Sky TV have a channel called .TV (Dot TV), ‘the Technology Channel’. 
They are currently filming a series about new enterprises and Magicalia Ltd, the company behind FISHINGmagic are being featured.
One of the things that caught Sky’s interest was the series of live reports I did whilst bream fishing in Suffolk earlier this year. I relayed news and pictures about our catches, through a laptop computer and mobile phone, almost as they happened, direct to the FISHINGmagic web site.
So here we are, Sally, FISHINGmagic and OUTDOORSmagic commercial manager, and myself, being filmed by Sky making this live report that you’re reading right now.
I’ve chosen a stretch of the river Dane in Cheshire to fish for barbel. 
Mainly because it’s convenient to the M6 for the Sky people and not too far to travel from Crewe station where I picked Sally up a couple of hours ago. Plus I have a back-up water nearby if too many anglers were fishing where we wanted to film. No point in spoiling their fishing is there?
Not an easy task catching any fish today, being as we started at mid-day, it’s blazing hot and dazzling bright, the water is crystal clear, and I’ve got a cameraman and a lady interviewer peering over my shoulder firing questions at me.
Before we started I’d fed the swim with a few handfuls of SBS CSL Pellets and half a dozen lumps of luncheon meat, 
and blow me if I didn’t see the white belly of a barbel flash as one twisted in the current to accept my free offerings.
But they didn’t want me to fish until I’d been wired for sound and they were in position to film the action. Straight away I had a reasonable bite but missed it. I felt the bite but didn’t see it because I was looking at the camera at the time and mustering my thoughts about the question I’d just been asked.
Then the cameraman was filming me every which way but loose, 
including standing right at the edge of the water looking back up the bank at me, which of course killed any chance of catching one stone dead. I mean, it would, wouldn’t it, standing at the edge of a 2ft deep swim in the middle of a hot, bright day?
Sally was then interviewed, and while that was going on I fed the swim again and came away from it. Fifteen minutes later I went back and within five minutes hooked and landed a small barbel, which Sally photographed with the digital camera. 
Following that I uploaded the pictures into the laptop, edited them suitable for the web, and sent them through the mobile phone to the FISHINGmagic server. Then I wrote this text you’re reading right now while they filmed me doing it, uploaded it to FISHINGmagic, and put this feature together.
Almost as it’s happening.
Technology eh – good init! God, I love a gizmo!
Watch out for the programme in early October – Sky .TV Channel. A programme called Upstarts, the 3rd one of the series of 6.
