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Category: Underwater Angling

1 Jul

Bream Fishing : Big Bream Underwater

Bream Fishing : Big Bream Underwater
Bream Fishing : Big Bream Underwater   Recently, I set out on an ambitious project to try and film double-figure bream underwater. The results turned out pretty well and led to this film - Bream Fishing : Big Bream Underwater, that you can watch below. My venue was a weedy gravel pit, best known for its small head of carp, and less well known, or perhaps infamous, for its big head of bream! The lake is often very clear, making it ideal for filming, although this does promote weed growth. Weed though is a common problem on many gravel pits throughout the summer, so this was a good opportunity to talk about the tactics that I have used to good effect on this...
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6 Apr

UNDERWATER ANGLING – Near enough?

Iget asked a lot what are the most influential things that I have picked up when filming underwater. Now, I could make up some bull about how this or that has been absolutely revolutionary, but that’s really not my style. In fact, often the things that stick in my mind are some of the pictures that are a lot more mundane. Take this shot for example. We had been messing about looking at casting accuracy and I came up with the idea of tethering a marker float to a big lead and leaving it on the bottom to mark a spot I had found using a normal marker float set-up. The game then was to recast the marker...
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