Tom Stokes has a Vlogging Nightmare

In this video, creator Tom Stokes shares a highly successful, yet frustrating, carp fishing trip. He begins by explaining a massive vlogging disaster: he accidentally deleted almost all the 4K footage of his 41-minute, heavily edited video due to a storage issue on his phone. Despite losing detailed segments on his setups, casts, and live bites, he managed to salvage the clips of the actual fish catches and pieces together the story for his viewers.

Tom recounts a multi-day session where he landed nine fish across different swims. He shares footage of several impressive catches, starting with a nice common carp and moving on to an incredible fully scaled mirror carp weighing 32 lbs. The highlight of the trip, however, comes after a strategic swim move on his final night. He lands a highly sought-after, rare black linear carp—the exact fish that motivated him to get a ticket for the lake, and one that hasn’t been caught in two years. The video concludes with Tom packing up in the rain, soaked but ecstatic about his catch, promising to return to the lake for even bigger targets.