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Mark Wintle
United Kingdom
Приєднався 24 гру 2017
I've long been a great fan of roach fishing and much of my channel is about the many aspects of this type of fishing. I've written two books about roach fishing, Big Roach, and Big Roach 2, and both were publshed by Mpress with the second book still available from calmproductions.com. The first book is long sold out. I was also a great fan of legendary match angler Ivan Marks and have written his biography, Ivan Marks and the Likely Lads, and have made some videos about Ivan as well as included edited versions of some interviews with Likely Lad Phil Coles.
In my youth I was a fan of the Jack Hargreaves Out of Town programmes and have started to make some videos that follow in his footsteps.
In my youth I was a fan of the Jack Hargreaves Out of Town programmes and have started to make some videos that follow in his footsteps.
A Pinch of Flake
@MarkWintleFishing With a minimum of bait, a couple of slices of bread and some bread that's been liquidised for groundbait, I rove around a short stretch of the upper Dorset Stour floatfishing a pinch of flake on a size 16 hook trying to find roach and chub.
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Casters on a Dour Stour
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@MarkWintleFishing For a change I'm fishing with casters on the upper Dorset Stour but for reasons unknown the river is in a very dour mood. Apart from small patches of bubbles and some very small fish topping there's little sign of better fish, and it takes a move to another swim to find something big enough to put a bend in the rod. It's possible the recent hot weather created an algae bloom ...
Bread Punch Basics
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@MarkWintleFishing I take a look at the basics of bread punch fishing using plain brown crumb as groundbait, hoping to catch roach on the upper Dorset Stour.
A Bait Switch
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@MarkWintleFishing It's late June and I had hoped that hemp and tares would work on the lower Dorset Stour but although I had one nice roach on tares it took a bait switch to find the fish.
Mixing the Baits - Does Brown Bread Work?
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@MarkWintleFishing It's the new season and I've had a short session on the upper Dorset Stour, feeding liquidised white bread and alternate white and brown bread on the hook, before finishing with maggots. As it's early season the roach aren't really feeding yet though the only ones I catch are all on white bread punch. The small chub aren't so fussy and take both brown bread and maggots. White...
The New River Season
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@MarkWintleFishing It's nearly the new river season and I explore what I'd like to achieve on my local rivers.
Roach - The Close Season Paradox
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@MarkWintleFishing With the river close season still in force I'm aware of a disparity in how river and stillwater roach behave. On a stillwater I've been fishing regularly the roach spawned around the 8th to 10th of May and barely paused in their feeding - actually hungrier than ever - yet experience tells me that when the river season reopens on 16th June the roach will be hard to tempt for a...
Roach On Top - On the Pole
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@MarkWintleFishing I try a different approach to catching roach right up in the water by using a pole at about 9 metres. I fish with a 4 x no. 10 pole float and size 20 hooks with casters to catch plenty of roach, rudd and skimmers.
Roach - Up on Top
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@MarkWintleFishing A couple of recent sessions on a deep (12ft) swim revealed that the roach were more willing to feed right up in the water in the top 2ft. In the space of three days the roach had spawned, and are now hungry to feed. I've also re-invested in a diamond hook sharpener to put back the point of my favoured Drennan Silverfish Match barbless hooks which are prone to blunting.
Giant Roach
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@MarkWintleFishing With a record claim of 4-13-0 in the offing - due to be considered in June 2024 - what chance of a 5lb roach in the UK? For years the British roach record has nudged up an ounce at a time to 4-4-0 but bigger fish have been reported on the Continent. Could a trout reservoir or carp venue throw up a true monster one day? What do you think?
Lost Waters
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@MarkWintleFishing Over the decades many of my local waters have been lost to fishing, sometimes through change of ownership, neglect or simply no longer worth fishing. Have many of your local waters been lost, and why?
Match Rod Design - Influencers?
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@MarkWintleFishing I take a look at how the background of various top match anglers has influenced match rod design over the decades. What's your favourite match rod and why? Influences identified include, in no particualr order: Ivan Marks and Roy Marlow, Benny and Kevin Ashurst, Clive Smith and Ken Giles, John Dean, John Allerton, Tom Pickering, Will Raison, Pete Brownlow, Geoff Salisbury.
The Snag with Hemp Fishing for Roach
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@MarkWintleFishing Fishing with hemp as hook bait is an effective way to catch roach but I feel that whilst it brings a decent sample size of roach it's not so good at fooling the big ones.
Wagglers - Paint It Black
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@MarkWintleFishing I've been replacing my wagglers with hollow-tip variants and It's time to replace some of my black-tipped ones. I get the hollow tips from Rizov. Black tips are useful in big-sky scenarios where the water appears white.
Free Fishing!
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@MarkWintleFishing Free fishing (in England) is something that is often talked about but does it actually exist?
Final Cast - End of the Season on the Dorset Stour
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Final Cast - End of the Season on the Dorset Stour
Subtle Roach and a Carbotec Match Rod
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Subtle Roach and a Carbotec Match Rod
Match Rods - Spliced Tips Versus Hollow Tips
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Match Rods - Spliced Tips Versus Hollow Tips
Match Fishing Memories Part 23 - A Fateful Day
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Match Fishing Memories Part 23 - A Fateful Day
Waggler Fishing - Upwards or Sideways
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Waggler Fishing - Upwards or Sideways
Waggler Fishing - More Weight = Better Control
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Waggler Fishing - More Weight = Better Control
Hi Mark, I’ve just started following you on you tube and you seem to be fishing regularly on the upper Stour? Can you tell me whereabouts please. Looks like a nice place to fish. Thanks
I have access to a number of stretches of the Stour from Blandford upstream, with waters controlled variously by Gillingham AC, Sturminster AA, Dorchester DAA, Ringwood DAA and Blandford AC. All have some lovely waters and as I found that specifying waters can sometimes lead to poaching or overfishing I tend to keep it vague. If I tell everyone where I am then I will struggle to find anywhere that's quiet to film. Someone put out a film a while back and made it very obvious where it was and it was poached for a while.
Looking forward to fishing that stretch later on in the year. Need a box to take a rest for the long walk my friend
Hi Mark, I really enjoy these short films, for one to see the nature around the UK's rivers but more importantly the fish. The future of our rivers looks good with a prolific amount of small fish, the Severn, Ribble, Wye, Trent, Dee and many others I have seen are all looking great. Look forward to the next session 👍
Great video mark, I had some nice roach and perch 60 yards downstream of that first swim you fished, last Wednesday, roach to nearly 1lb, couldn't find any decent chub though
Was that upstream (above) or downstream (below) the big hedge?
Above, towards the large overhanging tree @@MarkWintleFishing
Nice video Mark. Looks like a couple of pretty swims. Very enjoyable way to fish
Just started watching your videos,very enjoyable,fishing as it should be, amazing how many quality fish are in such a small river and how little tackle you carry around with you,also I appreciate how you look after the fish by not using a keepnet you and I are a rare breed in this practice.Much respect and keep making these excellent videos. Graham.
Over a decade ago I stopped using a keepnet completely, not that I was using one very much anyway, but there's a big improvement in retaining the condition of the fish when they're not used. Two local clubs have banned their use.
Great video mark. Nice swim with quite a lot of fish in the end mate. Great fishing 🎣
Lovely fishing. Seems to be a lot of small chub around this season, great news for the coming years.
Another enjoyable video Mark, keep them coming. Almost tempting me to get my Shakey Boron, ABU 506 & Contibox out on the Nene. I bumped into one of my old Octoplus Peterborough team mates last week practicing for a Nene Match, the amount of tackle on his trolley was mind-blowing. Think I'll set myself up as the Retro Matchman with all my 35 yr old tackle & see if I can still catch a few on my Tricast Sovereign pole & Daiwa System whips . Keep oiling up those clunky Mitchell Match reels mate. Tight Lines.
Back in early 1976 a mate had just his first car, a Mini saloon (why he didn't get an estate I'll never know!) and three of us managed to squeeze in with three baskets and three rod holdalls (no bait/net bags then). Now I'm carrying more video gear than fishing tackle. Is the Nene still worth fishing? I enjoyed my practice/match sessions on there back in the 80s; last fished it in the famous winter league semifinal in early 91 when Steve Gardener won with 42lb, when there were a stack of double-figure catches - I had nearly 13lb of roach.
@MarkWintleFishing I remember that Winter League semi, I'm sure Stevie G was on the cages swims - mesh screens erected on several pegs along the golf course to protect anglers, that area use to hold massive shoals of roach towards the end of the season . A bit further up is a bridge to Ferry Meadows, just above that is the Jungle - big weights of hemp roach at end of season. The Nene is still worth fishing if its holding some colour & you know where to go. Also big perch on lures - in certain areas !
I was in the Jungle that day; had to crawl through a tunnel in the bramles to get to my swim. The guy upstream fished for chub which was a mistake as he was 2nd from last in the section with 5lb.
Thanks mark ,proper fishin
Lovely chub mark
thanks for making these videos, I have found them educational
Hi Mark. That's a neat technique. Once prepared, are they strong enough to be cast, or are they just for pole fishing? Thanks.... Chris
Yes, they're fine for casting.
Where do I get springs from please
Not easily. There used to be several dealers in the parts but very few left. Sometimes eBay will turn up what you want. Try joining some of the FB groups on Facebook as someone might be able to help.
Just returned from a two week family holiday to northern ireland. Naturally i did some fishing over there. Some fantastic roach fishing on some local loughs and on the river quoile. Average was 3 fish to the pound. Best trip was to the upper lough erne system. 45lb of quality roach and hybrids averaging two to the pound on pole fished casters. A superb session. Now back to the dorset stour. I may try the tidal parts as they will have some flow and depth. It seems like a very slow start to roach fishing on there this season. I only caught a couple of very small roach amongst many chublets
Just discovered your channel and really enjoying the videos Mark. Unfortunately where I live in South East England is dominated by carp fishing with buzzers and 3 rods and our rivers are very neglected. I get down to them as much as I can and your videos will really help. Thank you.
Plenty to watch as there's well over 200 videos on the Channel. I have little problem finding neglected bits of river!
You're so right. It's all lakes bivvys televisions and bite alarms now. I don't mind though. Lots of small London rivers and the Thames with no one around! Tight lines.
did well to hoik that chub out on relatively light gear. saved the session
As long as the gear is balanced it's surprising how hard you can pull.
Bro. I could swear i can hear people screaming in your basenent joke. Nice video
Lovely chub Mark, probably needs a bit of rain to give you a bit more flow. Do miss fishing the Dorset Stour use to enjoy Havilands 👍
Normally there's a diatom bloom in mid June and then the river clears by early July but rain and hot weather has changed this and the river seems to be retaining the diatom bloom. A good flush wouldn't come a miss.
Nice chub to finish the session off mark.
A nice venture back in time Mark.. I still have some of my retro tackle from back in the late 70s,when I started fishing..I may dig them out of the loft and give them a session on my local canal or river just for a nostalgic trip back in time to my youth..lovely way to reminise..Tight lines! 😊🎣
It's good fun and reminds us that the old gear is just as capable of catching fish.
Any cheap centrepin will do fine,you can pick up brand new ones for around £50 , angling direct
The nice thing about the Rapidex is that, apart from being well-made, the micro-drag allows you to tailor the amount of drag to keep the spool under control, and decent examples are still reasonably priced; even a mint in box one is only around £100.
A great video, thanks for sharing! Bread punch or small breadflakes are my favourite bait. I use it all the time. Mostly 8-12mm on size 12-14 hooks. On the whip, with a light bolo-set-up or bomb and feeder. A XS-sized feeder and liquidized bread workes really well for me. Primary target-species in the warmer months are roach, rudd, bleak, silver bream and bream. In the winter massive ide and chub fell for bread-punch over here.
16 punch? are we talking 16 mm seems large for a 16s hook.
I make my own punches from brass tube and hard balsa (they float unlike commercially made ones!) so I just label each punch with the appropriate hook size. I bought the tube decades ago so it's in imperial sizes not metric, e.g. 11/32", but I can tell you the '16' punch has an internal diamer of 7.5mm, and the slightly smaller one, 6.5mm. The first punches I made were using .22" brass cartridges which were ideal for an 18. Later I bought breadpunches with interchangeable heads for the small sizes, and got some old brass ferrules for larger ones.
Can I ask what are your thoughts about the sink rate of loose fed hemp the river stretch i fish tends to be 10ft to 12ft deep i am struggling to get my bait into the area close enough up the swim with most bites coming well down the peg,any thoughts on how sink rate of hemp affects where majority of your bites come.I seem to catch most fish six to 12 inches off bottom,are you fishing tares at full depth generaly.
Hemp should sink a bit quicker than maggots which, if I remember rightly, sink at about 8 seconds per foot of depth. This means that in all but the slowest of flows the hemp is likely to be well down the swim before hitting bottom in a deep swim. I tend to choose shallower swims for hemp and tares though I have caught on both fishing shallow in deep water e.g. at 3ft deep in 10 foot of water. Generally I've caught just off the bottom though many years ago I used to fish a swim where I would cast in with the float set well over depth using tares and put the rod in a rest and lay on. I didn't get many roach but those I did get were big ones up to 2lbs.
"Come out you bastard....bastard!". Ah the gentle lament of many an angler when a big fish dives for the snags. :)
Good fishing mark after moving swims. Great video mate 👍
really good, felt like i was on the bank there with you
Thank you.
As a bread punch freek (my mates term not mine). I always bake my liquidised bread until slightly brown it is great slightly dampened down but mixes better with gross gardons (which I now use after watching your videos
I've been buying crumb in bulk since the days of Kestrel Anglers Crumb (white) back in 1972, mostly brown crumb, and this is the first bag of brown that has stodgy. The previous bag of brown was so hard to get to bind at all it needed to be either mixed with some white or Gros Gardons. I've had the odd bag go fausty. I have baked a small amount since that trip so will see what it's like.
Not like you to cuss, Mark…!
Am I mistaken or was it you that wrote a wonderful article on short whip fishing that featured on the Fishing Magic website?
I probably did do an article or two about whip fishing on FM but I seem to recall others did too.
I’ve still got my 300A from 1978. Felt I’d ‘arrived’ as an angler! From memory, it cost £18.10. I’ve always felt that the biggest advantage was the line lay. My current trotting reels are Daiwa 2503CUs, which have superb line lay, and are an easy reach to the spool. I’ve never been bothered about the ‘auto’ feature, preferring to flick the bale arm manually.
I used to fish at Kingston upon Thames and a Gudgeon was my first fish, they used to go up to about 3 ounces absolutely love them
I had a gudgeon Sunday in a very mixed Dorset Stour catch, 8 species plus a rare hybrid. Bleak, gudgeon and minnows were my first fish, from the Thames at Oxford.
Nice video. I'm going there tomorrow.
Good luck!
@@MarkWintleFishing Not much happening. Just Dace, a few small Roach and two Chublets over three days. One mate got a small Brown Trout and another mate caught a reasonable Perch. However, my 15' Hardy Marksman Specialist float rod performed just brilliantly at trotting and holding back etc over the bankside vegetation.
There was a Barbel Society fish-in all weekend and they had some good chub, a couple of barbel, bream to 9lb and an 8lb bass. If I can clear my committments I must fish the Avon soon.
Bread works very well on our stretch of the Yorkshire Derwent when fining down from an influx of extra water not in flood conditions,these roach very rarely see any bread its lightly fished and little or no duck feeding takes place its largely rural countryside.Normal conditions very few people use bread for roach on the Derwent,maybe its becuace the roach love a bit of colour in the water and it brings them on the feed.
Nearly 20 years ago I fished at Old Malton when the river had a drop of colour but I just used maggots for a mixed bag, mainly dace.
Nice spot of summer fishing Is that a Mitchell reel?
Thank you; yes, it's a Mitchell Match 440A.
I sed to fish the warks avon a lot and you could only catch the bigger roach on hemp. Im going back 25 years or so but i can remeber catching a big net full of roach at the manor farm leisure stretch, good net roach pretty much every cast but if you put a maggot on you couldnt catch a roach. I think a lot of it nowadays comes down to the fact that there are a lot of small fish in our rivers but the bigger roach are few and far between. On the rivers i know where there are lots of big roach they seem to get caught on all sorts.
Nicely done Sir....
Love fishing with bread always use casters early summer. Think I’ll give bread ago also 🎣
Grew up fishing The Stour downstream of Wimborne. Presently watching your video in Iceland.
Mark are you using a 15 foot Colmic Extema ? How do you rate this rod.
Yes, it's the Extima 15ft. Too early to be suire but so far I'm impressed, light and comfortable to use (I have modified the reel fitting!) with a good action.
is that Sturminster beat
Nice session there mark. 👌
Thanks 👍
Hi Mark Just wondering putting the fish back do you think it can spook the fish in your swim ?
I haven't used a keepnet for 11 years now and even before that I'd virtually stopped using one, and don't worry about spooking the fish, plus the fish go back without frayed fins.
lovely again that
Mark, i closed my eyes every time you lunged forward to net thise fish! Not a bad session.
There was a narrow step about a foot down but, yes, it's quite an awkward swim.
Can’t grumble about that session it looks like a bite a chuck plenty of silver fish in your swim thanks for sharing mark 🐟🎣👍
Nice little session to start the season Mark. Let's hope some of those fish get to grow to decent size
There's certainly better fish along there. There seems to be loads of small chub on the Stour this summer, and when this has happened in the past eventually there are lots of big ones.
We all have to much tackle .the older you get the less fun it is
Looks like the sort of swim Mr Crabtree would have fished thanks for upload regards