Short on time? i grabbed the chance to go fishing while out shopping as this was the only time i had available. i just bought some bait and headed to my local canal, which is right behind the supermarket.
Just a short, but satisfying session! Not because I caught a lot of fish or a big one, but because I managed to catch some nice fish in a very short time! Note the pole is again a short one, no need for 16 Mts here, simple baits and tactics scored!
Got rid of my carp gear now going back to my roots .Got a dam quicksilver match rod,daiwa harrier closed face reel ,Shakespeare 4 metre whip and I'm loving it .It was all thanks to you Bill thanks 👍 love the videos mucka 👍👍👍
As a South Florida Bass. My first thought was "what is this man doing! its 2020 not 1920" But after watching i realize this is the true way to fish. No moving about, just a chill sitdown making the fish come to you by gently placing bait. Enjoying the time you have outside while you can. Best wishes to you and your family my good man.
AnorX Hi I might seem a bit old school and my fishing is different to yours, but I’m bang up to date. I prefer to take my fishing easy and we tend to static fish from a seated position. I am mobile when I’m lure fishing or fly fishing for pike. Perch are similar in feeding habits to your largemouth but not as big, I think the record is just over 6 lbs. I’m trying to get a big Perch on camera but whatever I hope you enjoy my video’s and I hope you get your rod bent Bill
I admire your enthusiasm for fishing, Bill. It's interesting to watch the various fishing methods used around the world and I'm learning a lot from your videos.
I remember watching Out Of Town with Jack Hargreaves when we had no Internet and this was probably the only programme on TV that covered Angling You remind me of these times Bill when we went fishing for fun the old wicker basket that creaked when you got a bite and the noise the bail arm made on the Black Prince : You have managed to rekindle majical times my friend 👍
Once again I so enjoy your fishing videos my friend!! You encouraged me to go to the River last Thursday for some winter fishing. Caught a few nice walleye/Zander in Europe. I wish I could cross the Atlantic and fish for a few perch right beside you. Anyways, I love your vids for they truly help me relax after a long busy day!! Thank you so much mate!!!!!!!!!!!!
Greetings from the southern USA. You are an excellent teacher, Bill. I enjoy your vids, and I have learned much. I have seen techniques I have never seen before. It is a real learning experience for me in many ways. To paraphrase G. Bernard Shaw: we are really similar peoples separated only by a common language! Tight lines to you and I’ll be watching.
Hi thank you for the nice comment. We are all fishermen/women regardless of the fact one person is targeting Black Marlin and another small roach! I hope you continue to learn from me, and I’m still learning after 60 years fishing! Bill
Hi Bill,, firstly a belated Happy New Year to you and yours. Great to see you Bankside again, great vid as always, must say you are looking better than a few months ago, lots of colour in yer cheeks.And as ever a very patient and clued-up angler, pleasure to watch. Regards IAN
Very enjoyable. We have to enjoy the time we are given even if it is an hour, nicely done! My father taught me to not trust my eyes when I was float fishing as a young boy, he said “wait before setting the hook”. I never have forgot that as I am sure that young man will not either. Hope you reach your goal of a 3# Perch on camera but even if not you make your videos very enjoyable and informative for us viewers, thanks Bill.
Hi Bill i hope you are keeping well. ive just started Canal / Short pole fishing and you have been a wealth of knowledge and its greatly appreciated. i know where this stretch is and i will endeavour to get up there and give it a go ! keep well and tight lines !
Loving your videos. Bill. I live in Milton Keynes and a stones throw from a stretch of the Grand Union Canal.Had my PB bream last summer on an early morning trip down the tow path. A nice 6lb slab fell to 1 red maggot with 2 castor on a size 14 hook. My only downside i've found to fishing the Grand Union Canal,is the amount of boat traffic.It's one after the other on most summer days. Now i come from Liverpool and i also lived in Preston/Lancashire for a while and fished both the Leeds/Liverpool Canal and the Lanacaster Canal. Both those canals had nowhere near the amount of boats coming up and down. Also had a few small catfish out of my local stretch and my young son has had his PB Perch which was a beautiful 3lber. He was overjoyed and is fast becoming a really good young angler.Anyway keep the videos coming,as they are brilliant and so enjoyable to watch.
scouse1967 Thank you. This canal is stuffed in some area’s with quality fish. Some area’s have huge shoals of skimmers with a few bigger bream. Others are full of carp and the perch and pike show all over. Never seen a 2lbs plus roach but have come close, and shed loads of roach and gudgeon. I hope you and your son carry on catching and enjoying your fishing. Bill
I’m checking the internet to see the next instalment. Thank you so much for doing this. I really hope your health stabilises or improves. Having been out of fishing for some years I’ve missed a lot of the changes in tackle rigs etc so it’s been brilliant to have your lessons. Hook connectors didn’t exist when I last fished. Boillies and pellet were for carp anglers. This has been great. Thank you the new Mr Crabtree. It’s great being peter.
Down to earth honest fishing I’m a new subscriber and I’m looking forward to working my way through your videos thanks a lot mate all the best for 2020 tight lines
@@easyfishing1936 I was brought up on the canals of east London and I absolutely love learning from similar anglers my dad always told you never stop learning thanks again right lines 🎣
Hello Bill, you are correct in that your method is somewhat alien to methods used in the US. As a man that has fished a lifetime I do find value in watching a fellow fisherman match tackle and techniques to conditions.I am fishing on Ice for the next few months but I can and will apply some of your technique and tackle when ice out comes. Looking forward to seeing that 3 pound yellow belly
Great to watch you fishing Bill from a fellow angler, well you did well mate nice catch. Thanks for sharing I’m sure that a lot of starters can learn from you. Yes I will be fishing tomorrow on the Great Ouse Bill see what it brings,
Would have thought size 6 to big for perch and bream and 14 or 16 the usual size but the proof is in the catching,I'm 82 so not quite as active until spring but enjoy your videos very instructive your never to old to learn new techniques,keep those sessions going Bill.
patrick prynn Hi well perch have big mouths and I use a 6 for big worm baits, and it doesn’t look big in their mouth, but often drop down to a 16 or 18 for small worm baits or casters etc. I hope you carry on enjoying your fishing. Bill
Just checking up on you. How do you feel? And how's the wife doing? Just watching your canal whip fishing video again. The one with the ducks and people with dogs walking by. One of my favorites. 👍👍
Nice session, I think my missus would have felt my collar if she sent me shopping then I went fishing lol ! nice to see you having fun looks a productive canal must make the effort asp
nice relaxed video... i was mad keen match angler 30 years ago.. im trying to save my enthusiasm for this style of relaxed fishing for when i semi retire... but your nice clips might temp me back in the game much sooner... im not fussed about huge bags of fish...just a general course/match fishing approach and see what turns up..
pmay222 Hi well I hope you do get back in to relaxed fishing again. I can be very intense and focused when I want to be but I’m more inclined to relax and catch whatever is in front of me. Bill
Great vid Bill. Miss the canals since moving away, I grew up on canal fishing. At the moment I ain't do any until I get my two knee replacements. Nxt couple of months hopefully now. Wen I do and knees are fixed my wife will devorce me cos no one will stop me lool.
As you can tell my favourite fish is the perch but I don't actually fish for them, I'm a carp angler mainly. I Don't do this style of fishing but still love watching your videos.
Dave Perry Don’t waste energy digging for them! Go out on a mild night with a shaded torch and pick them off the grass, but tread quietly. On a good night you can get a hundred worms in a couple of hours or less. Big money savings as well. If you don’t have a garden look for mown roadside verges. Have fun Bill
Thanks Bill. I am learning all the time from you. Tell me - years ago, there was a kind of legend on the Thames, that, if you caught a small perch, and returned it straight away, as opposed to putting in a keep net until later, it would go off and tell its mates, and the whole shoal would depart. Your consistent careful catching would seem to deny this. Do you have any thoughts? Best wishes and keep well.
Graham Clifton Hi well I think there may be a grain of truth in that saying but not sure. If you fish for for bream and skimmers and lose a fish early on, bites often stop. I think in the case of shoaling fish one fish spooking scares the rest of the shoal. The secret is to get the fish feeding confidently before fishing for them. Bill
gazellis1961 Hi I often fish this length mostly as I can park for free a very short walk from the canal. It is a good length for fishing all year but I do fish other parts of the canal. Bill
334 Outdoors Hi these are traditional narrow boats. Originally used for bulk haulage on the canal network. Early type of heavy goods transport, nowadays used mostly as house boats. Bill
Woodsman243 Hi well that’s not an easy question to answer. For general silver fishing on the canal, it would be a Preston no 5 solid. For bigger bream and perch maybe an 8 or 10 solid. For big fish ie carp I favour a 20 or more hollow. You must match the hook and line to the elastic. If you were fishing with a 22 with an 0.008 I lbs hooklength I might even use a no 3 solid. If I’m fishing a size 6 hook and 4 to 6 lbs line I prefer a stronger elastic to set the bigger hook on this day I had a 12 solid elastic. Don’t use tiny fire wire hooks with heavy elastics. I hope this helps, others may use a hollow elastic but it’s what you prefer. Bill
Hi bill, love the vids the pole what elastic are you using and from then what rig are you using always wonder what weight lines /sections you use do you use just 1 line strength all way through or do you lower it closer to the hook?
Hi on the day I was using a 12 solid elastic and the rig line was 0.20 about 6 lbs and the hooklength was 0.18 about 5 lbs.Sometimes I fish straight thru’. The float was a 0.4 gram Drennan in-line dibber and the hook was a size 6 Kamasan B583. But don’t forget I’m fishing for big perch with big baits. If I was using maggots, casters or small pieces of worm I would step down to a 3 lbs 0.15 hooklength and an 18 wide gape matched to a no 10 solid elastic. Match the hook to the line to the elastic and to the expected fish size. Hope this helps Bill
Hey Bill, I am sorry your wife is I'll. I think you need to fish for your own mental health. I am in Canada so we are almost brothers. We can't scatter bait either, it is called "Chumming," here, but we figure fishing out pretty well for our species. I really appreciate your title here, I am a trout snob, but I live on a river with other species, even sturgeon. I really don't fish it but your videos are making me think I am missing out. Thank you Bill, you give your wife my best wishes from Canada and take care of yourself! Somewhere I thought I saw that your name is Bill! If I am wrong I apologize.
Kerry Pitt Hi that’s an honest comment! I don’t doubt if I was Canadian, and I nearly was, I would be catching some beautiful fish in a beautiful uncrowded country. Going back to groundbait and loose feed, I feel that works in someways, as your fish and waters are different to mine. But I know if you can persuade fish to feed on loose offerings you will catch a lot more. Ever watched trout go crazy fighting for loose fed maggots? I hope you carry on catching plenty so Tight Lines Bill
Nice one Bill so how long was the session, 2 hours? by the way i remember having a bit of a rant about something earlier this year not too sure what came over me i guess i was just frustrated mainly with match anglers and how they can become disinterested when the fishing isnt going well. As long as you're getting a steady amount of bites and catching fish, even small ones its always nice to be beside the bank no matter pleasure or match angling. Good to see that you're well and still fishing anyway, all the best. Chris.
cns180784 Hi Chris well I fished for 1 3/4 hours. My rule of thumb is if I’m fishing I’m happy, if I’m catching I’m more happy. If I can’t catch I just think and try harder! Bill
@@easyfishing1936 Thats the one Bill i'm 100% with you on that statement. Being beside the bank brings me happiness alone. Of course on a commercial you fully expect to catch but on a river or canal theres a sense of mystery in wondering what you'll catch and those days are just bliss still even just being sat by the bank and not catching. All the best and look forward to your next video.
stephen brand Hi as a rule of thumb I start with the bait just touching bottom but if bites are tricky I might go upto 6 ins overdepth. Sometimes I fish the bait suspended but that is rare with big worms, but can be deadly with smaller worms. Bill
andrew kolb Hi not to long. Now I know that a lot of anglers believe the boats disturb the fish. I’m not sure as I have caught fish while the water is still spinning after the boats passage. I think the fish can hear the boats long before they arrive and just shift while the boat passes by, then drift straight back and carry on as normal. I sometimes add extra bait as soon as the water settles. Bill
Easy Fishing no kidding Bill...I assume that there’s a strict speed limit in those canals...started watching your videos only a few weeks ago while visiting Clevedon/Nailsea area...love your low key style
zefram Cochrane Hi I live in Bedfordshire and mostly fish waters within 20 miles of my house. The Gt Ouse and its tributaries , and the GUC and local angling club waters. Bill
@@easyfishing1936 yes sir, a 6" dark green bottom feeding fish that looks like a big bubbly tadpole, mostly found in brackish/saltwater but can be found randomly like crayfish. They move fairly twitchy but do not travel distances as they have no swimming bladder, so it's an ideal target for bigger perch since they can't swim far up. Best regards.
John Clark Hi where shall I start! Cooking, cleaning, shopping, gardening all normal things. Then helping my wife, taking the dog out, loads of trips to various hospital appointments, doctors for both of us etc. Does not leave much time for fishing! Bill
