I Caught the BIGGEST fish of my life!
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Join me on Southbourne beach as what started as a simple beach fishing session, reviewing the years catches, turned into a dream session and an epic capture! Not only did I catch a new PB blonde ray, a fish I've been chasing for a while now, but I smashed both of my local club records and caught one of the largest fish ever to be caught from Southbourne Beach! An early Christmas present proving sometimes dreams do come true! Knowing how and where to catch rays is the easy bit, being in the right place at the right time relies on a healthy dose of luck!
I didn't mention much tackle in the end! Here's a link to the hooks at least!
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Well done Tom 👍 outstanding blonde , great videos really informative as well.
Thanks mate 😁
Great video, love your enthusiasm 2024 was a 9/10 for me, 3 pb’s 40-4 Tope,5-5 thin lipped & 11-13 Huss.
Wow! 3 awesome pbs mate! Well done! (Sorry for late reply! missed a few comments and playing catch up this morning!)
great ray Tom bloody well done
Thank you 😁
I look forward to more fantastic videos in 2025. Only UA-camr that doesn't try to force feed you sponsored products.
Love that you discuss different tactics like hook patterns, line choices and different elements that might seem minor but are more important ❤
Thank you mate. I loathe plugging products or brands to death. No harm in occasionally mentioning the odd item I actually use, hopefully people realise that it covers an array of different brands with no one being favoured over others! You are absolutely right about the little things making the difference, that's one of the keys to succesful fishing, not £1000 rods and reels (although I do like those, too 🤣)! All the best for '25, mate.
What an end to the fishing year that was 👏 one of those sessions where you go out not expecting much, bit of a chat to round the year off on your channel and boom - a one to remember. I'm out today just hoping the fish are there to end my year off. Mine has been a 5/10 mainly as I'm on a recovery phase and getting out there has been difficult but I'm getting there. 10/10 for you though Tom, well done on the blonde and thanks for some top quality viewing with your videos.
Thank you mate. I wish you well in your recovery. Hopefully '25 will be the best year yet! Thanks for the support this year 🙏
WOW!!!
You quite often hear fishing UA-camrs say oh I caught blah, blah recently but sorry wasn’t filming that session.
But not Tom, he lands a TWENTY plus Ray from the shore on Camera!!! Well Done Tom, amazing fish, congratulations well deserved. 👍🏻👍🏻👌🏻🥂
Thank you, mate. I've been lucky in front of the cameras. The only fish I was truly gutted about not getting on film was actually Darren's 11lb+ bass!
Wot a fish to end the year 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻enjoyed your content this year Tom look forward to more next year 👍👍🤣
Thank you. All the best for 2025, mate.
Wow what a fish to end 2024,well done Tom. Look forward to your video adventures 2025,learnt lots watching your videos
Thank you, mate. Glad you picked up a few things along the way.
A massive well done Tom, that’s the kinda ending to a year dreams are made of mate , all the very best for 2025 , appreciated as always 👍🏼🎣
Paul
@motorsnutts6594 thank you, mate. All the best for 2025 to you too.
Well done. Yet another great video and a cracking fish. Great Christmas present. Have a good 2025.
Thank you. All the best for 2025, mate.
Well done Tom,
First time I’ve commented on a utube video my ranking for the years fishing 5/10 blanked more time this year than ever😩 never mind still loved it. This video was the best well done👍🏻
I'm honoured to be your first matey 😁
Seems to be the general theme on the rankings, a mediocre year for most!
My year has been a 6.5 out of 10.
Not gotten out as much as id liked to.
But your videos and humour has helped no end.
Cracking blonde there!
Well done
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
We never fish as much as we'd like to! I'm glad you've enjoyed the videos. Thanks for supporting me all year with watching and commenting. It's genuinely appreciated. Thank you. All the best for 2025, mate.
What a fish!what a Xmas present from Sobo! I'd say 11 out a 10,for that! Well done mate ,you deserve that!
Thank you. I'll take 11/10! 🤣 All the best for 2025, mate.
10 / 10.. First time out on a boat for myself and the Mrs.. Dogfish for me and dogfish and whiting for the Mrs... and first time i didnt blank from the beach.
Great Vids Tom, pls keep them coming
Brilliant, mate. Well done. Any "first" is always deeply satisfying and keeps us yearning for more. Best of luck for '25.
Thanks for vids. Happy new year
Thank you. Happy new year to you too.
Well done Tom that is a great fish mate. What a way to finish the year. Look forward to watching your videos in 2025
Thank you, mate. Nothing like leaving the best 'til last!
Brilliant stuff very well done with the ray specially on a size 1 flapper . 👏 👏 👏 💪
Thanks mate
Your happiness is so infectious, I can't wait to start fishing again after a 20+ year gap and you know what I not that bothered what or if I catch anymore just going to enjoy it 😊
That's the perfect attitude to approach fishing with. Sometimes, we put too much pressure on ourselves to catch every time we go, and that's just not realistic. I still enjoy the slow sessions.
I'm really, really pleased for you - I know you've been chasing that blonde ray all year, so it's a real Christmas miracle. Your excitement was genuinely very moving! Well done, sir - and thank you for all your videos over the past year. It's got me back into fishing, it's got my son into fishing and thus it's meant we've spent lots of quality time together - ultimately, that was because of your videos. So, thanks again. 10/10 year for us.
That's the best thing I've read all year! To think I had a little part to play in getting you both fishing and spending time together makes everything worth while. 😊😊
Thank you so much for all your support throughout the year, it is greatly appreciated. All the best for 2025, mate.
Pork pie and a zoo creature, with a splash of child like excitement , congratulations Tom ,very enjoyable watch 👍
What more could you want? 🤣
Thank you.
Before I can give my year a score I have to say what a fantastic ray that was. You gave a great lesson in how to play and land a big fish on light gear - something for beginners and experienced anglers alike. My year I give 8.5/10. The youth angling club I run continues to thrive and over the next 12 months we should go further than I hoped. I have also started coaching some home educated youngsters and run an adult beginners group. Some of the fishing has been amazing whilst some just ok but the thrill of getting a newcomer regardless of their age to catch their first fish cant be beaten.
That is outstanding, mate. I'm so pleased to hear the juniors section is doing so well. The angling community is extremely lucky to have people like yourself putting so much back into the sport. Thank you.
All the very best to you and your family my friend keep up the good work?
Thank you, and to you and yours.
Great video again tom and what a cracking ray mate well done 💪🎣 👍🏻
Thanks Ian.
Amazing mate. I love it. ❤
Thank you mate, and thanks for all your help and support this year. Roll on 2025.
You would say that, you’re biased 😂😂😂😂❤🐟🎣
What an amazing effort.. well done that man.. 👏 👍 🎉
Thank you, mate 😁
Congratulations, that is an amazing fish! Lots of great videos this year! Thank you, mate. I've caught my first undulate and smooth hounds from watching your videos. 👍
That's awesome to hear, thank you. Thanks for your support by watching and commenting, always appreciated.
Love the “It’s 9 o’clock and I’m going home”
Awesome Fisk
h and well deserved given all that you’ve shared this year. Just wished you lived nearer Hayling Island so you could help me catch such monsters on my beach. Happy New Year.
Thank you. My head was in no place to carry on fishing. I needed to go home and sit in a dark room for a while 🤣🤣
All the best for 2025, mate.
Absolutely Awesome Tom and deserved
Thanks for your videos this year looking forward to them in 25 👍👍
Thanks mate 😁
An amazing catch! A great Christmas present.
Second only to the pants and socks I get from the wife, of course!
Merry Christmas, Tom! Myself and my dad have found it overwhelming how your advice has changed our fishing… we went from blanking to catching 36 fish across 2 sessions! Your bagnall rigs and the urfes have delivered insane value - including a pb 10lb huss on a sand eel 😂! As newbies to fishing who are trying to absorb as much information as possible, you are truly a gold mine! Thank you for taking the time to produce your videos and share your knowledge - me, my dad and my brother really, really appreciate it. Have a lovely new year, and all the best to the team at the Christchurch Angling Centre! ❤
That's just the nicest thing to read! Thank you so much. I'm honestly over the moon that I've managed to help your fishing along the way. I hope you continue to enjoy the sport and next year brings even bigger and better things. Happy new year to you all.
Absolutely brilliant Tom, really chuffed for you. Happy new year.
Thanks, mate. Happy new year to you too!
Congratulations Tom 👏🏻 you can see how much that fish meant to you ! 👏🏻👏🏻
It really did! Many many (many) hours have gone into that one! One very happy, and still a little overexcited, angler! lol
All the best for 2025, mate.
What a fish!
Thank you.
I must admit, the build up was fantastic, I think you manifested a whopper. Such a torrent of emotion, I’m not crying you are. ☘️
Ha ha! Ya loony! Thank you, mate. I hope you had a great Christmas.
@ it was lovely, festive food and fishing. I hope you had a relaxing time. Roll on 2025, happy new year 🥳
Well deserved, pb. What an excellent way to end the year.
Thanks mate
Outstanding catch Tom. Massive congratulations.
Thank you. All the best for 2025, mate.
Congratulations on catching your PB Blonde Ray tom wonderful fish. 👏👏👏
Thank you, matey.
Excellent fish Tom well done. Happy new year for you and the family.
Thank you. To you and yours, too. All the best for 2025, mate.
Well done Tom....nicely played too.
Matt Brown.....Anglers Den.
Thank you Matt 😁
I hope you've had a great year's fishing and in the shop too. This time next year we'll both be millionaires, I'm convinced of it. 😁🤞
Well I am struggling to find the words Tom , many great anglers have travelled many hundreds of miles to find a Blonde half that size and you manage it in your back garden , absolutely amazing! It's never over till the fat lady sings. It has been a whole new learning curve seeing your videos especially on this beach that offers so many prospects as you have so remarkably shown. Have a fantastic new year Tom and thank you for sharing all your great content.
Thank you, mate. As you've probably seen, I've spent a fair bit of time sat on chesil in hope of a big blonde, so to catch one on Southbourne was just a dream come true for me.
Thank you for you for watching and supporting the channel. 😁
Happy New Year Tom and thanks for all your help and for sharing just valuable tips on this great sport. Another great video. Thanks for sharing! congratulations on your PB too!!
Thank you. And thanks for all your support this year. All the best for 2025, mate.
Absolutely brilliant. Have loved the uploads all year and that was well deserved. HNY.
Thank you, mate. Appreciate the support and best of luck for '25.
If anyone deserves an early Christmas present it's you Tom, congratulations on what has to be the most incredible ending to 2024 absolutely exceptional.
I would like to wish you a (belated) Merry Christmas to you all at the shop & to your family & here is to a brighter & "Fishy" 2025....😊
Thank you so much, mate. That's a wonderful comment to read 😁
All the best for 2025, mate.
So pleased for you Tom absolutely outstanding , your emotions show just how profoundly happy this sport can make us. Thanks for all you’ve posted on u tube for us all to enjoy Hope 2025 is 11 out of 10 for you 🎉
Thank you mate 😁 Thank you for your support with watching and commenting all year. I really appreciate it.
Good on ya Tom, great bit of angling getting her in on light hooks like that, awesome job! Hope you had a good chrimbo and thanks for the entertainment throughout the year! All the best 👊🏻
Thanks, mate 😁. I sure did have a great week. This fish set the week up perfectly! I hope you did, too.
well done , great fish ,one to remember for a life time.
Absolutely! I'm still pinching myself now!
Wow… need I say anymore…. Awesome Tom ..well done you 👍
Thanks mate 😁
Get in💪🏻well deserved ,keep up the good work 👍
Thanks mate 😁 (Sorry for late reply! missed a few comments and playing catch up this morning!)
Terrific fish well done Tom. What a way to finish the year. Looking forward to watching more of your content next year. All the best.
Thank you. Fingers crossed next year is a good one. 🤞🏻
Well done Tom and a great pb and totally understand how you felt, had my pb barbell in November at 11lb 5oz and felt like you did an amazing feeling.
That's a beauty of a barbel, very well done. It really is a wonderful feeling when it happens, not something you can explain easily to a non angler!
@FishyTom Agree Tom took me ages to calm down and you can't explain to people who don't fish.
Thanks for all your content, I really enjoy your films even though I am a lure angler and I appreciate your generosity with marks and venues. Happy new year and bring on the spring 🎉👊👍
Thank you, mate. Thanks for your support this year.
Well done ray man , it comes to those who wait 🎣🥳🎉
Thanks mate 😁
Epic result pal!
That's a cracking blonde to pull out off the shore. A great way to end the year!!!
Thanks mate 😁
Cracking end to a great year of videos matey. Keep up the good work. All the best for 2025!
Thanks mate 😁
Excellent what a fish, well done and to capture on video 👏🎣👏
Thank you 😁
Totally deserved for all your hard work, skill and knowledge. Has to be my favourite fishing channel. Thanks for a good year of content. Best wishes to you and family for 2025
Thank you, mate. And thank you for your support.
Well done Tom beast of a blonde
Thank you. All the best for 2025, mate.
Well done Tom cracking fish I did last night a whiting and a bass saved a blank for me but yeah lovely blonde 😊
Thanks mate. Best of luck for next year, hope it's kind to us both.
Lets hope so tom need to pop in and say hello at some point 😊@FishyTom
@DobbosFishingAdventures yes, please do. We can chat fishing and filming and generally put the world to rights.
@FishyTom oh we certainly can sounds like a plan tom 😃
Just amazing Tom so pleased for you great to see the passion and excitement 👍
Thank you John. I hope you had a great Christmas. Happy new year. Hopefully see you in the shop and on the beach next year. All the best for 2025, mate.
Happy new year Bro!
Big thanks for getting my order out before Xmas. We cought fish over Christmas in part to you.
Thanks and well done bro!🎉
Oh and Give you mate Wayne a extra big hug from us all when you see him !
Hey mate! Glad to hear you caught a few over Xmas! Happy new year. I hope this year brings more fish than you know what to do with! I'll give Wayne a kiss and a cuddle on Wednesday when I see him.
Thanks Tom, new to the channel and reletavely new to fishing. Retired and in not the best of health I am absolutetly amazing time on the beach fishing. I struggle a bit as I have a full wrist replasement and just had a full shoulder replacement oh! and Iv'e lost a toe ! looked everywhere 😮💨 I'll be back on the beach mid Feb I hope, doing my casting phsio every day. Thanks Tom, Have a brilliant new year. Tight lines. Ed
Blimey, you've been through it, mate! I hope you enjoy your beach fishing, there's so much to learn and so many rewards to be had. All the best for '25.
Superb blonde ray from southbourne beach Tom well done 10/10
Thank you mate.
What a great fish mate see you in shop soon. Love the videos
Thanks mate 😁
Well done on the PB
Thank you 😁
10/10 best year on the rays for me, PB small eyed, PB blonde, PB blue skate, and PB bass also!
Wow!!! That'll take some beating! Very well done, mate. Especially that blue ray, a very rare catch!
Well done chief, beautiful fish. Merry Xmas from GRIMSBY
Hey Carl. Thanks so much for all your support this year. Thank you. All the best for 2025, mate.
Awesome well done!!! Looking forward to your videos in the new year👍
Thanks mate
What a cracking blonde Tom. What a fish to end the year with. Thoroughly deserved. Happy New Year.
Thanks mate 😁
Cracking fish and awesome end to a fab year. Absolutely love your videos, fun, informative and motivating. Look forward to more in 2025, please do more bass fishing on the boat, the banter was truly wonderful👏🏻👌🏻
Thanks mate 😁 Thank you for supporting the channel throughout the year.
Excellent year as a spectator to your channel. You have given some great advice. awesome video. Gone from wanting a double figure blonde to a double double figure blonde. Even when you are ranking whiting you made me laugh. Happy new year to you.
Yeah, never been great at pronouncing my Ws! Maybe a different word would have been sensible 🤣🤣
Beautiful fish to end the year with Tom! Happy New Year to you and the family. Tight lines for 2025
Thank you, mate. To you and yours too.
A great blonde. Well done 🎉😊
Thank you! 😊
An amazing session, sure to be remembered. 😊
Thank you
Outstanding fish Tom, just goes to show that one bite in our sport can turn a 7/10 year into a 10/10 year and a night you will always remember!!!
Exactly that, mate! That's the wonderful thing about fishing. You just never know what might turn up next. I was in the right place at the right time, but realistically it could have been anyone. I will be dining out on this one for a while! Thank you. All the best for 2025, mate.
Well done, you deserve it. You make enjoyable videos. I rank this year as 3/10, bad year but getting better.
Definitely room for improvement! Let's hope next year is better 🤞🏻🤞🏻
Fair play Tom. A fish of a lifetime
Thanks mate 😁
Amazing tom ...you deserved that fish for keeping us all entertained all year
🥰 thank you
Time and effort in 2024 you have put in for the viewers with outstanding videos, tips, and most importantly, humour enjoying your fishing. What a way to be rewarded. Congratulations, Tom, keep up the good work. Oh, 6/10 fishing year (busy times with a young family) 9/10 overall
Thank you, mate. I really appreciate the support. I'm glad you had a 9/10 overall, a little room for improvement with the fishing, but family comes first, especially when young. Best of luck for '25.
Wonderful ,happy new year Martin
Thanks Martin, to you too.
Well done mate. Beauty of a ray and well deserved. You have worked so hard for that fish. I would give the year a 5/10 must try harder.
Thank you mate. I hope 2025 is a better year for you.
Pork pie and the biggest fish congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 great video. New to your channel but totally enjoyed.
Welcome aboard 😁 Although I'm not sure my next few videos will live up to this one! 😣🤣
what a fish Tom brilliant well done, and thanks for all the videos this yeat,learnt an awful lot happy new year.
Thanks, mate. Thank you for your support throughout the year, too.
Well done cracking fish 👍🏻
Thanks mate
well done mate well deserved for all the work and time you put into your videos
Thanks mate 😁
Amazing fish always a great watch ,thanks and a happy new year
Well done Tom and very well deserved after all the effort to help others perfect finish thank you so much for sharing hope to see more in the new year thanks
Thank you mate. I really appreciate that. 🙏
Well done Tom, awesome fish. Just goes to show your next cast could be the fish of a life time, you just never know
Exactly that! That fish could have taken anyones bait, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time!
Congratulations fantastic fish 🐟
Thanks mate 😁
Awesome catch mate, beats the Wessex record by about 6lb aswell according to my tide book 👏👏👏👏
Does it really? I didn't know that, thank you 😁
@FishyTom 14lb 15oz in 2014 apparently
Incredible catch 😊
Thanks mate
I had a dabble last night and managed a sweet turbot and a little SE
@jameswilliam9238 brilliant mate, well done.
Well done Tom. Happy days
Thanks mate
Awesome fish tom well done
Thanks mate
Well done Tom
Awesome fish 🎣👌🏻
Thanks mate 😁
Chuffed for ya, well in.
Thank you, mate.
Nice one Tom well done
Thank you. All the best for 2025, mate.
Stonker!! Congratulations Tom
Thanks mate.
Congratulations well done 👏 🎉
Thank you! 😃
Nice one Tom
Thanks mate
Well done tom nice PB 2024 has been 7.5 out of 10 for me
I'd take 7.5/10 mate. That's a good score. Let's hope 2025 is an 8 or 9! All the best for 2025, mate.
@FishyTom yer hopefully me and Neil we meet up with you and Darren for a fishing trip in 2025
Yes! We must make that happen.
Gz dude, just amazing 👏
Thanks mate 😁