Winter Chub Fishing - Floodwater Receding (Video 247) 

Oh definitely Nic, the American express of chevin baits, you'd not want to leave home without it haha.

Thank you Lee 👍👌

Cheers John 👍😀

Thanks Doug, nice to have a few even if some bites were a little plucky plucky softly does it.

@@markerd5378 - yes indeedy mate, you are very welcome! Keep on keeping on and tight lines to ya!!

Thanks and yes makes a change to see some of that wet stuff. Cheers regarding the aerial footage, I must admit it has captured the essence well.

Cheers! They're decent conditions and usually quieter on the bank too.

I could not agree more Stephen and I think that I speak for many of us when I say that I'll miss the rivers when they shut up shop 😔

Thanks mate, haha, yes the last one was a pint sized chevin 😂🍻👍

Thanks Merryl 😃👍

That's good to hear, I don't use my drone enough at times!

Thanks Ross, sadly I can't see the situation changing as fast as we would ideally like, but we have to keep the pressure on them!

Thanks John, glad to hear that. I've used the drone on and off over the years on tench videos etc and when Nicholas and I were friends and attempted to fish the flooded Hampshire avon, but I don't always use it enough.

Cheers Darren 🙂

Thanks Mark and yes definitely would be interested! No I've got plenty of thjngs lined up for the closed season thankfully. It will also have a ton of household work that needs tending to, flat roof repairs amongst them 😬. So I guess I'll just have to do what us men don't do so well and multi-task 😂.

Thank you very much, this time round the drone didn't decide to lose signal which helps lol.

Thanks Picko, that's always good to hear, there's plenty more to come.

Thanks John, a river bank is my happy place and never a chore to film for you guys.

@@markerd5378 Mark ,...your drone footage only adds to the thrill ,.you may have missed your slot with the likes of Jeremy wade and John Wilson but you capture the very essence of fishing ,..you are youtubes most admired fisherman in my opinion , I am going to the Cambridgeshire fens for the glorious 16th 2023 and would love to share with you the experience of a few days fishing ,..let's get something organised .

Heya mate, congratulations 🎉on the new chevin pb. I'm sure you'll get a 7 as well in due course! No rush just enjoy the journey 👍

Thank you Richard 🙂👍

Thanks Beesa, yes they can be quite wily at mouthing baits and not giving the game away at times. You always have to decipher between current, debris and a crafty chub, warily mouthing the bait.

Funnily enough I had never caught a Chub till I started watching marks channel, and now I consider myself a Chub fisherman 😂

Thanks Phil! Oh definitely you should give it a go, summer chub fishing and winter are so vastly different and in always surprised that more anglers don't stalk them in summer, it can be great fun.

@@_-Spoons-_ ah Mr Sussex! Tough trip you had yesterday, but you gave it a good go.

Mate i often think about the Nidd :(

@@francolinobascothe Nidd is fantastic

I'd say that's correct in the case of quote a few species. The crayfish boom has created quite a lot of this , which is of course not a good thing and quite damaging to the future of juvenile fish recruitment and newer stocks coming through. Sure the high protein diet of crayfish for adult fish does mean they pack on the weight,but alas it doesn't help future fish coming through due to fish eggs being consumed by the high crayfish populations most of our rivers now have especially down south.

Hey Darion and thanks mate. Sadly our water companies are privatised and the independent regulatory bodies that are supposed to keep them under scrutiny are not good at their job. To tell you how bad it is in the UK, whenever we get serious rainfall our sewage treatment systems become overloaded and then overflow and pump into rivers. For example one of my local rivers had just recently no less than 970 hours of constant sewage being pumped into it, that's around 38 days of constant pollution. The water companies in the UK pay their CEO big bonuses, they make vast profits but haven't put enough money into modernisation of the current water treatment structure. Corruption is rife and our supposed bastions that are there to protect our waterways are also letting us down.

Haha, cheers its nice when youtube actually works and doesn't forget to send followers notifications about new uploads. I tend to use maggots on my chub trips either in cocktail baits such as worm and maggot together or as a light feed bait to draw chub into a competitive mood. They keep for months too. I do not really consider 2 pints of maggot expensive, but only because I've got a habit of making them last ages due to me being a tight sod lol😂. To me expensive would be 5 or 6 pints a trip and feeding heavily, either trotting or via a maggot feeder, like some of the match anglers tend to do. Main reason for not over using them as a bait on quite a few areas is minnow attention as well. I always take them and they always get used but for the most part as a confidence gaining feed.

5g mini feeder rod 9ft

In a previous video i think he said it was the 11ft.

@@Wilde_UK is it's the 9 foot mini feeder mate

​@@markerd5378 sorry the reply was not from the channel account.

@@Wilde_UK that's ok mate I use this account from my mobile. Sorry for the confusion.