Using Real RATS as BAIT In a City Canal! 

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Chub always surprise me at how much of a vicious predator they can be for something that looks like a roach.

Theres no way ginger fisherman plays that game on the phone. I just aint buying it. #TopFan

Your bloody mental mate. I'm not surprised that it worked though. I once caught a decent pike that choked up the very dead body of a fully grown rat. Yuk!

New-born puppies are a great bait too!!

Next installment i caught a pike using A Old mouse from my computer 😂😂😂😂😮

Use matt Hancock as bait

Great video. My missus would freak out if she found a bag of mice in the freezer! Lol. She's terrified of them. I see an article many years ago, think it was the 70's in angling times. It was Dick Walker & a mate, catching Pike on full-size brown rats!! Dead ones. They were fishing gravel pit, where Rats used to swim across to the island, for the birds eggs. They landed a few. Great channel love it. 👍

Try it for trout?

At Last the Labor Party used as Bait

I was so expecting you to switch to live bait after the pursuit on the barge…

I wonder if it works with budgies and hamsters.

@The_ginger_fisherman can I ask what lour rod you use in this video please?

Tip: get a proper Polarized filter so that we can see through the water. Just remember to align it properly before each shoot.

What baitcaster rod and reel you using mate

Hope the fish in the shed pond are doing good

Great session, the missed hook ups can be expected with only a front mounted treble, and perhaps like you said Chris, leaving a fish to turn might have resulted in a few more. Interesting, you deffo need to revisit this in the future.👍

I saw a strange guy at the canal today, he was casting his rat into a hole for 5 minutes

Chris, congratulations on your new arrival. Great video once again. Looking for pike fishing advice - what is you long Reach river bank landing net ? Thank you and keep up the good work 😊 ❤ 👍

When i was a kid i used to fish that bit of river especially to the right of the train bridge nearest to town . Used to chuck casters down and fished on the surface for the chub . Never considered rats but have fished with bees on the canal !

First time saw this channel… like it 😁 Best greetings from the Harz/Germany

I would love to see if you could catch a large brown trout on a dead mouse!

Try the rats as dead bait !!!! So fish it with a bobbin or deadbait system in the bottom

You gave me a thought my try out my rat lure in the lock gates down from me in Ireland and lot of houses so lots of rats and mice con from Ireland

try and mount a decent size single trailing by the tail of the rat , nice work on that huge chub , cracking fish

Hi mate watched many of your videos I wish I had a clear canal we had 40 boats go past on the north Oxford but had a 5.5lb zander😊

Unbelievably grim

Never pick up wild mice mate. You can get bitten and get serious infections. Friend nearly lost his thumb recently. 4 weeks off with sepcis too

No real intention of playing the game, but will download it so your code gets logged.

G'day Chris, nice little session awesome Chub and pike. All the best form down under 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Bro on a level that fishing game is 💩...great vid tho once again bringing us something new to try

I'll help you out just see this hook, fancy a swim ......

A few years back I was fishing in a well known local river which is a tributary to the river Thames, I was fishing for Chub and having a good session. Whilst fishing a Rat was keeping me amused swimming backwards and forwards across the river with pieces of bread that people had been feeding the Ducks with earlier and had landed in the reeds so the rivers flow hadn’t washed it down stream. Anyway on its way across on the poor chaps final time a huge Pike came up from underneath him and took him whole , I honestly couldn’t believe it, the flipping thing WAS massive. I have never seen that behavior before or since I might add but it truly shocked me.

When I was a kid in the 1970s I found an old fishing book that was probably from the 1950s and one of the pages told how to fish with a live mouse as bait. It was rigged just like your thumbnail, a rubber band around the mouse which would hold the hook. I never used a live mouse for bait but that page of the book stuck with me forever!

"I swear down guys, I thought I was gonna end up with in the bag with the others, but somehow I managed to give the great gingey the slip" - that mouse when he was down at the rodent pub later that evening

what type of rod and line did you have for this type of fishing?

Can’t get my head around how quickly your channel has blown up. Also the sheer amount of views in 24 hours. 143k is no joke, well done mr maroon🎣🎣

More great content! Love this channel!

I wonder if there is such a thing as a polaroid lens for cameras to have the same effect as shades, so we could see when theres a pike coming when its sunny... would be so cool to see...

Don't know what you stood in at a former life but can we all have some .you seem to be able to catch on almost anything fr9m prime bottles to rats and everything in-between. 😅😅

Water Vole rather than a mouse I reckon...

Cracking upload. Despite what bait you were using, it was a nice moment in helping the little chap out, he dont know how lucky he was!. Congrats on new arrival and looking forward to new uploads.

Chris, That was an innovative video. Using the 'real thing' as opposed to replicant lures was very different - can you tell me if the mice/baby rats were frozen at all as this would make them stay on the surface longer? Lovely Chub by the way.

As a fisherman and also an animal lover I have a dog and pet rats and I fish to . All types of fishing tho I am no expert 😂 tho I do could for someone new to the sport. I know the mice are dead and i get why they would make a good bait. But I don’t agree with it . I know ginger fm is a very good fisher man tho his ego is massive. My thing is he catches lots of things on lures. Why have the body of a dead animal for views sad

The way you just pulled out that hook out of the pikes mouth and how close your thumb was the whole time lol balls of steel dude

That barge mouse sees a ginger chap with a bag full of dead rats coming towards him,a rat being thrown repeatedly into the water, retrieved then thrown in again, resulting in some teeth filled fish eating it..His little brain is petrified, getting home unscathed he would say to his Mouse family..”your not going to believe the day I have had” Fisher Rats tale..😅

Nice videos mate, I'm from Cheshire originally but now live on the isle of man , this has inspired me to contact my friends back home in Nantwich and arrange a canal trip to fish the canals, I've just watched several videos and noticed you have the fiido titan, would you recommend it? I'm debating getting one to navigate around the island fishing 👌🎣🎣🇮🇲

First I will say CONGRATULATIONS on the new baby. I was impressed the way you managed to make those mice look as though they were swimming naturally. Chub swallowing a big mouse surprised me. Most enjoyable 🎣👍

I've always wanted to try a baitcaster reel for predator fishing, are they good? They look fun

I've been a keen angler for decades but didn't know Chub fed on rats & mice, obviously knew Pike would take them but really surprised to learn Chub feed on them as well.

What’s you fishing clan code and also good vid

Cracking session Chris - always ahead with the though leadership 👊 Great method, great results 🎣 Thanks for sharing mate

Yes! The rat videos are back. It’s what got me interested way back when

Just an idea 💡 As you used rats as bait / politicians/ how about using chicks , they also can be purchased from a reptile shop and would fit in with the natural foods 😉

I have always liked surface lure fishing for pike, good video again thanks , cheers for now. Think ill have a go at making a mouse/ rat lure !

What casting weight of rod do you use for general lure fishing ? Not necessarily rats!!! My lad wants a baitcaster and it's a branch of angling I'm not familiar with!

Cracing video. Can i ask what lure rod you use in this video? Casting weight and length? I am looking into starting this sort of fishing. Thank you

Didn't know Chubb would eat rat a thought they where like carp.

Fishing games nooo not for me thanks i know people who say there good games but there gamers not anglers.... Make believe fantasy 😂

Well that’s killed my observation I don’t know what end of the line the Maggot is on now I know because there is a rat on one end.

Bury a circle hook instead of your triple.. More fish, try it.I learnt a couple years ago, and I will only use jay hooks anymore

Rats and mice have a lot of predators, thank goodness!

Brand New mobile Game from 2014😂😂😂😂 lier

are the glasses your wearing in this video the fortis wraps?

Code doesn't work.... great video as always

Try rigging it with a trail hook towards the back of the rat it will increase your hookups

I knew you were gonna say "i could've used him for bait"

I tried this a few years ago my mates laughed and said I was mad...😂

Hey bud if you into fishing games you need to get on the Oculus quest that's as close as u get to the real thing

Caught a rather large striper from the Mokelumne River years ago that had a muskrat in his belly.

Looked alive the way it wiggled on the first shot. That opens up a whole world of hurt for someone! 😄

11:42 that decked area over the other bank looks excellent lucky homeowner

Was that a little field vole, well saved. Barn own or kestrel might not be so forgiving!

Sticking the rats is discusting 😂

Great video as always! Can I ask what drone you use??

Almost thought he‘d catch that mouse and use it as a bait right there in the beginning

should of used the live mouse for bait would of got a bigger fish

Congratulations to you and your Mrs on your new arrival.

How is he doing this? I struggle to catch fish on maggots

I found with luring predatory species, my very best results come not from casting my lures into the water, but casting onto a bank, or any structure out of the water, and letting the lure fall into the water from there. Where there's overhanging tree branches, casting into the water under branches gives a similar success rate. When you think about it, you're trying to fool the fish into thinking a mouse has fallen into the water, so asking yourself "fallen from where though," and casting there is a good starting point to figure out where the fish may lie.

I just sat down to have some food and this popped up 🤷‍♂️

I don't know why but it gives me the creeps i love fishing and ive used loads of baita but i can't get my hrad round using a creature that would have furr be it rat or mouse, i don't mind live baits just something about it doesn't seem normal its just me maybe.

why I've felt use rats as baits that made me felt nausea😂

Great video when is the update on the baby carp?

Nice. Which casting reel did you use in this video?

The mouse who was freed when he gets home to his friends: "So there was this giant red creature trying to catch me while I was chilling on my boat. He grabbed me with his gigantic net but I just managed to escape. He tried to grab me again but obviously I was way to fast for such a big red monster. When he saw how fast I was, he didn't even try to run after me"

Dont take Gods name in vain!!!!

Great content as usual top dangling

Very nice video to watch. 😊

are locks good to fish around?

Sorry big man,not into games

Yo wassup my fellow ginger

Enjoyed that.nice one

Why you need a rat lure for a 10£ when you can buy mice or small rat for a couple £ . That was perfect bait and great location to fish with that bait 👌 nice video definitely need to try my self 😅🎣

Another awesome Video deffo get back to the Canal & River for round 2 maybe a multi species challenge Pike,Perch,Chub & Trout If you have any in the rivers near you

When are you going to start a TV series Chris! 👍🏻

Short tailed field vole 😂

Class u lad great channel

w sponsor get that bag

Where is that spot?