One-Hour Lure Mission #3: Oxford Canal, Savage Gear Bleak 

It'll warm up soon... I hope! :-)

They're coming! They're coming! :-)

Never give up til you've saved the blank! :-)

Thanks Dave. Good 'ol English weather! Makes everyone glad to be home watching daft buggers like me on RU-vid! :-)

Small world. Hope you caught! Can’t believe the rain stopped and sun came out as soon as I went, ha ha!

Haha thanks. Caught a few bream just after dark. See you around, keep up the great videos!

I'm just someone who loves fishing, particularly canal fishing! :-)

Ha ha, he might've been the taxman come to think of it! 😂😂😂

Ooh pardon! ;-)

Ha ha. Now where's the umbrella?

Yes fluorocarbon, anything from 3lb to 6lb. Im only fishing light jig heads and dropshotting etc and the main desirable target for me is always perch of any size. The jacks and zander just happen along. I cannot remember being bitten off on the canal. Obviously if I was primarily after pike a wire trace would be advised, but you hit takes instantly with this style of light lure fishing so you shouldn't be deep hooking many fish if at all.

@@JonArthur That's great, Thanks for the quick reply!

Ha ha, no match head on at all, just grabbing an hour’s enjoyment on the bank. Sorry for not wearing camo! 😬 It’s way too shallow and clear down the edge on this specific stretch at the mo and comparing notes with fellow lure anglers all the takes seem to be coming in the deeper channel lately. It will hopefully be different once this cold snap passes. I’m just having some fun chucking a specific lure about for a very short time. With more time of course I wouldn’t hesitate to adjust so many things and I also carry two rods when I have that luxury. Dare I say that I cringe whenever I hear the word ‘structure’ as it just sounds like a buzz word plucked from bass fishing. Mr Crabtree would certainly never have said it, ha ha! I'll just stick to finding Bs: things like boats, bullrushes, branches, bridges, basins and those lovely lovely bushes! ;-) Enjoy your fishing. 🙂

@@JonArthur Bass fishing yes, good point and I have personally done plenty of that in Zimbabwe. Yes we have dams ,lakes, structure and 3 types of Bass species in Zim. Enjoy your match fishing. :-)

That specific combo was a Daiwa Sweepfire 2000 reel with a Savage Gear Parabellum 1-5oz rod. Very sensitive and lightweight and much more fun than the pokey things I started off with.

Not got to the green stage yet, but it's about the size of two hands now, ha ha!

Yep! I was primarily just targeting perch and even if I caught a pike or zander I wasn't expecting anything more than a 5lb fish at the absolute most! Happy to just catch a tiddler on this session! :-)

I’m married to a bloody good one! That’s why I have to go through flipping every single thing for her! 😬👍