stu_the_blank
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Having looked at the video on the Features section and by complete coincidence having just had some of my old VHS angling videos put onto DVD. What is the best Angling Video you've ever seen?
Passion for Angling must be up there, some of the original John Wilsons were pretty good too.
My favourite is an Australian Video, 'The Ribbons' from a series called big fish down under. I first saw it at a BCSG/CAA 'conference' in the mid/late 80's. I was brousing around the trade area at lunchtime and my attention was drawn to a video Leslies of Luton had on. Drawn is an understatement. I was captivated.
While fishing for smaller big game fish off the Barrier Reef, an 800lb Marlin 'jumped on'! Hopelessly outgunned, the fight is on. Over the next 20 minutes of video, great shots of this giant of the deep leaping around, the boat is on full reverse to keep up with it, the reel overheats and seizes up, they cut the line and handline an 800 lb fish using boat speed to keep in touch, tie it onto a new reel and rod and eventually bring it alongside to tag and release. Epic stuff, modern day Hemmingway.
Anyway, to start with I noticed a few people joining me to watch, but being at the front and so absorbed by the drama unfoldong on screen, I didn't notice that the stalls in the area had temporarily closed and a crowd of 30-50 people had stopped what they were doing to watch the video. Epic!!
I got home and mentioned it to the lovely person I've lived with most of my life and unbeknown to me, she tracked it down through Leslies and it arrived under the Christmas Tree later that year. Just had it coverted to DVD and it's still captivating after all these years. Even Moustache's have come back into fashion!
Stu
Passion for Angling must be up there, some of the original John Wilsons were pretty good too.
My favourite is an Australian Video, 'The Ribbons' from a series called big fish down under. I first saw it at a BCSG/CAA 'conference' in the mid/late 80's. I was brousing around the trade area at lunchtime and my attention was drawn to a video Leslies of Luton had on. Drawn is an understatement. I was captivated.
While fishing for smaller big game fish off the Barrier Reef, an 800lb Marlin 'jumped on'! Hopelessly outgunned, the fight is on. Over the next 20 minutes of video, great shots of this giant of the deep leaping around, the boat is on full reverse to keep up with it, the reel overheats and seizes up, they cut the line and handline an 800 lb fish using boat speed to keep in touch, tie it onto a new reel and rod and eventually bring it alongside to tag and release. Epic stuff, modern day Hemmingway.
Anyway, to start with I noticed a few people joining me to watch, but being at the front and so absorbed by the drama unfoldong on screen, I didn't notice that the stalls in the area had temporarily closed and a crowd of 30-50 people had stopped what they were doing to watch the video. Epic!!
I got home and mentioned it to the lovely person I've lived with most of my life and unbeknown to me, she tracked it down through Leslies and it arrived under the Christmas Tree later that year. Just had it coverted to DVD and it's still captivating after all these years. Even Moustache's have come back into fashion!
Stu