Dec 2011: method ball and pack bait, how they break down,
and how carp go after them.
Dec 2011: paylaking-like rigs and packbait
Jun 2011: Post spawn carp biting fast & furious!
Jun 2011: Uninterrupted footage of active post-spawn carp seeking food.
Mar 2011: PVA bags dissolving in the water. Ghostie carp. And more.
Mar 2011: Testing a line aligner rig. A glimpse of a koi.
Underwater Videos 2010
No raw video uploaded as Google Video is no longer available for uploads... Hmpf. If you have another idea for unlimited uploads (size and time), tell me...
25-Apr-10: trying a semi-fixed rig for a change. Carp did cooperate. This was quite eye opening for me, definitely worth experimenting a bit more.
11-Dec-10: the river was already partly frozen, I couldn't bring fish to the shore, so I decided to just check how they would react to boiled maize soaked in some heavily spiced chocolate concoction. They did get at it, but without full enthusiasm. Unclear if this was just too spicy, or if they weren't hungry enough.
01-Apr-10: two videos showing carp behavior when presented with a pop-up. First video focused more on when it doesn't work...
...while the second video focuses on the successes.
15-Mar-10: Patchwork of underwater scenes. Carp cooperating with the angler... or not! A munching carp drove me nuts.
My newer videos on YouTube and Google Video (2007/08/09)
28-Mar-09: various misc tests. Part 1 is about using strongly flavored (anise) maize on a bed of regular chum. Didn't work out too well. Part 2 is about a long shank hook (Kamazan B745, pretty bad hooks!) combined with a hair aligner rig. Didn't work well, either. Part 3 is my first test with a pop-up, but the 20mm boilie I had was too big for those fish. Finally, in Part 4, I played with two floating fake kernels of corn (unflavored), rig was critically balanced. Didn't work too well either. Wasn't my day! ;-)
16-Mar-09: I was using a stiff hook link (Snakebite 25lb) and a hair positioned along the hook shank (hair aligner). Then I introduced a couple of variations. At the very end, you'll find a "dancing carp" (I swear!). Visibility was quite good for once.
I played around with slow motion (five times slower than real time) to make a new video based on material I recorded earlier this year. See also the video response from a friend. I also extracted one video frame after another for the last run. 30 frames per second, 48 frames, so the recording lasts one second and a half, no more! Check out the Anatomy of a Run slideshow.
06-Mar-09: Testing again with Terry's rig & straighter hook. Carp weren't active at all where I recorded, cf. most chum dropped farther away. Very boring material!
01-Mar-09: Testing again with regular rig + hinge (and -poor- dip) => Part 1 and 2. Then Terry's rig (hair aligner) with a straighter hook (worked much better) => Part 3. Best part wasn't properly recorded though... Aarg.
21-Feb-09: Testing with more bait on the hair... Part 1 and Part2: mini-boilie + one kernel of sweet corn. Part 3: mini-boilie + 2 kernels. Part 4: playing with Honey Mustard as a dip (yes!)
16-Feb-09: Carp actively competing for food (sweet corn, maize, sweet feed). Believe it or not, I had to break a thin layer of ice to drop bait & lower the underwater camera... As to Waldo, this is a neat linear carp. We see it several times. Unedited raw material, quite fun to watch in its entirety.
See also some material recorded just after, where a round lead acts in an unwieldy manner: Raw Video
13-Feb-09: Experiment with a fairly long hair and a single bait, a small Timeless Bait unflavored mini-boilie (semi-buoyant, but not enough to lift the hook off the bottom).
This video directly follows the "Carp Live! Delicacy" video. After feeding them, it was time to catch them. And catch, I did... One of the most successful carp videos on YouTube.
This is the unedited material corresponding to the "delicacy!" and "hooked & hooked" edited videos. This is almost entirely continuous, I just stopped the recording for a few minutes here and there when I started to catch.
A big continous raw video segment where I threw tiger nuts in the water, and observed what happened. To my amazement, they started eating it right away. But it took a long time for them to actually clean up the bottom, because they tasted & rejected the nuts many times before actually swallowing them. Sadly, the water wasn't quite clear this day (early Feb-08), so the video quality is pretty poor. As a side note, the swim was iced out, I had to break some thin ice to lower down my camera and drop the nuts!
Edith (my wife) cooked and flavored some birdfood. So we tested it. And they definitely liked it. A tad too much for one of them! This video won the Nature Vision Aquavu monthly contest for underwater videos.
This time, I didn't throw anything in the water, I just recorded the carp (and bass) leisurely roaming. For you to see their behavior before you throw your bait, or when bait is very sparse.
It follows the previous one ("Just Roaming"), I threw in the water some of my favorite mix. You can see the carp getting more & more interested. But it takes a while.
This one was weird. I threw a ball of bait in the water, it started to dissolve, and then the strangest carp came by. I think its bladder was punctured. Yet it survived!
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