It's in the can!

A trip to the river with cameras and I realise just how difficult it is to put together a good  angling film, at least when you are fishing solo. Four hours of angling (or is that filming?) resulting in a just few minutes of footage after a day's editing. It's all a massive learning curve to a complete novice...

But the new bug has bitten and I'm already planning future projects. This little snippet is a first attempt at filming brook pike on the fly and I learned a lot about a whole new heap of challenges and frustrations - as if fishing wasn't difficult enough already! The biggest challenge is psychological - splitting your attention between fishing and filming leaves you wondering whether you would catch more if you weren't mucking about with technology. On the other hand you come away with a nagging feeling that you could have captured better footage if you had paid more attention to camera angles!

I was trying really hard to get some footage of the take or at least some follows from the pike. But the brook was up and coloured from the heavy rains and follows when they happened were always just out of range of the submerged camera. I am pretty happy with my improvised 'landing net cam' though and the cogs are whirring as I dream up new dodges and angles for next time..