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8 fish, i consider this, a great day !
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Great story, pictures and write up !
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Huge congrats !
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Excellent work Brian, well done !
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Excellent videos and what a day, loads of great looking commons and beautiful fall colors.
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CarpTastic story - what a great trip !
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Season 3 is filmed with a Sony HDX330 at 1080i 60fps film mode with auto white and contrast balance. Edited with Adobe Elements and rendered to full 1080p at 30 fps MP4.
Switched earlier this year to uploading to youtube at 1080p, can thank Brian Wingard for tormenting me to finally uploading at 1080.
Title sequence is also at 1080p though original was 25 fps in iMovie.
Just working now on improving soundtrack using decibel meter to balance audio. Also looking at options for voice audio in future.
Fair to say I enjoy almost as much the artistic and technical side of the video production as I do catching fish.
John
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Welcome to CAG and congrats on the PB
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Great work to everyone involved !
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Congrats on the new PB !
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Well deserved, congrats !
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In this weeks episode we fish a local venue, Kingfisher at Chatfield Reservoir, endure some strong storms, get soaking wet, have a friends drone buzz our swim and bank a lot of carp !
Hope you enjoy!
Ironically (not surprisingly), this episode has stir'd up at lot of comment on the local fishing forums, regarding drone use and personal privacy - an interesting topic for debate ! What's your thoughts on the drone topic ?
Tight-Lines,
John
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Excellent story and pictures as always ! Fins-UP !
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Colorado, as do many other states here in the USA, have a Master Angler Award program. The goal of these programs is promote fishing in the state, the catch and release of trophy sports species and to recognize anglers for their achievements. In Colorado, their are two MA categories. By length for catch and release and by weight for fish which are kept. Given I am only interested in the C&R category, carp need to be 30" or greater to qualify.Once an angler catches a MA trophy sized fish, they take a picture, fill out a form with information, witness verification and send these both off to Colorado Parks & Wildlife for confirmation. The whole process takes about 4 weeks after sending in the entry. Once verified the anglers name appears on the Colorado Master Angler Award program website and the angler receives a sew-on badge (only one badge per year) and certificate for their efforts.<link to Colorado's Master Angler Award Program website>
I highly recommend you check with your local Department of Wildlife to see what programs are available in your state. The more anglers that submit their C&R carp captures to these programs, the more awareness these local departments will receive that US anglers really do love catch & release carp fishing! It takes but a few minutes to submit an entry - lets ALL get involved - do your bit for the promotion of catch & release carp fishing in the USA.In this weeks episode Ron and I have a great session at Kingfisher, Chatfield Reservoir and land 6 MA carp between us !Hope you enjoy !Records are kept and currently the State Record, by length in Colorado stands at 42". Best I have caught, since my return to fishing is but 37". One day, perhaps ? By weight, the Colorado State record is 35 lb's 5 oz. Best I have caught is 37 lb 5 oz, however given the weight category requires the fish to perish in Colorado, not a record I think I will ever care to have my name in the books for. I do know of a stunning 38" common was caught just recently in Colorado and released - that fish topped the scales at over 30 lb's.Perhaps one day, the requirements for record by weight will change and allow for witness verification with certified scales, rather than having to take & hand over the fish to CPW for verification?Tight-Lines,John
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dang ! would need a bucket of victory coffee for those !
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Aye, James was on "fire", as was his reel !
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New CarpQuest Episode Released, Season 3, Episode 11.In this weeks episode James and I fish the Fairgrounds in Adams County. We did not anticipate the "big hit" carp madness that was to descend upon James. A great session, with almost 20 fish landed, carp and some catfish - WOW - almost ran us out of Victory Coffee !Hope you enjoy the video !Tight-Lines,JohnCarpQuest
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In this episode I returned again to Chatfield Reservoir, Kingfisher, following the previous session which was ended abruptly by bad weather.The afternoons fishing was dominated by the crayfish eating every bait I cast out. Finally I switched over to a harder bait, the creamed tiger nuts, hoping these would withstand the crayfish longer. Within a few minutes, it was carp on and a mirror, then a common, were soon landed.
Colorado's diverse wildlife never ceases to amaze. The session ended with me watching a black bear cub, swimming across the lake.Hope you enjoy!John -
Huge congrats!
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Great mirror, well done !
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For this episode, we get in a quick session at Chatfield Reservoir, Kingfisher. Wildlife in Colorado is always beautiful and this day a stunning Mountain garter snake visited the swim for a while. In the few short hours, before the incoming storms, Ron lands 3 nice commons.
The mountain garter snake, a member of the terrestrial garter snake family, is particularly adept at constriction for it's prey.
Tight-Lines & Happy Labor Day Weekend !
John
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Excellent work Dean, very impressive with great articles and content. Works fine for me via. Chrome, IE, and Chrome on my android phone.
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A new episode of CarpQuest has been released, S3E8 - Catfish and Carp
For this episode, we survive the scorching heat at the Fairgrounds and land a good common carp and channel catfish. Daris (Mr. "Cat" Fishrangler himself) and Kelly (Led2Zep), from FishExplorer.COM, stopped by to chat, always good to get time on the bank with friends, old and new.It was great to spend some time with Daris, chatting on the bank - we shared stories, rig information and had a great few hours together. One of these days I am sure to get a line out there, deliberately in search of a monster cat ! As I have said many times before, it's the friends I spend time on the bank with, whether I catch fish, they catch, or we blank, that is important for me in my fishing. It's not the MA captures, the state records, it's that shared time with friends or family, that stays in my memory the longest...Hope you enjoy the episode...Tight-Lines,John -
Well done to everyone that took part and helped out make this a great event for the juniors !
Massachusetts Fish and Game - A step in the right Direction
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FINS-UP to Massachusetts Fish and Game for their adoption of a 'Catch and Release' section to their State Pin and biggest fish sections.
Certainly a huge step in the right direction and Great News !