The wife bought me an action camera for V Day and I'm interested in making fishing videos, mostly on the kayak, and possibly posting to YouTube. Do any of you do that and do you have any beginner tips for me?

I have a GoPro and Canon DSLR .. I'm going to get massively into it this year. I will be doing my editing with Adobe Premiere and posting to YouTube multiple times every week.

As for tips. I'd recommend either using a pole and RAM mount combo to get the camera out and away from your body, yet focused on you. Or, using a head mount of some type, as chest mounts do not work very good at all in Yaks.

Also, buy way more batteries then you think you need!! You'll get roughly 1 hour of continuous recording, and sometimes that's not even the hour that they are biting! I've taken many hour long videos with nothing but a bite or single catch. This is where the plethora of minutes go into editing in the end.
More batteries and of course more memory cards.

There's a few tips for ya. Also, go out there and watch a lot of the popular YouTube Fisherman videos. Stuff like; Scott Martin / Jon B. / Lunkers.Tv / Lake Fork Guy  ... etc. There's lots of amazing channels out there, and the editing of some of these videos is professional quality!

16 minutes ago, MrTightLInes said:

I have a GoPro and Canon DSLR .. I'm going to get massively into it this year. I will be doing my editing with Adobe Premiere and posting to YouTube multiple times every week.

As for tips. I'd recommend either using a pole and RAM mount combo to get the camera out and away from your body, yet focused on you. Or, using a head mount of some type, as chest mounts do not work very good at all in Yaks.

Also, buy way more batteries then you think you need!! You'll get roughly 1 hour of continuous recording, and sometimes that's not even the hour that they are biting! I've taken many hour long videos with nothing but a bite or single catch. This is where the plethora of minutes go into editing in the end.
More batteries and of course more memory cards.

There's a few tips for ya. Also, go out there and watch a lot of the popular YouTube Fisherman videos. Stuff like; Scott Martin / Jon B. / Lunkers.Tv / Lake Fork Guy  ... etc. There's lots of amazing channels out there, and the editing of some of these videos is professional quality!

Thanks. I already am subscribed to all those you mentioned. When you get your channel going, let me know the name. I've learned a lot of my bass yakking knowledge off YT.

I have already made my channel and I put a single video on it, that I quickly made last year, just as a sort of "place holder" for my channel. I'm taking this next month or so, and majorly learning my editing software. Also, I'm going to buy lots of various mounts to have multiple angles.

I will message you my YouTube link. Don't want to post my YouTube in the thread, for fear of repercussions.

Check your messages Also, please subscribe when you go to the link!

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Depending on what camera you have learn how to use the loop record feature if it has it, and if not, it might have a hightlight feature that allows you to mark points of action in your video so when you go back to edit the footage it doesn't take nearly as long.