The Return of Fish On!
Opportunity knocks
FEB 2024FISHON
2/4/20241 min read
Eastlink Community television is a great place to get your ideas on TV and start a television show. Everything you do it tied to Eastlink and it's impossible for anyone outside of an Eastlink subscription to watch your show. Paul's show Fish On! is very active on social media and people outside of Eastlink can follow the show in a limited capacity but are unable to watch the full episodes. When you have a brand you want to expand to larger markets, the only option is to leave.
The previous season of Fish On! Paul ended up filming his own footage in remote lakes and fly-in lakes. I give him full credit for trying but that's a lot of work to think about the content, the filming and organizing the fishing trips.
I got a call from Paul recently and he asked me if I was interested in producing Fish On! again. One of the main things I did since leaving school was to pick up my own video equipment whenever I could, where ever I could, I spend any extra money I had on things I found on Facebook Marketplace or believe or not, Value Village.
So for the upcoming season, he signed a deal with Wired2Fish. Here's what is says:
Wired2Fish is a digital media platform and outdoor network dedicated to freshwater sport fishing, focusing heavily on bass, walleye, crappie, and multi-species angling. Founded in 2008, it produces instructional videos, gear reviews, tackle walkthroughs, and tournament coverage. Beyond its popular website and YouTube channel, Wired2Fish broadcasts as a 24/7 FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) channel available across major smart TV platforms.
Luckily, it really doesn't take much video equipment to shoot a show like FIsh On! so I said yes because I had everything I needed to do it. I was using the C100 Canon Cinema camera with two wireless microphones and my bright light. The camera was a bit older but still produced great 1080P quality. The big advantage with the Canon Cinema camera is it allows you to change the lenses. I couldn't do that with the Eastlink video cameras and that allowed me to get a nice wide angle lens and a 85mm portrait lens.
