My name is Hardfishing on youtube. I am struggling to make fishing videos because I don’t live anywhere near a lake or pond that I can fish. So I have to make videos in a room. Can you give me some honest answers about what you would like to see that might be interesting to other people as well? I am not trying to promote myself even though most of you will think I am. Please if you have any ideas i’d love to hear what you have. Thanks
There is a guy on here trying to sell fancy tip ups. You two should team up!
I have a few ideas. First, your name is not hardfishing. If you want a real response You should make a real profile with your real name. Second, You asked this same question three months ago. Maybe you could try asking a more detailed question. Finally, You should make fishing videos on or near water.
I would do something similar to this guy
Im not trying to sell anything. If you want to check the channel out thats good. I say my channel name so I can have people go look if they want to. Im not trying to sell anything. I don’t make money off this to begin with.
Thank you for trying to give me an idea. I know I asked this a while ago but I really didn’t get a answer. Instead I got told off for accidentally spelling something wrong. I can’t do my real name because i’m still young (15) and my parents monitor the channel( when they watch a vid) and they told me I can’t say my real name. I want to record videos of me fishing but I cant because their isn’t any lakes near me that i can bike or walk to. Most of them are at least a half an hour away from where i live. Thanks for trying to give me some ideas though.
If your not going to actually be fishing you’re probably best off making videos of how to tie certain knots (popper and dropper on a fly line)
I’d find another hobby that suits what you can do at this time. Later when you have access to waters go for it.
Certain reality check in order. Noone wants to watch a video of a kid in a room talking about fishing stuff.
With a little creativity, yes you can make make fishing videos at home.
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I can’t do my real name because i’m still young (15) and my parents monitor the channel( when they watch a vid) and they told me I can’t say my real name. I want to record videos of me fishing .
Hardfishing – Please allow me to give you a little advise. Concentrate on perseverance and determination. You live in a world where most people are very skeptical of others, and many people are very devious. Not to say you have been dishonest. However, its common for someone to “hide” behind a online handle and troll for information – both good and bad.
Keep in mind that when you enter a website like this, it is a production company for advertising, shows, and other media forms. Asking members of a such site to visit your videos on Youtube becomes a gray area. James has been very liberal on allowing such posts, and the vast majority of members respect that. When we see a new member with very few posts suggesting to view their youtube channel, it doesn’t carry much credibility with most people.
IF you truly have a passion for producing vidoes, and it isn’t just a need to be popular or attention seeking – stay at it. Produce what you can, and share the knowledge your obtaining. Who knows, you just may be the future James Holst with a fresh new delivery. Just because you can not easily get to water, doesn’t mean that you can’t discuss product reviews or other techniques.
The things in life that are the most difficult to achieve will give you the most satisfaction. Hopefully this one little statement will make you look back at life 10, 20, or 30 years from now and you’ll have genuine pride in what you have done. Quitters, losers, and soft skinned whiny little parasites we call this generations’ batch of participation trophy kids all have a decision to make. They can grow up to be the pathetic pieces of crap their lazy parents are popping out that can’t swallow a little humble pie – OR – they can accept some criticism, an occasional kick in the groin, and set their goals and go out and achieve something despite their worst critics. It’s up to you young man….. you gonna let a few hard knocks keep you from what you enjoy? I hope not 
BTW – No one has success handed to them. Its what you reach out and make happen
Thank you thank you for the little bit of inspiration you just gave me. I am not here to promote my channel. In fact I would not have put it on their at all but if I dont then some people could think im lieing. I do not make any money off this channel I make these videos because I enjoy fishing, video editing, and getting to connect with other people. When i make these videos and see the response on the video(views, likes, comments) it inspires me to try to do better. I ask on here to see what you as the fishing community would potentially like to see on youtube. The fishing industry on youtube is very small and is starting to diminish. Im not trying to become big and do this for fame. It would be nice but im doing this because i love to film and fish. If i could fish more i definitely would but being that i legally cant drive yet it is hard to go fishing. Thank you so much for the inspiration that i might need to help me out!!!
Ok hardfishing, here is some advise on your videos. It doesn’t matter what idea you have. If your just starting out your going to make bad videos. The good thing is that you are 15. Nobody expects good videos from a 15yr old. You only need to make them better than your last one. If you keep at it you’ll do just fine and people will watch them. Concentrate on video and audio quality and then your delivery and commentary. Good luck.
Me personally, I cant stand to much commentary. The pre-talk at home, the talk on the way to the lake, the talk about “the plan”, the post fishing talk……BORING!!!!!! Just show me fish being caught, action action action, some commentary during the catching, ok. While waiting for your drivers license, watch other professional videos and learn from them. Be different, but stick to what works. Something between Fish Ed and Uncut Angling. And dont ever record while driving.
To spice it up you should hire Deb Dallas as your host.
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Well…he might need to come out of the basement. Poor guy… 
Does your school offer and Media Arts classes? (Audio/video for the old timers)
To be honest guys, after paging through the posts here, I bit and checked out the youtube page. From what I see this is a kid that just has a strong desire to get out and fish and perhaps not a lot of opportunity.
If you scope out the videos you can see he has been at this for a couple of years… I see a kid that wants to fish in a bad way. As adults, role models and more importantly sportsmen aren’t we supposed to foster this sort of behavior rather than bash him?
Step back a moment and observe for yourself, maybe I’m missing something, but check out what he has done, how long he has been doing it and realize he may not have the same opportunities we had growing up. I think he is trying to feed a passion.
To spice it up you should hire Deb Dallas as your host.
Trying to clone Kid Rock?
As adults, role models and more importantly sportsmen aren’t we supposed to foster this sort of behavior rather than bash him?
Mark, I did think about this. I cannot agree more about encouraging kids to get involved in outdoors activities. Once “kids” become teenagers though, particularly boys things change. Get a couple of them together and they’re just as likely or more likely to be making fun or jokes of guys our age. The relationship with teenage boys is very different than with younger kids or adults. I remember when I was that age and caught a lot of grief from older guys. I learned a lot of lessons at that age and one was to shrug the jokes off. It’s part of growing up and thickens your skin for things to come later in life.
That being said…I don’t know what to suggest to “hardfishing” that he can do to make fishing videos at home that people would want to watch.
promote promote promote but promote well. Should be no biggy to anyone that you are trying to promote your vids as long as you are respectful.
the reason you are having a hard time getting any direction is because you basically just said, i want to make a fishing channel but have no ability to create fishing content. We don’t know what you like to fish for, and how you like to fish for them.
to be honest, its going to be real tough to gain a base of subscribers if your content has 0 fishing in it. There are alot of things you can do like product reviews, those reveals of the monthly tackle boxes and crap like that but the market is waaayyy oversaturated with those. Also, people are becoming tired of hat/chest cam videos. the idea that its POV isn’t as awesome as people intially thought.
i watched about a half dozen of your videos and the production value is fine. the content just isn’t attractive from a viewership standpoint. you can search and receive hundreds of videos just like it. So you have to get creative.
here are 3 guys who i follow. Their videos, they explain where they are fishing, what they are fishing for and have hundreds of thousands of followers. 2 of them quit school to manage their channels full time.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIpAWyxDLYrFf6bpLRbZbNw
https://www.youtube.com/user/j0j0barz33
https://www.youtube.com/user/apbassing
its tough for people to take a 15 yr old seriously but don’t let that stop you. just keep trying new things and one day that 1 video will get 1000 views and you’ll be like whoa.
I didn’t look at your channel or view any of your videos. But if you are not able to go fishing and want to do a fishing channel from your basement you could make videos of how to make baits. Than when you do get a change to go fishing you can bring the baits you made and cut in some video of them catching fish. I love to make my own lures and take great pride in them when they out fish store bought ones.
The most successful and fulfilling ideas need to come from you. That’s the only way you can do something to the best of your ability.
You don’t have to be good at whatever idea you run with. The most successful people on YouTube quite frankly suck at their subject and are far from experts at it. People will relate to you if they have similar skills and abilities. They will relate with failures and dream that you succeed once in a while.
Be consistent. If you fail to keep interest you’ll fail in general.
If you change your direction you might want to consider creating a new channel. This goes with being consistent.
Set goals and a vision. This will map out your future and help make tough future decisions easier and more apparent.
I can think of 1000 ideas for a channel but what you want to do needs to come from you. Don’t whatever comes to you and listen to feedback. Remember the positive feedback and focus on the criticism. While it’s unlikely that public criticism will be constructive, understand that you’ve effected someone enough to trigger a response. That’s not bad thing.
If you scope out the videos you can see he has been at this for a couple of years… I see a kid that wants to fish in a bad way. As adults, role models and more importantly sportsmen aren’t we supposed to foster this sort of behavior rather than bash him?
Couldn’t have said it better. I have a feeling some of the harsher comments would not have been made had these guys known they were dealing with a 15 year old young man. the internet tends to embolden people I guess.
To hardfishing: Could you explore the possibility of starting a regional fishing club of some kind? Maybe there are other kids in similar situations in the area near you.
As for videos: I do agree with the others that say your current videos are not going to appeal to a lot of people. BUT you seem to have a decent handle on your video equipment and mics, and some basic production and editing skills. Keep working at that stuff until you feel like it’s PERFECT. Then watch it back and figure out how to do the same thing in half the time. Don’t spend too much time talking at the beginning. Introduce yourself, tell us exactly what you’re going to show us, and then do it quickly and clearly.
Maybe You could shoot some outdoors skills stuff in your yard, just to get some more footage to practice on. Or figure out an interesting, new efficient way to do something for fishing or just some daily task.
The point right now is not to give up, just keep making videos and working to make them better and better. Don’t worry about your YouTube comments or Facebook likes. Do it for YOU.
You could try fishing around town for things that aren’t fish. I will even give out some free million dollar ideas:
Rod + Reel + Ironic Mustache Wax = Hipsters
Rod + Reel + Florida/Georgia Line Tickets = People with sh*tty taste in music
Rod + Reel + Twins Tickets = People looking to take a nap
Rod + Reel + Corn = Deer/Squirrels
Rod + Reel + Vikings Tickets = People who enjoy never seeing a Super Bowl winner
Rod + Reel + BLM signs = People without jobs
Its simple and keep it that way: Film the journey and the rest will follow! 
Never quit and always have fun!
I haven’t had a chance to check out any of the videos yet, so I don’t know if you do it or not, however I will say keep the music to a minimum. If I’m watching a fishing show I don’t want to just see a music video of somebody catching fish. Explain the details of what you are doing. Make it entertaining.
And for an idea to do away from a lake, I don’t know what you may have at your disposal, but one thing you may be able to attempt is comparing the actions of different lures with different line types and thicknesses. With swivel snaps and without. That kind of stuff. If you have a pool to do this and a couple GoPros to stick in there that would be awesome! The sky is the limit with that as there are always new lures coming out, but obviously coat is a prohibitive factor for a kid.
And don’t listen to the naysayers on here.
Good luck, I’ll check out your videos when I get a chance.
Their thinking of making videos for the school to put on their website. I’ve talked with the teacher that is planning on doing it so i can get a idea of what they are working with. I plan on if i can to record my videos with a green screen to at least change up the background and make it a little more eye appealing. I am looking at what i can do for other filming ideas. I want to try to do other outdoors things so i can try to be different than the others. Weather it will work or not who knows. All i can do is wait and see.
Thank you so much!! I have been trying to plan when i can go to a lake and when I try to make videos. It is hard for me to go fishing in general also because neither of my parents like fishing, I don’t have any friends that i can have a ride with that don’t work. I can’t bike to anywhere, and I really don’t have anyone in my family that likes to fish ( not just parents). So it is super hard to go and when I do go fishing i sometimes dont catch fish either. Which makes me feel like a failure because i cant catch anything. If you saw some of my videos on Holcombe, that lake is super hard to catch fish on anything that isnt live. I considered purchasing a kayak so when i do start driving i can go to lakes that are within reasonable distance and try to make more videos. Thank you so much for being a great inspiration to me. I understand what you are getting at by the content being boring. I am trying to learn how to edit better, trying to get better and over all trying to get better at my overall self.
you are a year away from your license. when you can drive, you’ll have a ton of opportunity to get out and fish.
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