Chasing ANOTHER Dace Record | Simon Ashton | Drennan Specialist 

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Great vid I’m lucky enough to live only 10 minutes away. Look forward to more videos mate.

Awesome 👏👏👏

This is so interesting, and massive well done, many years ago the Thames back in the 70s had some huge Dace, and our river mole here in the south, I used to love trotting for them after finishing work on a summer evening, great video, I really enjoyed this, and Dace boy oh boy dont they fight for there size, perfect thank you full respect to you, merry christmas, Roach lovely, we fishermen know why we fish.........it's magic.

Great video. Merry Christmas

Great video Si , looks a lovely river the ribble , the Acolyte 17’ is a great rod ,it would come into its own on the likes of the ribble , Lovely roach your daughter caught ,proper roach , well done matey , good luck on your quest for more massive dace ….

Super fish ! Its not just dace but huge roach n perch! 2lb plus n 4lb caught in a few locations.

Great stuff!!

Top one. Well done simon and harper. Simons a cracking lad and helped me get myself and nets out of the water . And kept me smiling on the bank in some cold weather. Onwards n upwards. Merry Xmas everyone 😊😊😊

The Ribble likely held record dace back in the mid 1980s. It was not unusual to catch the odd dace around the LB mark with the average size of dace catches very high. The river has gone though a lot of changes over the years but the potential is growing again for a record dace from the Ribble. Right time of year and correct area of the lower river that once produced those bigger dace could be hold a new record in the next few years!

great vid mate

Well in buddy

good lad Simon ✌

Had some amazing Dace in my area in the 80's on a local river. Unfortunately long gone due to abstraction, predation and pollution. Still catch the odd one around the half pound but didn't realise how blessed we were back then

The drennan acolyte rods are awesome for small silver fish.

Proper fishing. Not much beats Trotting for decent Silvers in my book🎣

Met a Bailiff on a small trib river that told me the dace migrate during the winter across the Ribble estuary and shoal up in the tidal reaches. If that's the case there must be some serious fish amongst them.

Love the vid brought up on the thames catching dace

Top man up the north east

Sadley I don’t live near a good river lime this one but wish I did , it would change my style off fishing for the better and make it more enjoyable , but what a fantastic upload great work and making memories is what it’s all about 👍

Cadence match rods are superb

The ribble just spoils you for dace fishing ,probably the best fishing in the country

Need to go to the Ribble for the perch.

What is that 17ft rod you used, fair play; a man dedicated to his sport, hope you beat the record dude, you deserve it and you'll do it, no doubt!

Not fished it yet but apparently the River forth (near Stirling) is the dace paradise of scotland

hello, what reel did you use and main line? thank you and Merry Christmas!

My beloved River Ribble is still recovering from a catastrophic cormorant event in the early 90s. The roach, and dace populations look strong, even though the 2lb+ roach are not as common as they once were. My question is, do the huge weights of chub, from yesteryear, still get caught?

Bumped into Simon years ago on a build site when I was a young Apprentice, 15 years later I'm a carp syndicate owner and it's absolutely overwhelming to see Simon still smashing the banks, fair play and a top man!

The Tyne had done well go the last two season’s

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A master at work Now that is a dying method

River wear supposedly has the best dace in ,I've had one over a pound down fatfield.chester le street has them in still.

I caught a huge dace just down stream from there earlier this year, got a pic if you're interested. I would say it was over a pound

Mid 70s ross on wye trotting for dace while dad and his mates had a ploughmans in the pub. A fish a chuck, happy days

Enjoyed this. Love that you take your daughter with you. Isn't the Tyne really good for dace now ? Seen some impressive weights in the matches this year.

Fished there last week, the big shoals are not yet there but it won't be long. Plenty from other bank though.

Until the December 1968 BRFC record clear-out the dace record was 1-8-5 from the Hampshire Avon and there were other dace recorded over 1-6-0 but the BRFC made no real effort to trace these old catches which were probably in glass cases. Some records back then were ludicrous, the 7-2-0 grayling, the 4-8-0 silver bream and the 10-8-0 chub but others needed more thorough investigation. One example, the Aylmer Tryon barbel of 14-6-0 was eventually re-instated though not through the efforts of the BRFC. Two records that should have been looked at properly were the dace and the seatrout. In the interim, post 1968, some records were much lower than should have been the case - the silver bream was 15oz - the bar had been set at 2lb, then 1-8, the 1lb but finally got to a sensible level of over 3lbs.

Watching this I kick my self I never knew about records after catching a 6lb perch I wish i knew what I know now

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