45:54,895
twig or something down there,
it might nick the line.

1966
01:45:54,920 --> 01:45:58,000
So I needed to come down here to the
right-hand side to get them in the main

1967
01:45:58,025 --> 01:46:02,200
swim and keep most of the disturbance
away from down there as well.

1968
01:46:02,720 --> 01:46:05,080
Do you want to net this,
Tom, as you're out further?

1969
01:46:05,120 --> 01:46:05,700
Yeah, all right.

1970
01:46:15,800 --> 01:46:17,575
It just looks so good.

1971
01:46:17,600 --> 01:46:22,735
Like, if you were just fishing out now in
this swim, you'd be so confident of bites.

1972
01:46:22,760 --> 01:46:24,640
The wind's pushing down here,
there's cloud cover.

1973
01:46:24,665 --> 01:46:26,320
It's been so sunny the last week.

1974
01:46:27,000 --> 01:46:29,800
So the conditions have worked
perfectly for us today.

1975
01:46:31,680 --> 01:46:36,200
The weed cover on the spot, the baiting
for 2 days, and now rigged as 1-in-1.

1976
01:46:38,800 --> 01:46:39,400
Dan!

1977
01:46:52,520 --> 01:46:54,135
We knew it was close though.

1978
01:46:54,160 --> 01:46:58,680
There was more and more fish coming in
and they'd eaten so much of the bait.

1979
01:46:59,560 --> 01:47:01,400
Yeah, he's thinking about it.

1980
01:47:01,680 --> 01:47:06,280
Get in there!
Well done, Thomas.

1981
01:47:07,080 --> 01:47:07,815
Yes!

1982
01:47:07,840 --> 01:47:14,655
Another one for the Essential Cell with
the little bit of Pineapple Pop-up on top

1983
01:47:14,680 --> 01:47:21,280
with a spinner rig, size 4 spinner hook,
and a putty,

1984
01:47:22,200 --> 01:47:23,760
blob of putty on the bend of the hook.

1985
01:47:25,560 --> 01:47:30,280
Straight away that gets them
without any worry at all.

1986
01:47:34,000 --> 01:47:36,695
Okay, so the fish is sitting down in the
net there, and I've got my rig

1987
01:47:36,720 --> 01:47:38,160
ready to put back out on the spot.

1988
01:47:38,600 --> 01:47:39,940
Thought I'd show you through it quickly.

1989
01:47:39,965 --> 01:47:43,640
It's nothing mental, but it is slightly
different to what I use normally.

1990
01:47:44,120 --> 01:47:46,880
So instead of having the thicker tubing on
there, I've used a much

1991
01:47:46,905 --> 01:47:48,615
thinner tubing called Nano.

1992
01:47:48,640 --> 01:47:52,560
It's, I don't know, probably half the
size of the normal Dark Matter tubing.

1993
01:47:52,680 --> 01:47:53,655
This is still Dark Matter.

1994
01:47:53,680 --> 01:47:55,820
It's got Tungsten in it,
so it sits on the bottom.

1995
01:47:55,845 --> 01:48:01,175
I've got 0.33 fluorocarbon there instead
of like 0.38 or 0.40 normal nylon.,

1996
01:48:01,200 --> 01:48:03,255
and this just means that
you can't see it as much.

1997
01:48:03,280 --> 01:48:05,880
It's very shallow and very clear here,
so I'm trying to be a little

1998
01:48:05,905 --> 01:48:07,180
bit more inconspicuous.

1999
01:48:08,080 --> 01:48:10,960
And instead of the pop-up rig I put out
before, I've still got a spinner rig,

2000
01:48:10,985 --> 01:48:12,600
but there's a few changes to it.

2001
01:48:12,680 --> 01:48:16,440
So instead of having the Boom hook link,
I've got a Hybrid 20lb hook link.

2002
01:48:16,600 --> 01:48:19,815
It's still stiff enough for it to sit out
dead straight, but with a bottom bait,

2003
01:48:19,840 --> 01:48:22,400
I want just a little bit of more movement
on the hook when it goes

2004
01:48:22,425 --> 01:48:23,640
into the fish's mouth.

2005
01:48:24,080 --> 01:48:27,455
And then on the hook end,
here is something quite

2006
01:48:27,480 --> 01:48:28,800
different to what I usually use.

2007
01:48:29,240 --> 01:48:34,375
That is a size 4 Spinner hook with a
little bit of putty on the bend of the

2008
01:48:34,400 --> 01:48:38,535
hook, and that means that the hook will
sit flat on the bottom like that,

2009
01:48:38,560 --> 01:48:42,095
and this Mini Snowman that's not
particularly bright or different to what's

2010
01:48:42,120 --> 01:48:44,480
out there will just sit
over the top of the hook.

2011
01:48:44,720 --> 01:48:48,200
But what that putty does do is that when
this goes into the fish's mouth,

2012
01:48:48,320 --> 01:48:51,535
that makes sure that hook swings round and
this gets them in the

2013
01:48:51,560 --> 01:48:52,840
scissors or in the bottom lip.

2014
01:48:53,120 --> 01:48:54,600
I've been using this for
a couple of years now.

2015
01:48:54,625 --> 01:48:58,135
I thought it was good.,
but it's very, very good.

2016
01:48:58,160 --> 01:49:00,120
2 out of 2.
I will take it.

2017
01:49:00,720 --> 01:49:02,960
That biggun is coming in
soon, I'm telling you.

2018
01:49:04,360 --> 01:49:06,760
A similar effect can be made
using the shot on the hook.

2019
01:49:07,040 --> 01:49:10,000
I just quite like using the putty in this
case because it looks neater

2020
01:49:10,025 --> 01:49:11,160
due to its low profile.

2021
01:49:11,760 --> 01:49:14,000
But realistically,
both the shot on the hook or the

2022
01:49:14,040 --> 01:49:16,240
putty will work as well as each other.

2023
01:49:17,400 --> 01:49:18,095
Yes.
Yeah.

2024
01:49:18,120 --> 01:49:20,240
Oh, that's good.
That's in the zone.

2025
01:49:21,440 --> 01:49:24,455
Okay, would you say this is more like one
of your left-hand or

2026
01:49:24,480 --> 01:49:25,935
your right-hand rods now?
I would say so.

2027
01:49:25,960 --> 01:49:27,880
You're on the edge of
your right-hand spot now.

2028
01:49:28,200 --> 01:49:30,000
I like him as a little
rogue off the right.

2029
01:49:30,025 --> 01:49:32,775
You like that, don't you, Neil?
I like that.

2030
01:49:32,800 --> 01:49:35,280
I like it as well.

2031
01:49:40,920 --> 01:49:42,295
Here he is, the old boy.

2032
01:49:42,320 --> 01:49:45,960
Lovely little chestnutty mirror,
probably about 16, 17 pounds.

2033
01:49:46,680 --> 01:49:50,040
And one to build the confidence,
let me tell you.

2034
01:49:50,360 --> 01:49:52,240
That's 2 out of 2 now on that rig.

2035
01:49:52,840 --> 01:49:56,960
I'm extremely confident now that if
anything comes in, I'm going to get it.

2036
01:49:57,640 --> 01:49:59,920
And I feel like it might
be a real big one soon.

2037
01:50:00,960 --> 01:50:01,695
Cracking little fish.

2038
01:50:01,720 --> 01:50:04,100
He's been in there obviously for
a long time eating them boilies.

2039
01:50:04,125 --> 01:50:05,815
They absolutely love them in here.

2040
01:50:05,840 --> 01:50:07,415
Love to see it.

2041
01:50:07,440 --> 01:50:10,855
I'm going to put him back because my rig's
on the spot and I'm excited for another.

2042
01:50:10,880 --> 01:50:12,215
You watch, we'll get it
tomorrow when it's my turn.

2043
01:50:12,240 --> 01:50:13,960
And there'll just be nothing left because
he's either caught them

2044
01:50:13,985 --> 01:50:16,160
all or spooked them.
Great.

2045
01:50:18,160 --> 01:50:20,855
I can't believe they're
back in so quickly.

2046
01:50:20,880 --> 01:50:22,415
That's crazy.
That is mad.

2047
01:50:22,440 --> 01:50:24,880
Bearing in mind you walked all over the
spot, the fish shredded you down the

2048
01:50:24,905 --> 01:50:28,415
right, you basically played in over the
top of the spot and they're

2049
01:50:28,440 --> 01:50:29,680
just back in straight away.

2050
01:50:29,720 --> 01:50:31,480
This is the power of pre-baiting.

2051
01:50:31,880 --> 01:50:35,135
Honestly, there isn't many chances you can
do it these days because obviously you

2052
01:50:35,160 --> 01:50:38,120
don't want to bait next to somebody that's
fishing, but if you have an opportunity

2053
01:50:38,145 --> 01:50:41,360
like this, that's in a snag,
you can walk around your lake each day.

2054
01:50:43,040 --> 01:50:45,760
If the fish have eaten thousands of
boilies off of the spot,

2055
01:50:46,520 --> 01:50:48,975
they are definitely more willing to take
your hookbait quickly,

2056
01:50:49,000 --> 01:50:52,180
and they are more willing to come back
into the swim once you've caught one.

2057
01:50:52,205 --> 01:50:54,160
100%.
Here he comes.

2058
01:50:57,280 --> 01:50:58,295
I think.

2059
01:50:58,320 --> 01:51:00,160
Look.

2060
01:51:01,240 --> 01:51:02,215
11-11.
Here we go.

2061
01:51:02,240 --> 01:51:03,320
Big'un's going to come in.

2062
01:51:06,880 --> 01:51:07,320
Oh.

2063
01:51:09,960 --> 01:51:11,320
Keeps hitting me on the head.

2064
01:51:11,880 --> 01:51:15,040
And you need to have 4 weeks
hoping you'll get it down in two.

2065
01:51:15,400 --> 01:51:16,920
Yeah, there's one is one, is one, is one.

2066
01:51:16,945 --> 01:51:17,975
Glasses off.

2067
01:51:18,000 --> 01:51:20,040
He's on the good line, mate.

2068
01:51:20,120 --> 01:51:22,020
He is on the right line.
He's on the right line.

2069
01:51:22,045 --> 01:51:23,695
Go on, go on.
Is he going to take it?

2070
01:51:23,720 --> 01:51:26,055
Yes, yes, he's done you.

2071
01:51:26,080 --> 01:51:28,200
He's actually done you.

2072
01:51:28,920 --> 01:51:30,095
Did you get done?

2073
01:51:30,120 --> 01:51:31,095
Properly got done.

2074
01:51:31,120 --> 01:51:32,695
Yeah, the hook bait went into his mouth.

2075
01:51:32,720 --> 01:51:34,135
I don't know whether the hook I did, but—

2076
01:51:34,160 --> 01:51:36,200
4 words, gentlemen,
and I'm going to sign off.

2077
01:51:36,225 --> 01:51:37,300
Shot on the hook.

2078
01:51:38,160 --> 01:51:39,560
Hang on, hang on.

2079
01:51:39,600 --> 01:51:42,640
That's still 2 in 3, though.
I'm happy with that.

2080
01:51:46,680 --> 01:51:47,880
Let's have a look back on that.

2081
01:51:47,905 --> 01:51:49,500
Right, Dan, we're going to go.

2082
01:51:50,360 --> 01:51:53,495
That does go to show what we were saying
is that we were going to get

2083
01:51:53,520 --> 01:51:54,760
a quicker pickup on that.

2084
01:51:55,240 --> 01:51:58,840
Almost none of the boilies have gone,
and that's been in a fish's mouth.

2085
01:52:00,280 --> 01:52:02,840
That's very, very different to what
happened before when the hookbait

2086
01:52:02,865 --> 01:52:04,280
was in the centre of the spot.

2087
01:52:05,240 --> 01:52:07,760
That's why it's always worth
having 2 rods on a spot.

2088
01:52:07,800 --> 01:52:09,535
We can't here because it's so tight.

2089
01:52:09,560 --> 01:52:13,215
It's like a little tiny snag spot,
but normally if this was out in the lake,

2090
01:52:13,240 --> 01:52:15,815
I'd have one in the centre of the spot and
have one on the outside,

2091
01:52:15,840 --> 01:52:17,975
and that means as soon as they start
feeding, they can eat a

2092
01:52:18,000 --> 01:52:19,040
few and you can get one.

2093
01:52:20,280 --> 01:52:24,320
And then I would often leave my middle
rod until they eat the rest of the bait.

2094
01:52:24,400 --> 01:52:27,400
I think.

2095
01:52:27,720 --> 01:52:30,055
Until they eat the rest of the bait and
you get one off the centre of spot,

2096
01:52:30,080 --> 01:52:31,455
then you know most of the bait's gone.

2097
01:52:31,480 --> 01:52:33,460
You need to put more bait out
and put both your rods out.

2098
01:52:33,485 --> 01:52:37,080
That's how you can get into a real
swing of catching a lot off of a spot.

2099
01:52:37,360 --> 01:52:38,760
Hook link's still sitting all right.

2100
01:52:38,785 --> 01:52:42,360
I mean, it's going back a little bit
towards the lead, but I'll take it.

2101
01:52:43,360 --> 01:52:46,120
Carp were continually in
for most of the afternoon.

2102
01:52:46,280 --> 01:52:48,215
Come on, turn, turn, turn.

2103
01:52:48,240 --> 01:52:49,720
This is close.
Turn round.

2104
01:52:49,960 --> 01:52:51,495
Turn around, turn around.

2105
01:52:51,520 --> 01:52:53,495
Oh, that's a fatty common.

2106
01:52:53,520 --> 01:52:56,920
Not massive, but he's
a nice fish, isn't he?

2107
01:52:58,120 --> 01:52:59,280
He's a nice one, isn't he?

2108
01:52:59,360 --> 01:53:02,280
He's nice.

2109
01:53:02,520 --> 01:53:05,360
That's probably the biggest one
we've seen for a while, I would say.

2110
01:53:05,400 --> 01:53:06,280
For a while, yeah.

2111
01:53:07,000 --> 01:53:07,335
Yeah.

2112
01:53:07,360 --> 01:53:10,775
And in typical fashion,
they were constantly feeding right on the

2113
01:53:10,800 --> 01:53:15,320
edges of the spot, and weirdly,
the majority right over Dovey's line.

2114
01:53:15,480 --> 01:53:21,655
Which just goes to show how undetectable
that 0.33 Kontour fluorocarbon is.

2115
01:53:21,680 --> 01:53:24,975
But it does prove the point that the rigs
that are often the first to

2116
01:53:25,000 --> 01:53:27,040
go are on the outer edges.

2117
01:53:27,720 --> 01:53:31,575
But when you get the right hookbait,
which is absolutely irresistible,

2118
01:53:31,600 --> 01:53:33,320
then it almost doesn't matter.

2119
01:53:33,400 --> 01:53:35,920
They'll eat it first wherever it is.

2120
01:53:36,000 --> 01:53:38,160
But what makes the right hookbait?

2121
01:53:38,240 --> 01:53:40,840
That is the million-pound question.
What is a good hookbait?

2122
01:53:40,960 --> 01:53:42,820
A good hookbait is one
that gets picked up a lot.

2123
01:53:42,845 --> 01:53:44,415
The carp want to eat.

2124
01:53:44,440 --> 01:53:46,735
Yeah, and you find it
by testing things out.

2125
01:53:46,760 --> 01:53:50,695
And you also, you, you test it out over
a short period of time during your trip.

2126
01:53:50,720 --> 01:53:53,520
So you can put 2 or 3 different colours
and flavours out and you can

2127
01:53:53,545 --> 01:53:54,840
find out what happens then.

2128
01:53:55,000 --> 01:53:58,895
And you're also naturally testing it
over a long period of time, aren't you?

2129
01:53:58,920 --> 01:54:02,095
Yeah, because over them trips, okay,
the yellow's won again,

2130
01:54:02,120 --> 01:54:04,140
the yellow's won again,
the pink's won this time,

2131
01:54:04,165 --> 01:54:07,015
and you gauge what ones are good or not.

2132
01:54:07,040 --> 01:54:08,920
And normally for me,
that's a pineapple pop-up.

2133
01:54:09,000 --> 01:54:12,200
And that's why we keep going
back to them on this trip.

2134
01:54:12,520 --> 01:54:16,095
Yeah, we put out what you feel is your
most successful hookbait

2135
01:54:16,120 --> 01:54:17,880
over a long period of time.

2136
01:54:17,960 --> 01:54:21,375
Mine, it's been Isotonic or
Pango in more recent years.

2137
01:54:21,400 --> 01:54:24,280
Without doubt, when I've got them two sat
out there, I think, well,

2138
01:54:24,305 --> 01:54:25,735
they're going to eat it.

2139
01:54:25,760 --> 01:54:27,360
It's as simple as that.

2140
01:54:27,480 --> 01:54:30,215
Yeah, you can play around with things,
but over a long period of time,

2141
01:54:30,240 --> 01:54:32,000
you'll tend to know what's best anyway.

2142
01:54:34,600 --> 01:54:39,200
I think he's smart, that one.

2143
01:54:41,080 --> 01:54:52,135
Or cautious, not smart.

2144
01:54:52,160 --> 01:54:53,160
Maybe it's a 28-pounder.

2145
01:54:55,240 --> 01:55:00,040
This is a chance here.

2146
01:55:00,320 --> 01:55:03,080
There's another one coming
in from the back as well.

2147
01:55:03,440 --> 01:55:04,580
There's the common.

2148
01:55:06,240 --> 01:55:08,640
Yeah, no, the common's about 22-23 pounds.

2149
01:55:09,080 --> 01:55:12,080
Another one in from the right.
There's loads in here.

2150
01:55:12,720 --> 01:55:14,735
There's 4 or 5 in and around the zone.

2151
01:55:14,760 --> 01:55:18,335
13, 14.

2152
01:55:18,360 --> 01:55:20,175
Bare fish.

2153
01:55:20,200 --> 01:55:22,840
Who wrote that yesterday?
Bare fish.

2154
01:55:26,800 --> 01:55:29,480
We like it!

2155
01:55:39,320 --> 01:55:46,800
Come on, come on, come on, come on,
go on tilt, tilt, tilt for it—

2156
01:55:47,160 --> 01:55:48,000
hang on...

2157
01:55:51,280 --> 01:55:52,720
That could be in his mouth.

2158
01:55:54,880 --> 01:55:55,935
I think I've got done there.

2159
01:55:55,960 --> 01:55:57,260
I think you've got done there.

2160
01:55:57,285 --> 01:55:58,400
Has it moved though?

2161
01:56:00,120 --> 01:56:02,295
Yeah, he's spooked.
Yeah.

2162
01:56:02,320 --> 01:56:04,575
I did say he was going to be difficult.
You did.

2163
01:56:04,600 --> 01:56:05,815
But did it go in?

2164
01:56:05,840 --> 01:56:07,960
See, look at that hook
sitting on the hook link now.

2165
01:56:10,160 --> 01:56:11,820
Brings me back down to 50/50.

2166
01:56:17,840 --> 01:56:20,575
Is that a really achievable—
is that a good line?

2167
01:56:20,600 --> 01:56:22,540
Is that a good line?
Is that scaley 20?

2168
01:56:22,760 --> 01:56:23,255
No.

2169
01:56:23,280 --> 01:56:25,240
Yeah, you could like
achieve the line there.

2170
01:56:25,680 --> 01:56:27,535
Is it?
Might be.

2171
01:56:27,560 --> 01:56:29,280
No, it's not.
Just want to get him.

2172
01:56:29,880 --> 01:56:31,135
Plain Janer.

2173
01:56:31,160 --> 01:56:32,215
Oh, now we've seen him before though.

2174
01:56:32,240 --> 01:56:34,700
We've seen him at the other end,
them little starburst pattern.

2175
01:56:35,280 --> 01:56:37,200
He's on it, he's on it, he's in it.

2176
01:56:37,360 --> 01:56:40,400
No, no, didn't go any—
he's got it that time.

2177
01:56:40,440 --> 01:56:42,840
Oh, that was done badly.
Royally done.

2178
01:56:47,120 --> 01:56:50,575
That was properly in his mouth.

2179
01:56:50,600 --> 01:56:52,040
Has it straightened it out now though?

2180
01:56:52,065 --> 01:56:53,760
I reckon it's now sitting better.

2181
01:56:55,400 --> 01:56:59,160
Please, Lord, I'm gonna
get another chance here.

2182
01:57:00,200 --> 01:57:01,935
Yep, I'm gonna get another chance.

2183
01:57:01,960 --> 01:57:03,240
Nice, the common.

2184
01:57:04,880 --> 01:57:07,160
He is super.
Your rig looks perfect now.

2185
01:57:08,400 --> 01:57:09,815
He's cautious, he is.

2186
01:57:09,840 --> 01:57:11,520
He's not an idiot, that one.

2187
01:57:13,720 --> 01:57:16,120
It was going so well.

2188
01:57:16,480 --> 01:57:19,540
I think what we can take from this is
your rig needs to be sitting out straight.

2189
01:57:20,040 --> 01:57:23,400
Yeah, it's really,
really, really important.

2190
01:57:24,640 --> 01:57:26,960
If it's not, it goes in and out of mouths.

2191
01:57:28,480 --> 01:57:30,135
It's mad how quickly it changes.

2192
01:57:30,160 --> 01:57:31,775
20 minutes ago it looked perfect.

2193
01:57:31,800 --> 01:57:33,720
Now it looks like you're
almost fishing a single.

2194
01:57:34,160 --> 01:57:35,360
Don't it?
Yeah, it does.

2195
01:57:35,680 --> 01:57:36,800
Yeah, they've eaten a lot.

2196
01:57:37,000 --> 01:57:41,695
Yeah, I reckon we're putting in about at
least 2/3, maybe a kilo every

2197
01:57:41,720 --> 01:57:43,215
single time we put bait out.

2198
01:57:43,240 --> 01:57:45,895
It's just a better feeding scenario here
now than it was at the

2199
01:57:45,920 --> 01:57:46,800
beginning of the trip.

2200
01:57:47,840 --> 01:57:49,815
Completely different, actually.

2201
01:57:49,840 --> 01:57:56,120
Yeah, I do actually think this is where
a slightly shorter hook link would work.

2202
01:57:58,080 --> 01:58:00,560
Yeah, when you get fish like
that not moving as much.

2203
01:58:01,840 --> 01:58:03,375
Yeah.
Yeah.

2204
01:58:03,400 --> 01:58:06,960
Everything else around the scenario will
tell you whether you should catch or not.

2205
01:58:08,800 --> 01:58:11,780
Fish are jumping on your spot,
they're fizzing, you're getting liners,

2206
01:58:11,960 --> 01:58:12,960
and then it all stops.

2207
01:58:13,280 --> 01:58:16,800
Then you can bet your bottom dollar
they've been in and cleaned you out.

2208
01:58:16,960 --> 01:58:20,415
And if them scenarios arise,
then you have to start thinking,

2209
01:58:20,440 --> 01:58:23,580
maybe I haven't got the right thing
on the end, or I'm not presented.

2210
01:58:24,760 --> 01:58:29,735
But because we fish rigs that are
presented a lot of the time, it's often

2211
01:58:29,760 --> 01:58:31,720
the hookbait that we'll change first.

2212
01:58:32,440 --> 01:58:38,055
So that's where, I guess,
experience in certain situations will tell

2213
01:58:38,080 --> 01:58:42,895
you whether you should change it or not,
but I think it's quite obvious when you

2214
01:58:42,920 --> 01:58:44,975
feel like you should be getting a bite.

2215
01:58:45,000 --> 01:58:47,200
The wind looks good,
the fish are jumping near you,

2216
01:58:47,225 --> 01:58:50,600
the weather's warm,
getting liners, all them sort of things.

2217
01:58:50,640 --> 01:58:52,215
If that's happening,
then you ain't getting picked up.

2218
01:58:52,240 --> 01:58:53,700
You got the wrong thing on the end.

2219
01:58:54,840 --> 01:58:55,960
My stomach feels a bit bad.

2220
01:58:56,320 --> 01:58:58,255
You gonna like explosive everywhere?

2221
01:58:58,280 --> 01:59:00,560
Maybe in my waders.

2222
01:59:01,040 --> 01:59:04,280
Can I ask a favour?
They're my waders.

2223
01:59:04,480 --> 01:59:06,600
Leave them on.
Do you need not in them?

2224
01:59:07,920 --> 01:59:08,935
Okay.

2225
01:59:08,960 --> 01:59:13,975
Fair, innit?

2226
01:59:14,000 --> 01:59:17,080
Lewis, my good man, could you
pass me that bag there, please?

2227
01:59:17,880 --> 01:59:19,640
That's the one.
That's the kidder.

2228
01:59:19,760 --> 01:59:20,840
That's the very fellow.

2229
01:59:21,480 --> 01:59:22,720
That is the very fellow.

2230
01:59:24,400 --> 01:59:25,760
That's the very fellow.

2231
01:59:26,240 --> 01:59:30,575
Always travel light and don't
take too many pots of pop-ups.

2232
01:59:30,600 --> 01:59:32,200
Don't take too many pots of pop-ups.

2233
01:59:32,225 --> 01:59:36,935
Only take what is absolutely necessary,
because what you'll find yourself in the

2234
01:59:36,960 --> 01:59:39,600
situation is you'll be trying to get your
rods out, you'll be like,

2235
01:59:39,720 --> 01:59:40,880
which one shall I go for?

2236
01:59:40,905 --> 01:59:42,615
And you're just not going to know.

2237
01:59:42,640 --> 01:59:46,480
Travel light, don't go with many,
have a couple of different colour options.

2238
01:59:46,920 --> 01:59:52,120
You don't need to have loads and loads
of different flavours of the same colour.

2239
01:59:53,280 --> 01:59:57,615
Normally what I find is that you can get,
you can get the ones that you

2240
01:59:57,640 --> 02:00:00,175
really need just in your rucksack.

2241
02:00:00,200 --> 02:00:04,935
You don't need to bring,
you don't need to bring

2242
02:00:04,960 --> 02:00:06,320
a whole separate bag.

2243
02:00:06,720 --> 02:00:07,800
Travel light.

2244
02:00:08,760 --> 02:00:10,440
Life is great.

2245
02:00:14,840 --> 02:00:18,015
Okay, come on.

2246
02:00:18,040 --> 02:00:19,900
Come on, have a look at that bait.

2247
02:00:21,360 --> 02:00:25,095
You've come back, you've realised it's the
same one, you've realised there's more

2248
02:00:25,120 --> 02:00:28,615
bait down there, and now you're going to
go and tell your boys, and then you're

2249
02:00:28,640 --> 02:00:30,135
going to come back with your boys.

2250
02:00:30,160 --> 02:00:33,080
I think that was a cute common, that one.
Is that what you thought it was?

2251
02:00:33,120 --> 02:00:36,380
No, no, no, it's that mirror that come
around before with a flat belly, big back.

2252
02:00:37,240 --> 02:00:40,480
That's what you've got to call him,
flat belly, big back.

2253
02:00:42,520 --> 02:00:47,135
After a good look through the billion pots
of hookbaits, I settled on a slightly

2254
02:00:47,160 --> 02:00:51,815
heavier washed-out pink wafter,
very underwater 7, just to see if I could

2255
02:00:51,840 --> 02:00:54,040
get a bite before we
got cleaned out again.

2256
02:00:54,240 --> 02:00:58,855
On retrieve, I hooked the bush and managed
to get it out of the swim, and instantly

2257
02:00:58,880 --> 02:01:00,640
carp were coming in from that angle.

2258
02:01:01,920 --> 02:01:04,760
That tree might have been doing
you dirty without us realising.

2259
02:01:05,000 --> 02:01:06,120
Really doing us dirty.

2260
02:01:09,360 --> 02:01:10,580
Oh, what's this one?

2261
02:01:11,440 --> 02:01:12,855
Nice one.

2262
02:01:12,880 --> 02:01:15,535
Go on, go on, go on,
straight down, straight down.

2263
02:01:15,560 --> 02:01:19,615
Did he take it?
No.

2264
02:01:19,640 --> 02:01:21,420
I don't know what happened there.

2265
02:01:21,640 --> 02:01:24,320
It looked like he was absolutely bang on.
We'll have to watch that.

2266
02:01:25,120 --> 02:01:27,135
Where has it gone?
Still here, look.

2267
02:01:27,160 --> 02:01:28,140
It's just moved.

2268
02:01:28,200 --> 02:01:29,895
It's moved.
It's like he scooped it.

2269
02:01:29,920 --> 02:01:31,480
I don't know if he actually
got that in his mouth.

2270
02:01:31,505 --> 02:01:33,455
I don't think he did.

2271
02:01:33,480 --> 02:01:34,640
Do it again.

2272
02:01:35,640 --> 02:01:37,935
Well, did you see exactly what happened?
You moron.

2273
02:01:37,960 --> 02:01:39,760
No, watching it again is not
going to show me anything, is it?

2274
02:01:39,785 --> 02:01:41,140
No, let's have another look.

2275
02:01:42,480 --> 02:01:44,560
You're unbearable sometimes.

2276
02:01:45,240 --> 02:01:48,720
Yeah, no, he didn't.
Do you think it did?

2277
02:01:48,800 --> 02:01:50,055
No, I didn't the first time.

2278
02:01:50,080 --> 02:01:52,560
That's why I said it,
because when I watched it the first time,

2279
02:01:52,585 --> 02:01:55,160
it was exactly the same as
when I watched it again.

2280
02:01:56,360 --> 02:02:01,135
Exactly.

2281
02:02:01,160 --> 02:02:04,400
Okay, mate, we've been up a long time.

2282
02:02:05,240 --> 02:02:07,560
We're both getting a little bit tetchy.

2283
02:02:08,800 --> 02:02:10,520
You're pushing my buttons.

2284
02:02:10,920 --> 02:02:13,640
I'm pushing your buttons.

2285
02:02:27,200 --> 02:02:29,735
They know it's there, I'm telling you.
You reckon?

2286
02:02:29,760 --> 02:02:31,255
I really do.
You reckon?

2287
02:02:31,280 --> 02:02:33,335
Yeah.
What's this one like?

2288
02:02:33,360 --> 02:02:36,015
Any good?

2289
02:02:36,040 --> 02:02:37,415
How close are you to that?

2290
02:02:37,440 --> 02:02:39,160
That's not a bad angle for the light one.

2291
02:02:39,560 --> 02:02:41,815
Come on, take it.
No, he's not gonna.

2292
02:02:41,840 --> 02:02:43,160
Is the other one gonna take it?

2293
02:02:43,480 --> 02:02:45,200
Are you going to take it?

2294
02:02:45,680 --> 02:02:47,815
Is anyone going to take it?
Can you just take it?

2295
02:02:47,840 --> 02:02:48,720
He's going to take it.

2296
02:02:49,680 --> 02:02:52,215
He done you.
He done me.

2297
02:02:52,240 --> 02:02:53,615
That's 2.

2298
02:02:53,640 --> 02:02:59,095
That's 1.
He took it though, didn't he?

2299
02:02:59,120 --> 02:03:02,240
He took it.
Told you, mate, that flavour is good.

2300
02:03:04,560 --> 02:03:06,160
This is getting not good now.

2301
02:03:06,920 --> 02:03:08,680
That's 3 at least, I think.

2302
02:03:08,920 --> 02:03:10,815
It is.
Going to watch that again.

2303
02:03:10,840 --> 02:03:12,575
2 on the bounce and then 3.

2304
02:03:12,600 --> 02:03:14,215
No, no, no, no, no.

2305
02:03:14,240 --> 02:03:15,680
Going to watch it?

2306
02:03:15,920 --> 02:03:18,455
Oh, yeah, I'd love to rewatch that, yeah.

2307
02:03:18,480 --> 02:03:20,335
You wanted to watch it last time.
Yeah.

2308
02:03:20,360 --> 02:03:22,360
No, because I just didn't know whether
it went in the mouth last time.

2309
02:03:22,385 --> 02:03:24,240
This time it definitely did.

2310
02:03:25,160 --> 02:03:27,040
I think there's too much
slack with this hook link now.

2311
02:03:27,065 --> 02:03:28,620
It's not sitting out right.

2312
02:03:29,520 --> 02:03:32,975
I had concerns that with the fish moving
slowly between baits,

2313
02:03:33,000 --> 02:03:34,640
this 7-inch Boom was too long.

2314
02:03:35,240 --> 02:03:40,215
A slow fish needs a more spiteful,
shorter rig, so I went back to the 5½

2315
02:03:40,240 --> 02:03:43,440
inches of 25lb Boom that
I fish with the pop-ups.

2316
02:03:44,680 --> 02:03:47,680
The pink wafter dumbbell was still on,
so we'd see whether or not the

2317
02:03:47,705 --> 02:03:49,620
shorter rig would make a difference.

2318
02:03:51,920 --> 02:03:54,095
That's Butler, isn't it?

2319
02:03:54,120 --> 02:03:55,960
Looks like little Butlers' head.

2320
02:03:56,280 --> 02:03:59,720
It's a long way out, but I feel
like we can ID him from there now.

2321
02:04:00,440 --> 02:04:02,520
We're close with him, aren't we?

2322
02:04:03,000 --> 02:04:07,735
Well, we thought that until he was
cheating on our spot, remember?

2323
02:04:07,760 --> 02:04:11,880
And it's not until you have another spot
that you realise who people really are.

2324
02:04:12,320 --> 02:04:13,740
I'll bet he's eat on the others.

2325
02:04:13,960 --> 02:04:15,000
I wouldn't put it past him.

2326
02:04:15,025 --> 02:04:17,735
No, no, no, you know what
he's like, little slag.

2327
02:04:17,760 --> 02:04:22,655
It turns out this spot is pretty much a
morning/afternoon spot with the

2328
02:04:22,680 --> 02:04:24,960
traffic really slowing down.

2329
02:04:25,000 --> 02:04:29,055
I decided to make up a little bait mix
composed of Essential Cell crumb and whole

2330
02:04:29,080 --> 02:04:34,735
boilie, Cell, sweetcorn,
and some Cream Smart Liquid in prep for my

2331
02:04:34,760 --> 02:04:37,160
turn in front of the cameras the next day.

2332
02:04:37,680 --> 02:04:41,840
But seeing how great of a friend I am,
I put out a few handfuls for Dovey,

2333
02:04:42,160 --> 02:04:44,440
and a carp was in as it was dropping.

2334
02:04:44,880 --> 02:04:48,015
There's a fish in already!

2335
02:04:48,040 --> 02:04:50,680
But it ended up being just a lone flyby.

2336
02:04:51,600 --> 02:04:56,815
That lone flyby took a bit of a turn.
Back it up.

2337
02:04:56,840 --> 02:04:59,095
There's another one behind.
Is that his fin?

2338
02:04:59,120 --> 02:05:00,535
No, there's another one.
There's another one.

2339
02:05:00,560 --> 02:05:02,900
They've just rocked back up,
and they like Christmas.

2340
02:05:03,640 --> 02:05:06,080
That's got in their gills, hasn't it?

2341
02:05:09,560 --> 02:05:13,655
Right, now we get to see if this slightly
shorter and stiffer hook

2342
02:05:13,680 --> 02:05:15,880
link is doing the do.
Is that butler?

2343
02:05:16,960 --> 02:05:18,280
Yep.
I ate you.

2344
02:05:18,800 --> 02:05:20,695
Butler.
No, don't be horrible to Butler.

2345
02:05:20,720 --> 02:05:22,120
No, you don't know what
that saying means, do you?

2346
02:05:22,145 --> 02:05:26,960
That common ain't that big,
because Butler weren't much smaller.

2347
02:05:28,600 --> 02:05:31,140
There used to be a comedy back
in the day called On the Buses.

2348
02:05:32,200 --> 02:05:33,055
Neil, I don't care.

2349
02:05:33,080 --> 02:05:35,520
That's why I'm saying I ate you, Butler,
because it was a saying off the bus.

2350
02:05:35,545 --> 02:05:36,455
Oh, right, okay.

2351
02:05:36,480 --> 02:05:38,640
For God's sake, just trying to
have a little chat with you.

2352
02:05:38,665 --> 02:05:41,455
Yeah, I'm just— all I want
to do is— do it, watch it.

2353
02:05:41,480 --> 02:05:42,455
Big girl, big girl.

2354
02:05:42,480 --> 02:05:46,600
All I want to do is just
see these fish eat my bait.

2355
02:05:47,240 --> 02:05:48,080
Is that one?

2356
02:05:48,640 --> 02:05:50,600
Oh, he's facing the other way.

2357
02:05:51,360 --> 02:05:52,960
Oh, you can see the hook bait now.

2358
02:05:54,240 --> 02:05:55,935
Oh, yeah.
See him?

2359
02:05:55,960 --> 02:05:58,920
That's got a nice level of waft to that.
You like that, don't you?

2360
02:05:58,945 --> 02:06:00,200
I do like that.

2361
02:06:00,720 --> 02:06:02,215
What's happened here?

2362
02:06:02,240 --> 02:06:04,415
That's got to have been the zhoosh.

2363
02:06:04,440 --> 02:06:05,440
It's got to have been.

2364
02:06:05,600 --> 02:06:06,775
There's no way that that's a combination.

2365
02:06:06,800 --> 02:06:07,855
What time did I put that in?

2366
02:06:07,880 --> 02:06:09,380
Because you didn't film, did you?

2367
02:06:09,405 --> 02:06:11,520
I did film briefly.

2368
02:06:11,560 --> 02:06:20,455
So probably, so 18:31,
3 fish come in to feed.

2369
02:06:20,480 --> 02:06:22,200
Oh, is it the—is it the—

2370
02:06:22,240 --> 02:06:28,880
probs 15 mins after introducing.

2371
02:06:31,880 --> 02:06:33,015
Oh, is that on a good line?

2372
02:06:33,040 --> 02:06:35,440
There's 2 of them here, is there?
Keep an eye out, Neil.

2373
02:06:35,465 --> 02:06:35,960
It's 3.

2374
02:06:36,080 --> 02:06:38,000
Yeah, I know, but right
near the hook bait.

2375
02:06:38,025 --> 02:06:39,280
I can't see anything here.

2376
02:06:40,320 --> 02:06:42,775
Come on, Tom.

2377
02:06:42,800 --> 02:06:44,935
He's coming in.
Drop down.

2378
02:06:44,960 --> 02:06:45,935
There's another big—

2379
02:06:45,960 --> 02:06:47,495
that's a big perch.

2380
02:06:47,520 --> 02:06:49,600
I thought it was a decent fish.

2381
02:06:51,800 --> 02:06:52,775
Nice common in.

2382
02:06:52,800 --> 02:06:54,640
What is going on here?

2383
02:06:55,240 --> 02:06:56,880
What is in the juice?

2384
02:06:57,280 --> 02:06:58,815
Another one.

2385
02:06:58,840 --> 02:07:00,455
Another one.

2386
02:07:00,480 --> 02:07:01,600
You're joking.

2387
02:07:03,120 --> 02:07:05,695
That's the same common.
Yeah.

2388
02:07:05,720 --> 02:07:06,960
Oh, he's turned.

2389
02:07:08,040 --> 02:07:09,680
Where is the bait?
Where is the bait?

2390
02:07:09,705 --> 02:07:11,100
The other side of his head.

2391
02:07:11,600 --> 02:07:13,200
That's not the cute common, is it?

2392
02:07:15,200 --> 02:07:17,055
It's been so long since I've seen him.

2393
02:07:17,080 --> 02:07:18,480
It could be, you know, actually.

2394
02:07:19,320 --> 02:07:22,095
He's feeding a little
bit less cute, though.

2395
02:07:22,120 --> 02:07:24,880
That Juju's got him all riled up.
It really has.

2396
02:07:30,280 --> 02:07:34,360
They've just been sitting
out the way, a bit bored.

2397
02:07:35,760 --> 02:07:39,480
Now, come on, couldn't be
further from the truth.

2398
02:07:42,680 --> 02:07:44,255
You love to talk some rubbish, right?

2399
02:07:44,280 --> 02:07:46,200
That's— there's Butler's
on the line, isn't he?

2400
02:07:47,760 --> 02:07:50,200
Is that you there?
Yeah.

2401
02:07:52,680 --> 02:07:54,560
Oh, that's just spooked off something.

2402
02:07:55,560 --> 02:07:57,100
Might be a big one coming in.

2403
02:07:58,400 --> 02:08:00,455
Dun dun.

2404
02:08:00,480 --> 02:08:03,975
Unfortunately, the washed-out pink
continued to underperform for us.

2405
02:08:04,000 --> 02:08:05,320
A lot of fish were about.

2406
02:08:05,440 --> 02:08:06,480
It's like a jacuzzi.

2407
02:08:07,000 --> 02:08:08,280
Look at these fish.

2408
02:08:11,920 --> 02:08:16,495
Mate, I really say this hookbait isn't— My
yellow one would have

2409
02:08:16,520 --> 02:08:17,820
been picked up by now.

2410
02:08:18,200 --> 02:08:27,295
Do not think, mate.

2411
02:08:27,320 --> 02:08:28,480
Have you ever seen so many?

2412
02:08:28,505 --> 02:08:30,440
Look how many fish are in the swim.

2413
02:08:31,520 --> 02:08:32,240
It's carnage.

2414
02:08:44,200 --> 02:08:45,680
I should reel in, really.

2415
02:08:47,040 --> 02:08:50,535
Oh my God.

2416
02:08:50,560 --> 02:08:52,735
Wow.

2417
02:08:52,760 --> 02:08:54,300
I can't quite believe that.

2418
02:08:55,240 --> 02:08:58,280
They have just ruined the film.

2419
02:09:00,600 --> 02:09:02,020
Do you think I should reel in?

2420
02:09:03,320 --> 02:09:05,720
There's a lot of fish in here now, mate.

2421
02:09:05,800 --> 02:09:07,280
I can see it now.

2422
02:09:07,800 --> 02:09:08,440
It's there.

2423
02:09:13,200 --> 02:09:15,015
He might, he might.

2424
02:09:15,040 --> 02:09:16,800
Scaly 20 is in the zone.

2425
02:09:18,560 --> 02:09:22,680
Oh my goodness, another one's about to
come into the zone and he's upending.

2426
02:09:23,360 --> 02:09:25,640
Come on, I can't see a thing.

2427
02:09:26,080 --> 02:09:28,760
The thing is, I'm not reeling
in now because we can't see it.

2428
02:09:29,280 --> 02:09:31,295
No, it's there, I think.

2429
02:09:31,320 --> 02:09:32,820
No, it was higher than that.

2430
02:09:36,760 --> 02:09:38,320
One's coming down on it now, is it?

2431
02:09:39,680 --> 02:09:43,615
I think not.

2432
02:09:43,640 --> 02:09:46,960
I didn't think it was
going to stir up like this.

2433
02:09:54,280 --> 02:09:58,960
Blimey, this has got
very murky very quickly.

2434
02:10:00,320 --> 02:10:03,120
A lot of carp in it.

2435
02:10:04,920 --> 02:10:05,455
Wow.

2436
02:10:05,480 --> 02:10:08,760
It's crazy that that hook bait
hasn't gone in their mouth yet.

2437
02:10:09,080 --> 02:10:11,040
I know there's quite a
bit of bait out there now.

2438
02:10:11,800 --> 02:10:13,815
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that is it, though.

2439
02:10:13,840 --> 02:10:16,280
I think that is— that still
looks like a dumbbell to me.

2440
02:10:16,760 --> 02:10:17,855
Is it you?

2441
02:10:17,880 --> 02:10:21,535
It does, but is it—

2442
02:10:21,560 --> 02:10:25,600
in which case, it might
have moved slightly.

2443
02:10:26,320 --> 02:10:30,895
But I think that's just
from— he's reversing it.

2444
02:10:30,920 --> 02:10:33,255
I think that's just from
how hard they were feeding.

2445
02:10:33,280 --> 02:10:34,980
I don't think it got picked up.

2446
02:10:43,720 --> 02:10:46,855
Good line, good line.
Looks very good.

2447
02:10:46,880 --> 02:10:48,640
Good line.
It's gone in.

2448
02:10:51,120 --> 02:10:51,840
Did it go in?

2449
02:10:53,200 --> 02:10:54,455
Looked like it.

2450
02:10:54,480 --> 02:10:55,840
We'll have to watch that one back.

2451
02:10:56,840 --> 02:11:00,320
When it's like this, I really should
be getting far more opportunities.

2452
02:11:01,000 --> 02:11:04,400
One thing we can take from this, though,
a little Spomb or two when things have

2453
02:11:04,425 --> 02:11:07,320
died down is more than
enough to spark up feeding.

2454
02:11:07,440 --> 02:11:09,760
Just do a better job than
us with hookbait choice.

2455
02:11:10,640 --> 02:11:14,375
In hindsight, the Match the Hatch Snowman
with the little yellow topper would have

2456
02:11:14,400 --> 02:11:17,080
been better, seeing how they
were chomping through the bait.

2457
02:11:17,480 --> 02:11:20,535
When the carp were finally going for it.
Yeah, go on.

2458
02:11:20,560 --> 02:11:23,240
I just get done anyway.
I think I just got done.

2459
02:11:24,240 --> 02:11:26,215
He went for that.
He definitely went for it.

2460
02:11:26,240 --> 02:11:31,575
Oh, for science, I ended up switching back
to a yellow pineapple goo pop-up just to

2461
02:11:31,600 --> 02:11:34,575
see if something very blatant would at
least get some reaction in

2462
02:11:34,600 --> 02:11:37,040
the final half hour or so.
Here we go.

2463
02:11:39,200 --> 02:11:42,160
Oh, he didn't like the
pop-up being on the spot.

2464
02:11:42,280 --> 02:11:45,615
I don't think it was the pop up,
but something had made the carp far

2465
02:11:45,640 --> 02:11:47,440
less confident as the day progressed.

2466
02:11:49,920 --> 02:11:53,560
It's not funny, mate,
this is the worst chair ever.

2467
02:11:53,640 --> 02:11:54,720
It is funny though.

2468
02:11:55,640 --> 02:11:59,535
We'd had a couple and got done a fair few
times, so it might have been

2469
02:11:59,560 --> 02:12:01,360
the constant pressure all day.

2470
02:12:02,840 --> 02:12:06,200
I'll tell you what, you can
say what you want about Butler.

2471
02:12:06,640 --> 02:12:08,240
Little slag.
Little slag.

2472
02:12:08,680 --> 02:12:10,495
Cheek!
I can't believe him.

2473
02:12:10,520 --> 02:12:12,775
The little cheek.
The little—

2474
02:12:12,800 --> 02:12:14,575
I hate you, Butler.

2475
02:12:14,600 --> 02:12:17,055
But he's very crafty.
Yeah, he is.

2476
02:12:17,080 --> 02:12:18,040
He's eaten more.

2477
02:12:18,920 --> 02:12:22,240
He's got to have eaten more bait
than any other carp on both spots.

2478
02:12:22,280 --> 02:12:23,975
Yeah, I'd say so.
Hasn't he?

2479
02:12:24,000 --> 02:12:25,560
And he's got away with it constantly.

2480
02:12:26,040 --> 02:12:28,560
With a few more close
calls to round the day off.

2481
02:12:28,800 --> 02:12:30,575
What a lovely carp he is.

2482
02:12:30,600 --> 02:12:31,600
Got beautiful little nose.

2483
02:12:31,625 --> 02:12:33,440
What are we going to call him?

2484
02:12:34,200 --> 02:12:35,960
Beautiful linear.

2485
02:12:36,360 --> 02:12:37,815
He's got to be on the hookbait.

2486
02:12:37,840 --> 02:12:39,935
I think he's just left of it.
Oh, he is.

2487
02:12:39,960 --> 02:12:40,900
Look, it's there.

2488
02:12:41,880 --> 02:12:45,040
It looked as if the pop-up
experiment didn't pan out.

2489
02:12:45,280 --> 02:12:51,135
I would say the take-home from that day is
that if you pre-bait and get them feeding,

2490
02:12:51,160 --> 02:12:53,020
you'll catch them on almost anything.

2491
02:12:53,080 --> 02:12:56,975
And I'm not saying that my rigs and the
bait are almost anything, but I'd

2492
02:12:57,000 --> 02:13:00,760
say that it doesn't matter so much.

2493
02:13:01,000 --> 02:13:04,295
What you've got out when
they're feeding really hard.

2494
02:13:04,320 --> 02:13:06,255
You've done the hard work, haven't you?
The hard work's done.

2495
02:13:06,280 --> 02:13:08,280
You've got them eating on the spot,
they're eating the bait that we're putting

2496
02:13:08,305 --> 02:13:12,400
out, they're cleaning it out regularly,
so your hookbaits then being in situ,

2497
02:13:13,120 --> 02:13:16,095
it's just like another thing
they think they can safely eat.

2498
02:13:16,120 --> 02:13:17,775
They almost don't question it.

2499
02:13:17,800 --> 02:13:21,080
Yeah, and it's going in their mouth and
staying in there longer because they're

2500
02:13:21,105 --> 02:13:23,720
not sort of skittish and
worried about the whole thing.

2501
02:13:24,040 --> 02:13:25,815
It just makes a huge difference.

2502
02:13:25,840 --> 02:13:30,015
It's very difficult important now to
pre-bait lakes because a lot of lakes

2503
02:13:30,040 --> 02:13:31,800
have rules to say that you can't do it.

2504
02:13:32,000 --> 02:13:36,415
Lakes that you are allowed to,
you don't want to put lots of bait out

2505
02:13:36,440 --> 02:13:39,360
next to somebody and ruin their fishing,
so you have to pick and choose

2506
02:13:39,385 --> 02:13:40,760
your times that you can do it.

2507
02:13:40,785 --> 02:13:44,200
But if you can,
it essentially makes fishing easy.

2508
02:13:44,480 --> 02:13:46,895
That's the reality of
the situation, isn't it?

2509
02:13:46,920 --> 02:13:47,175
100%.

2510
02:13:47,200 --> 02:13:50,895
So we still learn that the hookbaits are
good and we still learn

2511
02:13:50,920 --> 02:13:52,200
that the rig was very good.

2512
02:13:52,600 --> 02:13:56,960
But the main reason that them bites
occurred was because we pre-baited.

2513
02:13:57,480 --> 02:14:02,055
One thing I would add as well is that we
had essentially pre-baited on the other

2514
02:14:02,080 --> 02:14:06,575
spot, but the only difference
was the chunky gravel.

2515
02:14:06,600 --> 02:14:08,100
That is the only difference.

2516
02:14:08,200 --> 02:14:12,015
Kev had found the spot probably
4 days before we fished it.

2517
02:14:12,040 --> 02:14:13,520
3 days, certainly.

2518
02:14:14,080 --> 02:14:15,240
Yeah, found it on the drone.

2519
02:14:15,360 --> 02:14:17,095
We started putting bait out,
then we put the camera in.

2520
02:14:17,120 --> 02:14:19,335
I reckon it was 3 or 4 4 days
of them feeding on that spot.

2521
02:14:19,360 --> 02:14:21,015
So essentially that was pre-baiting.

2522
02:14:21,040 --> 02:14:22,600
So the situation was the same.

2523
02:14:22,720 --> 02:14:26,575
We'd moved on to a spot, the fish
were on it, but you couldn't present.

2524
02:14:26,600 --> 02:14:28,135
So that's the difference between

2525
02:14:28,160 --> 02:14:36,720
chunky gravel and sand, very clearly.

2526
02:14:37,120 --> 02:14:42,295
The dwindling traffic the previous evening
must have continued overnight,

2527
02:14:42,320 --> 02:14:46,775
as the bait we'd put out before signing
off for the day unfortunately hadn't

2528
02:14:46,800 --> 02:14:48,720
been eaten as much as we hoped.

2529
02:14:49,120 --> 02:14:54,015
I had planned to put out an Almond Goo
high-attract pink-tipped Essential Cell,

2530
02:14:54,040 --> 02:14:59,280
and something standing out that much over
this much bait solidified the choice.

2531
02:15:02,160 --> 02:15:05,255
Mm.
Why does it only happen to you, though?

2532
02:15:05,280 --> 02:15:07,780
That didn't happen to me
once on that chair yesterday.

2533
02:15:07,920 --> 02:15:11,215
A Match the Hatch or even a yellow one,
we felt, would have taken

2534
02:15:11,240 --> 02:15:14,455
too long to be noticed.
This is—

2535
02:15:14,480 --> 02:15:16,535
yeah, it is, mate.

2536
02:15:16,560 --> 02:15:18,400
Yeah, this is weird though,
do you not think?

2537
02:15:18,425 --> 02:15:20,255
Yeah, very.
Don't really make any sense.

2538
02:15:20,280 --> 02:15:23,560
I know it's the first day back on bait
yesterday, but that ain't gonna— no,

2539
02:15:23,585 --> 02:15:24,735
they must do it in a day.

2540
02:15:24,760 --> 02:15:28,640
No, like I say, another chilly night,
sort of two back to back.

2541
02:15:28,800 --> 02:15:32,855
It was a very slow morning,
and seeing as the little juge worked

2542
02:15:32,880 --> 02:15:36,440
wonders the previous day,
I decided to go out and put a bit

2543
02:15:36,480 --> 02:15:38,320
bit of fresh scent into the swim.

2544
02:15:39,160 --> 02:15:50,695
J-E-U-G-E.

2545
02:15:50,720 --> 02:15:55,480
When would you put it out?

2546
02:15:56,040 --> 02:15:57,935
Um, it feels like it if you're going to
put it in, maybe at the

2547
02:15:57,960 --> 02:15:59,455
beginning of the trip.
Yeah, exactly.

2548
02:15:59,480 --> 02:16:02,455
If you're, if you'll turn up for 2 or 3
nights somewhere, going to somewhere like,

2549
02:16:02,480 --> 02:16:04,680
let's say, Norton Disney,
we know there's a lot of carp.

2550
02:16:05,000 --> 02:16:09,975
That cloud that's going to fall through
the water with lots and lots of little

2551
02:16:10,000 --> 02:16:12,740
bits in, it's going to bring the fish in,
it's going to get them rooting around.

2552
02:16:12,765 --> 02:16:16,495
But I really believe that as soon as you
get your first bite or two,

2553
02:16:16,520 --> 02:16:19,055
that's the time to draw it back.
Yeah, possibly.

2554
02:16:19,080 --> 02:16:19,895
Bigger bits going in.

2555
02:16:19,920 --> 02:16:22,840
If you've got fish competing,
once they're competing on a spot and

2556
02:16:22,865 --> 02:16:25,975
there's a regular supply of food coming
in, I think they're

2557
02:16:26,000 --> 02:16:27,015
going to carry on eating.

2558
02:16:27,040 --> 02:16:29,420
And if you think it's gone quiet,
maybe put a little bit out.

2559
02:16:29,445 --> 02:16:33,455
The key is not to have it as a large
percentage of your

2560
02:16:33,480 --> 02:16:34,680
overall bait in the swim.

2561
02:16:35,040 --> 02:16:40,415
Put a really small amount and not too
often, because if you build that up on the

2562
02:16:40,440 --> 02:16:44,015
spot, then you're in a difficult
position to catch them.

2563
02:16:44,040 --> 02:16:46,560
But, yeah, if you think it's quiet and you
need a little juju out

2564
02:16:46,585 --> 02:16:47,800
there, put a juju out.

2565
02:16:50,840 --> 02:16:54,920
So many of them.

2566
02:16:55,320 --> 02:16:59,295
It was probably a mix of it being
extremely cold during the night

2567
02:16:59,320 --> 02:17:01,160
and for most of the morning.

2568
02:17:01,400 --> 02:17:02,960
I think even my is cold.

2569
02:17:03,040 --> 02:17:05,320
And that the fish had just moved off.

2570
02:17:05,600 --> 02:17:10,175
We had left them to eat unmolested for a
few days, and through fishing for them,

2571
02:17:10,200 --> 02:17:12,160
it perhaps just put them off a bit.

2572
02:17:12,400 --> 02:17:16,255
It wasn't until nearly 11
that we even saw anything.

2573
02:17:16,280 --> 02:17:20,320
To be honest, I'm bored
out of my skin anyway.

2574
02:17:23,360 --> 02:17:25,175
What?
That is fair, Tom.

2575
02:17:25,200 --> 02:17:27,095
By the time I get back,
the old kettle will be boiled.

2576
02:17:27,120 --> 02:17:27,935
I'll be warm.
It won't be.

2577
02:17:27,960 --> 02:17:29,080
There's a lot of water in there.

2578
02:17:29,105 --> 02:17:30,360
It's like boiling a lake.

2579
02:17:31,800 --> 02:17:33,040
hell.

2580
02:17:34,080 --> 02:17:40,280
Maybe this is the start of a good year
for me, and hopefully yours gets worse.

2581
02:17:42,920 --> 02:17:45,240
Imagine if he comes down
and now is your pink one.

2582
02:17:52,160 --> 02:17:53,855
He nearly did.

2583
02:17:53,880 --> 02:17:56,160
He nearly came in on that.

2584
02:17:57,080 --> 02:18:01,175
Oh, but it's a feeder in
the middle of the spot, Tom.

2585
02:18:01,200 --> 02:18:04,920
That's the sort of behaviour
you'd expect from a good hookbait.

2586
02:18:05,040 --> 02:18:08,080
It wasn't picked up immediately,
so not a great hookbait,

2587
02:18:08,440 --> 02:18:12,895
but it clearly pulled the fish down to
feed right on it in the the centre of the

2588
02:18:12,920 --> 02:18:16,280
spot rather than nicking a
few freebies on the edge.

2589
02:18:16,600 --> 02:18:21,095
Though, that was the last fish we'd seen
for over an hour before we decided

2590
02:18:21,120 --> 02:18:24,120
it was time for another little juge.

2591
02:18:25,480 --> 02:18:27,720
Little one.

2592
02:18:27,760 --> 02:18:29,620
It's the same one that was in before.

2593
02:18:30,960 --> 02:18:32,895
He's on a good line.
I just think there's too much bait.

2594
02:18:32,920 --> 02:18:35,740
The line he's taking is just a
lot of bait there at the minute.

2595
02:18:39,000 --> 02:18:41,120
Oh, see the juju going up.

2596
02:18:41,800 --> 02:18:44,120
Yeah, Smart Liquid's doing its job there.

2597
02:18:44,440 --> 02:18:48,015
Do you reckon we should ask Mainline to
change the name of Smart Liquid to juju?

2598
02:18:48,040 --> 02:18:50,455
I think Kev will be all right with that.
Mainline Juju.

2599
02:18:50,480 --> 02:18:51,840
Yeah, I think he'd be fine with that.

2600
02:18:51,865 --> 02:18:54,895
The little juju definitely
sparked a bit of activity.

2601
02:18:54,920 --> 02:18:56,420
Come on, Neil, this is a good chance here.

2602
02:18:56,445 --> 02:19:02,615
Thank you, Tom.
Neil?

2603
02:19:02,640 --> 02:19:04,815
Yeah, yeah.
Thank you.

2604
02:19:04,840 --> 02:19:07,840
For the next hour, multiple fish came in.

2605
02:19:08,680 --> 02:19:11,935
Come on, come on, come on, come on,
come on, come on, come on, come on.

2606
02:19:11,960 --> 02:19:12,960
Doesn't want it.

2607
02:19:13,200 --> 02:19:14,280
He's too cute for that.

2608
02:19:14,640 --> 02:19:17,695
But our initial excitement about the
hookbait fizzled out the more

2609
02:19:17,720 --> 02:19:19,120
time it was left untouched.

2610
02:19:20,640 --> 02:19:23,575
Like we surmised earlier,
or assumed earlier, though,

2611
02:19:23,600 --> 02:19:26,720
we didn't think they were just
going to come in on a bright one.

2612
02:19:27,200 --> 02:19:29,220
No, they haven't done that.
They've had every opportunity.

2613
02:19:29,245 --> 02:19:31,615
Opportunity to just eat that,
they ain't doing it.

2614
02:19:31,640 --> 02:19:33,720
They want what's hard on the deck.

2615
02:19:34,720 --> 02:19:40,120
Small waters, which this is one,
are known for being tricky.

2616
02:19:40,360 --> 02:19:44,855
They become riggy, or I don't know,
I'm not convinced it's like that,

2617
02:19:44,880 --> 02:19:47,615
the actual thing, but they're under a lot
of pressure all the time, aren't they?

2618
02:19:47,640 --> 02:19:48,920
Yeah, they're under a lot
of pressure all the time.

2619
02:19:48,945 --> 02:19:54,960
If you looked at just how many rigs a fish
saw in a 3-acre lake compared to

2620
02:19:55,080 --> 02:19:57,935
a single fish in a 100-acre lake.

2621
02:19:57,960 --> 02:20:01,240
They're on a much quicker learning path.

2622
02:20:01,360 --> 02:20:05,775
They're like essentially seeing 100 rigs a
year, or 1,000 maybe, whereas one

2623
02:20:05,800 --> 02:20:07,935
in a 100-acre lake will only see 10.

2624
02:20:07,960 --> 02:20:14,455
So if they do learn or they do become wary
of things, which I think they probably do

2625
02:20:14,480 --> 02:20:18,975
just through nature,
they become wary very quickly,

2626
02:20:19,000 --> 02:20:22,255
and that's why they They're very,
very tricky, these little lakes,

2627
02:20:22,280 --> 02:20:25,560
and you can see that they're ignoring
pop-ups,

2628
02:20:26,760 --> 02:20:31,335
and maybe they're seeing the line and the
lead core much more than a fish

2629
02:20:31,360 --> 02:20:33,335
would in a big lake, I think.

2630
02:20:33,360 --> 02:20:37,655
I think you're right,
but what I think is important to remember

2631
02:20:37,680 --> 02:20:40,520
is that we're trying to catch
them right in the edge as well.

2632
02:20:40,880 --> 02:20:43,575
You've got an alien camera that
they're not used to being in.

2633
02:20:43,600 --> 02:20:45,040
They're trying to get used to that.

2634
02:20:45,200 --> 02:20:48,935
I would lay money if we if we'd have put
the hookbaits that we started with out

2635
02:20:48,960 --> 02:20:52,120
into the lake where we could see them
feeding round the weed beds in the clay.

2636
02:20:52,200 --> 02:20:56,120
If those rigs were in amongst that,
I bet we'd have caught fish every night.

2637
02:20:56,560 --> 02:21:00,255
We would have, but that doesn't stop the
fact that they are trickier in

2638
02:21:00,280 --> 02:21:03,255
small waters, I don't think.
No, I agree with that.

2639
02:21:03,280 --> 02:21:05,580
We definitely would have
caught more in the clay.

2640
02:21:05,800 --> 02:21:09,735
That's the other thing, is that it's
always in a tricky situation, isn't it?

2641
02:21:09,760 --> 02:21:13,800
That 4 foot of gin-clear water is probably
the hardest situation to catch a carp in,

2642
02:21:14,000 --> 02:21:15,855
so everything's exaggerated.

2643
02:21:15,880 --> 02:21:20,015
Everything they know is exaggerated,
whereas if you're in 10 foot of water and

2644
02:21:20,040 --> 02:21:22,615
there's clay everywhere,
as soon as they touch down, it clouds up

2645
02:21:22,640 --> 02:21:24,135
and sort of obscures things a bit more.

2646
02:21:24,160 --> 02:21:25,780
Yeah, you're getting them on anything.

2647
02:21:25,880 --> 02:21:29,295
Yeah, basically.
Cutie.

2648
02:21:29,320 --> 02:21:30,520
It's cutie patootie.

2649
02:21:31,080 --> 02:21:32,980
Oh, it's nearly gone in by accident.

2650
02:21:33,360 --> 02:21:35,080
Mate, he was so close.

2651
02:21:36,560 --> 02:21:38,080
Oh my God.

2652
02:21:40,760 --> 02:21:43,560
He went for the whole thing
and it nearly went in.

2653
02:21:44,320 --> 02:21:47,040
The other thing is we've got
quite stepped-up tackle on.

2654
02:21:47,240 --> 02:21:49,735
We're fishing for big ones,
really, aren't we?

2655
02:21:49,760 --> 02:21:50,960
Yeah, true.
Do you know what I mean?

2656
02:21:50,985 --> 02:21:52,455
And these are not very big fish.

2657
02:21:52,480 --> 02:21:56,280
These are, I think, the smaller
batch of fish that are in here.

2658
02:21:56,600 --> 02:22:01,360
Carp were hitting patches of bait without
so much as an attempt on the hook bait.

2659
02:22:01,760 --> 02:22:05,960
We like to say that if the fish are eating
more than 50% of the bait before the hook

2660
02:22:06,120 --> 02:22:09,295
bait, then it's a below-average choice.

2661
02:22:09,320 --> 02:22:11,840
In normal fishing,
this would look like fizzing over the

2662
02:22:11,865 --> 02:22:16,615
spot, slicking up,
or getting liners without a bite.

2663
02:22:16,640 --> 02:22:21,655
I decided to go back to the old faithful
Pango Goo-topped Cell bottom bait,

2664
02:22:21,680 --> 02:22:26,920
which was practically a match-the-hatch
compared with the Essential Cell Freebies.

2665
02:22:27,360 --> 02:22:29,600
Mate, that nearly went in his mouth.
Did he try for it?

2666
02:22:29,625 --> 02:22:30,960
Yes, he did, and it—

2667
02:22:33,680 --> 02:22:36,040
Is that old crafty as well?

2668
02:22:37,320 --> 02:22:38,400
Oh, you saw it move then.

2669
02:22:38,425 --> 02:22:42,135
It was crafty, but I'm telling you,
that's already infinitely

2670
02:22:42,160 --> 02:22:43,095
better than the other one.

2671
02:22:43,120 --> 02:22:44,680
First fish that's fed next to it,
it's gone in the mouth.

2672
02:22:44,705 --> 02:22:45,960
That is not a coincidence.

2673
02:22:46,560 --> 02:22:49,120
No.
It was a promising start for the hookbait.

2674
02:22:49,560 --> 02:22:54,895
Just the lack of fish traffic only gave us
a handful of chances to properly test it.

2675
02:22:54,920 --> 02:22:56,575
He wants it.
He wants it.

2676
02:22:56,600 --> 02:22:57,000
Come on.

2677
02:22:58,840 --> 02:23:00,695
Come on.

2678
02:23:00,720 --> 02:23:02,120
He might take that one.

2679
02:23:06,520 --> 02:23:07,935
Here he comes.

2680
02:23:07,960 --> 02:23:09,375
Come on, come on, come on.

2681
02:23:09,400 --> 02:23:11,295
Okay, come on, come on.
Good line.

2682
02:23:11,320 --> 02:23:12,975
Come on.
Very good line.

2683
02:23:13,000 --> 02:23:14,015
Come on.

2684
02:23:14,040 --> 02:23:15,735
No.

2685
02:23:15,760 --> 02:23:18,415
You deserve one today, Neil.

2686
02:23:18,440 --> 02:23:20,360
You've been very patient.
It's been tough, Tom.

2687
02:23:20,385 --> 02:23:23,020
You put a little zhu zhu zhu
zhu out when you needed to.

2688
02:23:24,680 --> 02:23:27,575
There's been no feeding on any other
spots, but they've fed

2689
02:23:27,600 --> 02:23:28,680
on here a little bit.

2690
02:23:28,800 --> 02:23:31,015
Yeah, I think you've got
the right hook bait out.

2691
02:23:31,040 --> 02:23:32,560
Come on, come on.

2692
02:23:32,640 --> 02:23:35,800
And I think, I think you still might
get a chance before it's too late.

2693
02:23:35,825 --> 02:23:36,940
Could be a chance.

2694
02:23:38,480 --> 02:23:41,840
Not quite sure what
that fish is, but 18:42.

2695
02:23:48,080 --> 02:23:49,855
That's where he wants it.

2696
02:23:49,880 --> 02:23:52,200
He knows it.
Is that a mirror?

2697
02:23:52,280 --> 02:23:53,335
I think so, yeah.

2698
02:23:53,360 --> 02:23:55,440
He really is similar to Cutie.
Yeah.

2699
02:23:55,840 --> 02:23:58,520
Didn't get any of this with the
almond pop-up with the pink, did we?

2700
02:23:58,545 --> 02:24:00,320
None of it.
No, they were ignoring it.

2701
02:24:00,400 --> 02:24:02,640
In fact, when that was cast out,
the common got closer and

2702
02:24:02,665 --> 02:24:03,895
he just keeps circling it.

2703
02:24:03,920 --> 02:24:05,175
He wants— look, here he goes.

2704
02:24:05,200 --> 02:24:06,240
How much does he want it?

2705
02:24:07,440 --> 02:24:09,600
Just take it, boitie.

2706
02:24:10,040 --> 02:24:11,200
He spat at it.

2707
02:24:15,320 --> 02:24:18,720
You make involuntary noise in this
tent that you didn't know you made.

2708
02:24:24,840 --> 02:24:27,720
It's going to be very hard
to catch one carp on its own.

2709
02:24:27,800 --> 02:24:31,855
Yeah, we do always say that, like,
you need another one to sort of edge him

2710
02:24:31,880 --> 02:24:33,700
on to go, oh, I'm going to get it first.

2711
02:24:34,200 --> 02:24:38,335
The evening ticked away with
practically nothing happening.

2712
02:24:38,360 --> 02:24:42,415
A few single carp of the cutesy variety
variety, which would have been hard to

2713
02:24:42,440 --> 02:24:46,040
catch on the best of days,
but it was a pretty nothing day.

2714
02:24:46,120 --> 02:24:49,735
I don't even like underwater filming
anyway, and we didn't have too many days

2715
02:24:49,760 --> 02:24:52,680
left for me to actually catch one at all.

2716
02:24:53,120 --> 02:24:56,615
The only consolation was that the other
spots around the lake had

2717
02:24:56,640 --> 02:24:58,760
basically no activity either.

2718
02:25:06,600 --> 02:25:11,400
I do worry about this now, though.
Got to be honest.

2719
02:25:13,800 --> 02:25:15,280
Yeah, me too.

2720
02:25:15,440 --> 02:25:18,935
Obviously, my day yesterday
was the start of the decline.

2721
02:25:18,960 --> 02:25:22,215
Been baited, had an amazing day's fishing,
weather changes,

2722
02:25:22,240 --> 02:25:23,700
they don't want to be here now.

2723
02:25:23,800 --> 02:25:27,280
The odd one having a boilie
here and there is not the one.

2724
02:25:27,440 --> 02:25:29,120
The lake had shut up shop.

2725
02:25:29,320 --> 02:25:33,335
There was no activity on our current spot,
none on any of the backups,

2726
02:25:33,360 --> 02:25:36,975
and the very few fish that were showing
were over clay areas where we

2727
02:25:37,000 --> 02:25:38,640
couldn't deploy the cameras.

2728
02:25:41,840 --> 02:25:43,360
Tom was getting tetchy.

2729
02:25:45,560 --> 02:25:48,975
The wind had changed,
the weed had drifted off the spot, which

2730
02:25:49,000 --> 02:25:50,800
meant we had lost their natural cover.

2731
02:25:51,200 --> 02:25:55,135
What's worse, it was our final couple of
days before we passed the baton over to

2732
02:25:55,160 --> 02:25:57,655
Damo and Stokes,
who were due to lend bringing their

2733
02:25:57,680 --> 02:26:00,320
expertise to the underwater saga.

2734
02:26:01,600 --> 02:26:04,600
We can't just let Damo
turn up to this, can we?

2735
02:26:05,040 --> 02:26:06,615
That's not fair.
Waste of his time.

2736
02:26:06,640 --> 02:26:08,020
It's a waste of everyone's time.

2737
02:26:08,045 --> 02:26:11,695
We need a grand finale.

2738
02:26:11,720 --> 02:26:14,800
We need something going on the last few
days and it's just not— I don't

2739
02:26:14,825 --> 02:26:16,540
think it's going to happen here.

2740
02:26:17,080 --> 02:26:20,960
We hadn't seen any big fish since Dovey
caught the 35-pounder,

2741
02:26:21,360 --> 02:26:25,615
and with the realisation now firming up
that the stock levels were definitely not

2742
02:26:25,640 --> 02:26:30,055
as great as we were led to believe,
and us essentially fishing for a single

2743
02:26:30,080 --> 02:26:35,200
fish that we hadn't seen since that brief
moment on the test cameras,

2744
02:26:35,280 --> 02:26:39,720
we just felt like our final
moments were quickly fizzling out.

2745
02:26:39,960 --> 02:26:43,360
With no fish in the swim,
there was no point in getting the rig out.

2746
02:26:43,720 --> 02:26:46,375
If we've learned anything,
the power of pre-baiting,

2747
02:26:46,400 --> 02:26:50,175
or at least leaving a spot without lines
for the fish to feed without pressure is

2748
02:26:50,200 --> 02:26:53,520
actually a bit of a superpower
in these small gin-clear lakes.

2749
02:26:54,040 --> 02:26:57,575
So by the time I decided to put the rig
in, the same wafter rig I'd caught the

2750
02:26:57,600 --> 02:27:01,775
fish on previously with an Essential Cell
hookbait with a Pineapple Goo topper,

2751
02:27:01,800 --> 02:27:06,240
I'd hope I'd have at least a final
chance of picking up one last fish.

2752
02:27:06,960 --> 02:27:09,560
Go on, go on, he's going to take it,
he's going to take it.

2753
02:27:10,600 --> 02:27:13,600
Oh, did it go in?
No, don't know.

2754
02:27:15,280 --> 02:27:17,440
I'm not sure.

2755
02:27:18,400 --> 02:27:19,615
I don't think it did.

2756
02:27:19,640 --> 02:27:21,575
I don't know, Neil.

2757
02:27:21,600 --> 02:27:22,840
I think it might have.

2758
02:27:24,960 --> 02:27:28,255
The thing is, I can't look
back because he's there.

2759
02:27:28,280 --> 02:27:29,975
It was him as well.

2760
02:27:30,000 --> 02:27:33,360
It's the one we said was catchable, and
he's just— No, that's Butler, isn't it?

2761
02:27:33,385 --> 02:27:34,360
That's not Butler.

2762
02:27:34,680 --> 02:27:36,160
I can only see the two big scales.

2763
02:27:36,185 --> 02:27:37,200
No, it's not Butler.

2764
02:27:44,520 --> 02:27:50,000
Huh, look, look at him.

2765
02:27:53,480 --> 02:27:55,160
Would you believe it?

2766
02:27:57,280 --> 02:27:58,280
It's hard to tell, isn't it?

2767
02:27:58,305 --> 02:28:02,935
Are we giving us— whatever, whatever,
whatever you, whatever you want to say

2768
02:28:02,960 --> 02:28:06,200
about that, it was a chance and
he wanted it at at least though.

2769
02:28:06,720 --> 02:28:10,095
Yeah, but that's getting done, isn't it?

2770
02:28:10,120 --> 02:28:12,280
That's him sucking it in
and me not getting him.

2771
02:28:12,400 --> 02:28:17,575
Knowing when it's time to, if you like,
reel in for a bit can only come down to

2772
02:28:17,600 --> 02:28:22,175
either what you're experiencing that
session or taking it back to,

2773
02:28:22,200 --> 02:28:27,055
as I said before, when I was fishing for
specific carp and you're putting bait into

2774
02:28:27,080 --> 02:28:30,495
certain areas,
I would kind of know very quickly.

2775
02:28:30,520 --> 02:28:33,760
I would either catch a carp catch quickly
or not at all, and then it felt like it

2776
02:28:33,785 --> 02:28:37,455
was time to perhaps bait another zone in
readiness for that one

2777
02:28:37,480 --> 02:28:39,560
being quiet for a bit.

2778
02:28:39,640 --> 02:28:44,695
But yeah, I think within a session though,
if like, I would say, like,

2779
02:28:44,720 --> 02:28:46,400
all good things don't last.

2780
02:28:46,720 --> 02:28:54,935
And if you're fishing a spot that you're
catching lots of carp from, you're not

2781
02:28:54,960 --> 02:28:57,120
going to keep catching loads from it.

2782
02:28:57,200 --> 02:29:00,360
And actually you're better off stopping
when maybe when it just starts

2783
02:29:00,385 --> 02:29:01,600
slowing down a little bit.

2784
02:29:01,760 --> 02:29:05,335
If you're getting 2 or 3 bites at a time,
if it's really going and it just starts

2785
02:29:05,360 --> 02:29:07,640
waning off a little bit,
that's the time to think, well,

2786
02:29:07,665 --> 02:29:10,575
I'm going to rest,
leave the rods out, put out 15 Spombs and

2787
02:29:10,600 --> 02:29:13,880
give it a few hours because you want them
to gain confidence again and you're

2788
02:29:13,905 --> 02:29:16,600
killing the confidence by
catching them every single time.

2789
02:29:16,800 --> 02:29:20,575
So it's actually you're better off
stopping and resting it at the top to sort

2790
02:29:20,600 --> 02:29:23,255
of last out that period a
little bit longer, I would say.

2791
02:29:23,280 --> 02:29:25,735
Do you ever do that?
I actually do, yeah.

2792
02:29:25,760 --> 02:29:27,455
I'm guilty of not.

2793
02:29:27,480 --> 02:29:28,480
Yeah, no, I do.

2794
02:29:28,920 --> 02:29:33,255
Somewhere like Wraysbury is the perfect
place to do that because it's not easy and

2795
02:29:33,280 --> 02:29:35,680
it's not sort of like that
in-between sort of thing.

2796
02:29:36,320 --> 02:29:38,455
If you're fishing somewhere like Norton
and there's lots of carp in there,

2797
02:29:38,480 --> 02:29:40,780
then you can often carry that
on for a long period of time.

2798
02:29:40,805 --> 02:29:44,800
But somewhere that's sort of like
mid-range easiness,

2799
02:29:45,240 --> 02:29:50,135
I would say, yeah, understand that you're
not going to keep catching loads,

2800
02:29:50,160 --> 02:29:51,280
so give it a rest for a little while.

2801
02:29:51,305 --> 02:29:55,655
It was clear that the fish were eating
Cell, and maybe because I only had a few

2802
02:29:55,680 --> 02:29:57,495
hours left, I switched to a

2803
02:29:57,520 --> 02:30:07,895
straight-out-the-bag 15mm.

2804
02:30:07,920 --> 02:30:09,775
At least 4 fish there.

2805
02:30:09,800 --> 02:30:12,320
There's 2 in the gloom, 2 here.
He is close.

2806
02:30:12,440 --> 02:30:12,960
He is close.

2807
02:30:13,720 --> 02:30:15,600
Oh, he turned away from that.

2808
02:30:16,200 --> 02:30:18,920
It must be the It must be the tackle,
mate, in this clear water.

2809
02:30:20,520 --> 02:30:22,480
Something is chowing.

2810
02:30:23,480 --> 02:30:25,800
Looks like a hurricane's just kicked up.

2811
02:30:27,280 --> 02:30:30,000
That's how I'd imagine
a mid-60 fully to feed.

2812
02:30:31,200 --> 02:30:38,015
With gusto.

2813
02:30:38,040 --> 02:30:40,080
Is he going down straight on it?

2814
02:30:40,200 --> 02:30:41,640
Very close to it, Tom.

2815
02:30:42,680 --> 02:30:45,600
Very close, very close.

2816
02:30:47,640 --> 02:30:49,040
How's he not eaten that?

2817
02:30:49,880 --> 02:30:51,640
That was just unlucky, I think.

2818
02:30:55,960 --> 02:30:58,375
Got a question for you.

2819
02:30:58,400 --> 02:30:59,575
You've got a question?

2820
02:30:59,600 --> 02:31:01,840
Yeah, go on then.

2821
02:31:01,880 --> 02:31:03,040
You called it unlucky.

2822
02:31:03,440 --> 02:31:06,895
Ah, that's unlucky.

2823
02:31:06,920 --> 02:31:09,620
Would you have called it unlucky
if that had been your rod?

2824
02:31:16,520 --> 02:31:19,880
Would you have called it unlucky if it had
been your little snowman with a yellow

2825
02:31:19,905 --> 02:31:22,815
tipper, or would you have said,
he don't like that, ignored it?

2826
02:31:22,840 --> 02:31:24,775
I'd have said he ignored it.
You would, wouldn't you?

2827
02:31:24,800 --> 02:31:26,655
Yeah, but I don't know how he
could possibly ignore that.

2828
02:31:26,680 --> 02:31:28,920
That's just exactly the same
as everything that's out there.

2829
02:31:28,945 --> 02:31:32,135
He was like eating on my hook link,
you know, it was there.

2830
02:31:32,160 --> 02:31:36,975
I agree, he can't have picked that out as
being a dangerous item of food,

2831
02:31:37,000 --> 02:31:40,360
but perhaps they weren't doing that
before either, is what I'm saying.

2832
02:31:40,720 --> 02:31:43,095
Perhaps.
Perhaps.

2833
02:31:43,120 --> 02:31:45,600
But they certainly weren't picking it out,
which is what you go

2834
02:31:45,625 --> 02:31:46,840
for with a bright one.

2835
02:31:47,920 --> 02:31:48,920
Agreed.

2836
02:31:49,880 --> 02:31:53,480
Day done, and I chalked
up a fat zero for it.

2837
02:31:53,840 --> 02:31:55,180
Oh, there's a little one.

2838
02:31:55,600 --> 02:31:58,600
Little schnuffler.
I'm not filming that, I can't even see it.

2839
02:32:01,240 --> 02:32:04,600
Frustratingly, the only thing that we
could take away is that when the lake is

2840
02:32:04,625 --> 02:32:08,695
fishing hard, you can't really do much
apart from rest the spot for a few hours

2841
02:32:08,720 --> 02:32:12,255
and hope that when you go back,
you're using the right hook bait, which

2842
02:32:12,280 --> 02:32:15,200
so far has been a fairly fruitless search.

2843
02:32:22,600 --> 02:32:25,480
This is your last chance.
This is my moment.

2844
02:32:26,840 --> 02:32:31,615
Imagine how much pressure I was under
to finish this shoot with a carp.

2845
02:32:31,640 --> 02:32:36,480
Now double it, because if I didn't catch,
I'd have spent over 2 weeks blanking,

2846
02:32:36,720 --> 02:32:38,800
which was not an option.

2847
02:32:39,080 --> 02:32:40,600
Come on, Neil.

2848
02:32:41,040 --> 02:32:42,920
Neil, this is it.

2849
02:32:43,040 --> 02:32:44,575
This is it, time.

2850
02:32:44,600 --> 02:32:48,175
Seeing the carp's reaction to the
freebies, my opening approach to the day

2851
02:32:48,200 --> 02:32:52,760
was a double 10mm Cell straight
from the bag bottom bait.

2852
02:33:01,040 --> 02:33:03,760
Neil, I'm not going to lie,
you need to catch one today.

2853
02:33:03,800 --> 02:33:04,615
Thanks, mate.

2854
02:33:04,640 --> 02:33:07,960
I'm not putting the pressure on,
but pressure's on.

2855
02:33:08,480 --> 02:33:09,575
Okay.

2856
02:33:09,600 --> 02:33:11,215
Okay.

2857
02:33:11,240 --> 02:33:13,560
No pressure, but all the pressure.

2858
02:33:13,600 --> 02:33:14,920
We were off to a good start.

2859
02:33:15,480 --> 02:33:17,280
We'd seen some of our old friends.

2860
02:33:20,280 --> 02:33:22,440
Like day one.
Yeah, this is like 9 weeks ago.

2861
02:33:24,840 --> 02:33:27,560
And even some new faces.

2862
02:33:28,520 --> 02:33:31,455
A lot of men die at 50.

2863
02:33:31,480 --> 02:33:33,800
You might only have 6 years left.
You might do.

2864
02:33:37,040 --> 02:33:39,335
Didn't like something, did he?
No, definitely.

2865
02:33:39,360 --> 02:33:41,055
Butler again though.
Is it Butler?

2866
02:33:41,080 --> 02:33:43,095
Yeah, sneaky little Butler.

2867
02:33:43,120 --> 02:33:44,935
He didn't touch down, but something—
I don't know.

2868
02:33:44,960 --> 02:33:45,920
Did he touch the line?

2869
02:33:47,400 --> 02:33:50,295
These fish are seeing here.

2870
02:33:50,320 --> 02:33:54,640
I've never really been in that camp,
but it is very clear.

2871
02:33:55,600 --> 02:33:56,655
Classic Butler.

2872
02:33:56,680 --> 02:33:59,895
If we couldn't outsmart him,
then at least we could always count

2873
02:33:59,920 --> 02:34:01,760
on him to get the party started.

2874
02:34:02,160 --> 02:34:04,300
Right, you're in a good
position here, Neil.

2875
02:34:05,040 --> 02:34:06,140
Just— just—PMA.

2876
02:34:06,520 --> 02:34:08,775
Just understand where you're at here.
Come on.

2877
02:34:08,800 --> 02:34:11,440
You've got 2 cell bottom baits on.

2878
02:34:11,520 --> 02:34:13,535
They're eating loads of cells.

2879
02:34:13,560 --> 02:34:14,600
5 fish in the swim.

2880
02:34:15,560 --> 02:34:16,320
This is it.

2881
02:34:17,280 --> 02:34:22,655
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come
on, come on, come on, come on, come on.

2882
02:34:22,680 --> 02:34:29,695
On your tubing, on your tubing,
on the close, on your tubing lead.

2883
02:34:29,720 --> 02:34:30,935
Another one.
Another one.

2884
02:34:30,960 --> 02:34:31,760
Come on.

2885
02:34:38,040 --> 02:34:40,455
Mate, there's loads.
I can't handle this.

2886
02:34:40,480 --> 02:34:42,815
2, 3, 4, 5 at least.

2887
02:34:42,840 --> 02:34:43,840
Can't handle this.

2888
02:34:44,480 --> 02:34:51,815
What?
I can't handle it, Gal.

2889
02:34:51,840 --> 02:34:53,855
You've got to get one here, boy.

2890
02:34:53,880 --> 02:34:59,280
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, maybe 6 now.

2891
02:34:59,360 --> 02:35:01,495
One's just gone off there.
5.

2892
02:35:01,520 --> 02:35:03,575
Yeah, there was 6.
6 carp.

2893
02:35:03,600 --> 02:35:08,175
There's 6 carp in your swim.

2894
02:35:08,200 --> 02:35:09,175
Carp soup.

2895
02:35:09,200 --> 02:35:11,000
It is carp soup.
It's carp soup.

2896
02:35:13,360 --> 02:35:16,800
See, do you wish you had a brighter
hookbait on now, or do you not?

2897
02:35:17,440 --> 02:35:19,575
In my head, I'd say yes.

2898
02:35:19,600 --> 02:35:21,360
That's only because you can see it better.

2899
02:35:21,440 --> 02:35:22,415
But in reality, no.

2900
02:35:22,440 --> 02:35:25,200
We've seen them not really
go for them as such.

2901
02:35:28,080 --> 02:35:31,320
I'm just hoping that they'll come
across them 10mm's and eat them.

2902
02:35:31,560 --> 02:35:33,775
Do you know what they will eat them with?
Gay abandon!

2903
02:35:33,800 --> 02:35:35,320
Oh, I thought he meant their mouth.

2904
02:35:36,240 --> 02:35:36,855
Good line—

2905
02:35:36,880 --> 02:35:40,615
drop down, go on, drop down, drop down,
drop down, drop down, drop down,

2906
02:35:40,640 --> 02:35:43,760
drop down, drop down,
drop down, it has gone past him.

2907
02:35:46,040 --> 02:35:50,600
I really want you to catch one now.

2908
02:35:51,160 --> 02:35:53,535
I don't think I have ever
wanted a bite more in my life.

2909
02:35:53,560 --> 02:35:53,855
Really do not care about
anything else at all right now.

2910
02:35:53,880 --> 02:35:54,920
Really, really, really.

2911
02:35:54,945 --> 02:35:58,200
I just— this needs to happen today.

2912
02:35:58,600 --> 02:35:59,960
Just a lot of reasons.

2913
02:36:00,960 --> 02:36:02,760
Mainly because we've
been here a long time.

2914
02:36:03,440 --> 02:36:06,480
Mainly because it would be your
first ever underwater carp.

2915
02:36:06,560 --> 02:36:08,560
Mainly because we're leaving today.

2916
02:36:08,680 --> 02:36:10,680
Mainly because this is a massive chance.

2917
02:36:11,560 --> 02:36:13,160
And what, wondered if there's any more?

2918
02:36:13,800 --> 02:36:16,040
And also, I don't want you to look stupid.

2919
02:36:20,760 --> 02:36:22,680
Do you know what I mean though?
Yeah, yeah.

2920
02:36:22,705 --> 02:36:24,960
I don't want you to look really stupid.

2921
02:36:27,160 --> 02:36:29,520
You sound like you do a bit.

2922
02:36:30,360 --> 02:36:33,360
Do you know what I mean?
I don't want you to look like an idiot.

2923
02:36:34,080 --> 02:36:35,400
He's on your lead, mate.

2924
02:36:37,280 --> 02:36:39,775
Take it.
Don't know where it is.

2925
02:36:39,800 --> 02:36:40,900
We don't know where it is.

2926
02:36:40,925 --> 02:36:45,575
No, that was just— that was an
inch that way of your hook bait.

2927
02:36:45,600 --> 02:36:46,040
Okay.

2928
02:36:47,680 --> 02:36:51,520
Mate, I really don't want
you to look like an idiot.

2929
02:36:52,560 --> 02:36:54,400
Oh, there's one coming
from behind as well.

2930
02:36:55,440 --> 02:36:57,775
Mate, you've got to get one here, Neil.

2931
02:36:57,800 --> 02:37:00,280
There's so many carp out there.

2932
02:37:01,400 --> 02:37:06,815
Look at that, 4 dark
shapes in a 4-foot square.

2933
02:37:06,840 --> 02:37:08,480
Not even 4-foot.

2934
02:37:18,120 --> 02:37:20,415
Oh no, it's just dragged me line off.

2935
02:37:20,440 --> 02:37:21,440
Just seen it drag through shot.

2936
02:37:21,465 --> 02:37:22,800
No, it hasn't.

2937
02:37:26,720 --> 02:37:39,695
I don't Play into the whole,

2938
02:37:39,720 --> 02:37:41,200
I've had an unlucky trip.

2939
02:37:43,080 --> 02:37:48,400
Come on, mate, go and do it quick
while they're out of the swim.

2940
02:37:49,560 --> 02:37:51,360
I don't want him to
look like an idiot here.

2941
02:37:51,800 --> 02:37:54,680
Well, it was a complete
disaster, wasn't it?

2942
02:37:54,760 --> 02:37:59,840
Potentially the chance of the trip and the
rig got dragged off by a massive liner.

2943
02:38:00,120 --> 02:38:02,260
Though I chose to see it as an
opportunity,

2944
02:38:02,480 --> 02:38:05,695
potentially the 10 millers would drop
inbetween the gravel,

2945
02:38:05,720 --> 02:38:10,695
so I decided to go with a 15mm
Essential Cell and 10mm cell straight from

2946
02:38:10,720 --> 02:38:13,615
the bag with a little bit of cork in it.

2947
02:38:13,640 --> 02:38:16,360
Like a sad snowman lying on its side.

2948
02:38:16,680 --> 02:38:18,260
We'll go with a sad snowman.

2949
02:38:18,840 --> 02:38:22,560
The weather was getting warmer,
we were days away from the full moon.

2950
02:38:22,720 --> 02:38:25,615
What was less than ideal conditions
throughout this whole thing

2951
02:38:25,640 --> 02:38:27,720
was quickly turning good.

2952
02:38:30,160 --> 02:38:33,400
I couldn't waste this opportunity.

2953
02:38:33,720 --> 02:38:36,055
It's visible.
Yeah.

2954
02:38:36,080 --> 02:38:40,255
Lead clip, anti-tangle sleeve,
stiff boom setup works really well.

2955
02:38:40,280 --> 02:38:43,735
Even with that heavy bait,
it kicks it out like eff.

2956
02:38:43,760 --> 02:38:44,920
I really like that.

2957
02:38:45,040 --> 02:38:46,760
That's— you're getting a bite on this one.

2958
02:38:47,360 --> 02:38:48,920
All right, we'll make a note.

2959
02:38:49,160 --> 02:38:50,200
I'll make a note.

2960
02:38:50,840 --> 02:38:51,880
Yeah, I don't hate that.

2961
02:38:51,905 --> 02:38:53,575
You tell me you hate that.
You can't.

2962
02:38:53,600 --> 02:38:54,840
You can't tell me you hate that.

2963
02:38:54,865 --> 02:38:56,615
Tell me you hate that.
You hate fishing.

2964
02:38:56,640 --> 02:38:58,575
You tell me you hate it.
You hate catching carp if you hate that.

2965
02:38:58,600 --> 02:38:59,920
You can't tell me you hate it.
I can't.

2966
02:38:59,945 --> 02:39:01,695
I ain't going to.
You love it.

2967
02:39:01,720 --> 02:39:03,620
That's why.
It's because you love it.

2968
02:39:07,160 --> 02:39:11,440
Your rig is very, very, very,
very good at kicking out.

2969
02:39:11,880 --> 02:39:13,160
Very, very, very good.

2970
02:39:13,280 --> 02:39:17,840
did you put cork in it, little plug inside
the 15mm, just to put a bit of buoyancy.

2971
02:39:17,920 --> 02:39:18,415
Okay.

2972
02:39:18,440 --> 02:39:19,815
But even so, it's still
quite a heavy hook bait.

2973
02:39:19,840 --> 02:39:21,040
It's not sitting up, is it?

2974
02:39:21,480 --> 02:39:23,375
Sitting on its side, isn't it?

2975
02:39:23,400 --> 02:39:27,575
Anti-tangle sleeve, boom, lead clip
is— you ain't getting no tangles.

2976
02:39:27,600 --> 02:39:29,160
No, you're not.
And you're not getting them.

2977
02:39:29,185 --> 02:39:30,360
And I use that a lot.

2978
02:39:30,720 --> 02:39:33,120
Yeah, that hook bait is not
sitting next to the lead either.

2979
02:39:33,680 --> 02:39:36,855
No, it almost can't.

2980
02:39:36,880 --> 02:39:38,655
It hasn't once landed next to the lead.

2981
02:39:38,680 --> 02:39:40,095
No, not once.

2982
02:39:40,120 --> 02:39:44,055
And if we've learned anything,
a rig that is straightened out and sitting

2983
02:39:44,080 --> 02:39:46,840
away from the lead is the absolute ideal.

2984
02:39:47,000 --> 02:39:48,015
It's a spotlight.

2985
02:39:48,040 --> 02:39:50,200
It looks like a comedian in an arena.

2986
02:39:50,360 --> 02:39:52,935
It does.

2987
02:39:52,960 --> 02:39:56,040
Everyone laughing at it.

2988
02:39:59,120 --> 02:40:04,335
And we were about to hit another
feeding spell after a little zhuzhin.

2989
02:40:04,360 --> 02:40:06,855
It's weird because it's like you're
putting out the little bits as well.

2990
02:40:06,880 --> 02:40:09,200
It's making them definitely feed slower
and close to the bottom, but they are

2991
02:40:09,225 --> 02:40:10,775
eating all of the boilies as well.

2992
02:40:10,800 --> 02:40:14,280
Yeah, so there's no— what— there's no
reason they shouldn't eat the hookbait.

2993
02:40:14,400 --> 02:40:15,360
No, I agree.

2994
02:40:16,160 --> 02:40:19,495
I don't feel like I've got an oversized
hookbait on because they are— well,

2995
02:40:19,520 --> 02:40:22,400
we watched that one earlier,
physically he only picked up a 15mm.

2996
02:40:22,425 --> 02:40:25,175
They've been eating chunks of 15mm.

2997
02:40:25,200 --> 02:40:27,615
Yeah, like very nice little piles of them.

2998
02:40:27,640 --> 02:40:29,200
Don't talk about piles.

2999
02:40:29,240 --> 02:40:31,615
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

3000
02:40:31,640 --> 02:40:33,295
Is there two there?

3001
02:40:33,320 --> 02:40:36,440
Yeah, one above, one there,
one there, one there.

3002
02:40:36,720 --> 02:40:43,375
Yeah, come on, turn left, turn
Just don't get a mad liner that scares

3003
02:40:43,400 --> 02:40:44,735
them all and pulls you off the spot.

3004
02:40:44,760 --> 02:40:46,580
That'd be handy if you
didn't do that right now.

3005
02:40:47,480 --> 02:40:49,135
Can't happen again, can it, Gal?

3006
02:40:49,160 --> 02:40:51,175
Probably not.

3007
02:40:51,200 --> 02:40:53,700
Yeah, he's going to be on a
good line if he keeps coming.

3008
02:40:57,280 --> 02:41:00,535
That hook bait is such in primo position,
it's just that side of

3009
02:41:00,560 --> 02:41:02,160
a few boilies as well.

3010
02:41:04,360 --> 02:41:13,120
Come on, you alright there, babe?

3011
02:41:15,440 --> 02:41:15,760
Yeah, mate.

3012
02:41:15,785 --> 02:41:20,415
Come on, come on, tip down,
come on, race for it, tip down.

3013
02:41:20,440 --> 02:41:23,255
You both want it, you both want it.
Oh, he's turned.

3014
02:41:23,280 --> 02:41:24,880
I don't think any of them want it.

3015
02:41:25,800 --> 02:41:28,040
They want this one from the right.

3016
02:41:30,280 --> 02:41:32,400
Or this one from the right.

3017
02:41:34,400 --> 02:41:36,855
You have to get a pickup.
Come on, come on.

3018
02:41:36,880 --> 02:41:39,600
He's going to take it.
He's going to take it.

3019
02:41:39,720 --> 02:41:45,760
He's going to take it.
Take it.

3020
02:41:50,720 --> 02:41:52,800
What's this one?
Oh, he might be the fish.

3021
02:41:54,080 --> 02:41:54,960
Take it.

3022
02:42:01,280 --> 02:42:09,335
Oh my God, that's an inch away!

3023
02:42:09,360 --> 02:42:15,400
Just reverse a bit.

3024
02:42:15,760 --> 02:42:17,880
I don't like him feeding
right on my tubing.

3025
02:42:18,520 --> 02:42:20,380
Is someone going to come behind though?

3026
02:42:21,320 --> 02:42:22,840
Is that, is that weird?

3027
02:42:23,840 --> 02:42:28,295
I can't believe that.

3028
02:42:28,320 --> 02:42:29,720
Look at it on there now.

3029
02:42:34,600 --> 02:42:42,680
So much feeding.

3030
02:42:43,520 --> 02:42:45,015
OMG.

3031
02:42:45,040 --> 02:42:48,040
Yeah, yeah, makes Something's
got to happen here.

3032
02:42:49,120 --> 02:42:56,880
Right, even if he's getting done,
something has to pick that hook bait up.

3033
02:43:01,520 --> 02:43:03,080
Go on, go on, go on.
Is he in?

3034
02:43:04,920 --> 02:43:08,360
Oh.
I don't know if the hook went in or not.

3035
02:43:08,800 --> 02:43:10,520
The bait definitely went in his mouth.

3036
02:43:12,680 --> 02:43:16,295
Was that?

3037
02:43:16,320 --> 02:43:17,960
No, it's not.

3038
02:43:18,040 --> 02:43:24,280
Even if it's getting dark,
something has to pick that hook bait up.

3039
02:43:24,400 --> 02:43:27,160
I think I'd rather not
know this was all going on.

3040
02:43:27,800 --> 02:43:28,680
I ain't going to lie.

3041
02:43:29,680 --> 02:43:32,680
I'd just like to be sat with a cup of
coffee looking out, get a little,

3042
02:43:32,800 --> 02:43:35,095
"They're about," and then a screamer.

3043
02:43:35,120 --> 02:43:36,240
That's what I'd like.

3044
02:43:38,240 --> 02:43:42,775
This is a lot.

3045
02:43:42,800 --> 02:43:45,960
We can do more to get bites here.

3046
02:43:47,040 --> 02:43:50,415
I don't know what it is though,
because you put brighter baits on,

3047
02:43:50,440 --> 02:43:53,640
they don't take them, but then you put
match the hatch, they don't take them.

3048
02:43:55,600 --> 02:43:57,015
Trebles?

3049
02:43:57,040 --> 02:44:02,720
That was about 20 minutes of nail-biting
activity only to end in an ejection.

3050
02:44:02,920 --> 02:44:06,040
but the tension was about to get worse.

3051
02:44:06,120 --> 02:44:07,640
The gang rocked up again.

3052
02:44:09,040 --> 02:44:10,975
Tilt, tilt, tilt.
He's gone past it.

3053
02:44:11,000 --> 02:44:11,960
He's missed it.

3054
02:44:13,760 --> 02:44:15,280
Mate, they can see the kit.

3055
02:44:18,440 --> 02:44:19,360
They must.

3056
02:44:20,000 --> 02:44:22,160
They can see the kit.
They must be able to.

3057
02:44:23,960 --> 02:44:28,240
Not bothered by it as such, but they
just know that that bit ain't right.

3058
02:44:28,440 --> 02:44:30,800
I don't have that bit,
I'll have everything else.

3059
02:44:31,760 --> 02:44:33,415
Yeah.

3060
02:44:33,440 --> 02:44:35,440
And now you're waiting just for one to
approach, like this one,

3061
02:44:35,465 --> 02:44:37,180
potentially at the right angle.

3062
02:44:38,160 --> 02:44:40,280
It's even murked up a little
bit down there as well.

3063
02:44:40,305 --> 02:44:41,620
This is what you need.

3064
02:44:44,640 --> 02:44:46,335
He's eating quite hard, this one.

3065
02:44:46,360 --> 02:44:47,440
He could take it.

3066
02:44:51,200 --> 02:44:53,340
Mate, they can—they can see it.
They can see it.

3067
02:44:54,000 --> 02:44:59,055
I think in this really clear shallow water
we need to be lighter, lighter stuff.

3068
02:44:59,080 --> 02:45:00,120
I think we're overgunned.

3069
02:45:03,320 --> 02:45:05,600
I think it's all obvious to them.

3070
02:45:07,040 --> 02:45:09,735
I mean, you're not going to— you
can't get a better feeding scenario.

3071
02:45:09,760 --> 02:45:12,695
No, you get better feeding scenarios in
like them coming down and picking up

3072
02:45:12,720 --> 02:45:15,095
single boilies, but you're not
getting harder feeding than this.

3073
02:45:15,120 --> 02:45:17,120
No, it's arguably the best
we've had since we've been here.

3074
02:45:17,145 --> 02:45:17,600
Yeah.

3075
02:45:19,520 --> 02:45:23,440
I really thought that hookbait was just
going to— I don't mean in that situation,

3076
02:45:23,720 --> 02:45:26,175
but when I was sitting here with that
hookbait, I'm thinking,

3077
02:45:26,200 --> 02:45:27,360
why would they not eat that?

3078
02:45:27,920 --> 02:45:30,575
They've eaten so many of them.

3079
02:45:30,600 --> 02:45:32,575
Just tackle, that's why.

3080
02:45:32,600 --> 02:45:34,100
Yeah, it's got to be, hasn't it?

3081
02:45:34,440 --> 02:45:38,175
I don't feel like when I matched the hatch
and put that on, I still

3082
02:45:38,200 --> 02:45:39,480
didn't get an instant bite.

3083
02:45:39,600 --> 02:45:44,255
There was still a prolonged period of
feeding, but logic dictates if they've

3084
02:45:44,280 --> 02:45:48,455
spent a long time time eating all of that
boilie, why wouldn't

3085
02:45:48,480 --> 02:45:50,200
you have it on the hair?

3086
02:45:51,680 --> 02:45:52,975
And I never do that.

3087
02:45:53,000 --> 02:45:59,455
No, no, I never do, because I, you know,
my head still says that something more

3088
02:45:59,480 --> 02:46:01,420
attractive will get me a quicker bite.

3089
02:46:01,920 --> 02:46:05,040
But some of our best
hookbaits got ignored.

3090
02:46:06,680 --> 02:46:09,680
Like, I'm not saying I've stopped using
them, I've carried on catching them now,

3091
02:46:09,705 --> 02:46:12,335
but I have started to play
around with match the hatch.

3092
02:46:12,360 --> 02:46:14,660
That's one of my biggest bits to
take home from the whole thing.

3093
02:46:14,685 --> 02:46:17,040
Yeah, me too, actually.

3094
02:46:17,440 --> 02:46:20,535
But you have to keep going back to the
idea that you're 4-foot in

3095
02:46:20,560 --> 02:46:21,600
clear water, small lake.

3096
02:46:21,625 --> 02:46:23,095
You do, you do.

3097
02:46:23,120 --> 02:46:26,415
Because I'm not saying that you don't
learn anything from these,

3098
02:46:26,440 --> 02:46:30,535
but you tend to learn— I learn more from
my own fishing over periods of time.

3099
02:46:30,560 --> 02:46:34,455
Not what we think is happening by watching
them, but what is actually

3100
02:46:34,480 --> 02:46:35,560
happening in results.

3101
02:46:36,520 --> 02:46:40,135
The brighter hookbaits almost always get
you better results apart from

3102
02:46:40,160 --> 02:46:41,520
maybe later on in the year.

3103
02:46:41,680 --> 02:46:46,495
Yeah, but that sort of time of the year,
the yellow ones do normally do better.

3104
02:46:46,520 --> 02:46:48,420
So it's weird to see
them just to be ignored.

3105
02:46:48,445 --> 02:46:49,440
It's a fair point.

3106
02:46:49,600 --> 02:46:54,575
I think what you learn when you're fishing
on an underwater camera is how to get a

3107
02:46:54,600 --> 02:46:56,600
bite in front of an underwater camera.
Yeah, that's true.

3108
02:46:56,625 --> 02:46:58,360
That is what is actually happening.

3109
02:46:59,040 --> 02:47:02,935
You're creating a very alien situation and
you're trying to put your normal fishing

3110
02:47:02,960 --> 02:47:06,960
into it, which isn't right there and
then to get the quickest bite possible.

3111
02:47:07,680 --> 02:47:09,760
But I will put a but in there.

3112
02:47:09,800 --> 02:47:11,400
It does make you question other things.

3113
02:47:11,425 --> 02:47:14,535
And I think long term,
if you can take some bits out and as long

3114
02:47:14,560 --> 02:47:19,560
as you try them, it's making you a
better angler for a start, for sure.

3115
02:47:19,760 --> 02:47:23,600
It's like shining lights on the floor
to see if there's any bait there.

3116
02:47:24,800 --> 02:47:26,535
Nothing.
No, nothing in it.

3117
02:47:26,560 --> 02:47:27,560
Not eating that one.

3118
02:47:30,360 --> 02:47:30,920
Bamboozling.

3119
02:47:30,945 --> 02:47:35,600
We were due off the lake at around
lunch and we were running out of time.

3120
02:47:35,680 --> 02:47:37,500
I'm a little bit worried
they're going to eat the camera.

3121
02:47:39,200 --> 02:47:40,695
Just cut, sir, sorry.

3122
02:47:40,720 --> 02:47:45,015
Not that my heart could keep up with the
sheer amount of fish cleaning me out.

3123
02:47:45,040 --> 02:47:45,255
Come on.

3124
02:47:45,280 --> 02:47:47,440
I'm bored of saying he's on the right
line, he's looking good,

3125
02:47:47,465 --> 02:47:51,135
he's got to eat it.
Come on.

3126
02:47:51,160 --> 02:47:53,080
But I had one more idea.

3127
02:47:53,120 --> 02:47:56,600
Go for a wee, and then I'm gonna,
I'm gonna just jump in and grab one.

3128
02:47:56,800 --> 02:47:57,695
Okay.
Okay.

3129
02:47:57,720 --> 02:47:58,015
Yep.

3130
02:47:58,040 --> 02:48:02,615
We had less than an hour left,
and I was tying up what would have

3131
02:48:02,640 --> 02:48:05,440
been my very last roll of the dice.

3132
02:48:06,800 --> 02:48:07,535
I just know.

3133
02:48:07,560 --> 02:48:10,775
So, you know, sometimes you know
when you know, you know, you know.

3134
02:48:10,800 --> 02:48:13,320
Sometimes you know this
is it, and this is it.

3135
02:48:17,360 --> 02:48:19,175
It's probably still less than—
come on, speak your than the—

3136
02:48:19,200 --> 02:48:20,060
he's going to take that.

3137
02:48:20,320 --> 02:48:22,360
He's got to take it, mate.
He's taking it.

3138
02:48:23,960 --> 02:48:25,215
He's got it.
No.

3139
02:48:25,240 --> 02:48:27,175
Yes, you have got it.
Yes!

3140
02:48:27,200 --> 02:48:29,335
Thank the Lord.

3141
02:48:29,360 --> 02:48:40,895
Oh my God, them fish were

3142
02:48:40,920 --> 02:48:43,695
in for 40 minutes, I reckon.

3143
02:48:43,720 --> 02:48:47,240
Absolutely absolutely nothing,
then two come back on their own,

3144
02:48:47,280 --> 02:48:50,615
one went down and took it
straight away, hooked him.

3145
02:48:50,640 --> 02:48:55,815
So I would say that they can see the kit,
but when there's nothing left,

3146
02:48:55,840 --> 02:48:57,200
they will end up taking it.

3147
02:48:57,920 --> 02:49:00,560
So if you were fishing normally,
you would see that as a success,

3148
02:49:00,720 --> 02:49:02,560
but obviously because we can see it in
here,

3149
02:49:03,240 --> 02:49:06,240
you think you should have got one sooner,
but ultimately he's had the

3150
02:49:06,265 --> 02:49:08,000
bite and it worked, didn't it?

3151
02:49:09,720 --> 02:49:15,880
This is good.

3152
02:49:16,640 --> 02:49:21,935
Oh, thank God.

3153
02:49:21,960 --> 02:49:23,280
Talk to me spoons.

3154
02:49:23,800 --> 02:49:26,880
I can't believe it was the
first hookbait you picked up.

3155
02:49:30,160 --> 02:49:32,880
He's coming round now nicely.

3156
02:49:33,520 --> 02:49:35,360
He went hard left to begin with.

3157
02:49:36,280 --> 02:49:39,135
But he's slowly coming round.

3158
02:49:39,160 --> 02:49:41,300
Just trying to make sure
I was clear of the camera.

3159
02:49:48,360 --> 02:49:50,535
I think it might be Scaly 20.

3160
02:49:50,560 --> 02:49:52,600
That would be quite nice.
He's been in a lot.

3161
02:49:53,400 --> 02:49:55,840
I think he's actually Scaly 16, isn't he?

3162
02:49:56,520 --> 02:49:57,815
He's Scaly That Will Do.

3163
02:49:57,840 --> 02:49:58,960
That's what he is.

3164
02:49:59,440 --> 02:50:00,880
Scaly Don't Fall Off.

3165
02:50:01,040 --> 02:50:05,775
Yeah, it's mad.

3166
02:50:05,800 --> 02:50:08,280
Even though you know it's not
a big one, it means so much.

3167
02:50:08,305 --> 02:50:09,460
It means everything.

3168
02:50:10,440 --> 02:50:13,895
After being royally— I wouldn't
even say mugged off as such.

3169
02:50:13,920 --> 02:50:16,560
It's not like the rig got
done or possibly got done.

3170
02:50:17,680 --> 02:50:22,375
To have that much feeding,
not get a pickup so much sooner.

3171
02:50:22,400 --> 02:50:24,100
Effectively, I caught
it on a single hookbait.

3172
02:50:24,125 --> 02:50:25,540
That's what it feels like.

3173
02:50:32,160 --> 02:50:37,135
Can you imagine what this would be
like knowing you've hooked the fully?

3174
02:50:37,160 --> 02:50:38,440
It'd be drastic.

3175
02:50:38,520 --> 02:50:40,295
My mouth's dry, my legs are gone.

3176
02:50:40,320 --> 02:50:42,320
I know it's probably a mid-double.

3177
02:50:51,960 --> 02:50:55,000
Come on, come on, Spoons!
First underwater carp!

3178
02:50:55,320 --> 02:50:57,080
Yeah!
Yes!

3179
02:50:57,440 --> 02:50:58,600
Get in!

3180
02:51:00,240 --> 02:51:02,040
Oh, well done, mate!

3181
02:51:03,480 --> 02:51:04,840
Get in!

3182
02:51:08,640 --> 02:51:16,855
Oh my goodness,
my track record underwater

3183
02:51:16,880 --> 02:51:18,135
has not been great.

3184
02:51:18,160 --> 02:51:21,160
The first time I got to put a rig in
front of the camera, there were no fish.

3185
02:51:21,185 --> 02:51:22,560
That was at Lac Luna.

3186
02:51:22,960 --> 02:51:25,460
Dan had caught the only one that
wanted to feed on that spot.

3187
02:51:25,680 --> 02:51:29,895
We then went to Carptlantis and I had the
first bite and then a hook pull,

3188
02:51:29,920 --> 02:51:32,040
and that was my only chance for the week.

3189
02:51:32,640 --> 02:51:34,615
So I'm now sitting with you.

3190
02:51:34,640 --> 02:51:37,855
We know that this is our
underwater, essentially.

3191
02:51:37,880 --> 02:51:41,575
You've caught a few and I've had a couple
of— I wouldn't say I've had

3192
02:51:41,600 --> 02:51:43,080
loads of brilliant opportunities.

3193
02:51:43,640 --> 02:51:46,720
He's like, really?
You had given up an afternoon for science.

3194
02:51:47,120 --> 02:51:48,895
I did, yeah, I did.
Yeah, you've got to remember that.

3195
02:51:48,920 --> 02:51:50,680
Yeah, people will forget that.
Don't forget that.

3196
02:51:50,705 --> 02:51:55,375
But that last morning where I am,
I'm minutes away from reeling,

3197
02:51:55,400 --> 02:52:01,095
having to go home, it was done,
it was over, and the fish fed so hard.

3198
02:52:01,120 --> 02:52:04,415
If I, if I had have left empty-handed,
I might not have ever wanted

3199
02:52:04,440 --> 02:52:05,900
to do one with you again.

3200
02:52:06,120 --> 02:52:08,295
But thankfully that didn't happen.

3201
02:52:08,320 --> 02:52:13,400
And when that I felt the first time that
my rig got picked up properly from a carp,

3202
02:52:13,920 --> 02:52:15,420
I got the bite that I've been waiting for.

3203
02:52:15,445 --> 02:52:18,335
Weeded me up for a bit, but that elation—

3204
02:52:18,360 --> 02:52:20,935
it's relief more than anything.
Yeah, it is.

3205
02:52:20,960 --> 02:52:21,120
Yeah.

3206
02:52:21,145 --> 02:52:24,895
At that stage, we really needed you to
catch one as well, and I was

3207
02:52:24,920 --> 02:52:26,160
slipping into depression.

3208
02:52:27,440 --> 02:52:30,855
And it actually— it was literally
an hour before we left, wasn't it?

3209
02:52:30,880 --> 02:52:31,760
It was, yeah.
It was done.

3210
02:52:31,785 --> 02:52:32,895
It was done.
Over.

3211
02:52:32,920 --> 02:52:35,495
It happened, and it looked like— it
really, really looked looked like it

3212
02:52:35,520 --> 02:52:37,015
wasn't going to happen, and it did.

3213
02:52:37,040 --> 02:52:39,100
So at least we could drive
away with a smile on our face.

3214
02:52:39,125 --> 02:52:41,695
Big smile.

3215
02:52:41,720 --> 02:52:45,415
I've just had to sit through the most
painstaking bit of rig watching

3216
02:52:45,440 --> 02:52:47,455
that I will ever have to do.

3217
02:52:47,480 --> 02:52:52,375
Fish were feeding constantly for 45
minutes to the point where I was on the

3218
02:52:52,400 --> 02:52:56,535
verge of putting out a solid bag,
but thankfully my bucket weren't in place.

3219
02:52:56,560 --> 02:52:58,100
I didn't get it done quickly.

3220
02:52:58,160 --> 02:53:01,680
This is the result of just
being a little bit more patient.

3221
02:53:01,960 --> 02:53:03,800
You can make of that
feeding spell what you will.

3222
02:53:03,825 --> 02:53:06,400
I know it's left me with far
more questions than answers.

3223
02:53:06,800 --> 02:53:09,855
I'm going to go away,
have a long hard think about exactly what

3224
02:53:09,880 --> 02:53:13,880
happened, but for now,
not only do I get to enjoy an amazing

3225
02:53:14,480 --> 02:53:18,360
26-pounder that I thought was an upper
double, the weather's getting better.

3226
02:53:18,640 --> 02:53:21,720
That biggun has got to be seen soon.
He's got to be caught.

3227
02:53:22,000 --> 02:53:23,520
And who's moving in onto the cameras?

3228
02:53:24,120 --> 02:53:26,280
Stokesy and Damian Clarke.

3229
02:53:26,320 --> 02:53:27,975
You got it.
You got him.

3230
02:53:28,000 --> 02:53:32,615
You got him, Damo.
Go on.

3231
02:53:32,640 --> 02:53:34,335
He's flipping got it.

3232
02:53:34,360 --> 02:53:36,520
That fish does not know what's coming.

3233
02:53:42,360 --> 02:53:44,480
We were on the bank for
a long time, weren't we?

3234
02:53:44,505 --> 02:53:46,040
Yeah.
What can we take away?

3235
02:53:46,320 --> 02:53:47,840
What have we got to make sure?

3236
02:53:48,240 --> 02:53:54,175
Okay, one is definitely casting out before
the change of light, whatever it is.

3237
02:53:54,200 --> 02:53:57,175
You want your rig settled as the light is
changing, whether it's

3238
02:53:57,200 --> 02:53:59,815
dusk or dawn, for sure.

3239
02:53:59,840 --> 02:54:01,615
Zero doubt.
Zero doubt.

3240
02:54:01,640 --> 02:54:06,015
One, try some normal bottom baits every
now and then if you're

3241
02:54:06,040 --> 02:54:07,300
not getting any pickups.

3242
02:54:07,640 --> 02:54:08,895
Definitely.
Yeah.

3243
02:54:08,920 --> 02:54:11,255
Two, don't fish on Chunky Gravel.

3244
02:54:11,280 --> 02:54:13,935
I know you're bored of it,
but don't do it.

3245
02:54:13,960 --> 02:54:14,855
Avoid it at all costs.

3246
02:54:14,880 --> 02:54:17,520
It's one of them things that's making it
difficult for you no matter what's

3247
02:54:17,545 --> 02:54:19,735
going down, so just ignore it.

3248
02:54:19,760 --> 02:54:21,480
Fish to the clay to the
left-hand side of it.

3249
02:54:21,505 --> 02:54:22,895
It'll be there.
Or the right.

3250
02:54:22,920 --> 02:54:24,200
Find it.
It'll be there.

3251
02:54:25,240 --> 02:54:27,255
Pre-baiting.
Oh, yeah.

3252
02:54:27,280 --> 02:54:28,120
Do it if you can.

3253
02:54:29,040 --> 02:54:29,535
Yep.

3254
02:54:29,560 --> 02:54:34,815
Don't be disrespectful with people next
to you, but if you don't like them, do it.

3255
02:54:34,840 --> 02:54:35,895
Fair.
Stove it in.

3256
02:54:35,920 --> 02:54:38,255
Yeah, 300.
Like Spooner.

3257
02:54:38,280 --> 02:54:40,780
If you get it for free,
just chuck it everywhere like Spooner.

3258
02:54:42,880 --> 02:54:46,055
I think that's— was that 4 or 5?

3259
02:54:46,080 --> 02:54:47,535
5 or 6, or whatever it is.

3260
02:54:47,560 --> 02:54:48,720
He's struggling to count.

3261
02:54:48,745 --> 02:54:51,000
He's a long way off his
nearest personal best.

3262
02:54:53,840 --> 02:55:01,080
Presentation over effectiveness is a very,
very good rule to live by.

3263
02:55:02,480 --> 02:55:05,880
If you're not presented, you can't get
picked up, no matter how good it is.

3264
02:55:05,920 --> 02:55:08,360
So if it's presented all of the time,
even if it's rubbish,

3265
02:55:08,400 --> 02:55:11,280
it will still be something that's
effective and not getting seen.

3266
02:55:11,720 --> 02:55:13,800
So think about that a lot.

3267
02:55:14,840 --> 02:55:15,840
Fish bigger lakes.

3268
02:55:17,160 --> 02:55:18,400
Little lakes are tricky.

3269
02:55:19,480 --> 02:55:24,575
I would say because we know that the
underwater spots are difficult,

3270
02:55:24,600 --> 02:55:27,460
they're difficult because they're clear
and shallow and gravelly,

3271
02:55:27,485 --> 02:55:29,935
and that does make it hard.

3272
02:55:29,960 --> 02:55:32,360
You want to try and make
it easier for yourself.

3273
02:55:32,720 --> 02:55:36,615
There were like clay spots out in the lake
that we know that Darrell and Tom Stokes

3274
02:55:36,640 --> 02:55:41,615
have caught from,
and you just knew because of the amount of

3275
02:55:41,640 --> 02:55:46,175
action out there and because you know how
different the feeding situation is, is

3276
02:55:46,200 --> 02:55:48,640
that you're catching 3 to 1 on them spots.

3277
02:55:49,400 --> 02:55:55,655
Another thing, watching this back,
it reminded me that that spring lasted

3278
02:55:55,680 --> 02:55:59,975
literally 3 weeks, and people should make
the most of that good weather in that

3279
02:56:00,000 --> 02:56:02,080
springtime, because it can fly by.

3280
02:56:02,800 --> 02:56:05,695
When we first got there,
we were thinking they're not awake yet.

3281
02:56:05,720 --> 02:56:07,660
This was like middle of April, wasn't it?

3282
02:56:08,080 --> 02:56:08,815
Yeah.
Yeah.

3283
02:56:08,840 --> 02:56:10,280
Thinking, oh, they might not feed.

3284
02:56:10,520 --> 02:56:14,095
By the end of it, we were thinking they're
not eating bright ones because it's so

3285
02:56:14,120 --> 02:56:16,400
summer-like, and they're
going to spawn any minute.

3286
02:56:16,425 --> 02:56:18,160
And that was within 3 weeks.

3287
02:56:18,400 --> 02:56:24,615
So that spring that everyone looks for,
you need to be fishing March, not April,

3288
02:56:24,640 --> 02:56:27,895
because it's gone before you know it.

3289
02:56:27,920 --> 02:56:29,575
You need that lead-up,
you need to be learning in the

3290
02:56:29,600 --> 02:56:31,200
lead-up so when it hits you are like—

3291
02:56:31,225 --> 02:56:32,960
You're in tune and ready to go.

3292
02:56:33,160 --> 02:56:35,280
You don't want to be learning in them 2
weeks because everything

3293
02:56:35,305 --> 02:56:36,600
changes so quickly.

3294
02:56:37,120 --> 02:56:40,760
I think that will change everyone's
life if everyone lives by them rules.

3295
02:56:41,280 --> 02:56:44,360
It's very easy to look back on these
things and see where you go wrong and

3296
02:56:44,385 --> 02:56:49,735
where it didn't go right, which is wrong,
but ultimately I had a

3297
02:56:49,760 --> 02:56:51,880
really good time with you.
Oh, I had a great time.

3298
02:56:51,905 --> 02:56:54,000
It was funny.
Yeah, you were quite abusive.

3299
02:56:55,000 --> 02:56:57,520
I'm gonna you up, you little .

3300
02:56:58,520 --> 02:56:59,855
I wouldn't say that.

3301
02:56:59,880 --> 02:57:01,800
You're a idiot.

3302
02:57:02,000 --> 02:57:06,640
But we learned a lot and
we're never doing another one.

3303
02:57:06,680 --> 02:57:07,695
Ever again.

3304
02:57:07,720 --> 02:57:08,895
I'm out.

3305
02:57:08,920 --> 02:57:10,400
Because looking back
at them is always good.

3306
02:57:10,425 --> 02:57:13,895
I really enjoy like looking back on
them because the good parts are amazing.

3307
02:57:13,920 --> 02:57:15,680
Yeah.
But it's so difficult.

3308
02:57:16,280 --> 02:57:18,455
To actually sort of live through it all.

3309
02:57:18,480 --> 02:57:23,200
You've got between a 2.5 and
3-hour film for 3 weeks of pain.

3310
02:57:24,080 --> 02:57:25,175
Mainly pain.

3311
02:57:25,200 --> 02:57:27,700
And some little cherries on the top,
but they're worth it.

3312
02:57:29,960 --> 02:57:32,040
Oh, it's cute, isn't it?
Shall we kiss?

3313
02:57:42,640 --> 02:57:43,720
That one really hurt.