This Tiny Crank Bait Gets CRUSHED By Big River Fish! 

First session of the year went great! Only fished for about 3 hours, but managed to catch some cracking fish! If you're wondering about the finger A&E managed to fix it for me haha. I'll be doing a video soon where i swap my trebles for singles and see if it affects the hook to land ratio. As always thanks for watching and don't forget to check out the description for links to the tackle i used in the video!

This man get a hook in his fingers past the barb and just keeps fishing with the hook still in his finger that is some serious dedication

The fish is laughing with his pals about how he hooked a ginger fella

"I never normally measure my chubs" -The Ginger Fisherman

10:17 that chub went speed racer mode

Mate you’re made of some tough stuff. If I wasn’t able to get that hook out myself at the water I’d have been going straight home!

Imagine NEYMAR getting his finger hooked up while fishing😂😂😂😂bloody hell, he would drown 10 times,bite his whole arm off and call Chub racist.

Wherever you are fishing it’s like you are fishing in a fish bowl! Full of fish lol

If you're looking for some really small swim-bait lures, (on the house) let me know. They're little assassins for perch and trout here in Ireland, and they are completely homemade. Your vids ar excellent mate, so keep 'em coming. Oh, BTW, least painful hook extraction : press the point through, then snip the hook at least 3 mm behind the entry wound. Grab the freshly protruding point and slide out. I learned that from a conger hook into the main thumb muscle. Irritating more than painful.

Remeber sitting in science in year 9, had my hand in my coat pocket during break, I started to feel a little sharp pain in my right hand, I looked down and saw a tiny size 20 barbed hook, buried deep into my knuckle. It must have been left in my coat pocket from the weekend. I tried to pull it out but couldn't, it being barbed of course. The school had to call my mum to come and take me to A&E, where they snipped the eye off and pulled the hook through the other way. It stung a little! Worth it though as I got the afternoon off school, and my mum bought me a boost and a bottle of cherry coke! 25 years ago, jeez!

The bird sounds in the background are awesome, they make the video even better

No Ginger Fisherman was harmed during the filming of this video, However accidents do happen 🤔 top vid pal

That little Pike wasn't messing about 😅🎣

Getting a treble stuck in your finger is bad, but getting one stuck in your wife’s finger is a disaster, never leave a lure in the key draw like I did! My wife ended up down at A&E. great video and true dedication.

Grab and jerk, hurts like hell for a second, than you're good to go again! Lovely fish like always, i wish we would have streams like those over here! 👌🏻

Dont know wether im more impressed with you catching good Chub on lures or you soldiering on with a barbed treble in your hand. . .🤔

You are very lucky to have that river. Its pretty special

Dude, absolutely cracking vlog and a dedication to lure angling with the treble incident. Hope you have a great rest of the week and weekend ahead, tight lines and best wishes and stay safe and well to you and your family buddy

Thumbnail that injury and use instant karma for fisherman as title . That's gnarly content 😂 you are the best m8

Massive kudos for making sure the fish was fine before you dealt with your finger 🙏

Gets me when the magnet sticks to his treble,yank 🤣🤣 dealt with like a champion

Barbless would have come straight out

Could see that coming, lively fish, and you usually take the barbs off, I've been there. Great job great show 👍

That pike was on it. Great river fishing buddy.

The guys a true soldier.

Have to try the rapala cranks always used salmo hornets. Good to see not all northerners are soft good vid. I crush down 2 barbs and remove 1 set of trebles makes life easier and still have a good hook up rate. Tight lines

Thank you for showing your fishing experiences with us they are majic, best wishes 😂😂👍

Hope your fingers ok pal.Had a bad day wi trebles a few weeks back,so went on to single in-line hooks .I had a couple perch and chub under that bridge too on a 3.5 salmo hornet ,real dace,with size 6 in-line hook instead of the trebles.

Great session mate - slayed em. The hook in the finger OUTCH! W'eve all done it but I have to say I wince every time I see you remove a lure with your fingers rather that using small set of pliers or hemostat forceps. Anyway mate love the videos and keep em coming.......

Crush the barbs on your hooks and when you hook yourself the hook just pops out…..and guess what? It does that with the fish too!…no harm done to you or the fish! I’ve fished barbless for 66 years and never lost a fish because of that, I guarantee you wouldn’t either, just keep a tight line between you and the fish. You’ll probably catch more too because there is no barb to impede hook penetration. At least try it and see!

Awesome session mate!

That chub at 10:45 was huge 😳

Because of this video I purchased the exact rig you're using and it's beautiful!

Nice. My hay-fever is so bad I can't really move. Enjoying your videos.

Well I didn't plan on going fishing today but after watching this video , off I go ! I also bought a rapala countdown elite a few month's back . Gonna give it a chuck down on the river . Cheers mate

Please make a video with a SAVAGE GEAR CICADA! Wanna see how that surface crawler makes the fish explode the water.

Ouch... All the years I've watched this channel, I've been expecting you to get hooked. You've had a few close calls. I won't go anywhere near hooks without a disgorger, or forceps and have never been hooked. A friend of mine ended up with 2 points of a treble embedded in the soft part of his hand below the thumb when we were kids and it scared the shit of me at the time, there was blood pumping out all over the place.

I've had plenty of barbed hooks go into my fingers. I've always managed to yank them out as fast as possible before it swells

Great channel and great videos! Greetings from China!

Bonitos parajes naturales,bonitos ríos,y peces,bellos cantos de aves.Me encanta.🇪🇸👍😍

I learnt the hard way. I was biting a swan shot a few inches away from the hook an someone's dog shot past an knocked my rod I was hooked deep in the bottom lip up to hooks eye. I've never used barbed hooks since and use small pliers to crimp weights. Live an learn lol.

RAPALA 4EVER !!! 🎣🤗

About 20 years ago, the lack of appropriate tackle to the fishing I was doing caused me to build a custom spinning rod from a fly rod blank. Similarly, a 5'6" Lamiglas fiberglass spinning rod blank was my favorite tiny creek fly rod with a 4-5wt set up. Do UK anglers have a crop of home grown custom rod builders who do this sort of experimenting? I like the S-glass feel with the new low-stretch lines in some situations. A fellow surf fisherman observed that he did much better on his hook up rate with mono and old stuff while throwing Bombers, Rebels, Redfins and SP Minnows at striped bass on the beach. The braid and graphite led to bumps and misses.

Channel is class... loads of tips 👍

I like it a long lean crank eating machine class 👌

Ooof that hook looked nasty. I always crush the barbs or go barbless, just because thats happened to me once. Never again!

This video is awesome. Nice job...

always good to keep some good quality sidesnips in the bag

Great film again. Would love to fish a river like that.

That’s commitment 🤣

Can’t believe you carried on with a treble so deep in 🤕🤕🤕

Love this video and great to be back on the rivers ain’t it !! Some cracking fish and well done… the gear from 13 fishing do they ship to the uk ? Obviously they do as you’re using their gear but do they have a uk supplier ?? Cheers buddy and all the best to ya 👍🏽🎣😀… hope you got that hook out 😵😣😩

Hey broo! I really like to fish for chub aswell. I just got a litlle 4.3 cm popper and big chub love it. I just straight retrieve it, it has no action, but the chub really are biting. Cheers🤝

Fantastic video

Best Man ...from inselaffe👍

I have got to get you to Alaska, that was some proper "f#$k it, keep fishing" man stupid there!! Epic!!

The net magnet has stuck to hook in my finger 😂

I had that happen to me. I tried to push it so it comes out another side, thinking that was less painful than trying to pull back on it. I was wrong. I just squeezed my finger until numb and then savagely pulled the thing out. I am curious what you did. By the way, you're a real trooper for fishing through it. I first pulled hook out before continued fishing.

Respect bro !!

Respect to u for trooping on a still fishing with a barbed hook in ur finger and not really care about ur self but care about the safety if the fish real fisherman

great video as always mate, keep up the good work

Even though I have been out for a few sessions with an untreated undiagnosed broken (small) bone in one hand (broken during a previous session 😂) that hook on your hand churned my stomach for more than a few seconds… i respectfully tip my hat to you dear sir…

yea the same thing happened to me similar to jig and got stuck in my thumb the exact same way from the start of the bone upwards and managed to take it out after 10 mins of trying

Ahhh shit that hook 🪝 in your finger looked extremely painful 😣. Hope you got it sorted. Stunning Chubb 👍👍👍👍

isn't the 18lb braid a bit of an overkill for chub fishing?

I love you fishing video you are nice man

Love that lure , great for most predictor fish , my favourite is 5cm ,glass ghost (white )

Crazy Pike bite 🤪. But nice fishing 👍.

when you took one of the first hooks out with bare hads, i was wondering, what happens, when that chub makes a move. 5min later......😁😁

Top class

Ouch, that hurts mate, nice fish!

Great video

was that a barbed hook you had stuck in your finger ? I bet it was a bit painful

a lot like my first of the season but I didn't cop an injury or do half as well. got to my river at 4ish and it was chocker lol anglers everywhere got on a few pegs and my lure of the day was salmo shallow rattling hornet load of small perch and couple of chub lumps few smaller ones as well

The net magnet on the hook still gets me 😖😖😖

You had a dream session wish i caught like that in london i'm pretty sure im going to get that lure and still blank. But hope your finger is better i would have ran home crying to the misses lol

Fantastic fishing.

God damn legend! ;D quality hooks on that Rapala

What a session! We don’t have water like this near me! You lucky bugger apart from your finger Avec hook! Hope your sorted as I looked painful!

Chris you should have just pushed the hook out and cut the barb of and pull it back through the direction it entered hope it heals quickly for you pal.

Well done mate

Are there any trout in that water with the perch, chub and pike?

This is why you NEVER use barbs! In Europe, on many rivers, you are not even allowed to fish hooks with barbs. I would recommend to always remove them, its better for the fish and the fish got at least a chance to get off!

I really wanna watch to the end but can't deal with that hook in your finger 😮

the fisherman is fishing while Birds signs that are really interesting

Why don't you use single hooks for chub fishing ?

Hi. What size is the Rapala? 5.5cm?

Extreme fishing......

Why didn't you just pass the hook through your finger and cut the end off. It would have saved you a trip to A&E. But some very good fish plus a very good video 👍👍👍👍👍

Ow a hook in the finger hurts mate i always ripped them out straight away that hurts even more!

had a hook stuck in my thumb before, cut it to the tip and left it in there until the barb had rusted enough to squeeze out (probably not the best idea)

That's a bigin

Great! 👍

Your channel has become one of my favourites, no arrogance just good honest fun fishing. Love your respect for the fish. Could you show some more of your rig setups please because they obviously work. Working my way through your videos, never get bored . Subscribed 👍👍

I winced when I heard the squeak as I knew exactly what you'd done. Been there, done that, ruined a t-shirt by bleeding all over it

you remind me of tyson fury and idk why

You visit the hospital to remove the hook?

What size and gram was that lure

Iv crushed all the barbs on my lures incase this happens, especially when pike fishing.

I’d have forced the barb back through then snipped it with the side cutters 😂