I love it when an interesting and relevant fishing video pops up in my YouTube feed and really gets me thinking

I know it’s easy for me to say when I have been so useless with my own YouTube channel of late, but there are a number of fishing videos I see in my feed which to be honest leave me a bit cold with the lack of editing, samey camera angles, bad sound, a lack of B-roll/cutaways, and poor presentation. By no means am I saying that I can make decent YouTube videos myself by the way, but there is so much stuff out there these days that I guess it takes something a bit better to hold our interest for a decent length of time…………….

So it was great to see this video below from the “Fishy Tom” YouTube channel pop up in my feed the other day. Big respect firstly to whoever has made the effort to film and put this good looking fishing video together (I think it might be Tom Bagnall of Christchurch Angling Centre), and secondly to the anglers for catching some cracking bass in the middle of winter - and allowing cameras to film them doing so! It’s partly why I have done so little with my own YouTube channel, the fact that I can’t successfully hide where I am fishing and I (selfishly?) really value bass fishing which is as quiet and tucked away as possible. Plus to be honest I am a bit of a dinosaur and I far prefer shooting photographs over trying to film stuff.

This video above is centred around a specific soft plastic lure which I know very little about - the MegaBass Dark Sleeper, as per the photo below. I own one and I have had a bit of a play with it in the past, but I don’t pretend to remotely understand what are obviously various intricacies of the Dark Sleeper which an obviously bloody good angler called Darren Pease explains in this fascinating video. I know the other lad in the video because he has fished with us in Ireland a few times, and he tells me that they have had some fantastic bass fishing on these Dark Sleepers right through winter. There are various factors which he is convinced are worth implementing…………

Which leads me to a second video from the same Fishy Tom channel. This one below was made before the video above, but I think it’s worth watching the visual podcast style video afterwards because it helps explain a lot of their thinking in the actual fishing video. It will all make sense if you watch both videos, and if at least something contained within these two videos doesn’t get your brain bouncing then you are a very different species to me. Ever wonder for example why many of those red Tenryu rods have slightly bigger guides? Big respect lads.

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