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The Grand Fishing Adventure S03E04 (06 May 2025)
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00:00This is the most epic underwater footage I've ever watched unfold in front of me.
00:05Prepare to immerse yourself into the underwater unknowns
00:09that obsess anglers across the globe.
00:11Ready?
00:12I'm fishing maniac Ali Hamidi.
00:15And we're off the underwater mark.
00:16And alongside our underwater experts.
00:19This is amazing.
00:22And my angling buddies.
00:23Unbelievable. Feels like a very, very good fish.
00:26We'll expose underwater myths and truths.
00:30What is the answer?
00:31Want to see what baits carp love most?
00:34Now we're talking attraction.
00:36Experience tackle and tech in different scenarios.
00:41It's on fire.
00:42And witness the fine lines between success
00:47and failure.
00:48No, no, no.
00:50All is unearthed in the underwater grand fishing adventure.
00:54Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:57We've got ourselves a piggy underwater.
01:11Our trip continues at Ictus, Southern France.
01:14Zamora.
01:15I just do the tapping.
01:16Luke the diver.
01:17Interesting things.
01:18And myself.
01:19Come on.
01:20The team's quest was to catch a colourful Koi Yeech.
01:23A 50 pound plus carp.
01:25With all the bites on an underwater camera.
01:28We'd seen lots of action.
01:30Had come close.
01:31Aargh.
01:33But no conversions.
01:36Bobby had had the only daytime bite.
01:38But he'd gone long into deeper murky water.
01:41With no underwater camera for the bite.
01:43It resulted in a 30 pound common.
01:46But also a yellow carp for straying from the underwater mission in hand.
01:51So three targets still to hit with time running out fast.
01:55It was a cool April dawn and three full fishing days later ahead of us.
02:04The carp were already active and showing but way out beyond our swim boundary over the deepest part of the lake.
02:10Luke had just placed my first rig into position in front of my live cam up the right hand margin.
02:16A tiger nut and half an almond pop up on a locked spinner rig.
02:20This area had seen plenty of carp already.
02:23But mainly limited to the last hour of daylight each day.
02:26Luke worked like a machine in the early morning cold temperatures.
02:30Which was more than can be said about Zamo.
02:33Morning.
02:35Very cold.
02:37Oh, I'm very stiff.
02:39Unlike the carp.
02:42The next mission was the open water rod starting with Bob's live cam.
02:46It needed repositioning.
02:48Luke moved it to as far as the cable allowed.
02:50So it was a bit closer to the showing carp.
02:54We're going into deep water.
02:57Seeing if we can push the boundaries of clarity.
03:00Bait.
03:00Luke.
03:02A deeper spot even further down the plateau in the sand.
03:06On the edge of the mud.
03:07Bob was using the same rig as on my margin spot.
03:10Sitting prominent on the light sandy lake bed.
03:13Is this ability good?
03:15Is this ability decent?
03:16Rigs in position.
03:18Just a little bit of bait down there.
03:20Oh, you've got to take the bait yet.
03:22You haven't done it yet.
03:22No, no, no.
03:23All right.
03:23Get down there, boy.
03:27Once a bit of free bait was scattered around Bob's hook bait, it was onto my open water spot.
03:32This was the same rig but with a different hook bait.
03:37Half a boilie soaked in pineapple goo, a fake snail plus a fake blood worm topper.
03:43This went in front of my open water spy cam which was also pushed a little further out near to Bob's live cam.
03:49Would the moves into deeper water pay off or would the clarity get too smoked up?
03:56Only time would tell.
03:57Great to see that Zamo was paying full attention and not just surfing the interweb in the spring sunshine.
04:05Five rigs went out in total.
04:07Two on live cameras that could be viewed as it happens in the control tent and also three spy cams.
04:13These could only be viewed retrospectively after they've been retrieved.
04:17What we like to call carp VAR.
04:20We were locked and loaded and a waiting game began once more.
04:24A few hours later the first fish appeared on the live cams.
04:28Initially a quick drive-by on Bob's open water spot.
04:32Then a carp moved in at the back of my margin area.
04:35This instantly buoyed the mood in the control tent.
04:39Oh Bobby Zamora, oh Bobby Zamora, he's on a yella, he's on a yella, he's on a yella.
04:54Tandem appearances.
05:01I'm pretty sure you've not been watching this camera for the last two hours.
05:05I mean, I go...
05:05Oh, it's up the back of there again, ghosty.
05:08No, don't do that.
05:09No, get us a ghosty.
05:10Get us a ghosty, Bob.
05:12Catch us a ghosty.
05:14That's eating up the back of the spot.
05:16Bobby Zamora, we have the earliest feeding.
05:19We have gone deeper with the live cam.
05:22We've made some good decisions this morning.
05:24They're getting confident.
05:26Then they see the big bright red one.
05:28They come in for the big bright red one.
05:30Then they end up here next to me and you on this bank for a cheesy selfie.
05:35Oh, there's fish coming in regular, Bob.
05:37Holy moly, it's turned on a sixpence.
05:41Moving the camera to deeper water definitely worked well.
05:44The carp were coming in and checking out the new spot.
05:46The clarity wasn't great, but we could definitely still see them.
05:51We just wanted to get that first bite on camera.
05:54Bob's open water spot was building up nicely
05:56with carp frequency increasing minute by minute.
06:00Oh, they've come up.
06:01Thank God we've moved that live cam.
06:04We have interest in the middle of the day.
06:08Oh, Bobby is coming down.
06:10Oh, my God.
06:14You're about to get a bite, Bob.
06:16You're about to get a bite.
06:17You're about to get...
06:18Oh, I spooked.
06:19I just spooked away.
06:22It felt like feeding time at the zoo was starting.
06:25Even I had to get involved.
06:32Koi as well.
06:34Koi as well.
06:35What a lunchtime bit of entertainment.
06:38Oh, ghosty.
06:39Ghosty.
06:39Go on.
06:40Good line.
06:42They're eating.
06:43They're only...
06:43They have...
06:44Oh, and another ghosty behind it.
06:46Two ghosties back to back.
06:48That's a bigger one.
06:50Wowzers.
06:52Wowzers, ladies and gentlemen.
06:54Close.
06:54We are close.
06:54We are close.
06:55We are close.
06:56We are close.
06:56Oh.
06:57Oh.
06:58Good line.
06:59Dip down.
07:00You little monkey.
07:01Ah.
07:03Oh, go on.
07:04Go on.
07:04That's the biggest fish so far.
07:06Oh, my God.
07:08That's the biggest one in the swim.
07:09It's got to be some aura.
07:12That's a monster.
07:13Turn.
07:14Turn.
07:14Come on, man.
07:15Turn.
07:16Oh, my God.
07:19That is a massive fish.
07:21There's a koi.
07:23It has gone radio rental.
07:25There's bait waft in everywhere.
07:26We've lost a bit of viz.
07:28That was so close.
07:29Oh.
07:30Oh.
07:30Oh.
07:31Koi.
07:32Ah, touch your bait.
07:33Two koi in the swim at the same time.
07:35You just missed it.
07:36This is incredible.
07:37Two koi in the swim at the same time.
07:39Oh, don't.
07:41Oh, mate, there's fish soup down here, mate.
07:43This is fish soup.
07:44You're about to get a bite.
07:45This was the best spell we'd witnessed here in France so far.
07:50It was turning into a feeding frenzy, and now Bob was about to get stuck in as well.
07:55Radio rental.
07:57Then through the murk came a ghostly shape.
08:00Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:02Oh, yeah, ghosty.
08:04You've nailed it.
08:06Yeah, yes, ghosty.
08:09It's a ghosty.
08:10Get it in there in the middle of the day, mate.
08:13Yes.
08:16It was all systems going into action mode within seconds.
08:20We got the underwater bite.
08:21Now we just had to get it in.
08:23Bob, Luke, and I got out to the deep and water in double quick time.
08:30We were like the three carpeteers.
08:39You can first play that fish, boy.
08:40Luke now had the carp in his camera sight.
08:48Whilst Bob played the ghosty with precision, I decided to set myself a little netting challenge.
08:54I've never done this before.
08:56I've never netted a fish not looking but using a selfie.
08:59If I screwed this up, I'd never live it down.
09:04Concentrate, Hamidi.
09:06No, look netted.
09:12No, look netted.
09:14No, look netted.
09:16It wasn't really the time for a no-look netting from Ali, but we got the first fish caught on the underwater camera in the bag.
09:34Get it down.
09:36As always, if there's carp on your spot, it's best to retain the carp in a sling if the lake allows it,
09:42which is what the hero Gabriel Stoyan is doing here.
09:45Then get your rod back out in the zone, top up with a little more bait, all before you check out your prize.
09:51Our first proper full daytime bite, and this lovely ghosty has slipped into the net.
10:00Rods are out, and we hope for a few more.
10:03A ghost carp is a hybrid that is a cross between a mirror or common and a koi.
10:08They usually have a distinctive H pattern on their skull, translucent appearance,
10:12and personally, I've always found them to be finicky feeders and trickier to catch.
10:17Spooky.
10:21A couple of hours later, no more bites for Bob, but the action had swapped to my live cam on my right-hand margin spot.
10:32Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
10:37Go on. Go on, Blynia. That's my hook bait.
10:41He's got it. He's taken it. It's in his mouth. He does it even though he's got it.
10:48No, he's done me. He's dropped it out of his mouth.
10:51That linear coming in, he sucked, he didn't even spook.
10:54He just had the hookbait in his mouth and it just fell back out of his mouth.
10:57100% it was in his mouth.
10:59100% in his mouth, mate.
11:00Watch this.
11:01Suck, suck, suck.
11:03Look at this hookbait, it goes completely in his mouth.
11:06Look.
11:07Oh, no, it doesn't. It pushes it out of the way.
11:10It's the side of his face.
11:12Yeah.
11:13Alright, I feel better now. Thank you, Bob, for the counselling.
11:16It's so crazy seeing this stuff play out live.
11:19Things that can happen, but often we'd never know about
11:23that wasn't an underwater camera.
11:26That near miss was the closest we got on that day.
11:29Just two more days remained for us to catch a koi each,
11:32a £50 plus cart for either of us,
11:35all caught on underwater cameras.
11:37This was going to be tough.
11:39It was our penultimate day in France.
11:49We woke to a fresh morning with carp topping again in the middle of the lake.
11:54They were also on the deck on Bob's live cam spot in the open water,
11:58hoovering up the free bait we'd just put out late last night once the rods had come in.
12:04The rigs were ready.
12:05Luke, the machine, started by deploying Bob's open water live cam first.
12:10Honestly, he's crazy.
12:12That water is freezing.
12:14Zamora had gone with a tiger nut and yellow pop-up combo and a locked spinner rig.
12:20Luke placed it on the spot, which was now almost cleared out of free bait,
12:24so he gave it a top up.
12:26I switched to a hook bait that I'd caught my biggest ever carp
12:32on a Buttercorn and Wonderberry flavoured white boilie.
12:36We'd now fed a lot of boilie over the week
12:39and the carp now seemed to be really getting on it.
12:41A light coloured boilie looked washed out,
12:43like some of the old loose feed that could still be out there.
12:47We decided to push the boundaries once more
12:50and place the rig and spike amp a little further out into deeper water.
12:54The clarity wasn't brilliant, but we'd give it a go.
12:59We also put out three more rigs.
13:01Bob had one up his left margin on a spy cam
13:04and I had another on a spy cam in open water,
13:07along with one up my right margin in front of the usual live cam.
13:11All the rods were now fishing.
13:14Also, there were new anglers in the swims opposite
13:17and to our left making up the Bermuda Triangle.
13:21This extra pressure could work in our favour,
13:24helping to push the carp closer to us.
13:27And coincidence or not,
13:29carp started to appear on Bob's live camera
13:32much earlier than any other day.
13:35That's close.
13:37That's great, Bob.
13:39Earlier than ever.
13:409.30.
13:429.31.
13:43Maybe the other fishermen on the lake have helped us.
13:48It was getting busy on Bob's live cam
13:50and one of my spy cams was very close indeed to it.
13:53So if there were carp around Bob's rig,
13:55there were bound to be carp around mine too.
13:58Oh, another one coming in.
14:01You're going to get a bite, Bob, very soon, mate.
14:04I just hope they just keep coming back after.
14:07They'll be feeding on both of them spots right as we speak.
14:10Yeah.
14:11The carp were now coming in thick and fast on Bob's live.
14:15That's going to go for your hook bait, Bob.
14:17Yeah.
14:18That's going to go for your hook bait.
14:19One suck.
14:20No, missed it.
14:21No, it's taking it.
14:22It's going to take it now.
14:23I think it sucked it.
14:24No.
14:25And you got...
14:26No.
14:27That's taken, isn't it?
14:28No.
14:29At any point here, ladies and gentlemen,
14:31Bobby's right-hander, my left-hander could go
14:34because they're fishing in a similar area.
14:37Same bait principles.
14:39The only difference is I've changed to a white hook bait,
14:44bottom bait, waftery, but really overweighted
14:48because that's actually what I've called my biggest ever carp on historically.
14:54And I feel like now we've fed a good amount of boilies.
14:58It looks like an old one but smells like a new one.
15:03Ladies and gents, we are going to get a bite very, very, very soon
15:07on one of these two rods.
15:09What we couldn't see but what was going on in front of my spy cam
15:13just a few metres away but with the magic of TV,
15:16you can now see what we couldn't at the time.
15:19It was all smoked up but you can just make out the white boilie
15:23and a dark shape coming in.
15:25I knew it was going to go.
15:35It was going to be one or the other.
15:38Speed was of the essence.
15:41This was my first daytime bite and I just had to make it count.
15:54I think it looks like a decent fish.
16:00My white boilie hook bait switch attempted a quality common
16:04that was now close to being mine.
16:07Here we go.
16:09He slipped the net under, it's in.
16:18This was bittersweet.
16:19Great to get a carp in the net but the visibility had gone
16:23due to the commotion of all the carp before it causing a disruption
16:27but still a bite on an underwater camera.
16:30Only just though.
16:32A fresh rig and hook bait was re-dropped by Luke in front of the spy cam
16:37before we got to check out my muscular French common.
16:41Look at that.
16:4337 ounces of Wonderberry Beauty hook bait tweak.
16:51Little white one but, Bob, could have got myself a yeller.
16:54A little bit far.
16:56A little bit murky.
16:57A little bit deep.
16:59It doesn't matter when they look like that.
17:02I am absolutely loving this session.
17:06It is building into a crescendo.
17:09So 12 pounds, 11 ounces short of our 50 pound team target
17:14but it was a quality carp with a bite caught on an underwater camera
17:18albeit a tad murky.
17:20We felt we'd get more chances though so we hope to improve on both points.
17:25Shortly after the open water area livened up like a cat on a hot tin roof.
17:32Koi.
17:33Koi.
17:34Go on after Koi.
17:35I'd love to see a Koi.
17:36He's coming.
17:37He's going to take your hook bait.
17:38Oh the one to the next.
17:39Go on.
17:40Take it.
17:41That's a proper orange one.
17:42You just need to remember.
17:43It's coming to yours.
17:45Bob's open water rod on the live cam which is on the left of the screen
17:49was only a couple of metres from one of my rigs on a spy cam on the right-hand screen.
17:55Bear in mind we couldn't see the action on the spy cam on the right but for your enjoyment
18:00here it is.
18:01We're literally the same distance out as well.
18:04Yeah.
18:05Like dink dink.
18:06It's fascinating.
18:07Oh.
18:08Yeah.
18:09Whoa.
18:10That's the biggie.
18:11That's the biggie.
18:12No, is it?
18:13No.
18:14Look at the head.
18:15It's got a bit of a belly.
18:16Yeah.
18:17It's got a bit of a belly on it though.
18:18We're not riding any more.
18:19Yeah.
18:20Oh, here's another one.
18:21There's surely going to be a shredder.
18:23A little bit.
18:24A little bit.
18:25Settle.
18:26Oh.
18:27No.
18:28It's just going to shop off you.
18:29Oh no.
18:30We don't want that one.
18:31Remember, we couldn't see the bottom right screen.
18:32Got a tail on the left.
18:33This is insane.
18:34We could get a double take.
18:35There could be a double take.
18:36How many underwater double takes have you got?
18:38Oh.
18:39Oh.
18:40I'm away.
18:44Another carp on.
18:46Get it up and get it out.
18:48Yes.
18:49We all sprung into action with me getting into the boat to get out to the fish to help avoid
18:54tangling with the other lines.
18:56Luke, are you ready?
18:57You suited up?
18:58No, he ain't.
19:00With Luke rapidly getting into his suit and following me out, armed with a small underwater
19:07camera.
19:08In no time at all, Luke had reached the boat and then managed to get some epic footage
19:13of a medium sized mirror carp that was putting up a great scrap in the deep water.
19:19The net is up.
19:21After several strong powerful runs, it finally tired.
19:25It's been a good time.
19:26Oh, baby.
19:27We are coming alive.
19:28Well done, Ali.
19:29Ah, yes.
19:30The relief.
19:31Every time you catch one on an underwater camera.
19:32And the clarity was improving too.
19:33A bit off our 50 pound target, but the spot was starting to simmer nicely in the open
19:35water.
19:36Things were looking good.
19:37It weighed 30 pounds on the butt and a lovely car by anyone's standards.
19:44Minutes later, Bob's live cam spot started to hot up once again with a common anagosti,
19:50then a mirror came close to picking up his hook bait.
19:51Yeah, it goes for it.
19:52It goes for it.
19:53It goes for it.
19:54Yeah.
19:55No, he missed it.
19:56Didn't go in the mouth.
19:57All he was now missing for the full house was one of our target carp, a Queen of the
19:58Coins.
19:59He was going to go in the mouth.
20:00All he was missing for the full house was one of our target carp, a Queen of the
20:05Coins to make an appearance, and then as if by magic.
20:30oh no no no no no no no no done yeah let's get on completely just done how's your hook
20:57point yeah sharp mate it's just been lost at the start of the fight no angle at lights losing a
21:05fish and definitely when it was one of our target koi as well all on the underwater live camera
21:11what can you say not only game for me but the entire team it was at that point i really wanted
21:17to make a hook bait change a bit gutted about that orange koi not being on the bank with me right now
21:23but i've got to get a rig out and i'm going to go for four tiger nuts i sang i wanted to try on this
21:29little journey on this adventure so let's do that tiger nuts are an absolute cart favorite they love
21:37the sweetness and the crunch how well they'll work as a hook bait here only time would tell
21:43with bob's rig now back out in position we wanted to have a var replay of the lost koi footage to see
21:50exactly what went on under the surface on and play
21:57ah it shakes its head out the hook pops out okay playing it again in slow-mo the koi picks up the
22:05hook bait goes to turn away feels the resistance from the spring-loaded device starts to bolt off
22:11and as it shakes its head you can see the hook bait fall out koi have tiny mouths and are sometimes tricky
22:18to hook yeah it's just one of them things mate
22:29unbeknown to us a cart was about to suck up one of my hook baits and at first it didn't even realize
22:36it was all kicking off in southern france a little over 24 hours to go my middle rod on a spike hammer
22:49just busting off which was out in open water to the right of our main spot oh it all getting off a short
22:57battle out at sea with luke capturing the underwater action resulted in me slipping the net under my third
23:04carp of the trip oh well he's unhooking it in the water know what that means it's tiny just like him
23:13cheeky the mirror cart was around the mid 20 pound mark so after a quick what we call grab and grin i
23:19slipped it straight back home as our main target was a carp of 50 pounds or more
23:2430 minutes later in the cut we're back on the open water spawn bob's live cam they are completely
23:33honest wowzers the other anglers is proper helpless in it yeah yeah the stars were aligning multiple new
23:41anglers causing commotion plus us having high quality boilies going in constantly for a number of days
23:47this was definitely helping our carp cause once they start eating them consistently softened digestible
23:55passing through them the nuts the hemp so i mean and and becoming accustomed to the camera being there
24:01all of them things and the winds coming in our face the moon phase is improving that moon phase
24:08is a big thing anyone who tries to argue that just look at the data if you ignore it you're mental
24:18moon phases a very influential factor in fishing and definitely in carp fishing new or full moons have
24:26a big influence on the capture of big carp there is loads of data out there to back it up and we were
24:32building to an optimum moon phase unbeknown to us an orange koi was now in the zone of my spy camp
24:41near to bob's live cam an orange koi was not only one of our targets but a carp had always dreamt of
24:47catching
24:57at the time we didn't know it was an orange koi but it did give an initial trademark koi style run
25:04causing me to back one like crazy bob stayed in the control tent glued to his live screen as carp was
25:11still all over him and there was a high chance of us having a double take meanwhile i got out in the
25:17boat sharpish getting out to the fish fast reducing the likelihood of wiping out the other lines and
25:22causing bob to miss out on the opportunity of a bite try and pull that fish away from the spot let
25:30those fish carry on feeding and we could get a double take but i'm having some fun now you know
25:35i'm loving this i managed to draw the fish off to the right of the main spot happy now zamora yeah
25:43play it from there i'll play it from there luke then got his first glimpse of the fish and couldn't
25:48wait to pass on the news to the team i think it's good oh please if it's a coin might be a coin it might
25:58be quite it was quickly confirmed with another look that it was in fact an orange koi
26:04it's quick please don't come off he really wanted a koi as well so a target carp had been hooked i just
26:14needed to land it now the pressure was definitely on then while i was battling the orange beauty out
26:20at sea at the same time bob's open water life camp had a visitor oh get ready for a double take
26:27yeah full double take bob's quad nut hook bait had definitely worked bigger the bigger nothing
26:39meanwhile the orange caught you tired and was nearly mine
26:45just the tail to go in result so let's do with this bob
26:52my dream has come true and underwater koi what is happening there bobby is
27:03zammo was now already on the boat and heading out towards his carp in double quick time luke was in
27:09hot pursuit with his underwater action camera bobby's going fast with the first part of the double hookup
27:17banked could bob get the second in the onion bag go on tasla go on son as bob continued to play his
27:25carp i headed back to shore with my mega orange koi once back to the margin the target car was safely
27:32taken to be retained ready for inspection once this carnage had calmed bob's mirror was now close to his
27:39boat and all he had to do was to carefully guide it to the net easy now zamora
27:52two carp hooked
27:56and two carp landed beauty tash crazy 10 minutes double takes total carnage it's what we live for
28:04both fish on underwater cameras and at that stage that was my biggest cut at 38 pounds buzzing
28:13well i wanted to see how tiger nuts worked out there as a hook bait pretty well i'd say 38 pound
28:21thank you very much then finally time to check out the first carp of our target hit list this was one
28:30of my dreams coming to this venue to catch a bright orange koi carp on an underwater camera this one 24 pounds
28:41on the koi's nose what an absolute belter i am buzzing with this proper spectacular lovely koi bubbly
28:54just over 24 hours remain for bob to catch a koi and for at least one of us to catch a 50 pounder with
29:03both bites on an underwater camera to complete our mission we were so up for this challenge
29:09and half an hour later it started to kick off once again on bob's open water live cam and remember my rig
29:17on a spy cam was right next door the other camera is really close to it they're literally this is
29:23live cam this is cabin yeah ready for the beep ready for the peak ready for the left hand oh oh he's
29:29gone ah there's more of them in there they come in they come in they come in they are so on the boy
29:37the open water carp traffic was relentless koi koi koi does he like tigers come on bob
29:45too quick doesn't like tigers oh there's two coins are coming there's a miracle miracle
29:52it's a miracle miracle mate keep writing you're about to get another bite probably oh you are
30:00then the miracle made an appearance seconds later on my spy cam which of course
30:05we couldn't see at the time but you can right now it was carp soup down there
30:15oh there you're in there you're in there you're in there you're in there
30:23pipe check it
30:28standard procedure i shot out on the boat with luke in hot pursuit it was certainly no target
30:35smasher but it put up a good old scrap in the deep water the white boiling hook bait was working
30:40yeah slipped it in a mid-20 mirror we needed one at least twice this size to hit our team target
30:49of a 50 pounder the big girls were down there somewhere though go and have a word with them will
30:55you mate as soon as i got back to shore cart were all over bob's open water live cam again like a
31:02collapsed tent keep an eye on his quad nut center of frame that's a big yeah here we go here we go
31:11oh yeah yes
31:17utter carnage and to mix it up bob decided to play this one from the bank saving lukey a swim in a boat
31:25it takes longer because you're getting towed around so you're not gaining the same traction
31:29you see like i've had it before once upon a time when i i i hooked a really big shark on a boat
31:39my back's killing me might have to do a tag team and um did it all it was a fresh shark
31:47oh my god that's big and um yeah yeah i did it all by myself let me do a stretch
31:52do a stretch one sec yeah it would have been handy if there was like someone tall yeah muscular that
31:58could have helped me yeah thank god for zamora but there wasn't so i had to do it all by myself
32:05got it you've bowed it bob just mind the tail boys mind the tail you've done hard work for us
32:12just giving me a little bit of jip and then um and then yeah i mean i'm happy to help you
32:16do you want me to play for a bit just gonna go and grab yourself a drink do it do a stretch do a
32:20stretch i'll play our back wind yeah just get a quick drink and i'll be with you all right mate
32:24three seconds later oh it's getting heavy this oh you want it back i'll take your water here you
32:31go i'll just put your you like clutch there there you go thank you lovely mate me playing it obviously
32:37got the carping close and being a great mate i even went into the water to net it for him too
32:43there you go boy oh that's a nice ain't a bad one it's an old warrior good old fighter i know that
32:50yeah buzzing to land that carp i'm just so fortunate that my wingman ali was there to help me out i don't
32:58think i'd have got that in on my own he's just such a powerful man well look at this old thing scars all
33:06over it i have no idea what it's been up to put up a hard fight against me and it's looking absolutely
33:12incredible what's a banger thank you very much it's all going off underwater
33:17it was our final day in france and more and i were confident our rigs and baiting strategy was
33:33working but we decided to take a big gamble and move both the live cams slightly in the quest for
33:39clarity bob's area first to find the new zone not too far from where he'd already been catching
33:47we are just adjusting the underwater camera we want 100 visibility we want the cleanest shot
33:55and that means moving it into shallower gravelier clearer water because we want the perfect shot for
34:05you luke found an area slightly shallower than before but with a definite improved clarity
34:11after placing bob's quad nut spinner rig into position free bait was dumped directly around
34:17it creating what we hoped would be the perfect carp trap on camera then my live cam luke had moved it
34:25about 10 meters further along the right margin the idea was i'd be a little bit closer to where the car
34:31reside during the day the lake bed was rockier so he placed a hook bait on a cell paste patty
34:38then onto a flat stone cunning five ribs went out in total in front of underwater cameras my left hand
34:46spy cam we also deployed a little further out than previous we were locked and loaded ready for any final
34:53day action at this point we both felt a little bit nervous because we were doing really well but we still
34:58had two big targets to hit and we were moving the majority of the cameras so it was a gamble but we
35:05all wanted that big grand finale unbeknown to me at the time my longer range spy cam was about to get an
35:13inquiry keep an eye on my white boyly hook bait oh i'm away boys i'm awake
35:22one of the lake's smaller commons had sucked up my white boyly that we'd only just put out to a
35:32slightly longer spot for its size it put up a right old fight a great start to our final day of fishing
35:41good lad another carp caught with a bite also captured on camera surely probability meant we were
35:48due to a big one seconds later the action switched to bob's open water live cam
35:56yeah the team were totally blindsided by a small mirror that had taken bob's quad nut
36:03hence no tent camera running sorry folks hey this has got to go down as one of the most fun fishing
36:12sessions ever again unlucky on the size and not a koi either as bob still needed to tick one of those
36:20off the target list about eight hours remained the spots were starting to rock the fish had got used
36:28to the cameras and the cables they were getting tuned into the bait and they were starting to feed in that
36:34shallower water more confidently things were feeling good the moon phase for this day was saying virtually
36:41optimum catching conditions as well the planets were literally aligning luke deployed bob's rig back
36:49on the open water hotspot and less than five minutes after he vacated the area the carp returned to
36:55check out zamo's nuts oh oh go on a yellow koi go on a yellow eyes just close the mission control tent
37:03was reaching fever pitch and 30 seconds later that yellow koi came back for another look come on the
37:11yellow come on the yellow come on the yellow down dip dip down quad yeah yeah yeah dip dip down oh yeah
37:18no no no no no no yeah it needs to come closer it needs to come closer not yet turn a little bit
37:26left oh oh this is insane man that was so close there were colors everywhere left right and center and
37:36i was desperate to get my target koi on the bank koi doors open up quite out oh no he's he's really
37:44no no he's took it he's took it oh he's come towards the lead yeah it was at this point i thought it was
37:52not gonna be my day these koi were really messing with my mind oh oh that's gonna take it no no no no no
38:00no no ate something next to it he's actually put it around a better place yeah cheers oh oh oh oh oh
38:10all i remember thinking was that there was more colors here than in a pick and mix shop
38:15and that one would surely take bob's quad nuts soon oh oh this is insane man go on go on go on is that
38:26it there yeah on the right there it is so close yeah no yeah you got it you got it yes it's a yellow
38:40in all his career i've never seen zamora move so quick he was on the boat and out on the lake
38:45faster than the fight in a phone booth unbelievable in no time zammo was over the koi in the boat and then
38:53luke caught up with his camera just in time to capture some epic action before zamora coaxed the
38:59banana colored koi skillfully into the net yes the yellow koi is in the net and it clearly loves
39:09zamo's quad nuts finally what a way to tick off my target koi a big bright yellow one that had been
39:16tormenting me all day what about this fully brightened up my day live on the underwater camera
39:24on my four tiger nut hook bait thank you very much what an absolute banger sizes and everything
39:32what a belter as bob's open water spot was doing all his bites he then had a crazy idea
39:38to fish two rods and rigs in front of one live cam with two hook baits just inches apart
39:45and bobby is getting flamboyant he didn't have a lot of flair in his career but he's starting to
39:50show it today um two hook baits next to each other on the spot we've got a quad tiger nut that he's been
39:58successful on this morning and he's put on a little waftery tiger and a topper i think with them being so
40:04close together i just hoped he didn't get himself in a right joey mangle within minutes of luke
40:10returning to the bank carp started coming into bob's live cam with the two rigs and remember my spy
40:16cam and rig were just a meter away also loads of fish triple run who's gonna pick up the third rod
40:25uh dark can easily do three on my own what we didn't realize at the time was my second spy cam
40:3420 meters off the right hand margin was about to get super fruity
40:39i decided to play it from the bank because there was a high chance of a double take
40:56as cart was still all over bob's live cam yep oh he's been it out he's gonna pick up it again
41:03you've got one oh no he's been it out twice bob's two hook baits were now dangerously close together
41:10oh no no no no at the time i was completely unaware of bob's predicament as i played my car
41:19shall i pull it shall i pull it tweak it a little bit huh he was going to try to carefully move
41:26one of the rings while watching the live cam out put on a mini scream
41:32he'd only pulled it into a snag you're in no you won't believe what happened what fish come in
41:40spat it onto the other rod like i mean two so we couldn't risk a fish taking two hook baits in one
41:50so what are you doing now so i wanted to move it it's moved but it's jumped into some rocks so he's
41:54going to swim out free and put it back in position anyway all right so set this is turning to carnage
42:01oh my god so bob put the rod back on the rest as he waited for luke to help free it meanwhile i was
42:07starting to think my carp could be big it's quite slow this you know it's a plodder could have a bit
42:14here you know all right my cart was getting close so i enlisted luke to help net it out at distance
42:21to avoid tangling the line suddenly the line started shredding off one of bob's spools
42:30oh i'm awake bob's away what that's the lefty that's the one you snagged
42:36how mad is that sammo hadn't switched the alarm on on that rod that was snagged now turns out the
42:46moved rod has to be shown it so the double hookup was on
42:55bob's carp came in pretty quick and luke salmon sweeped it into the net with perfection
43:00yes get in there only small but it was a car now just mine to go was it the 50 pound plus target
43:12carp we were after it definitely felt heavy that was for sure oh it looks all right that looks quite
43:18big is there a set of shoulders coming up there no don't sweep don't sweep oh you can sweep that looks
43:24bigger that looks bigger that is bigger it is bigger it is bigger yeah it is bigger that's a pig
43:34that's a pig piggy oh yeah we got ourselves a piggy we got ourselves a piggy underwater we got ourselves
43:42a piggy we got ourselves a piggy oh yeah a proper monster bobs was a tiddler so he let it go straight
43:50away but i retained mine in a sling as we wanted to check if we'd captured that all-important
43:56underwater bite on camera as we just didn't know
44:05and the big cloud up boom i'm glad he's got waders on those pants are filthy when you know you've got the
44:15bite on camera but still the big weighing remained was it the 50 pound target smasher
44:28that is bigger than a fall actually they're always deceiving when they get to that size
44:34they're golden deceivers what a climax right bob ready the moment of truth had we done it
44:43we have what we call in the game a hawaii 5-0 she is 51 9. we bypassed 40 pound we went to a nifty
44:56underwater bobby dazzler made another astonishing catch underwater what a trick
45:04this is what a team effort is all about the magic of underwater filming
45:10the fine lines between success actually no a little bit of failure but a lot of success bobby
45:21you enjoyed yourself absolutely loved it learned so much as well learned loads mate absolutely loved
45:26it well done to you and you swimmer extraordinaire how are you feeling it's indescribable insane
45:34it's indescribable insane trevi and bon voyage bon pes this was an absolute adventure of the century
45:43look at that car what a way to conclude the session a mammoth team effort
45:49one unbelievable session some stunning carp and all targets hit for me the bright yellow was my
46:02favorite 38 pounder and the old warrior as well ali smashing a 50 pounder job done mic drop this was an
46:12insane session because trying to catch carp in front of underwater cameras is about
46:1720 times harder than doing it normally so to catch the big orange koi a major target
46:23and to back it up with that 51 pound brew right at the end that is the way we want to finish in a grand
46:31fishing adventure underwater finale and it was only made possible with this absolutely incredible team
46:40take it away lads
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