Beginners Shore Fishing Guide - HOW TO CATCH SMOOTHHOUNDS - Sea Fishing UK | The Fish Locker 

Mate, you set such a great example of fishing conservation and care for your surroundings! I cant get enough!

Your passion for fishing shines through mate, great video. I’m learning a lot from you 👍🏻

Cracking fish them John 👍 Good to see you wearing a life jacket brilliant role model for all sea anglers out there

What a great instructional and eyes glued to the screen video,waiting for the next take.! Now my favourite sea fishing show.

Great nights fishing 🎣 you were like a wee boy llf great time had 😁👍👍👍😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😜🎣✌️

Another awesome video I have learnt so much from your videos, fantastic footage and the detailed explanations on rigs and baits etc is fantastic awesome content , Thanks mate 🎣

Love the shore fishing vids, used to do all my sea fishing in north Devon, my dad lived in ilfracombe for 25 years or so, great fishing, coming across your channel has inspired me to go sea fishing again, live east Midlands now ,so east coast for now, but maybe a road trip to my old stomping grounds is in order I think, loving the videos, cheers Craig

Great stuff John! And setting a great example by wearing your life jacket 😉

Brilliant video, excellent watch, thank you for the info and the entertainment

Great video John.....exciting to watch and good information!

Excellent film 🎥 again John, very enjoyable to watch great info on bait and rigs,love it 👍👍🎣🎣🎣👍

Spectacular John! Cant wait to see more.

What a fantastic session John, and another great informative video! Love your shore vids. Learning so much, will be putting some of it into practice in a few weeks, back down to the Llyn peninsula for a couple of weeks to try again hopefully catch the big one! Thanks again, tight lines and stay safe 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍🎣🎣🎣🎣

I am have recently decided to start sea fishing after being an angler for over 20 years. Your vids are seriously inspiring ! You also come across as a very pleasant and likeable chap.

One of my favorite fishing shows👍

Great video! We really enjoyed watching. All the best from DK.

Your enthusiasm is contagious mate, keep it up and the videos are both informative and entertaining 👌

Great post John. Keep em coming pal. All the best from up north 👍✌

Thoroughly enjoyed cracking video

Nice fish John,even better vid.keep it up,love it🤙🤙🤙👊

Cracking video of fishing. Can't wait to get back at it. Tight lines

Congratulations on an excellent session! Some excellent fish there🎣

Great session, what dreams are made of !, enjoy your Shore videos

Must of watched this bout 20 times 😂😂 absolutely fantastic session. One of my favourite fish to catch off the shore like a train when they go another great video!! All the best bud

cracking video john thanks a lot really enjoyed it

Nice one. I got one simular sized at Bridlington yesterday night. It neatly pulled my rod over the harbour wall. :0)

Unbelievable fishing, well done great video 👍

Great session & video John! Well done on that PB!

Cracking session mate well done.

Great session well done really enjoyed :)

Nice, busy session there John, good thing keeping a look at the boulder in front of you, for the tide covering on the way in at dark. Good stuff m8.

Nice one John great to see respect for all fish especially dog fish as people treat them badly.

When they are running, Smut fishing has to be my favourite shore fishing of the year. The screaming takes and the hard fight, awesome. Unfortunately here on the Isle of Wight most of the good marks have been messed up with drifting weed this year, so I have only seen a few. Great video, and a session to remember.

Top angling John, well explained....

Great that will live long in your memory that one ! Have done as you said and passed it on ,Night fishing definately helps us focus on the feel of bights ! Ive also put it on the end screen of my youtube site too. Nice one Again

Amazing session that one !!

Brilliant session John and what some beautiful Smoot Hounds! Never caught one but lovely to see them! Great hooks! Great job getting your trace back from the greedy beggar!! Great video thanks mate. Really enjoyed watching this. Watched it twice haha. All the best, Graham

Great fishing session John and some fantastic fish well done, will be trying your rig out tomorrow thanks, let's hope I have the same luck heh

Brilliant vid, really enjoyed it, everything was there, couldn't fault it, one of your best.

Another cracking video John, some good Smoothies there. The one with the two traces reminded me of a trip to Oban a couple of years ago aboard Ronnie Campbell's boat after the Skate. A male, of if I remember right, around the 80 lbs mark was caught and tagged ( as are all the Skate on Ronnie boat ). The same fish, confirmed by the tag, was caught again within the hour. This also goes to show, that if the fish are handled correctly, then they suffer no harm, and being hooked doesn't bother them. Looking forward to your next video 🎣🎣👍👍

cracking sesh john what a beast of a smoothie that was. Never get tired of watching your videos mate thanks for sharing them. Tight lines

Brilliant session mate!! And superb video keep up the good work 👍🏼

Very enjoyable video 👍

Great hound session John well done

Thank you for great tips, I'm a bit of a novice angler. Off ne t month to try and catch smoothies.

Awesome fishing. I find rubbing ya bait elastic on ya trousers the best to unlosen it when ya can’t find the end.

What a session john well fished

Well done John. Could tell you were really excited on this session - understandably! Liked the way you baited those multiple ragworms by just threading the ends, then folding back before elasticating all up.

Your some angler you are mate!Great vid,top angling well done👍

That was FANTASTIC!!!!! Epick fishing. The way u got the other trace out the fish was top stuff. Cant believe you got the same 1 twice. Loves watching this vid. Well done!!!! Your vids are really good!! Tight lines mate 🎣🎣🎣🎣

Brilliant John again, I discovered your videos after the blue fin tuna and this is the best sea fishing channel there is, very informative. I've just returned from Huttoft on the Lincolnshire coast, sadly no blue fin but did manage a few whiting 😀. Keep up the good work

Great video Mike really enjoyed it some very nice fish there in a good bit of luck I'm definitely going to have to get back fishing you've inspired me to get back out fishing if the weather's good next weekend I'm going to go smooth hound fishing hopefully catch myself a few down or Withernsea beach mate Tight Lines

Great video to watch. I would love to go out fishing for smooth hounds. Staying in Scotland and not sure on areas near me to target them

Another great informative video, but that was some session we have to really work hard in South Wales for fish in those numbers but more often than not it's only 1 or 2, 3 if your lucky

Some great fish there mate, well done. We fish for these guys out here in Victoria, (Australia), where they are called Gummy Sharks, and and are the mainstay of the fish and chip shop industry. I normally use either a single 8/0 gama occy circle, or a or twin 4/0's, both on 60lb mono hook length, both these rigs work well. Keep it up mate, love the channel...

Works every time the pennel.Been using it for about 6/7 years now for bigger species fish.We use the mustad 5/0 circle hook.

what an amazing fish. I never even heard of them..

well done good info.

some beautiful fish there as always.. awesome fishing

A different species in the same genus is one of the most popular saltwater sportfishing targets here in Southern Australia. It grows to 25 kg and is both magnificent sport and magnificent eating. They're the most prized target off beaches here and very popular in both the commercial and charter realms too, people will pay up to the equivalent of about 100 pounds a person to target them from charter boats. We dream of sessions like yours, great video!

Great catch! I did that once with a large Salmon! I lost a huge fish on the Salmon fly rod I was fishing a shrimp fly on 12lb leader lost it after 20 mins I was gutted, next day I was Sea Trout fishing with the smaller 9ft rod and 6lb leader and a little Black Pennal fly, I only went and landed a 24 and a half pound Salmon with my fly and leader in it from day before! I was gobsmacked

Fantastic nights fishing John. I get all the excitement from a chair and you get the being there. Had to revisit your dropper rig video (which I thought was well presented) and never used it yet, but will do in the future. I used to catch a lot of flatfish back home, dab and flounder mainly and caught always on an Aberdeen long shank. The longest rag worm I ever had was 3 foot long and had a pair of jet black pincers which would of scared a shark lol. Can't get rag worm over here in Oz, but you should check the methods they use for getting beach worm, thinner than a lug worm too. I also used bronze hooks over steel because I felt they had a better point to the hook but went dull quicker. Still, if you're into sharpening hooks, they could last a tad longer. Now, we have laser cut hooks with great points. Peeler crabs were not that easy to find ( crabs can only mate when they are crackling with a skin growing beneath the shell, or soft) but were considered the best bait. then Rag worm, then Lug worm. squid etc etc and used normal thread to tie the softer baits. Now we have stretchy fishing thread which I just bought a batch of ( wish I had this in the 60's, would've saved some time taking the thread off the hook and line ). some fisherman over here have resorted to not using rod stands and have concreted tubes into the rocks where possible and stick their rods into those. ( Fish won't pull rods into the water ) and have placed them at different lengths on the rocks). Keep those videos coming and I might have something sensible to say on one of them lol. Tight lines mate.

Awesome 🤩👍🏻👍🏻😂👍🏻

well done as always a great video

That was a beaut of a smoothound fairplay

Great video John. If your ever back down Portsmouth way there's a great smoothhound spot at a place near lee on solent. You catch 14lb smoothhound great night fishing .

Excellent fishing again 🎣 I wish I had more time to go fishing it's just like work work lol Have a great weekend anyway 👍

Great fishing really enjoying watching your videos I'm coming down from Southampton to Hayle soon at the end of April where and what's best time for fishing around there thanks

What an amazing session John,reckon you must have been knackered after that !! Not tried the sausage crab/worm bait,think I'll need to give it a try next time.

Another cracking vid John. Why someone has disliked no idea mate you keep making em and we will keep watching em. Got my biggest smoothhound 3 yrs ago.on a side winder lure fishing for Pollock 19lb 4 oz didn't have a clue what if was till got to boat what a scrap . Any plans for a wrecking vid ?. At your old spot again September got 2 days booked for late summer comp.🦈🎣🎏🐟

Great smoothhounds enjoyed watching that. Do think you choice of hook link is a bit light for smoothies tho a sliding penel and floro are a bad combination .try a few tests in your shed putting all the strain on the penel hook as it does not take much to break it after a few fish

Superb video. We've been catching decent smooth hounds up in Morecambe Bay these last couple of months. I agree: fantastic fish in every respect. Had a cracking 12lb starry smooth-hound on lug/squid a couple of weeks ago, so doesn't always have to be peeler up here, thought it's still top bait for many. I like your pulley pennel dropper rig - will be making up some of those before next session. I fish alone at night off rocks too, so ought to get myself a life jacket - yours looks nice and lightweight and not too obtrusive - what make is it? Once again, top job on the video. I can't imagine how you keep up with it on a hectic session like this but it's hugely appreciated.

The Dropper rig is the one for hounds it is always what i use it works everytime However if i come across my rigs becoming beaten up like fryed or get snagged a couple of times i immediately switch to standard Normal pulley pennel rigs but i have been losing the pennel hook lately and find it so muich easier to unhook the fish on both rigs. and yes by far crab is the best bait for hounds plus with peeler you might get a nice something else as a bonus fish :)

Great session ! West coast of Ireland for us next week 👍👍👍

fantastic I bet you were knackered cheers mate

Looks like Ilfracombe , great fishing again ,really enjoy your videos. Regards from your old pal Gummy . PS ,me gums have been buggered for a fortnight!.

Class night fishing

Great video, as always, any chance you can do a video on baiting hooks with a good zoom please?

Got to say I'm not a fan of sand eel as bait at all, people rave about it but I've not had much success. Last year my mate was using peeler and I was next to him using squid. We were hitting smoothies all night but he was getting hooked up within 5 minutes of casting (even less) where as I found I would have to wait 10-15 minutes, they really do home in on the peelers.

Great video that was a amazing session john How do u go about finding good marks to fish from

Hey great video haven't watched all yet but where could I buy the red small multiplier reel that Rob got you and you caught the RAY?

Great video as always John - Question - I follow Trojs Fishing and he has amazing success using cable sheathing as mackerel feathers that catch everything in Guernsey and I wondered if you did the same in your area whether you would have the same success? They look just like a large string of large sandeels and the Pollack love them? Just a thought.

Lovely to see spool spinning like that! Where would I need to go to get similar fishing from Rocks like you doing, I'm new in UK have never been down to the coast I live in Dunstable, where would be closest to me? Thanks

I use a single circle whenever possible, hook up is in corner of mouth every time. Enjoyed video .

great video john is that down near the pier house at westward ho....

Fantastic video as all your video are couple of thoughts what about tope from shore?, also have u considered a camera set up that let's us experience the fight like say a body cam and the digitally splice the footage.

That really was a beast of a Smooth hound well done man great video.

Excellent viewing as usual John. I have a question for you, how do you know when a fish is on when its swimming towards you ? Cheers Phil, Manchester

You should have your own TV show pal

I want a smoothy that big😢 going to go bullhuss fishing to substitute it😂

Hey man this video is amazing and lots of information as I am a beginner in fishing keep up the good work mate and what hooks did you use as I would love to catch a smooth hound and would it be the same to gut and skin the smooth hound as a dogfish mate

Hi John, new subscriber, looked at a few of your vids now all got great informative content. Is there a link to you pulley dropper rig. Cheers Tez💪💪💪

Westward ho , park as close to seafield holiday park and it’s on the rocks adjacent. Probably one of the best marks around. Massive fan of this channel but I’m sure sharing the locations won’t kill anyone.

Rag worm sausage, never heard that term 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻, how is that made, do I add something to bind them together? Lb from KY

Another great video. Were all of those smooth hounds female? The ones you showed were. Maybe they are coming in to drop their pups? They are really hungry after doing that. Enjoy the shore fishing shows!

Well done john when do the tope come in

Glad to hear they have no teeth, as Google says otherwise. I have just converted from Fresh Water Fishing to Beach Fishing. Not caught a Smooth Hound yet, just Skate, Plaice and Bass, but looking forward to it! Cheers

Again John u know the biz in Welsh waters peeler crab every time for smoothies and doggies top bait marco cdf

Great video as always 👌🏻 What reels are you using? Cheers John

Great video great channel 👍 my comment is a bit late ha but being local to north Devon do you fish the north Devon coast a lot ? 🎣