Back to grass roots on that one Greaeme, that's how I remember you from the old days, one blank on the beech is worth 15 carp in a stew pond any day👍👍👍👍😎
The ML in the background at Gosport is the Medusa. She's a WW2 HDML - a 72 foot Harbor Defence Motor Launch. They were meant for harbor patrol to defend against divers and subs but often ended up doing convoy duty along the coast. There's a channel called Ship Happens where they've bought a HDML named Sarinda (formerly HDML 1392) and are trying to get her back into a seaworthy state. She was converted to a pleasure cruiser at some point and they're slowly fixing up a lot of errors while not spending a few million pounds on her.
Simply brilliant to see you out on the beach. The sense of humour was back with crabs being the focus of your attention. (Seen in a public Toilet "Caution before you sit down, be warned the crabs have learnt to Pole Vault"). O.K. you blanked but the clip was interesting and came with a bundle of tips for beginners and more knowledgeable anglers alike. You took the trouble to explain this back at home. The sound of the sea and wonderful vistas was great. I think you hit the nail on the head with your comments on Super Trawlers decimating the fish stocks and spawning beds, as you pointed out Mackerel are hard to find and I fear they will end up on the endangered species list, where the sea angler will end up being restricted to what they are allowed to keep. The views from the pier were equally as good as the beach with stunning shots of the Royal Navy Ship. (Nice of you release the wife from the ball and chain and allow her out with you). Great post and thank you for that.
A word of warning and why this made me chuckle. Around 8.9 in you use a 'magnifying' glass to show some features close up, I'm pretty sure this was a paper weight, I have a similar one with an engraving as an award. A few years back I had been using as a magnifying glass as well, so much for being a so called 'printing professional' at the time. I had to get on a conference call and chucked it, the glass, on a spare desk and thought nothing more. Halfway into my call with my country manager I started to smell burning, eventually turned around and my spare desk had small flames and smoke!! It was easily distinguished, caused some minor damage to a couple of sheets of paper, but if I had not been in the room would have burned the house down, so a small lesson there. In fact there were two lessons, keep a tidy desk and 2) don't put your Award down where the morning sun is about to come through your office window. I stick to rule 2 now but still have a untidy desk. Realise you don't use very much but have posted a pic of this to your twitter page so your subscribers can see what could happen when you do something that stupid. Thanks for the continued uploads, I think my wife is secretly becoming a fan as well, it's all the Dad stuff!
Love watching your fishing videos Graeme especially your beach fishing ones. The way you come across to your audience is what got me hooked. I started my own channel because of you and your beach fishing videos👍
Totally agree about Mackerel situation. I heard that the Scandinavian ships caught over quotas and I have hardly had any this year. When will they learn!!!
Great to see you back beach fishing Graeme, the parking fees in Weymouth are silly these days far too expensive,Glad I go fishing using my motorbike it's a lot cheaper but not able to carry as much. Yea I feel for the anglers now as fishing seems to be getting harder and harder and the boats seem to be getting nearer and nearer the shore too.
Got me totally awesome hoodie today! Of fishing now to show it off! On Hastings beach!! Hopefully smith has given it some luck 🍀!!!! Cheers Graham and Mike LOVE IT !
Over here- Rhode Island, USA- we live about 2 miles from a harbour and 22 foot above sea level. A ferry leaves for the islands one late evening, another 6 ish in the morning. I mention 22 foot above sea level because the engine noise is worse lying on the beach or in the water. It sounds like you’re living next to a railway line- worse because I liked next to a railway line in Cornwall. It sounds like you can hear the boat the whole 20something mile crossing. The fishing boats, haft the ferry’s size are just as noisy- sound like steam trains. It must be deafening permanently under water. Often the fishing boats will drop their trawl the second they clear the harbour and straight into straining that engine.
With regards to the mackerel this year in the UK...We have caught loads, but they are only taking tiny feathers / sabiki / micro shrimp. There were 10-15 people fishing at Berry head, and some were catching nothing, some catching loads... all casting into the same patch of water. I think the Mackerel are very fussy this year, and also from what we could see, the bait-fish were absolutely tiny for this time of year. The micro shrimp feathers/lures with a tiny eye worked the best by far.
Great info on what we could all do more It is fun Boat fishing We drifted two-mile between cookmear and Newhaven Not one bite Second drift picked up 2 small fish By snagging the tackle lost on the first drift Fish being on the lost gear Hope we have a better winter A good few soles off Eastbourne beach at the mo but hard work
Great spot greame, the sister in law lives in the 1st block of apartments behind you. When we were last there I did not take any gear. But the aircraft carrier was docked and being refitted
Just got home from a session on the pier at Holyhead port. Took a starry smooth hound on a size 2 Aberdeen!! Secret weapon was tipped the hook with a bit of Asda own brand anchovy fillets. And they held up pretty good!
Great footage of the aircraft carrier! So you had an 'encounter' with the Navy ship security boats too, huh? A few years ago, me and my friend were out on Lake Ontario (New York, USA) and we drifted a little too close to one of the 2 nuclear power plants on the shore here and didn't know it until we had 4 rubber hulled and fully armed patrol boats circling us. We were still a good 1/8th - 1/4 mile away from the "Keep out" boys when they appeared out of nowhere!! Friendly.....not a bit. They boarded & searched every inch of our boat (an older 21ft fiberglass Starcraft) and even ran an underwater drone under it. It was ridiculous. They even searched and copied our photo galleries on our cell phones!! That incident ruined what was a great morning of Lake Salmon fishing!
absolutely awesome as always! had a just want to go trip today to a fishery in Annan. was meant to rain and thunder but went none the less. had 8 mirror carp to 10lb and 1 9lb common. just wanna go trips can go one way or another, awesome day or absolutely catastrophic! Hope ur well mate tight lines!
Just came across your channel 😁 brilliant.. subscribed straight away 👍 answer to your questions..there the SBS..that wasn't a weever buddy,it's a dragonet.. totally harmless but like a black bream,bass or scorpion fish it'll hurt if you get one under the fingernail 🙄all the best from the north west of England.. Lincoln 👍🤙
Hi there Lincoln..welcome aboard..you have a lot of catching up to do...Well over 1000 films up already on the Totally Awesome Fishing Show.Sometimes Wednesdays ,but I try to do every Friday at 7pm...Beach one up just tonight in fact...Check it out.,
@@TAFishing I'll have to catch up with it pal..been working the last ten days straight so I can have the weekend off to try for 🦈 from the shore in north Wales ..wish me luck 🤞
If anyone finds themselves on the wrong side of of a weaver fish spine the treatment is immersion in warm water. As warm as you can tolerate (without scalding).
A good video, even if the “blank from the beach” was a bit slow! Nice to see Mrs Awesome (or is she ‘the Awesome Missus’?). I blanked yesterday salt-water flyfishing in Anglesey. Les
Another great video Graeme and as a former member of the Royal Navy for 23 years i enjoyed this very much so thank you for that. Quick question though, would you use small live coaly/pollack for Bass fishing as i've been throwing a shrimp pot out when i go pier fishing and i'm getting loads of these in my pot but I throw them back are they any use for night fishing or is it best to return them?
This amazing vid couldn't have come at a better time! off down near Swanage next week so am going to try and learn a bit of sea fishing, definitely loads of tiddler bashing off piers and also has anyone else fished off Dancing Ledge? Really want to try and catch pollack or bass or something like that : )
The millennium pier in gosport you can find everything from flatties to bull huss. There have even been cod caught in winter chucking out from the end to the main channel. Theres also conger to be had
Years ago I sneakily fished Port Solent harbour at night with spinning gear and a huge bass attacked my dexter wedge. Was gutted as I didn't hook it. I was told there's no Bass in there but there are.
I don't do much sea fishing these days but the decline of mackeral from places like Chesil is really worrying. Take out one part of the food chain and everything else will disappear too. Have you gotten out on high sea drifter this year Graeme? I enjoy all your vids but for me you alone on your boat is quintessential TA fishing!
The fish at 56.22 was a dragonet. I would say looking at it a female common dragonet. I don't think it's a reticulated or spotted. The females if these two species only reach 8- 11 cm's. The reticulated is most common on South East coasts. However the reticulated has been shown to be common in Southampton water. I still think judging by the size it's a female common dragonet. The female is pale red brown with saddles over the back and blotches over the lateral side. Where as the reticulated female has 3 red brown sadles with pale blue blotches.
I started lake fishing in the lockdown. Absolutely love it. Sea fishing never really appealed to me, seems very impersonal and a little like Chuck it out and hope
Here in Weymouth 2 nights ago there were 6 of us fishing and NOTHING was caught by any of us .... it's been a dreadful year all round (did well on a charter boat last week though)
Imagine the plentitude ..of the mighty seas....100yrs ago.... It it what it is....no crabs....those pesky essential links in the food chain ...well no fish....
i had a problem with wind surfers ,, the guy dragged my rod and diawa 7HT into the sea , it wrecked the reel , but i got it back from 30 yards out by a passer by in a wet suit
No to few mackerel for a few years now :( Surely there are laws on how many fish commercial can take? There needs to be some kind of conservation effort to bring the stocks back up?
That fish was a Female dragonet ,Not a weever easy mistake to make fairly uncommon I think .we used to get them turn up at a local pier in the summer and me and a mate would target dragonets to see which of us could get the male with the best fin as the male has multicoloured dorsal fin like a rainbow.Mite be a one to get on camera.
You’d been better off to stay close to home and fish some freshwater somewhere Graeme, I don’t know 🤷♂️, that’s just my opinion buddy, I don’t know much about over there anyways, UK! Hey that’s University of Kentucky too, haha! Anyhow, you’ll get them next time Graeme, I have no doubt!!
Deadbaiting for pike on a very hot day in the summer is not great, I’m not against fishing for them in the summer - I do this myself but using lures , they bolt baits far Too quickly in the summer to be worth the risk 🤷🏻
