Love to see your comando sessions Jon, takes me back to the 70s when we would spend a week in the Fens fishing the Old Bedford and others in the area. 😊
That’s something I’ve not done for a few years, spontaneous sessions making the most of work logistics.. great to see and hear you getting back to a normal healthy chap.. brilliant 🎉
Great video, lovely venue...and no, you can't finish on a bleak, just can't do it. I've been watching a lot of your vids lately. Thanks mate, from across the pond. I tend to take the 'last cast' a little far...it's usually dark when i pack up, get the flashlight out style. Last week I was down at my local pond, in the big carp infested, virtually impossible to set up a roller swim I call the 'snag pit'. Dead trees in the water, tree branches above and on all sides, stuck together top 3, mosquitoes, giant snapping turtles and bats, lotsa bats...lost a caty and two rigs, lucky to get out alive.
Great video Jon great when you dont know what your going to pull out, lived in wellingborough for a bit loved fishing the neene would take my gear to work with me as was only a 5 minute walk after work happy days
i've lost count of the number of dinners that have ended up in the dog from the last cast that lasts an hour 😆 great to see yoy making a recovery from your covid adventure
What a great place to catch fish. Bit breezy at times. Something for every one. I recon looking at the stamp of fish you caught anything between 20 and 40Lbs would be possible if you fished with Match head on. Great departure from the usual Match fare. Thanks Jon for another very good Video. Cheers
Great vid again I love the natural venues!! Quick question I know you fish the Thames festivals etc do you know anything about the Thames champs this year I fished it last year but cannot find any info on it for 2023 thanks Gareth
Jon im looking for a pole im thinking the mtx 2 14.5m v2 is this good for skimmers and bream on natural venues and what kit and elastic would you use please
I love my mtx2. It’s absolutely great at 13 and fishable at 14.5 but maybe a bit heavy as you’d expect with any pole in that bracket. All depends where you’re fishing as to the elastics, but winter silvers I’m almost exclusively using no5 and no6 solids.
@@JonArthur yes I'm looking at a number 5 elastic in my current pole and trying to lay on 5 inches on the bottom I get the fish feeding but not catching to many or bumping them so trying to fine down fishing in about 6 to 9 feet of water using a size twenty hook .08 hook length
You look and sound much better, hopefully you are feeling better too. Thanks for the great video. By the way decoy lakes are just few miles from ramsey. Should we expect video from decoy lakes 🤔
Well done Jon another very good video with lots of silvers, lots of changes along the way kept the fish coming, i use a charmast charger on my camera all day, no need to change the battery, Thank you
Cheers James. I normally like to leave the enclosure closed and my DJi batteries are really good... IF you remember to bring them! But the overheating was the biggest issue as it was red hot. My old GoPros would have died immediately!
@@JonArthur lol stop it Jon, joking apart it was good to hear ya sounding a lot better I watched Yr vid when u was on the river and it was a really hard watch I actually felt out of breath for you, keep on spraying those carsters😂🎣
Not the water it used to be Jon . Can remember a few years ago I fish the Hawker Siddley Championships on there and came second individually , lost a Bream on the whistle which sadly would have won me the match . Team result was rubbish unfortunately.
Come and stay with me neer Perpignan. I bought my house for 5k . I'll talk you through the problems and advantages with french properties. I'm a plasterer and I've renovated dozens of properties in France. You can still buy em for €1 too.
@@JonArthur that comment was meant for someone else, sorry. Great channel though and hard luck on the maver match this final. Get yourself a passport, there's literally fish climbing up your rod. Great for them cold doldrum months too as I'm on the Mediterranean. We barely get a frost.
Love to see your comando sessions Jon, takes me back to the 70s when we would spend a week in the Fens fishing the Old Bedford and others in the area. 😊
Pleased you liked it Melvyn
Last cast Arthurs strikes again, and again, and "I'm not ending on that one" !! cheers Jon.
I should've called the vid 'One more cast!' 😂
That’s something I’ve not done for a few years, spontaneous sessions making the most of work logistics.. great to see and hear you getting back to a normal healthy chap.. brilliant 🎉
Glad you enjoyed it Chris!
Loved this video Jon. Right up my street, loved the way you work it. Thank you 👏👏
Glad you enjoyed it!
Always a pleasure Jon probably the most cool calm collected angler I've watched😂great vid
Cheers. Sometimes! 😂
Thanks for the vid Jon - great to see you fishing in the area where I first learnt to fish as a kid.
Good to hear!
Great video, lovely venue...and no, you can't finish on a bleak, just can't do it. I've been watching a lot of your vids lately. Thanks mate, from across the pond.
I tend to take the 'last cast' a little far...it's usually dark when i pack up, get the flashlight out style. Last week I was down at my local pond, in the big carp infested, virtually impossible to set up a roller swim I call the 'snag pit'. Dead trees in the water, tree branches above and on all sides, stuck together top 3, mosquitoes, giant snapping turtles and bats, lotsa bats...lost a caty and two rigs, lucky to get out alive.
Cheers niksandy. Sounds like my kind of venue!
Great video Jon great when you dont know what your going to pull out, lived in wellingborough for a bit loved fishing the neene would take my gear to work with me as was only a 5 minute walk after work happy days
Glad you enjoyed it. Wish my river was walking distance!
Fantastic 😊 I lived in Ely yrs ago and never fished the 40 foot. Glad you have
So many drains round that area!
i've lost count of the number of dinners that have ended up in the dog from the last cast that lasts an hour 😆 great to see yoy making a recovery from your covid adventure
"Can't end with that bleak!" "Or that little thing!" 😂
thanks for sharing Jon
Thanks Denis
Brilliant cocka.
Love all your stuff mate, but it great when your on the river and canals pal.
Absolutely! I would've done a lot more by now if i hadn't been doing so well on the commercials
@JonArthur keep up the good work, pal and good luck for the rest of the year pal.
great 3 hours fishing jon it looked a really nice swim with some lovely fish top man top angler
Thanks appreciate that :-)
Great video John love trying venues I've never been to before and not knowing what' species is coming next .
You and me both!
Another top, top vid Jon
Cheers Mick
Great vid jon. Nice variety of venues 😊
Glad you enjoyed
What a great place to catch fish. Bit breezy at times. Something for every one. I recon looking at the stamp of fish you caught anything between 20 and 40Lbs would be possible if you fished with Match head on. Great departure from the usual Match fare. Thanks Jon for another very good Video. Cheers
Thanks Peter, definitely worth a decent net of fish if I had a full session. Surprised no pike!
@@JonArthurno pike left!
Nice one Jon great to see natural water being fished…….hopefully fishing the old nene march town in October
Yes Id love to get on the Old Nene myself
@@JonArthur may be one day Jon I’ll meet you down there 🎣🎣🎣
You know someone is a serious river angler when the Ramsey 40 foot is on their bucket list 😂
😂 I loved the place when I shot a winter feature there years ago with Steve Hemingray
Good to see you looking well
Thank you kindly
Great vid again I love the natural venues!! Quick question I know you fish the Thames festivals etc do you know anything about the Thames champs this year I fished it last year but cannot find any info on it for 2023 thanks Gareth
Try Wayne at Top Tackle or Tony Gee at Ace Tackle and they'll help you I'm sure.
Jon im looking for a pole im thinking the mtx 2 14.5m v2 is this good for skimmers and bream on natural venues and what kit and elastic would you use please
I love my mtx2. It’s absolutely great at 13 and fishable at 14.5 but maybe a bit heavy as you’d expect with any pole in that bracket. All depends where you’re fishing as to the elastics, but winter silvers I’m almost exclusively using no5 and no6 solids.
@@JonArthur yes I'm looking at a number 5 elastic in my current pole and trying to lay on 5 inches on the bottom I get the fish feeding but not catching to many or bumping them so trying to fine down fishing in about 6 to 9 feet of water using a size twenty hook .08 hook length
Good to see you looking like your old self 👍👍
Many thanks
You look and sound much better, hopefully you are feeling better too. Thanks for the great video. By the way decoy lakes are just few miles from ramsey. Should we expect video from decoy lakes 🤔
I toyed with a trip to Decoy but my heart was telling me to head for Ramsey
Well done Jon another very good video with lots of silvers, lots of changes along the way kept the fish coming, i use a charmast charger on my camera all day, no need to change the battery, Thank you
Cheers James. I normally like to leave the enclosure closed and my DJi batteries are really good... IF you remember to bring them! But the overheating was the biggest issue as it was red hot. My old GoPros would have died immediately!
Thanks Jon ❤
My pleasure :-)
C A S T E R there's no R in the name lol...... Nice vid Jon sounding a lot better🎣
Carrrrrrrsta! 😂
@@JonArthur lol stop it Jon, joking apart it was good to hear ya sounding a lot better I watched Yr vid when u was on the river and it was a really hard watch I actually felt out of breath for you, keep on spraying those carsters😂🎣
I like a bit of elastic out Jon I know then when and if it starts to disappear I need to add sections
Absolutely!
Crikey I need my eyes testing - I thought the title said up n down the drainpipe - I thought you’d been playing away! 😂
Cheers great vid 👍🍺🍌
😁 More carrots 🥕🥕🥕less bananas 🍌🍌🍌
@@JonArthur not right in the head you 🥕😂
Cheers mate something other than f1s and muddy ponds 😂👍
You bet
Is that a new pole? Sorry if you’ve already talked about it…I just noticed you haven’t got your end sections painted white like you usually have
I used my MTX2 v2. Some of the kits are painted but just not got time at the mo!
Lovely session Jon. Bit of a paunch coming mate.
Erm... thanks! 😂
Sure he meant to say is there a punch video coming Jon ,I’m trying to be diplomatic thanks for a great vid Jon .
Well done Jon you had a good session there even if you never caught any tench
Absolutely
Love fishing drains you don’t know what you gonna hook.The drains in Norfolk produce some very large bream
Love a big bream!
You can still catch tench there in January its an amazing venue
Im guessing it'd be great in March for them
Not the water it used to be Jon . Can remember a few years ago I fish the Hawker Siddley Championships on there and came second individually , lost a Bream on the whistle which sadly would have won me the match . Team result was rubbish unfortunately.
Oh dear! Unlucky :-(
Lovely video Jon but no twigs or plastic bag fish😢
Next time! 😂
Think i spoke to you the other day at a day ticket pond near makins
Hmmm not sure where that was, but hopefully I was friendly! :-)
@@JonArthur daves pool wolvey an yeah we was the last to leave as the gates got locked
I must have a doppelgänger as that couldn't have been me sorry@@catalickconverta6823
@@JonArthur same matrix bags as well someone is copying you😂
I thoroughly enjoyed that J 😃
Glad you enjoyed it
Come and stay with me neer Perpignan. I bought my house for 5k .
I'll talk you through the problems and advantages with french properties. I'm a plasterer and I've renovated dozens of properties in France.
You can still buy em for €1 too.
Sounds great! If only I had a passport!!
@@JonArthur that comment was meant for someone else, sorry.
Great channel though and hard luck on the maver match this final.
Get yourself a passport, there's literally fish climbing up your rod. Great for them cold doldrum months too as I'm on the Mediterranean. We barely get a frost.
Ps you look a bit stronger than recent times so i hope your recovery is progressing well🤞
Yes they've hopefully got to the route of things now thanks
U sound a lot better
Cheers, yep lots improved thanks