I’ve put a new “how to fish a specific lure” video up on YouTube

I am not at all sure where I am going with this YouTube stuff because there are all manner of different issues that I have yet to work out in my head, but it’s interesting to have a bit of a play with video instead of stills. Whilst this video here today is essentially a very simple “How to fish a certain lure” sort of thing, in reality it was far more of an exercise in me heading out on my own to shoot some specific video footage which I could then edit into what you see here……………….

When you have a BAFTA award winning editor as a younger brother like I do, me talking about my editing “skills” has to be put into context here! Give me hundreds of RAW files to sort through and rename and keyword and process out as JPEGs/photos and I’m your man, but a load of 4K footage to import into Final Cut Pro and then try to make sense of it all and cut together a cohesive and easy to follow video? Not so sure I’m your man on that front, but I do enjoy learning about this stuff, and it continues to amaze me when I think back to my early days of minor TV programmes and the sheer size of the cameras and tripods and sound gear and so on which we had on location. I now routinely carry a mirrorless camera for my photography work which can also shoot amazing quality video if you know what you’re doing - I don’t - and the tiny little GoPro can be mounted almost anywhere and the footage looks pretty damn good to me if you take into account the various limitations and run with them. If you’re going to get involved with a bit of filming fishing then I would suggest that a camera which doesn’t mind getting wet or bumped around is better than a camera which might shoot better quality footage but which you can’t risk getting a soaking and so on.

So the other day I took Storm for a walk along with a (prototype) lure rod and a GoPro with tripod etc., and because I had some very simple iPhone 4K footage which I had shot last summer of one of these Gravity Stick Pulsetail soft plastics swimming in the water (see this video here), it made sense to try and shoot a very simple “how to fish the Pulsetail” video and cut that existing footage in for the lure action in the water stuff. It’s such a simple lure to fish with - whack it out and wind it in, there’s more to it if you want, but it was always meant to be an easy lure to fish with and then you can modify things as you see fit - so in some respects a “how to fish the Pulsetail” video isn’t exactly imparting much knowledge that most anglers who pick a Pulsetail up and fish with it won’t realise almost straight away. But that was never really the point of this short video. If it helps anybody out then that’s more than good enough for me, and whilst I remain unsure where to try and go with this filming stuff, I’m up for a bit of a go at it.

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