River Monsters – Back on TV Next Week

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Yep, Jeremy's series have been consistently good since the first Jungle Hooks series, some 10/11 years ago.
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I agree...I like his style and the excellent background work he uses to support the actual catching of the fish. More than anything he comes across as a geniune guy who loves his fishing.
Not being a 'Sky' man I have limited access to fishing programmes, and as I cannot stand the other individual who offers a fishing programme (of sorts), Jeremy Wade makes a nice change on cold, wet January nights....
 
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Tonight on "Three men go to New England" BBC2 9.30 the trio try their hand at sport fishing.
It won't be much but maybe worth a look.
 
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Hoorah! I can't wait. :D :w
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You were so right. Three men in a boat fishing was a non event. I was waiting for an anti angling quote such as the one made when Three men in a boat went down the Thames. A carp that has been caught is a "spoilt life".
They then proceeded to boil crayfish which were never eaten! Not that I have anything against boiling the clawed nightmares,it's just the priciple.
 
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Gave it a miss after reading about Griff Rhys Jones in another program (that I also missed) encouraging canoeists and boaters to "disturb as many fishermen as possible" on their travels. Oops, hope I haven’t opened a can of worms with a certain occasional 'poster':eek::wh
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I remember seeing Pacu in the Bournemouth aquarium and thinking they look nasty, but they were meant to be Brazil nut
eating veggies.
This is what happens when you introduce alien species.
As for Rhys-Jones I won't be watching the **** again.
 
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I just don't "get" Jeremy Wade. I've tried to watch most of his stuff, but usually end up annoyed with him; especially the way he treats his guides on film. Surely they don't need to be told three times to "get the net, get the net , get the net". Nor do we need to be told "It's a fish! It's a fish! It's a fish!" every time the rod twitches. I might be doing the guy a dis-service but he ain't my cup o' tea. Thing I found strange was during one episode using a multiplier he persisted in retrieving with the ratchet still on until a hand appeared knocking it off! Funny though; I was never very keen on Matt Hayes either, especially during his "porn star" phase; but after watching Mainstream, and especially with Mick Brown in Rod Race, I really like the bloke now. Not enough detail regarding rigs though, but enough to get me concentrating on what he's doing. He got a lot of bad press from Flyfishers when a couple of articles appeared in one of the fly mags, but I thought he talked good sense and shook things up a bit.
 
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I've been reading the River Monster book over Christmas and must say I've really enjoyed it. Almost as good as my all time favourite read "Somewhere down crazy river" that he wrote with Paul Boote, . The programs are to my mind the most enjoyable fishing programs I've seen, I get bored watching fishing in this country.
I was lucky enough to fish with Jeremy in the Amazon in 1998 and I must say he was a really nice bloke. We caught 36 species of fish mostly on lures, eating what we caught including a heron and sleeping in hammocks stretched across an open sided transport boat we called home for the trip. One of the most enjoyable trips I've ever done.
All the best
Richard
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audi said:
I just don't "get" Jeremy Wade. I've tried to watch most of his stuff, but usually end up annoyed with him; especially the way he treats his guides on film. Surely they don't need to be told three times to "get the net, get the net , get the net". Nor do we need to be told "It's a fish! It's a fish! It's a fish!" every time the rod twitches. I might be doing the guy a dis-service but he ain't my cup o' tea. Thing I found strange was during one episode using a multiplier he persisted in retrieving with the ratchet still on until a hand appeared knocking it off! Funny though; I was never very keen on Matt Hayes either, especially during his "porn star" phase; but after watching Mainstream, and especially with Mick Brown in Rod Race, I really like the bloke now. Not enough detail regarding rigs though, but enough to get me concentrating on what he's doing. He got a lot of bad press from Flyfishers when a couple of articles appeared in one of the fly mags, but I thought he talked good sense and shook things up a bit.
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The reason Jeremy needs to verbalise, 'its a Fish, its a Fish'...... or uses the catch phrase 'fish-on' is to do with the way the production team and equipment work...

the Camera used to film wildlife and other forms of film that require a lot of waiting around has a facility to be left running on the subject. the camera captures and stores units of film in five second chunks and then cleverly deletes the passage of time.

If you picture your own fishing which at times can involve a lot of waiting around, when the Jeremy has a bite, the 'fish-on' is a verbal prompt to wake the camera man up and run VC. Thus retrieveing the vital 5 seconds that would otherwise have been lost.
 
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chav professor said:
The reason Jeremy needs to verbalise, 'its a Fish, its a Fish'...... or uses the catch phrase 'fish-on' is to do with the way the production team and equipment work...

the Camera used to film wildlife and other forms of film that require a lot of waiting around has a facility to be left running on the subject. the camera captures and stores units of film in five second chunks and then cleverly deletes the passage of time.

If you picture your own fishing which at times can involve a lot of waiting around, when the Jeremy has a bite, the 'fish-on' is a verbal prompt to wake the camera man up and run VC. Thus retrieveing the vital 5 seconds that would otherwise have been lost.
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That is really interesting Prof........ I have often wondered how you could film hours of inactivity and not end up with wasted film/memory.You have explained it!! Cheers.
I was thinking of how to film a barbel take on a pin without literally having to run a camcorder for all the time. I can see now that I am not going to beable to do it without inducing a take with a dropper.

Anyway...back on track....I am looking forward to the new series very much.
 
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That's pretty much how Bob filmed the 'pin take on the dvd I had the good fortune to help out on.

Clever stuff.

Have much respect for anyone who goes on film because its nowhwere near as easy as some might think!

Jeremy Wade has a good style and Matt Hayes is a great presenter imo.
 
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Rich Frampton said:
That is really interesting Prof........ I have often wondered how you could film hours of inactivity and not end up with wasted film/memory.You have explained it!! Cheers.
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There's an old guy who does barbel fishing video's on the Swale; he must spend a fortune on memory and batteries recording 'barbel fishing inactivity'
 
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Tonight: Jeremy hunts down an 8 ft creature in the rivers of NZ.

I'd laugh if it turns out to be a f****** Otter. :w
 
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