A Passion For Angling - The Complete Series

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Top of the aquatic food chain is that most popular of animals, the otter, and they are now having to scratch around all day just to catch a few little bullheads. Martin Bowler and I started production on July 22nd 2007, when we filmed our first “impossible”, the catching of a giant barbel of 15lbs 7ozs from the Great Ouse. Martin and I have committed four and a half years of our lives trying to make the series of eight one hour films a bit special. I started with 2lb roach and perch at Sway, then owner Tim took me out on the Solent in his boat and we caught mackerel and black bream.

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Given the ephemeral nature of television, it's remarkable that it was shown so many times by the BBC, followed by years of transmission on Discovery.We feel sure that anglers will find this combination of seriously big fish and underwater action inspiring and judging by the reactions from those who have seen some of the sequences, non anglers are amazed at the size of the monsters that we’ve caught. pages, over 400 pics from the filming, lovely wildlife shots, film strips direct from the movies, beautiful illustrations from legendary artist Rodger McPhail and too many words from Martin and myself. I’ve since had a couple more of about the same size, on my own this time, and they are such splendid, hard fighting fish that I wonder why I don’t fish for the golden beauties more often. On April 28th I filmed roach spawning for the Avon Roach Project and hope to add barbel spawning on the Wensum, maybe even ‘live’ on the box.

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The Avon Roach Project is going from strength to strength, and I helped Trevor Harrop and keeper Pete Orchard prepare the pools at Longford for the protection of the previous years fry. Our series of Ch 4 films, ‘Catching the Impossible’ are still going strong and still showing on Discovery Channel.

Hello Huge, I´m Claudia, you sent me a picture of Penny to Santiago Chile, I was the recepcionist of the hotel Explora. The different episodes show a variety of locations as well as styles of angling and species of fish as the quarry. Even if you saw this on TV, the DVD's are worth getting as there is an extra 15 minutes in each episode. Filming for over five years while trying to catch our “impossible” sized fish was challenging, but the enjoyment we had and the kindness and generosity shown us by the many land-owners, bailiffs and angling friends was remarkable.

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As for the future, my daughter asked me to list all the films I have ever made and it came to 66 wildlife films, plus more than 30 when I was at the BBC. The year started with a grand gathering of friends in Martin Bowler's local pub to celebrate his birthday. However, as you'll see by viewing the series 'Catching the Impossible', Martin, Bernard and friends did achieve an amazing number of goals and the story of how they did it is still out there on DVD for you to enjoy. As some of you will be aware, we’ve been sounding out the TV channels to assess our chances of a showing next year, and contrary to reports in the press, we do have some interest from various places. It's the piscatorial adventures of two middle aged anglers, Chris Yates and Bob James set in various locati.

Ch 4 plan to repeat the series in the Spring, and if you all watch and provide them with a big audience, maybe they will give us a more ‘accessible’ slot and we can show ‘proper’ UK fishing with our best anglers to an even wider audience.

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I have finally convinced the BBC that they should be looking below the surface of our rivers and lakes for new wildlife stories and last October the BBC made a little film about me and the filming of roach and barbel in the Hampshire Avon. So as a passionate conservationist I’m keen to make people aware of how valuable our chalk streams are and raise the profile of their extraordinary wildlife, including the fish that are so often overlooked but vital to wetland ecosystems throughout Britain. The book is excellent and so is the filming, brilliant to watch and a pity it is not on terrestrial television. What a busy but enjoyable year we've had, with plenty of film-making to keep me off the river banks. Bernard did a lovely job narrating “A Passion for Angling”, the difference this time being that he gets to fish.This was my fathers favourite fishing film ever, and sadly, the VHS version has passed its sell by date. He's made over sixty wildlife films around the world for all the major broadcasters, including the BBC, ITV, Nat. However, I love all forms of angling and it’s given me so much enjoyment that like “A Passion for Angling”, [ which I made for the BBC with Chris Yates and Bob James ], this new series of films will try to repay this debt of gratitude by benefiting angling as a whole, by showing fishing in a good light, and encouraging more into the sport. It's a beautiful big book, 370 pages, over 400 pics taken during the filming, photos of wildlife, film strips taken direct from the movies and last but not least, beautiful illustrations by renowned artist and angler, Rodger McPhail. He too is a mad keen angler and as if to confirm his years of experience, he’s shown Martin a thing or two and never blanked, even with salmon on the Royalty.