Waggler Fishing On The Canal 

Thanks Jon lovely nostalgic video ,me and my mates used to spend all day and I mean all day dawn to dusk on our little canal catching some lovely perch ,when it started to get dark we caught some of the best coloured roach you could wish for on punch ,perch on red worm great video Jon very much appreciated , all best jon tight lines great memories I’m 71 now you never forget

Good to see you taking the time to plumb up, a lesson for everyone, we all at times do not take the time needed to get things right.

Great video! I recently went back to my childhood canal swim and had a great little session! #memorylane

I love this video. I'm always a big fan of your videos, they are very cathartic and always so rich in technical details, but something about this video just always brings me back. It's got it all. Thanks for taking the time and effort to make it Jon. Hope you're well mate

used to love Stillwater blues for canal and silver fishing. great floats.

Hi Jon what a wonderful video. These early morning sessions with the birdsong as background are unbeatable! For many anglers this type of waggler fishing is what they like and while the pole gives great presentation many still prefer using a rod and reel. I do hope you will post a whip fishing video as that is fishing at it's most simple basic form. Bill

Lovely eel. Nice to catch something a bit different. The only time I caught one was in the tidal Thames at Richmond. You get the added challenge of trying to get the hook out. Double the fun.

Love the old photo Jon,memories,nice days fishing as well

Old school fishing! We all grew up fishing places like that before the carp puddles came along I bet canals and rivers up and down the country will be like virgin waters now

Good to see I’m not the only one who takes 10 times more kit than I’m ever going to use, even carrying broken floats lol. Great video as always. Thanks

had loads of tench on those caster waglers back in my time on my local lake fishing hemp and caster , double caster or double red maggot .... wow that has brought up some memories

Very enjoyable Jon.thanks for sharing.👍😄

I am glad to see you catch stick fish too Jon they give amazing bites sometimes as do plastic bag fish.

i just found this,,,,the two photos sum it all up.thats why we go fishing.brilliant.

I do love fishing the canal, brings back so many memories

New to your channel and loved the simplicity of your session. Felt like I was there with you 😀

great video john happy angling

Awww Jon those old pictures are brilliant

Great video as always,some cracking fish in your short but very productive session... keep sharing Jon.

Brilliant vid ! So underused nowadays. I still love fishing the wag on the Glos canal, not many do these days. I knew exactly what Dave Berrow float that was , still have one, and yes, it came free with the Mail :) . I commented a while ago on a James Robbins bodied wag fishing vid about how good it would be if float/wag only series/matches came about, similar to what has recently happened to feeder fishing ? It would be great to see a renaissance of the art . Tight lines !

Hi mate... That's where I learned to fish with my dad..I still fish there alot and still produces..some huge carp in there now too. Regards Jase Shorthouse

Great video. Thanks

Yet another great video Jon ! An eye opener seeing how well our canals fish 👍🏻

Hi John, it is now here also 6 o'clock in the morning. And has go to work. But can't wait to watch tonight.

I too grew up fishing that section of canal. It now holds some cracking Silver Bream which I've had to over 2lbs. Great video, thanks.

Hi Jon , its about time to get back to what i call proper fishing , i'm sick to my teeth of carp fever i remember to catch a carp was a rare thing , BUT NOW !!, Thanks so much remembering the way we fished , ps love the vids you do , Regards Trev from Stoke

I really enjoy making my own kit and in this period of isolation it has been my only fishing - when one is dependent on local transport to get anywhere near fishable water my bankside experience is none. Thanks for the canal - it brought back many memories.

Brings back some great memories thanks for sharing Jonny

Love the stick song in hey duggie, the misses, the kids and i have a mini rave up.

Great video thanks Jon that’s boosted my morale and made me want to get back out there on the canal and just keep it simple!

Really great to have some of your knowledge, going to do some more wagler fishing just like when I first started fishing, thanks Jon.

Another great video mate love the tip about the silicon on the line under the shot , great to see someone taking the time to plumb the depth I think watercraft is a lost art . What a satisfying video to watch, proper angler fishing traditional ways and to top it all homemade floats, don't get better than this!

Glad i watched this bought back a lot memories of fishing on cut. Loved the tip of silicon under the shot.

Very enjoyable to watch made it look so easy keep it up

Really enjoyed that Jon , it's full of fish on that stretch loads of Rudd this year ,great way to fish for them as well

Well done Jon cracking vlog you brought back great emories for me great days.

What a great little session Jon, thoroughly enjoyed watching it. A nice fry up would of topped that off perfectly if I had a session like that

Great memories of learning to fish on the GUC on Luton ACs waters at Slapton and Cheddington. Learning to fish the waggler for everything from gudgeon to some fabulous roach and if you were really lucky a carp or two.

Nice one sod all on tele about to go bed , well that can wait now thanks 🎣👍🏻

Thanks for sharing Jon. Another great video.

Last year I hooked a fish on the Grand Union canal Greenford which after a fight snagged me on a sunken tree. The next day I went with stronger line - still only 3lb and managed to get it in. Was really surprised to see a big eel! It was really thick but managed to slip out of the net and back in the canal while I was faffing with the scales. Both times the swim went quiet before it bit. Can't say it was the nicest fish I've caught and impossible to hold! Great video by the way.

Always enjoyable Jon.

Happy memories, enjoyable.

Another great video, keep them coming

Cheers Jon, another great video!

Another Brilliant masterpiece.....waiting alrady for the next one.

Really enjoyed that Jon!

Great film John, that rod looks spot on. Roll on the nice weather.

enjoyed the film alot. right up my street 😊

Great videos keep em coming.

Great video👍🏼👍🏼

Great vid john reminds me of my childhood👍

Perfect👌🏻👏🏻

ahh that brings back some great memories of pre-pole canal days ..... that canal looks a great color.... a few of the canal boater channels i watch have been out and about but really just day trips so the canals look in great condition.... thanks for sharing your morning and bringing back some memories of happy canal days spent with my dad and my mates.... ATB Dave Mc

Really enjoyed watching it’s my style of fishing often fish with corn and catch some good stamp hybrids 👍

As a kid I red Ivan marks on match fishing, his home made wagglers were fascinating! Bloody massive too. Love your videos, as a Banbury local, I recognise some of the places you've fished!

Great video lovely fishing 😁

Lovely vid Jon. I grew up on the GUC just north of Milton Keynes. Mark Pollard mastered the waggler and squat method late 80s when opens drew 100+. I’ll take that fishing any day over a commercial

Enjoyable video Jon takes me back to when I was a kid never usually caught that many though 😂imagine what you would have had on the pole.Very enjoyable many thanks Richie 😎👍

schönes Video und gut geangelt immer wieder schön Dich ein gutes Video zu sehen danke dafür

As a long time subscriber,I always look forward to your videos Jon... But,I think your last three films on the canals have been your best to date... Camera work,content and setting have been superb.. It's made me rethink how I approach canals,ie not trying to take the kitchen sink lol!..

Making me think of the fishing from when i was a kid again .Im going to have a day on the Rea Brook and another below the wier in Shrewsbury where my dad taught me to fish.Really enjoyed these latest videos.

I love canal fishing :-)

i used to live in a place called norwood green and the fishing there was amazing

Great memories, remember saving my pocket money to buy some Billy Makin canal greys to use on the Beeston Canal in Nottingham. Another thing, about time evening matches came back, bunk of work early for draw at 4.30, fish 5.30 to 8.30 then back at pub for 9 for a cold pint or three

I wish tackle companies would do more to promote the waggler fishing method. I feel that it’s a cheaper a more versatile method for beginners to use across a variety of venues including canals, commercials and rivers.

Nice video all round Jon. St Ives FPAS have an excellent evening series (the Coote Cup) during June to August on the Great Ouse.

Just what you want on your last cast, an eel to make your landing net stink to high heaven! Great video. It's great fishing waters with hardly any carp in. You can fish with the finesse you need to catch quality fish without getting smashed up. Even if you land carp on light tackle, they frighten every other fish out of a swim you might have been building up for over an hour - and for what, another crappy four pound carp, just like a thousand others you've caught!

"Where you going with those shears Jon?" - Reply - "I'm off fishing" Brilliant as always - thank you Sir.

Nice fishing Jon, I still have some very old canal darts, and some image wags. Use a very old Tom Pickering 11ft, only problem with it is the reel fittings/seats. They tend to come loose. So have to put inertube rubber over them. That rod you used looks just the job, but it’s a once a season or winter clear water item, for me now. Thanks for sharing and the memories 👍😎

Like a zoo in that canal, so many species. I've been slowly kitting myself out with quite a bit of Matrix tackle. But I'm a bit hesitant to buy rods and reels at the moment. I, like you, have been eyeing up the Cadence selection, with designs on getting a few of each over the next few years. I'm sold out on the idea of James, of a nice sum of money going to GHOF. Thoroughly enjoyed the video. You seem so much more relaxed when there's no pressure to win a match.

great video... i wish our canals in ireland were as weedless as yours.. Looking forward to your next excursion

A really nice vid back too the days on the G U at Croxley Green . A quill float and bread pinched of my Nan.more of the same please be safe and thanks

My favorite style of fishing by far!! Really nice footage Jon and even more early session on the bank. I use to use Kamasan Peacock Wagglers with a thin Insert. Looking quite as yours but no vintage at all 😉 enjoy your coming back on the match scene, see you in November hopefully... Stay safe my friend!

Hi Jon, great to watch, waggler dishing is how most of us started many years ago! .... Would love to see one of your lockdown vids focusing on home made wagglers if poss?... Tips on materials/painting/sealing etc.... Thanks and staysafe.

Brilliant , Love all your canal fishing vids Jon ..You've covered pole waggler and jigging small lures on canals , I know its not popular method on canals but it would be great if you did a vid covering small feeder fishing a canal .. be great to see how you approach it , tips and tactics. Cheers and tight lines

Really enjoyed watching Jon. I definitely need to get out with waggler myself soon. Also hope you don’t mind me mentioning I have a fishing podcast called ‘middle aged angler reborn’ following my adventures. Cheers Jon and keep up the great vids 😊😊

This really has brought back memories of my time living in Leamington. In fact in the mid 80s I was the Secretary of the Leamington Liberals before I left for the Deep South and Phil took over. My son, Simon, used to fish Leamington Anglings junior evening matches so quite likely you were around as a sprog in those days. Maybe you also remember Ian Heaps who would come around encouraging the juniors and present the prizes for the Leamington Liberals. He was great with the youngsters some of whom were taller than he was.

Get yourself a whip John loads off fun on canals

Nice to see waggler fishing everywhere you go now its all pole I still tend to use the waggler in winter seem to do better

A fun session that. Bit surprised to see you plumb up using the plummet, why not a big shot on the hook which might make less of a splash when you cast out? Like the home made peacock wagglers. Enjoyable video watch as always.

This is lovely. Its not always practical in a match, but waggler fishing is a great way to fish on a canal. I've still got my free Dave Berrow balsa waggler (with its tip intact). I like the old Drennan canal crystals. Btw, remember to tie your camera to something next time out.

I think I still have that same caster float from the front of Anglers Mail.

Great to see, how I was taught, I haven't coarse fished for years but when I return I will be fishing this way. God knows what they do now and if I can even buy the tackle. we would fish for double Carp this way and did well. Im told fishing is very different these days? all bells whistles and catching paets in ponds? I wonder who can trot a sick float on a river for big Roach these days?

As a Grand Union (nr. Leamington) local guy canal angler, you'll love this true story = I got drawn on a mediocre peg in a 200 pegger open match I was near the viaduct , just above the lock on the Offchurch/Radford Road .. I thought I'd done ok, and maybe would win the section. But, 2 pegs away from me, a fella hooked & landed a 4 & a half pound Brown Trout! I saw him do it. He didn't cheat 😊.... a Brown Trout ffs! It might as well of been a Great White Shark, to be credible believable! ... The bugger done me in my section, and came 2nd in the match. But the stick he got then, and forever after, wasn't worth the cash in the brown envelope 😂. ... the good old funny days lol

Nice. Hope you make a video to show us how to make the wagglers just like you did.

The local canals must be responsible for 100s of anglers ending up hooked. The only play station we had along with the local park

I had one of those Dave Berrows wagglers! Must have been Angling Times

Really nice to see an Eel,a sad rarity everywhere these days.

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Great canal videos real nostalgic feel, one question where have all the gudgeon gone? Stretches that used to be full of them and they seem to have disappeared.

Why is your clutch set so loose for little silvers? It’d be great to get some shots of where the float is and the bites but you’ve given me a bit of encouragement to dig out the old puddle chucker and have a go on the river or local canal. Nice cheap, fun fishing.

Great video Jon, nice to see an old traditional method being used, can you tell me when you plumb up on a waggler where on the float is it best to work to for your bait to sit stable on the deck, top of the body or on the float tip its self?

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Nice video Jon, shame about that old reel you need a cs10 3000 reel on that rod 😂

cracking old picture, nice to see ya fishing old style... poles get a bit 'seen it before' . . i hate eels.......

Great idea using the silicon tubing on the line for the shot, what silicon tubing do you use out of curiosity? I'd like to get some, perfect for protecting the line from damage.

If its the steps there was some double figure carp in there could be an offspring of one of those

Hi! That sure is a fun way to fish. Why do you spray detergent on the line? Aren't you afraid that the oil and grease will wash off the reel?

Makes me want to dig out my old Daiwa Cavalier 11ft canal special. 😁 Out of interest what cameras do you use please Jon?