TA|Insights | Chapter Eight | New-Water Challenge | Oz Holness

Every angler is faced with the challenge of a new water in their lives, and it can be tricky to get your head round. We tasked former British record holder, Oz Holness, with just that, targeting a brand-new venue for him, Thorney Weir’s Mets Lake. This was way out of Oz’s comfort zone, as most of his angling takes place on big fish venues, where a handful of bites a season would be a great result! It wasn’t an easy ride, with lots of tweaking and tinkering on show live for the cameras before he gets it right and in style too.
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[@BaddMuzic]

Brilliant! What a beautiful carp...

[@ellawalton6670]

Oz is awesome up there with pecky and other top anglers absolutely love to watch this guy fish

[@aquaman1105]

Proper carp fishing no bullshit, filmed perfect, oz has a true anglers way, I'll be looking out for plenty more, oz top man well done.

[@ozh3013]

Aqua man 1 thanks mate, we will all be doing various content for the TA channel this year so thanks for the positive feedback and glad you enjoyed the film Kind regards Oz

[@paulmorgan9952]

Fantastic vid Oz, and what a fish, not the biggest but an absolute banger 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎣🐟

[@ozh3013]

Paul Morgan cheers Paul, they certainly don’t have to be big to be beautiful for sure 😊 I’m more than happy fishing for lovely old scaly’s especially with perfect mouths like that one! Mets is a superb venue, I was pleasantly suprised at how much I enjoyed my trip there, very atmospheric

[@nicod686]

Honestly one of my favorite videos so far, Carp fishing isn’t as big in the US, they mostly kill them on my home lake but I’ll still go find a section no ones at and try for those 20+ monsters that lurk. These types of videos keep the moral up when everyone hates the one thing you love.

[@ThinkingAnglersTV]

Awesome, glad you are out there doing it stateside!

[@ItsOnlyCarpingChris]

Great Vlog. Love the way Oz presents as if your there chewing the fat on how he's getting on. No frills simple honest no nonsense fish. Just how it should be.

[@ThinkingAnglersTV]

Oz has a great way with words, and he can certainly catch them. Glad you enjoyed the film!

[@mattyb8027]

What an absolutely brilliant video👌 beautiful lake 🌿🌲🌳 everything you could want for a carp lake,what a stunning fish🐟👏 love oz

[@stevewhitehead1634]

Mr H what an angler always a pleasure to sit back and enjoy his skills

[@That_sam_i_am]

Oz is very easy to watch, great vid TA 🔥

[@johncharlton5230]

Another wonderfully shot vlog by the guys at TA , never watched a vlog with Oz b4 but so easy to watch and his way on camera is seamless. On another note never used any products from TA but sold on that rig and its components , might just have to give it a whirl , always stuck with one company since the early nineties confidence is everything ! The neatness of that rig though is a must try.

[@garystenning9175]

Cracking vid again Oz, the content, and filming quality on all the TA films is awesome!

[@ozh3013]

Gary Stenning Thanks Gary, glad you enjoyed them .... a huge credit to the film crew and edit team 👌

[@redroseanglingalex1536]

A great video and wonderfully shot. I’ve been watching all of oz Holmes vlogs lately and I really appreciate him as an angler. Was nice to see how oz went about dealing with the constant challenges we are faced as anglers. The bird life and the nature of the lake really made him work hard for that fish. Great Angling and I’ll look forward to the next one 👍

[@ozh3013]

RedRoseAngling Alex glad you enjoyed it mate, and thanks for the kind words, we will hopefully get to make some more this year when we get let out again ✌️ Kind regards Oz

[@TheMathyzz]

One of the most honest videos out there, keep up this style no marketing bullshit. Love it!

[@FishyDave7]

Superb stuff OZ and the TA team, fantastic video and what an awesome looking creature at the end!

[@martincockram6913]

Great video, and cracking fish at the end 👍🏻

[@Retirement_Life]

Fabulous video and what a venue...

[@janoskvasz6871]

All chapter was brilliant! Well done TA!

[@ThinkingAnglersTV]

Mega, thanks for the support!

[@gbadge9275]

A carp fishing video without pretty boys and dubstep music, very refreshing. And one of the most admirable anglers around, great job.

[@ozh3013]

G Badge Ha ha the moment one of my films gets overlayed with that sort of music will be the day I retire 🤦🏻‍♂️... and there I was thinking I still had the youthful looks 😂😂😂! Glad you enjoyed the film mate, hopefully more to come this year if we get let out soon ✌️stay safe mate ... kind regards Oz

[@jmurray911]

Great photography and music. Nice.

[@ozh3013]

Jonathan Murray cheers, glad you enjoyed it...edit team and film crew did a great job 👍 Regards Oz

[@thejoiners6140]

First video I’ve watched of yours and I’m now subscribed!! No ego and no bulls+^t and what a belter of a fish to end it on!! A pleasure to watch. I’m also a Kent boy. Tonbridge. 🎣🎣

[@ozh3013]

The Joiners' thanks mate, glad you enjoyed the film ... welcome aboard ... the Kent contingent grows stronger 😊💪🏼

[@thejoiners6140]

Oz H you’re welcome mate. It’s good for me as I’ve only been carp fishing for a year and when you watch these other videos you see them catching all the time and gives you false hope. Makes you wonder wtf you’re doing wrong but this video just confirmed that blanking happens and it can take a long time for that one fish. Will keep my eyes open for the next video! 👍🏻

[@ozh3013]

The Joiners' keep it real mate, carp fishing was never meant to be easy, it’s a challenge and all about adapting and creating chances throughout the course of a trip be it 6 hours or six day’s. As long as you learn a bit from the experience enjoy it and build your watercraft all is good! Catch a few nice ones and relish the good times because there will be tricky periods and hard times... that’s what keeps it a challenge 👌 don’t believe all the hype and some of the nonsense that gets around on social media, most captures come from hard graft and sacrifice and it ain’t happening all the time ... do it for you and your own enjoyment and all will be good in your world mate ... see you on the bank sometime 👍

[@thejoiners6140]

Oz H every days a school day as they say and my knowledge is getting better with every session. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? I try to keep it as simple as possible now but I was drawn into all the hype with rigs etc etc. Thanks for the words of encouragement mate, I really appreciate it! 👍🏻

[@joegoldson5416]

!!! lovely times the excitement of a new pond....weedy and barbless hooks pressure on... angled 3 ponds like this had a couple of hook pulls between the 3 ponds major think tank went on... result...in turned point barbless hooks soft braid with buoyant hookbaits.....keeping the pressure on 100%.... great watch oz keep the lovely times come in ACE watch

[@chucky1golf]

very nice to watch, especially capturing both runs well filmed!

[@AG-xg8ff]

Always enjoy watching Oz genuine guy plenty of knowledge.

[@leecallaghan5294]

fantastic Oz. and what a stunning mirror..

[@ozh3013]

Lee Callaghan cracking old fish in there ... just perfect 👌

[@jamieevans9998]

great video and a great fella

[@richieboy8597]

Great watch as always 🎣

[@tariqzeb5774]

Stunning carp and nice video result well done Oz

[@ozh3013]

Tariq Zeb thanks mate ✌️😊

[@Cmats-yz2of]

Awesome!, absolutely loved watching this 💥

[@ozh3013]

Catboy 2020 cheers mate , glad you enjoyed it 😊✌️ Regards Oz

[@user-lx1wl1wm1j]

Top angling Oz.....👏👍

[@Doupyourflies]

For a while, it felt like I was watching Ed Stafford goes fishing. Definite lookalikey. Nice vid.

[@ozh3013]

Doum Tekka LOL 😂 it had been mentioned before, glad you enjoyed the film Cheers Oz

[@michaelhayes3721]

Yeah very informative oz loved this,, and your rig safe tube great just tip it al out..lol.

[@mulletman6318]

Brilliant my style of a angling really enjoyed that 👌

[@ozh3013]

mullet man thanks mate ✌️😊

[@ultimatecarptv2015]

Absolutely awesome !

[@steveshurey8618]

Excellent Oz , very enjoyable 👍

[@ozh3013]

Steve Shurey cheers Steve ✌️

[@rolandasbagdonavicius7061]

Hey boi great video

[@TheFullyscaled]

Great stuff! Well done oz!

[@ozh3013]

TheFullyscaled thanks mate ✌️regards Oz

[@JonnyAction]

There's a bloke called graham uses Ta fishing as his hash tag too totally awesome I think it is, anyway found you while searching for him. Quality video.

[@jetsdad]

Great advice on knots

[@joshshakespeare8076]

Brilliant watch oz top class Angler, good tips to pick up though out 👌

[@ThinkingAnglersTV]

He certainly knows how to catch 'em!

[@joshshakespeare8076]

@@ThinkingAnglersTV yes oz Holness certainly dose no how to catch them.

[@dylansimpson8939]

Good watch that mate good angling!!

[@ozh3013]

Dylan Simpson Glad you enjoyed it Regards Oz

[@alexbrooks5738]

More great work from the TA boys loving the films lads. Only gripe 7 ads in this 36 min film I hate KZbin screwed in up.

[@ThinkingAnglersTV]

Sorry about that, we are working to fix the adverts on this one! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@benediktknittl1000]

good job ! 👍 Amazing

[@ozh3013]

Benedikt Knittl cheers mate ✌️ Regards Oz

[@carpcatcher8193]

Excellent vid enjoyed that . But cant stop think that oz looks like MC harry shotta

[@ozh3013]

carp catcher81 lol I’m probably too old to know who this MC is but I’m glad you liked the film 😄 regards Oz

[@michaelleneghan7431]

Enjoyed this nice one

[@ozh3013]

Michael Leneghan cheers mate ✌️

[@dangoesoutdoors897]

Great video got me subscribing! Told the story, captured the atmosphere and still had the rigs/baits well explained. Well done

[@ozh3013]

DanGoesOutdoors thanks mate, glad you enjoyed the films Cheers Oz

[@paulvowles4134]

This bloke is a legend

[@ozh3013]

Paul Vowles 😄 glad your enjoyed the film Paul ✌️

[@johnshrimpton135]

Another excellent vlog Oz , met you at the Brentwood show , was a pleasure to meet and have a bit of a chat with you , keep up the good work 👍

[@ozh3013]

john shrimpton cheers John ✌️

[@ondrejjanoska660]

Vlog? What is that?

[@johnshrimpton135]

@@ondrejjanoska660 short for video blog

[@aaronmason4437]

Caught my first 20 from there about 17 years ago when I was 10! Watching this brought back some memories!

[@ThinkingAnglersTV]

Glad it brought back some great memories, thanks for watching!

[@handegrunt3699]

Nice movie 👍👍👍

[@Cryptoalexxxxx]

One of the best anglers

[@garethlowe4301]

Loved that thanks Oz and Sticky, your getting rather good at these. Long may they continue lads ;)

[@ozh3013]

Gareth Lowe Thanks Gareth, plenty of content lined up for the coming year 👍

[@khtreelandscape8036]

Great stuff oz , I am a Kent lad as well near Sevenoaks

[@ozh3013]

KH tree and landscape thanks mate ... ✌️

[@nicholascollins9573]

That was fantastic with a stunning and beautiful carp!

[@ozh3013]

Cheers Nick, Mets is a beautiful venue with some really lovely old carp ✌️

[@nicholascollins9573]

@@ozh3013 I am heading to the Colne Valley this spring as I have secured a place on a lake there so keeping my fingers crossed as well.

[@yourloveismydrug6537]

Nice to see a carp angler who doesnt feel he has to cast to the moon and back or fire out tons of loose feed and is willing to actually use his own brain

[@TommyDeCleenCarpAngler]

great viewing ...

[@timmarshall7903]

Well done, Oz from an old South Kent expat.

[@ozh3013]

Timothy Marshall good old Kent boys ✌️😄 cheers mate

[@sebastianveseyholt8777]

If I could advise you if I may next time you have a take what I tend to do is just keep the tension really hard on the fish with no drag so the line is always tight but yeah barbless are a pain plus the weed I feel for you.

[@daveshaw5293]

Great vid as usual mate and 👌I'm fishing a small lake just starting on there yet to catch and 60 carp and apparently hard as,what advice would u give me, I've done well on hard small waters before ,its not that busy either or deep 5 acres 2half Upto around 5-7feet deep thanks David

[@samycarping8360]

Oz...the Wizzer

[@ozh3013]

Allein fischen 😆✌️

[@lac7448]

One of the best is our ozzy

[@carpergolfergaz29]

Is oz no longer with active baits solutions? Good watch again loved all 8 🎣🐟👍👌

[@ozh3013]

Gary Cain I am a consultant for Sticky baits/Thinking Anglers these days Gary ... glad you enjoyed the films Regards Oz

[@carpergolfergaz29]

@@ozh3013 oh nice m8 have a good season

[@andrewreed2104]

Great video and angling Oz!! Where can I get that wind shield you use for your stove?

[@ozh3013]

Andrew Reed hi mate it’s just a TA prototype ... maybe something we will bring to market in future 👍 kind regards Oz

[@andrewreed2104]

I had a feeling you'd say that...looks great! That's for the speedy reply mate 👍

[@p.p.8113]

🎣🎣👍

[@ozh3013]

Paul pard glad you enjoyed it ✌️ Regards Oz

[@itsgottabecarpy3994]

Quality

[@ozh3013]

It's gotta be Carpy 😊✌️ cheers mate

[@DenzelLN936]

The music on this is amazing - what’s it called?

[@lac7448]

I no a lake in Bedfordshire full of black scaly mirrors it's on my bosses land it was a old clay extraction pit .iv had um to 43 lb but theres is bigger in there iv seen um

[@IFilmUfos]

Be interested to know if the first take you pulled out of was a sharpened hook?? I run a weedy lake and we have had excessive mouth damage increase in past 8yrs. We are now looking into hand sharpened hooks being one of the causes. Ronnie rigs are now banned as we found numbers of foul and double hooked fish in our netting’s.

[@rgnotdead]

Only just starting to watch this, hence late response. Glad you are taking things seriously, some [the minority I hope] fishermen only think about catching fish, not the fish's welfare. More needs to be done regarding these issues. Wishing you the very best with your venture.

[@louisrb6106]

Fair play to you mate!!! Birds seem to be a plague now......

[@ozh3013]

rlb navara cheers , Ha Ha yes especially on day ticket venues where they get fed regularly and consistently. I do have a laser pen to scare them off at times but not wise to use in films on a lake near Heathrow !!! Someone else tells me this Tufty Torch is very very efficient ... might look into purchasing one. The birds do tell you a lot of what is going on and as you saw in film ... the tufties feed in harmony with the carp a lot of the time 💁🏻‍♂️😊

[@IronFist2508]

What's the little trick where you burn the hair instead of using a boilie stop 3:13 ? Do you use a new rig when you have to re bait? I cant figure out how that works.. Great content btw!

[@ThinkingAnglersTV]

The bait is threaded on using bait floss, similar to dental floss, which is inexpensive. You cut a length off and thread the bait onto it and then rather than tying on a boil stop, you can burn the floss to form its own stopper. Hope that helps

[@rgnotdead]

@@ThinkingAnglersTV good point, thanks.

[@billsiviter9272]

What was the opening music?

[@iainjamieson2748]

Top video! When's the Think-link being released??

[@ozh3013]

Iain Jamieson cheers Iain , should be in stores around early April

[@iainjamieson2748]

@@ozh3013 lovely, cheers Oz. Are you boys at the big one show?

[@ozh3013]

Iain Jamieson yes mate, we will be there, Think link will be on sale there for sure

[@iainjamieson2748]

@@ozh3013 perfect mate cheers! Looking forward to it. Will see you there 👌👍

[@TheBrand83]

Trying to figure out if I’m watching an Angler. Or a Convict.😀 great vid though!

[@ozh3013]

Hi, glad you enjoyed the film 👍. If you wish to elaborate on the comment above regarding figuring out watching an angler/convict... I will try to help you out as best I can as I don’t really get it ? Kind regards Oz

[@TheBrand83]

@@ozh3013 Not trying to offend brother. With the beanie and the tattoos. Reminds me of ex con’s I have seen many times.

[@ozh3013]

@@TheBrand83 No offence taken brother 😄 Thanks for the reply ✌️

[@TheBrand83]

@@ozh3013 If you make it to the US. I would fish with you anytime! 🍺

[@2bsure407]

What braid mainline is that?

[@ozh3013]

2B Sure it’s a sinking braid we have on test for TA over the past year mate 👌 Cheers Oz

[@leedryden4502]

Why is the stiff link so dame slippy can hardly grip it to do the whipping knot lol, steams well though

[@callumvickers4809]

What lake is this does anybody know

[@ozh3013]

Callum Vickers The Mets Lake at Thorney Weir

[@peterjohnson8935]

Clear weedy water he would do better with natural particles not boilies. Light lead wouldn't spook the fish so much.

[@IntoMotivate]

Oz I know you read the comments, you’re my favourite angler but PLEASE don’t put the milk in first it really unsettles me😂

[@ozh3013]

Ha ha cheers mate ... don’t worry too much, it was coffee, I wouldn’t ruin a good tea bag with milk first 😆😉

[@IntoMotivate]

Oz H Thank god, I can live out my life in peace 🤣.

[@ozh3013]

@@IntoMotivate LOL 😂☕️🍶

[@IntoMotivate]

Oz H You’re forgiven, may the carp gods bless your future fortunes.

[@geriatriccarper2842]

How and who gives this a thumbs down, go grind your axe elsewhere you prong