New here, but liked youre style and subscribed. Watching this made me feel like the fishing youtubers I used to enjoy have drifted too far from why I started watching them. Glad to have found your channel.
Pike and flourocarbon leaders.....It's always a heart in mouth moments when you hook them.... Monster Chub FFS !!!! Enjoyed that.....and very wise to carry some Pike unhooking pliers with you.....Even I do that....just in case.
What a chub! Great vid as always Chris. Some of those bigger Perch were stunning and the upper single Pike was a nice suprise, but that Chub was fantastic. A real big unit. Congrats for that beastie.☺ It just shows how deadly fishing with small lures can be on rivers.
I enjoyed the video. We used to fish like that here in Mid Wales 35 years ago, we'd use the smallest Mepps spinner out "00" I believe are the smallest. Also we used to scratch off the dots if they had red or blue dots. For some reason plain silver normally works best for trout and gold was better for chub but I imagine it depends on what's in the river at the time. Congratulations on the sponsorship. I like Rapala baits, I remember watching Matt Hayes years ago and they often did a talk on their baits.
Chris mate I am enjoying the videos and I am learning a lot about baitcasting with Lures and my new setup is a zebco 12-42 g rod with a okuma ceymar multiplier reel with 39lb sufix braid two rapala lures and a mepps aglia spinner and spin traces and a pike trace
im up north for next few days fishing in the sea at south shields for mackrel as i wanted to give it a go but ill be coming on the river as soon as i get back..the river IDLE in retford is looking better every time i see it on your video,s.the cannel is looking good also just as i remember it..the rivers i fish are hard going at times but still manage to catch..cant wait to come bag up on the river you fish..missed it as not fished the river IDLE in a few years..
Good session, some nice Perch, decent pike and a monster chub to top it all off, wicked video mate. Love the care you put into unhooking the fish aswell, so many people just yank or cut the line after losing patience with unhooking in awkward places so it's nice to see unhooking safely and correctly with you explaining the process for those who have less experience, nice job Chris.
m8 you have best UL youtube channel atm. Great job. I hope I can fish a river like that in the future :D I started making some lures for chub. I am sure they would absolutely destroy them on that river :D
Great video. You are a very talented fisherman and I can see that you care for the fish you catch.Because you catch so many and return all you should really consider putting single hooks on your lures and even making them barbless. You’ll still catch a lot of fish. You will miss a few but you’ll be surprised how many stay on with a single hook and you will damage a lot less fish.
Yet another mint vid to make me even more jealous river tees has seals that are nuking everything sickening but with nothing else to fish what can ya do keep it up mate I'll be watching 👍
OUTSTANDING video. Did that first strike startle you as much as me? I love it when they hit the lure as soon as it hits the water. Surface strikes are the best. Have you considered swapping out your treble hooks for singles? I've become almost strictly catch and release lately and it makes un-hooking so much easier. Not to mention that tangle of trebled lures in your box isn't so bad with singles. Again, thanks for sharing your time on the stream.
I think every UK fisherman loves to catch a nice perch, they are so redolent of childhood. I remember as a 12 year old catching a half pounder in the canal and thinking it was like a whale.
Bad angling practice. With two trebles in its throat that pike is dead if it bites through the fluorocarbon leader. Use a wire trace if there are so many pike in a water, or at the very least change out the trebles for a large single.
Absolutely agree. Great vid, but 14lb flurocarbon? With pike about that is playing Russian roulette. What is wrong with some 12lb Soft steel or 12lb titanium? Beautiful old warrior of a Chub though
I’m gonna comment on every video until you listen; TIGHTEN YOUR DRAG! 😂😂 every time you get a decent fish I’m surprised you can even set the hook right it’s that loose 😂
Some lovely fish there - that Chevin was a pearler! Small observation? - have seen you on this river many times........but never seen another angler on the water?
i like those rapala lures had some good times getting trout and perch with them here in New Zealand. been a while since ive caugth them but man those x raps really had great actions. those fish taking the lure were pretty epic takes. those perch r relentless as hell. kinda miss targeting them haha what was that crawling on your nail at 9:29
I bought quite a few some years ago as a result of a French angler telling me he caught barbel on his by bumping them on the bottom in weirpools and fast currents. Didn't work for me as yet; they're smaller than you were using.
Mate, this isn't a complaint, just you seem to care about the fish you catch. Get yourself some decent (like I mean decent) forceps and keep them clean. Fish are very susceptible to infections, and with all the barbs on the hooks etc it's not hard to imagine what rusty old pliers might be doing. Nice rod, reel and line, time to add some decent forceps (also good ones will surprise you how much easier it is to unhook, get a straight nose pair, and a bent nose pair, and the best part is you just clamp them on to your clothing when you aren't using them, they aren't going to fall off on you).. [edit] Just wanted to say that the reason I say "Decent" forceps isn't because they will be better than naff ones medically, it's just that the proper surgical ones have amazing grip, and don't pop open on you.
I use surgical magil forceps, I have a portable autoclaver to make sure the forceps are sterile, I also don theatre blues and a surgical mask.🤣 it’s a fish that lives in a river surrounded by all sorts of pathogens, it probably has an open wound in that environment every day of its life. On a serious note that was a great video.👍
Fish care should be paramount whilst fishing I'm sure u would catch nearly as many fish on less trebles and more singles.at the end of the day we all should think about catching fish in our future sessions but using all these trebles can damage fish far to much and ppl should at least give single hooks a go.You may lose an odd fish using singles but the welfare of the fish should come first and not someone's Ego fact..!👌
I tend to on my smaller lures with the “double treble” hooks. I do find it makes it much easier for when I get deep choked by a pike more than anything but it is helpful for getting the smaller fish unhooked and back quickly. Saying that, I understand why people don’t do it and have no issue with people who keep their barbs on, I do when I’m pike fishing with bigger lures.
@@RobbieM72 brilliant! Thanks a lot, I’ve been to a few venues and been unable to use my lures as they’re single hook only. Won’t have that trouble any more!
A perch died while i was fishing a hard bait with treble hooks, as it totally got hooked up badly by 4 of the six hooks, although i got them out the damage was already done, i was wondering if you would do a video where you swapped out your hooks for a single hook to see if it made any difference maybe even barbless ? P.s noticed your using a lot of rapala bait just wanna know do you real catch more fish using these lures and get what you pay for
I've been experimenting with barbless and single hooks for trout fishing using spoon baits. I've found single hooks to work better than barbless. It's easier to actually hook the fish using barbless treble than a single hook, but you pretty much need a net all the time. I lose alot more fish thats already hooked using barbless than single. Single hooks are sometimes pointing the wrong way when attempting to hook and you lose the fish, alteast with a spoon bait. With single hook the fish stays on much better though since you still have a barb on the hook. From my experience single hooks are about 70% as efficient as treble. Barbless about 40%. Fishing perch I always use treble hooks, but id say 1-2 perch each fishing session gets a bad hook and dies. Bigger perch I just take home and eat, the smaller ones are a shame though.
@@Quazkiz thanks for your reply, I think am gonna move to single, I don't know why manufacturers don't always give the angler's a choice on what hook to use, and surely it most cost just that little bit less to make if they didn't have to weald the hooks together in the 1st place
So happy to see this man getting a sponsor! So thoroughly deserved. Some of the best uk fishing content for SUREEEE
Congrats on the rapala sponsorship. Well deserved.
The amount of money I’ve spend on Rapala I deserve a sponsorship too 😂
@@LiamDCoughlan hmm maybe ;)
@@LiamDCoughlan
I have a whole box of rapala crankbaits that Ive found whenever they drain a lake by me. Probably $200+ worth of lures
@@AlphaQHard love that bro! I’d be putting them on eBay £5 each 😂 make a killing
Congratulations on the sponsorship. Well done. Look forward to seeing what they send and what works.
I love the Rapalas. Honestly, it makes me want to go shopping for lures, then get fishing! Thank you, GF.
New here, but liked youre style and subscribed. Watching this made me feel like the fishing youtubers I used to enjoy have drifted too far from why I started watching them. Glad to have found your channel.
Great job getting that pike in bud done with skill , and congratulations on your sponsorship , like those wee rapalas
Pike and flourocarbon leaders.....It's always a heart in mouth moments when you hook them....
Monster Chub FFS !!!!
Enjoyed that.....and very wise to carry some Pike unhooking pliers with you.....Even I do that....just in case.
What a chub! Great vid as always Chris. Some of those bigger Perch were stunning and the upper single Pike was a nice suprise, but that Chub was fantastic. A real big unit. Congrats for that beastie.☺ It just shows how deadly fishing with small lures can be on rivers.
For sure i enjoy it! What a big chub at the end, what a beast on such a small Xrap! Nice video Chris, like it!👍👍🥇
All your videos are great 👍 to watch. Thanks for sharing them.
Your local river is a gem 💎
Showing a very healthy balance of fish with some whoppers to go
Unhooking that pike from through his gills was really skilful, great video again mate
@Mike Tyson what?
Nice multiple species day!!! Loved this video.
Another great video fishing streams and rivers I can only dream of, I'm dead jealous. Keep up the good work Dave B, Chichester
What a cracking chub at the end there all the best on ya next fishing venture
I enjoyed the video. We used to fish like that here in Mid Wales 35 years ago, we'd use the smallest Mepps spinner out "00" I believe are the smallest. Also we used to scratch off the dots if they had red or blue dots. For some reason plain silver normally works best for trout and gold was better for chub but I imagine it depends on what's in the river at the time. Congratulations on the sponsorship. I like Rapala baits, I remember watching Matt Hayes years ago and they often did a talk on their baits.
another chris classic awesome video thanks for posting,Dellboy
Hi Chris, what a great session . Cracking chub mate and the Perch was a beauty 👍stay safe mate all the best from Downunder 👍👏🏻👏🏻
The fish care you have is remarkable! Never had much luck with hard baits! But I might give them a go 😏🤞
Love watching ur videos, keep up the great work and all the fun
Chris mate I am enjoying the videos and I am learning a lot about baitcasting with Lures and my new setup is a zebco 12-42 g rod with a okuma ceymar multiplier reel with 39lb sufix braid two rapala lures and a mepps aglia spinner and spin traces and a pike trace
im up north for next few days fishing in the sea at south shields for mackrel as i wanted to give it a go but ill be coming on the river as soon as i get back..the river IDLE in retford is looking better every time i see it on your video,s.the cannel is looking good also just as i remember it..the rivers i fish are hard going at times but still manage to catch..cant wait to come bag up on the river you fish..missed it as not fished the river IDLE in a few years..
Hello from Germany
You have so nice rivers / fish in England
Nice job with the Pike
Clonking Chub mate! Cracking bit of fishing.
Excellent Session!! Ace!!
Fun fishing..well done sorting that pike out...
Was host crazy to watch this film ,💪💪💪🙌🙌
Nice one Chris, the head shakes on that chub looked hardy 💪💪
Good session, some nice Perch, decent pike and a monster chub to top it all off, wicked video mate.
Love the care you put into unhooking the fish aswell, so many people just yank or cut the line after losing patience with unhooking in awkward places so it's nice to see unhooking safely and correctly with you explaining the process for those who have less experience, nice job Chris.
Great video agian!
Congrats with you PB chub!
m8 you have best UL youtube channel atm. Great job. I hope I can fish a river like that in the future :D I started making some lures for chub. I am sure they would absolutely destroy them on that river :D
Great catch and release of the large pike.
Get a couple small forceps! They are the bomb for deep hooked fish, go places needle nose pliers won't! Cheap.
Love your video!
wot a cracking chub!..top angling!....
Cracking catch
👍👍👍😜🏴🦕🙂🤞✌
Really enjoy your videos Chris 👍
Those are some chunker Perch, dude. Nice lil river.
Nice video, just had a cracking trout session with the ultra light minnow on a tiny stream
Nice fish there chris mad blow ups good watch buddy keep them coming
Wow love ur videos mate keep them coming
Great video mate well done need to get a session mate
Great video. You are a very talented fisherman and I can see that you care for the fish you catch.Because you catch so many and return all you should really consider putting single hooks on your lures and even making them barbless. You’ll still catch a lot of fish. You will miss a few but you’ll be surprised how many stay on with a single hook and you will damage a lot less fish.
Yet another mint vid to make me even more jealous river tees has seals that are nuking everything sickening but with nothing else to fish what can ya do keep it up mate I'll be watching 👍
Great video matey, keep em coming
Great video, thanks for sharing it 👍
OUTSTANDING video. Did that first strike startle you as much as me? I love it when they hit the lure as soon as it hits the water. Surface strikes are the best. Have you considered swapping out your treble hooks for singles? I've become almost strictly catch and release lately and it makes un-hooking so much easier. Not to mention that tangle of trebled lures in your box isn't so bad with singles. Again, thanks for sharing your time on the stream.
I think every UK fisherman loves to catch a nice perch, they are so redolent of childhood. I remember as a 12 year old catching a half pounder in the canal and thinking it was like a whale.
Some good filets you're throwing back sir
The Rapala Jointed Shad Rap is a one of a kind crankbait. 🔝
Well deserved...awesome content and fish managment...
wonder why it was vibrating? do you think it was in pain?
Beautiful footage
Great Chub!
Perch love the Rapala
great video, keep them coming...love it....
Love the ul minnow for tricky fish
Great catch with that chunker.
It's always when you don't have scales with you int it. My pb Carp was without scales 😪😪😪
Lovely chubbly 👍.
Bad angling practice. With two trebles in its throat that pike is dead if it bites through the fluorocarbon leader. Use a wire trace if there are so many pike in a water, or at the very least change out the trebles for a large single.
Agreed.
Absolutely agree. Great vid, but 14lb flurocarbon? With pike about that is playing Russian roulette. What is wrong with some 12lb Soft steel or 12lb titanium? Beautiful old warrior of a Chub though
@@paulharris6886
I’m with you on that, definitely bad angling in my opinion as well.
@@MrAnderson321 grow up
@@logsman100 😂🤣😂
Another top video Chris well done cracking chub I would say it's a 6lb r easy love the content keep them coming as I live for them 💯👌
I’m gonna comment on every video until you listen; TIGHTEN YOUR DRAG! 😂😂 every time you get a decent fish I’m surprised you can even set the hook right it’s that loose 😂
Why would he want tight drag on such a light set up, risk of breaking line or hooks coming out
@@logsman100 30lb braid and 14lb fluoro won't break with a slightly tighter drag. And with a bad hookset the hook will come out anyway.
@@darkiee69 if there's a chance of trout I have it set rather loose so I don't rip a chunk out of its delicate face.
02:15 : óh, Jesus Christ, is Perch Bourne!
😈😈😈
Supurb chub well done!!
Wicked videos as usual dude... Any advice on a little lure rod? Just for some fishing down the river itchen for pike and small trout
Nice video . Rapala will produce the good .
Hello, did you put at the end of you’re line a string metal, because sometimes pike can cut you’re line? Thank you for the answer
Do you crush the barbs down on your hooks?
Great video as always. Can i ask what camera you use to record the video's with? The quality is really good.
great fishing!!
Some lovely fish there - that Chevin was a pearler!
Small observation? - have seen you on this river many times........but never seen another angler on the water?
Love micro baits
Nice see you pal excellent content
i like those rapala lures had some good times getting trout and perch with them here in New Zealand. been a while since ive caugth them but man those x raps really had great actions. those fish taking the lure were pretty epic takes. those perch r relentless as hell. kinda miss targeting them haha what was that crawling on your nail at 9:29
Massive ginger beard! "Men Only" beard fertilizer?
WHAT RAPALA HIP BAG DO YOU USE.
What was that creature on your finger at 09.30? From the river, or from the fish?
Congrats on the rapala sponsorship. I have the same hip bag, what kind of plastic box do you usein this video?
Are you using a clip to quickly change lures or you tie your x rap directly to your line?
why don't you go barbless mate?
Biggest fan👍🏻🤘🏻
I can't seem to find that lure at 0:37, what was the color/pattern called?
I bought quite a few some years ago as a result of a French angler telling me he caught barbel on his by bumping them on the bottom in weirpools and fast currents. Didn't work for me as yet; they're smaller than you were using.
Mate, this isn't a complaint, just you seem to care about the fish you catch. Get yourself some decent (like I mean decent) forceps and keep them clean. Fish are very susceptible to infections, and with all the barbs on the hooks etc it's not hard to imagine what rusty old pliers might be doing. Nice rod, reel and line, time to add some decent forceps (also good ones will surprise you how much easier it is to unhook, get a straight nose pair, and a bent nose pair, and the best part is you just clamp them on to your clothing when you aren't using them, they aren't going to fall off on you)..
[edit] Just wanted to say that the reason I say "Decent" forceps isn't because they will be better than naff ones medically, it's just that the proper surgical ones have amazing grip, and don't pop open on you.
I use surgical magil forceps, I have a portable autoclaver to make sure the forceps are sterile, I also don theatre blues and a surgical mask.🤣 it’s a fish that lives in a river surrounded by all sorts of pathogens, it probably has an open wound in that environment every day of its life. On a serious note that was a great video.👍
agree, Im a fan but the unhooking is so often rough those Perch early on ...ouch
If you want to do c&r fishing, then you'd better just cramp barbs on hooks
Excellent fishing buddy also try the Small Gulp Swim baits.
Length and power on the rod? Thanks!
Fish care should be paramount whilst fishing I'm sure u would catch nearly as many fish on less trebles and more singles.at the end of the day we all should think about catching fish in our future sessions but using all these trebles can damage fish far to much and ppl should at least give single hooks a go.You may lose an odd fish using singles but the welfare of the fish should come first and not someone's Ego fact..!👌
Tried making a video about switching to singles on hard baits. Fished for 4 hours targeting trout lost 13+ fish and blanked..
@@The_ginger_fisherman best not to even use hard baits for trout then
Keep a pair of scales with you at all times you never know 🤞
Great lures rapala but I always swap out the hooks for barbless and take off the middle hook because 95% of the time it's a tail strike
are these floating on the surface lures?
That big chub was a real old warrior, wasn't he?
Great news about Rapala 👍 when lure fishing on a river is it better to cast up or down stream or both? Cheers 👍👍
Do both. I've had fish from both ways.
Man I wish we had perches like that in Canada... The ones I catch are like the size my finger.
I wish you’d cramp or file the barbed trebles down, it was an uncomfortable watch in places and I usually love watching your videos. 😏
I tend to on my smaller lures with the “double treble” hooks. I do find it makes it much easier for when I get deep choked by a pike more than anything but it is helpful for getting the smaller fish unhooked and back quickly.
Saying that, I understand why people don’t do it and have no issue with people who keep their barbs on, I do when I’m pike fishing with bigger lures.
@@LiamDCoughlan all my lures now have single Hooks no more trebles they are too destructive to small fish
@@RobbieM72 what style of hook do you tend to go for? I have considered this but wouldn’t know what hooks to pick.
@@LiamDCoughlan look on eBay for
inline lure hooks I use one size bigger than the treble good luck
@@RobbieM72 brilliant! Thanks a lot, I’ve been to a few venues and been unable to use my lures as they’re single hook only. Won’t have that trouble any more!
Show sua pescaria! parabens
Chris you NEVER have your scales 🤣 Korum have just released some tiny digital scales, i think you need to get some!
Please use artery forceps rather than rusty pliers you can get them in all sizes and they lock onto your lapel with easy! Tight lines 😉
Top class session
I’d give you 6 lb for the chub.
What river is that its spotless
What size crank bait did u use
A perch died while i was fishing a hard bait with treble hooks, as it totally got hooked up badly by 4 of the six hooks, although i got them out the damage was already done, i was wondering if you would do a video where you swapped out your hooks for a single hook to see if it made any difference maybe even barbless ? P.s noticed your using a lot of rapala bait just wanna know do you real catch more fish using these lures and get what you pay for
I've been experimenting with barbless and single hooks for trout fishing using spoon baits. I've found single hooks to work better than barbless. It's easier to actually hook the fish using barbless treble than a single hook, but you pretty much need a net all the time. I lose alot more fish thats already hooked using barbless than single. Single hooks are sometimes pointing the wrong way when attempting to hook and you lose the fish, alteast with a spoon bait. With single hook the fish stays on much better though since you still have a barb on the hook.
From my experience single hooks are about 70% as efficient as treble. Barbless about 40%. Fishing perch I always use treble hooks, but id say 1-2 perch each fishing session gets a bad hook and dies. Bigger perch I just take home and eat, the smaller ones are a shame though.
@@Quazkiz thanks for your reply, I think am gonna move to single, I don't know why manufacturers don't always give the angler's a choice on what hook to use, and surely it most cost just that little bit less to make if they didn't have to weald the hooks together in the 1st place
We don’t have streams like that or perch that big in Pennsylvania I’m jealous