hi and welcome to another video from me mark carp of the north west carp and angler's diary
fishing blogs a couple of weeks ago I put a small clip on YouTube of me surface
fishing literally this far from the bank really
really close in I didn't catch the fish the fish came up for the bait and took it
and I struck and it came off I won't go over the clip it's on the YouTube
channel with the title 'I Had Him' on the thumbnail if you want to
watch it it's only a minute and a half long but one of the comments in the
video prompted this what I'm gonna do now now the comment said that's a minute
and a half of my life I'm not gonna get back which is fair enough you know not
everybody likes short clips like that but I'm gonna show you what I took from that
clip because the comment to me was completely unjustified because I got an
awful lot out of that as we are going to see now so what I'm
gonna do is I'm going to go through the clip I'm gonna analyze it and pick out a
few points to see where I went wrong because sometimes you have to re-learn
these lessons you know we all learn as were going long in fishing like but
sometimes you just forget what you're doing and you're oblivious
to it and that day I was oblivious to what I was doing wrong but when I
looked at the clip back oh yeah that's what happened and since then I've been
consciously trying to correct it and I've caught a few fish as well so the lesson
I learned was a pretty valid one so let's analyze the clip now I'll take a look at
it and I'll show you exactly what went wrong and what I did to rectify it okay
so let's take a look okay so I've just pointed my camera at the screen and
I've got my mouse on here so we can see what's going on now okay
I've got more footage than this clip but just from this clip alone it's pretty
easy to work out what's going on all this flotsam here has drifted down
into a corner and the fish are underneath it
because they feel quite safe underneath it it gives me an advantage that they
can't see me but I can't see them but I can see where the are from the
swirls and water movement okay so the fish are coming either from the left or
from the right either way okay and they are moving along and what I was doing you
know apart from this random clip I was dropping biscuits out of sight on the
left and out of sight on the right okay so the fish were moving along margins
closer in closer in closer in taking baits until they get into this area
which is where I've got my hook bait now when I dropped the bait in and I lowered
the bait in there's the hook bait going in it's dangling around here I've
dropped it in I'm gonna put the line down and then notice the angle that
comes down at here okay it's like nearly 45 degrees maybe even less 30 degrees
angle like that across here if we count with straight piece
as a reference because the fish are coming right and left I've put the rod tip on the
grass that's out of sight here because it was silent and wasn't going to make any
noises and the line is coming like this okay now if we wait for the fish to come
and take the bait which is another few seconds of your life you probably won't
get back then we can see what happens you see the fish comes in from this way
and grabs the biscuit and when I strike I strike this way so the mouth is here
the line is running that way and I pull this way so basically pulling the line
out of the fish's mouth and that's why I've got a hook pull there it goes
as you can see it came in from this way and I pulled this way and it led to
well not a fish hooked but expletives okay so that's how I worked out what was
wrong with that video okay so what I did from then on is when I found myself in
this situation again and I caught fish in this area off this platform I kept the
line that way so it's in 90 degrees to the bank I've got the bank here and the
line goes straight out that way when the fish comes from the left or from the
right all I've got to do is either lift up
or up and slightly to one side so for example of the fish comes from the left
I'm gonna lift up and strike to the left I'm not gonna try and pull the biscuit
out of its mouth I'm gonna go that way with the strike and if it comes in from
the right again I'm not going to strike that way I'm going to go that way
or upwards okay because that will give a better chance of hooking the fish and of
course it did as you can see from the fish that are
on the screen now I think I've had half a dozen commons between 10 and just under
16 pound one after another all caught literally within a foot of the bank by
making sure that the line is that way and that's all it was okay so this
little clip actually it taught me a lot okay so although it might be a minute
and a half someone can't get back if you look at things closely and you break
them down then you can learn something from it okay so that's what I learned
from analyzing that clip and watching it back and looking at it I actually pulled
the biscuit out of the fish's mouth when I struck and
I've been consciously working on that and trying not to do that you've got to
really concentrate fishing on the surface because the bait goes in
quick and the fish comes up really fast
you've got literally a split second to decide when to strike and you've got to
really really focus which ways it coming up from which ways it coming up
from you're looking for the fish to come up before it actually takes the biscuit
so you've got that little split second to decide it's a really really difficult
thing to do actually to concentrate and focus that hard
poised and ready to strike and to not know which way you're gonna strike
or anything like that it's quite difficult so by keeping the bait
straight out and striking upwards that worked for me and as you can see it's a produced
quite a few fish okay so that's an analysis of what happened I hope you
enjoyed watching that and you took something from it you know it just goes to
show you what someone could see in one video someone will miss and that's the
thing about my videos you should always watch all of them when I make my
films they are in sections beginning to end and it's a whole process and if you
tune away you might miss something okay so this video on-screen here that's the
clip the original clip that you've just seen and down here is a video that
YouTube thinks you might like okay so check them out and I'll see you next
time tight lines and take care