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WAWAW! 🦉 Fantastic comment thanks - glad you enjoyed it and great to hear from a Sheffield lad. I need to check out the Sheffield rivers next summer if I get chance - keep hearing good things about some of my old stomping grounds. Cheers for now 👍🎣🐟

@themagicoffishing be good to see you catching up on some of you and your grandads old venues , would make a great video and go well with the book !! ..thanks again, Ian .

Hello and thanks for the lovely comment 👍 My treasured pin has been on a holiday up to Youngs, as one or two folks at home commented that it sounded a little noisy in a previous vid and I had to agree. It’s gone for a service at Youngs 👍

@ My Okumas are due some TLC soon too!

Many thanks Matt! I’m in agreement on baits too, if we’re talking hook baits only - I do love to loose feed with maggots or casters too 😀 Appreciate another lovely comment 👍🎣🐟

And the same to you, Graham, nice to kick off 2025 with a few fish and another lovely comment from you! 🤗 I really do appreciate your ongoing support and encouragement - a pillar of TMOF community!

And a happy new year to you, too, mate! Good to see you on the channel in 2025! I’ve seen pics from my family of the snow in the Peaks this weekend and, yep, avoided in down south even if there was a week of freezing nights. Combined with a lot of rain, it made for tricky fishing today, but I was somewhere a bit special and caught a few nice fish, so hopefully another nice winter vid to look forward to 👍 Cheers for now mate

Haha, I need all the help I can get with hotspots, Rob! Managed to find some at Throop today though 👌👍 Can’t wait for the chalk stream trip - I’ve got a hardcore work week away beforehand so will be a relieved man by the time we get to trot!

That is the BEST kind of comment to read - especially at the end of a long and cold fishing weekend when I’m feeling knackered and in need of an early night 💙 I never set out to inspire anyone, more to share and try to explain the magic of fishing, which has been so important to me, and if it’s got you fishing again that is a special bonus 🎣🐟 Really glad to hear it - and that you enjoy the channel - and thanks for taking the time to say so 🤗

Hiya Tom and HNY to you too! This is the time of year for setting new goals - not that you need them to enjoy your fishing, but giving the Blackwater a first try sounds like a good’un. Tight lines for when you get there and maybe we’ll meet on the banks of a FAS water someday. Cheers for now.

Haha, definitely! That’s why we have so many of them - so we can try to ensure there’s a fish on the last case - but I really wasn’t expecting that bonus fish. Glad you’ve got the book and I truly hope you enjoy it - let me know in the comments of a future vid. I’ve seen family pics of the snow in Sheffield but I escaped the white stuff AND went fishing this weekend - should be a great video in the future I hope… 🎣🐟 Cheers for now

That’s a truly heartwarming story to read after another freezing day on the bank 🥶🎣 Brilliant! We hear so much bad news about our rivers these days and no doubt they are facing all kinds of threats, but it’s good to remind ourselves that some things have got much better. Thanks to the thoughtful actions of anglers back in the day 👏

@@themagicoffishing P.S. There is mention in some comments about barbel. FYI some small barbel were introduced into the Whitewater (I think by Thames Conservancy) up near Heckfield where it merges with the River Hart, before they join the Blackwater - now called Long River. I don't think it was possible for barbel to come up stream from the Thames via the Loddon because of the weir at Twyford. Though there were barbel below the weir back in the 60's. Anyway...continued good luck

Thanks Russ! I keep meaning to try and plan a trip with you but with a combination of work, family stuff and some pre-existing fishing plans of my own, it’s not happening just yet. I like staying up to speed with you on YT in the meantime though 👍🎣🐟

@ Hi John, I am sure we can sort a trip out between us in 2025. Busy times for sure 👍🎣

Hiya Dan, massively appreciate those kind words and glad you enjoyed it 👍 I parked in the main car park, just through the gate for the Yateley South complex. maps.app.goo.gl/HxYdryoEQYfQ7Dwa7?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy If you walk away from the gate to the right you see a small bridge over the river and then turn right for a lot of the fishing up that way. Or if you walk to the left / straight away from the gate you see Summer Pit and I started that session alongside that. The river bends around the back of Sunmer Pit and it’s wider and a bit deeper there, but the stretch isn’t as long as the one up to the right by the Match Lake and Copse Lake. Tight lines 🎣

Thank you, Peter, and the same to you! May you have a happy and slimy (in the best possible way) 2025! 🎣🐟🐟🐟🐟

Many thanks BarneyTrent and the same to you 🍻🎣🐟👍 P.S. not sure about the resolution issue, sorry 🤷🏻 Filmed as usual, so hopefully a one off glitch

Your other videos are showing at the higher 1080p. Perhaps a RUclips premium glitch with my account. Same issue over several devices, Macbook, Android phone etc. Main thing is you had a good session with obliging Chub. Great content as always 👍🏼

Hello there! Good to see you back in the comments 👍 Yep, I can see why you like that stretch. Only fished it twice but it makes a nice change from the Wey (with Woking and District, as much as I love those stretches) and genuinely feels a bit like fishing a chalk stream! Clear, narrow, varied, pacey - and plenty of fish it seems. I’m intrigued by stories of big sea trout and barbel too. Takes me back to some of the small rivers of Sheffield, as I mentioned in my first vid on there, and I still haven’t made it to the top of the stretch. 10ft Acolyte… Sounds like a dream rod for there!👌 I’m already wondering if I can spare ANOTHER £180-220 and add to my ever growing ‘crackalyte’ collection 🤔 Might go for a comprise - 11 or 12ft - but 10 sounds spot on for that one stretch… Will take on an extra paper round 👍

@ I would take the stories of sea trout and big barbel with a pinch of salt. The odd Barbel do get caught but only small ones and they are pretty rare through that stretch. As for another rod though, always a sensible purchase, an investment even! The same goes for centre pins too! Enjoy your fishing and best wishes for 2025.

Cheers Scott 🤗 Really appreciate you saying so - especially after I’ve just got back from a reeeeaaally cold session that made that short chub trip feel positively balmy 😄🥶 Beautiful scenery though 👌 This RUclips lark certainly provides me with impetus to get out when I might previously have stuck the kettle on 😂

@@themagicoffishing Keep up your great videos.. but please don't freeze to death fishing :)

Hiya Jon! Thanks for the lovely comment and it’s nice to know people are still enjoying that video from back in the balmy days of June - now we’re in darker January. Just got back from a freezing but scenic day on the bank in fact 🥶🎣 I still remember that opening day from last year and it’s a good example of how special the 16th can feel to keen river anglers even if it doesn’t lead to a netful. I just about remember the closed season applying to all waters, or certainly reading about it and hearing my elders discuss it. However, I was lucky enough to not only be born in God’s county but be raised in Yorkshire - and the opening day used to be 1 June there?!! 🤯👍🎣👌 An extra two weeks! I never did make it to the bank for midnight as I was a youngster who wasn’t allowed up past 8pm, but I love your description of the memories. As I claim in my book, I don’t think anything can touch fishing for magical experiences 🎣

Thanks as always Uncletoeknee (love that username 💙😂). Funnily enough, I’m close to the sea myself this evening and have just got back from a proper 🥶 one. It was fractionally milder than the last few days have been in Surrey - and there’s proper snow in Sheffield - but that was a long day 😂 Hope the recovery is coming along and glad to be providing the entertainment or relaxation into 2025 👍

Cheers mate. The scenery and the history are on point, my angling not so much 😂 But I have another crack of the whip tomorrow and can’t wait to go again 💪🥶🎣🐟🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

Thanks Alan - for another lovely comment and for the custom with my book 💙 I hope you enjoy it and let me know with a comment on a future video. I will refund you if not 😉😄 I need to use bread more often. The beloved Purist II pin has recently been on holiday back to its makers (Youngs) who kindly offered to give it a service after a few folks at home commented on the slightly wonky noise it had started making in a previous video! Although I’m quite happy trotting with a fixed spool too. Cheers for now

HNY mate 🍻 (or at least cheers with a Coke as I promised Rachel I’d do half of dry January - school boy error 😣). I sincerely hope you find the time to give bread a go, presumably suspended under one of your miniature works of art, and bag a fish into the bargain. Winter can be a massively demoralising and surprisingly - just occasionally - rewarding time to get out the house and wet a line. Here’s to a 2025 full of fish, beer, varnish, bites, subscribers, nice comments and time off work 😃

@themagicoffishing Thanks John. Wise words!! ❤️🎣❤️

John, if anyone’s keeping me on my fishing toes, it’s you my friend! Can’t promise that won’t be the only blank Friday this year - work is relentless at the moment and the weather is challenging to say the least - but I will do my best to keep the Friday fishing films coming 🤞🎣🐟 Lovely to see you pop up in the comments as always and I bet you’re already starting to think about the Emerald Isle ☘️🎣🐟

@@themagicoffishing Thank you. Yes, Ireland is calling. We've booked the accommodation for late April.

Will do, John! Always use garlic in my cheesepaste (and other pastes) so I obviously need to try it with bread too 👍👌🐟 Thanks for the comment and the tip 🙏🎣

Oh Phil… If only you’d seen me struggling today 🥶😆 Let’s just say it was the most vegan of salads 😂 But we know it’s not all about catching and you hopefully saw my comment on your own cracking ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ offering, which I enjoyed by the water’s edge after coming to terms with the fact I needed to enjoy someone else catching a fish! 🎣 🐟 Thank god fishing is SO much more than boring bites and fffff-lovely fish eh? Thanks again for a wonderful comment and a blush inducing shout out on your channel. You should rebrand to Mucker Magic and there would be no law suit from yours truly 👍

@themagicoffishing Most vegan of salads Lol..🤣 So you are human after all, was getting worried.😁 Blanks happen to the best of us bud, i mean look at me..🤣🤣 Lucky the views are nice..😉 Wait, what, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'s for me, blimey wonder what ill get for bagging up.? As always the pleasures all mine John..

Well, Brian; what can I say - I just love that comment! Really put a smile on my face after a longish drive. Hugely appreciate you saying so and I hope you keep enjoying what I manage to do. Thanks again 💙🎣🐟

Thanks mate! I’d love ti catch one bigger this weekend - just come even further south on a bit of an angling adventure but it ain’t very warm! 🥶 Thanks for another lovely comment 💙

Never fished either 😮 But would love to try more rivers in the future (especially when I finally retire from work and have more time!). Thanks for the tip 👍🎣🐟

Do you know what, since watching a recent NuFish video with Mick Vials landing some whoppers on the Trent I’ve been keen to give it a go at some point! Hopefully before the end of the season 🤞🎣🐟👍

Ah thanks, a doubly delightful comment to receive. Really glad you enjoyed the book and I hope you feel the channel continues in the same spirit. I may not be a young’un any more but I can still feel like a kid when I’m back on the bank. The magic still burns bright! ✨ 🎣🐟 Thanks again 💙

Cheers 👍

Thanks mate, that comment means a lot 💙 Yep, I always write from the heart and I remember shedding a few tears myself when recalling the last year or two when my hero was still around - and trying to describe it. I also know what you mean by comparisons with the Don - that’s what it takes me back to when I’ve been on the Blackwater a couple of times so far. I used to fish it out at Stocksbridge as a young lad. I do love my big rivers like the Trent but I’m getting back into small rivers and stream fishing recently too 👍

Good luck Clive - I’m heading out for chub this weekend too… Bit of an adventure ‘down south’ but it ain’t exactly mild is it?! I think chub and pike might be my best hope but we will see… 🤞🤞🎣🐟

Cheers mate and the same to you! I managed to sneak that little session in before a load of rain and arctic temperatures hit (and a return to work), and it’s been a proper dose of winter since. Having said that, I’m planing a special little trip this weekend and cannot wait to see if I can manage something bigger… 🤞🎣👍 Might help make up for commuting to ‘half a dry January’ but it ain’t gonna be warm 🥶

Brilliant - what a thoughtful daughter! I hope you enjoy and they are both books that can be dipped into, one chapter a night or whatever. Let me know what you think of one or both on a future video when you get round to trying them. Glad you enjoyed this video and I hope to bring more in 2025. Got an Arctic feeling mission planned for tomorrow in fact… 🥶

Thanks Paul 👍💙 I can’t remember the last time that happened to me on a natural venue 😂 Heading out in the frost tomorrow and I’ll be happy with one bite 🥶😄🤞🐟 Have a great weekend

Yes I keep hearing about those areas and am intrigued, but I suppose once I’ve paid my subs money I’m keen to get value for money (which I definitely have in my first season with FAS!). Tight lines if you give them a go - I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the numbers of fish in the river since giving it a couple of tries and it’s nice, simple angling.

Many thanks and the same to you! 🎣

Thanks for a sweet comment - much appreciated! 👍🎣🐟

Thanks buddy! I don’t use it enough! Too much of a caster/hemp/maggot/worm man, but that was a good reminder for me ☺️🎣🐟 Cheers for now

Cheers mate, it’s been my one successful trip so far this year and I squeezed it in before returning to the daily grind, but very enjoyable as you say. Hoping to get down south on a secret mission this weekend but touch and go with river levels and freezing temps!

I tried the Wey at Guildford last Monday but constantly getting harassed by kayaks, every 10 minutes. Temperature seems to he on the up after tomorrow, balmy 9 degrees for next week. Might have a go nearer Godalming. Hope you get out on southerly waters. Cheers John👍

Wow, that brightened up my workday! Thanks as always and I’m so pleased you enjoyed the book - only sorry it didn’t last longer 😄 I completely agree about the look of chub and hope I might have chance of more (or one would be nice) this weekend… I remember catching my first one on the Trent as a young lad and couldn’t get over gigantic it was in comparison to a roach or perch. They were the carp of the day to me back then. Still love catching them now and you get a lovely heavy fight without the craziness and heart attacks of barbel!

Cheers Bob and I know what you mean about winter blues 🥶 Such short days and most of them now back at work 😒 Glad you enjoyed and I’ll try to bring more entertainment soon ☺️🎣🐟

Never too late! Well, maybe beyond January… 😄🤔 Good to hear from you as always and the same to you 🍻

Cheers. I keep meaning to do more canal fishing (they’re a bit busy on the towpaths round Woking) and I keep meaning to use bread more in pursuit of my dream fish - 2+ roach! I do love perch as well but you’re right, there aren’t many fish that won’t take bread and that session was a good reminder to me of how effective it can be.

No problem at all, mate, although I’m John, nor Andy 😄 I was using Drennan specialist twin tip rods (straight tip not quiver) at 1.25lb TC. Some have commented I could have gone heavier in those high water conditions but I think they were fine and my only choices at the moment are those rods or my old carp rods. And they feel a bit poky at 2.25lb TC - to me as more of a matchman and all rounder anyway. Cheers

@ totally agree John & it looked like great fun on that light setup, I have the same rods in 1.5tc so was good to see them being used on the big river 👌

Interesting - I’ve never managed a tench on one! Cockles yes, but I’ve usually saved prawns for perch (and carp always grab them on commercials of course!). Will have to give it a go. Cheers

Cheers Tom! The channel created or rather inspired many new angling adventures and way more time on the bank than an average year. I hope the same will happen for you 💪🎣🐟

Thanks for taking the time to say so - much appreciated 👍 Yes, you can park behind the pegs - or very close behind, on a track - in that area. There is lots of information on the Collingham AA website (link in the video description) and I have a done a couple more videos from that same trip if you’ve not yet seen. The pegs in the 40s fish best when there is plenty of extra water in and there is also the Conveyer Belt stretch, downstream, to try when it’s lower. Other Collingham vids ruclips.net/video/ebkjOf8xXp8/видео.htmlsi=lNCYuHbVF5weXXNn ruclips.net/video/wat3Kf37u34/видео.htmlsi=01uBR_FQ66VIZVbI

Hello Pat! You’ve only just clocked that one?! 😄 Do you know what, I thought I might have confused people with the title as it didn’t get all that many views! But a nice reminder of early summer 🎣😎

Brilliant! I may have only fished it once so far but I don’t think you will regret that decision 👍🎣🐟 Anyone else who has been since watching this video has reported back that they had a fantastic time, so I hope the same is true for you and your lad. I keep thinking about booking it again myself but haven’t got round to it just yet. It was July when we were there! There is loads of good advice about fishing it on the website (link in the video description in case not seen) and Nigel at the tackle shop is also incredibly knowledgeable and helpful. Enjoy the anticipation!

Hello John, thanks for your reply. Having studied your uTube video several times I have a good idea how I will fish the bridge pool. Question for you though. If/when you book again would you change anything from your previous approach?