When we first set about filming, my biggest concern was firstly that we wouldn't catch any fish and the second was; would we be able to catch all the action on film? In this instance our inexperience was an advantage because I dreamed up some ideas for filming both above and below the water that an experienced cameraman and producer told us we couldn't do.
On one of our first days filming we shot a piece of footage that was incredible just to see let alone catch on film. Hours of floating down a burley trail with a camera paid off when a 30lb + snapper arrived and chased down a live Kahawai then engulfed it in a single bite.
Then Kingfish and big Snapper kept coming and we filled tape after tape with the action. Not all the ideas worked and not all the footage was good, but some was excellent. It was this excellent footage that we loaded into Kerren's home PC and we set about editing it, voice-overs were recorded under a blanket in my wardrobe to get good acoustics and some mates in a band recorded a soundtrack for us.
We gave ourselves a name ‘Tightlines television' and we took our budget production to SKY TV and tried out some of our newly learned television jargon and we managed to pass ourselves off as a production company. Although I believe the channel manager at Sky may have seen through our production company front, there was no denying the show we had made was exciting. He described our pilot show as "head and shoulders better than any fishing programme I have ever seen" and he also said, "I'm not a fisherman but after seeing that I want to go fishing". And that was exactly what we were trying to achieve. But one show does not make a series, and with a network deal signed the idea became a reality and the real work began. 
