You have to be one of the most friendly fishermen I've ever seen. Offering your bait and jig heads to a stranger so he can enjoy your experience is just lovely.
I've lived a decent part of my life in Scotland, Hamilton in fact, Fairhill. I'm now in Los Angeles.... There are Northern pike all over Scotland, also salmon and some of the biggest trout I've seen in my life. I miss fishing the Clyde, it was one of the best memories I had as a kid.
Hi mate, that’s awesome, the Clyde holds some decent fish still, I am quite fortunate I live 2 mins away from the sea, I’ve never ventured to the states before, it’s on my bucket list for travelling at some stage in my life, do you fish at all over there mate?
Great video! It's great to see great to see you representing the kindness and kinship that most anglers embrace. I am planning my first trip to Scotland at the end of February and will be looking for somewhere to fish. Im not really sure what is biting and where to go? I will probably have 1 day to get out fishing. I will be around Edinburgh and plan to rent a car for a day to explore and try to fish. Do you have any suggestions on places or equipment? I am flying from the US to Paris and working my way up to Scotland. I am only packing a carry-on and backpack. I have a few telescopic poles, takedown poles, and a fly rod that will probably fit in my bag. Good luck and tight lines 🎣
Brilliant bit of winter sport there Michael! Very scenic spot too. This has to be one for my list! What a gent too, generous to a fault. I love the rock n roll fighting pose on the thumbnail 😂👍👍👍
I was up there on the kayak just before the clocks changed. I got talking to an older guy fishing from where you are and he said that Wrasse were gone after October. I guess not lol. Well done.
Thanks Craig, really appreciate that, quite a lot of anglers i come across tend to prefer pollock fishing, but I’m with you mate, wrasse fishing is top tier fun!! And as you said watching them smash your bait or lures is awesome, thanks for the comment mate 🤘🏻🎣
Hey man your videos are amazing. Just watched a ton of them. Im an a id fisherman from ontario in canada. My parents are from glasgow so its a bit of a bucket list to go back there (its been years for me) and fish. Those wrasse look like they fight cery hard for their size. Reminded me of a smallmouth bass. Similar tactics too (i often use dropshots and jigs for them). Have you ever tried to texas rig soft plastics? I bet it would work and really help with snagging. I use that technique often on rocky bottoms. Ned rigs too. If i ever make it there again I’ll try a few of those techniques just to see! Anyways keep up the great work man. The scenary is enough to get me to come back
Thanks man, really appreciate that, pretty cool you have Scottish blood in you too, you should definitely try get over here as you said the scenery is amazing and the fishing can be great too, I did try a Texas rig many years ago and it was great for not getting snagged! And the wrasse fishing here is awesome, they fight like hell man especially using light gear rods! They absolutely love Ragworm here too! What is your favourite species to catch where you stay?
Hmmmm thats a tough question brother. Id break my fishing into 3 seasons. Summer, winter (ice fishing) and spring/fall. Summer probably small mouth, ice fishing crappie, and spring/fall (autumn) migratory rainbow trout (aka steelhead). If i had to pick between those probably migratory rainbow. You cant beat seeing your float drop and tying into those on a centerpin reel. Especially awesome in a light snow storm waist deep in a river. Plus since im not driving a boat and can walk to my favourite river i can enjoy a bevvy with the boys on the bank lol
Thats amazing I love a good wrasse for a little fish they don't half give a good fight . And that king ragworm was a absolute monster . I do this type of fishing im my area on a bubble float with lug or rag . Thanks for the video . Happy fishing fishing tight lines
@@theanglingfront I’m heading out shortly actually for a bit of pollock fishing from the rocks, we actually got a day without wind or rain so better make the most of it lol, great videos Michael, I watched 4 or 5 there, really enjoyed them 👍
@@michaeldunn9297 Thanks Michael, that’s awesome, I was chocking to get out that weekend there however the weather had other ideas 😂 so I spent the weekend looking at new fishing marks, Good luck Michael, and please let me know how you get on?
Thank you very much mate, always appreciate your comments, and I would like to try the top of the loch for sea trout at somepoint, however those wrasse fight hard!! Amazing to catch in my personal opinion, how has the fishing been on the other side during the season for the sea trout?
Only fished it twice this year round at the torpedo firing range only had one fish had a few follows on the fly one of them a really nice fish sat there for about 10 secs literally 3ft in front of me I'd reckon about 3lb +seen it following the fly for about 20yds also there was a few following later like 2 and for fish nosing up to it ,I suppose because it was calm and little wind they're a bit more cautious
Wrasse fishing on light gear has to be there up amongst the most exhilarating. Noticed they were all of a dark Green markings,, here in Wales the Ballans range from a dull Brown, up to bright Red. Excellent video, and thanks for sharing 🎣🎣👍👍
Hi Anthony, really appreciate that, and totally agree with you, a bright red Ballan would definitely be on my bucket list! Do you use mostly lures for you Ballan wrasse down in Wales?
Thanks Colin, always appreciate your comments, but during the winter, this has to be my favourite style of fishing, Atleast till the start of the season again, hope your doing well mate 🤘🏻🎣
@theanglingfront Thanks mate. I have got an explorer elite with a little 50hp on it. I am hoping to get out on that and do some cod fishing at some point. Just need to try and find a mooring. I don't know the area too well yet, so will have to do some exploring.
You will have plenty of fun with that! I have a similar boat myself, just not got the time to take it out at the moment unfortunately! And you will have a lot of rivers to explore for your fly fish up there I’d imagine, or you could even tackle the sea trout also, sorry for the later reply, a lot of the time I don’t get notifications for reply’s, it’s very annoying 😂🤘🏻🎣
Im actually ill at the moment, been in and out of hospital with different things, dont want anyone to worry though so kept it to myself, maybe next year when im out the chair. 👍
Great stuff. Just found your channel by chance. Love catching wrasse on light gear. As one of the comments said, get wrasse of all colours down in Pembrokeshire from emerald green to red. Think it’s basically due to the colour of the seaweed they live in 😉
Thanks Carl, and yeah as for the sea trout the last 2 sessions I done at loch long during November and this one there was still so many sea trout active on the surface, amazing to watch them I must admit
Looks like an area of loch long I fished years ago, also had some cracking congers off it as well, but a bugger to get down and up from it, if it was wet, rainy
Yep, that’s it, as soon as you said it was a bugger to get down 😁 had a few congers but nothing of great size, wrasse and pollock there can be incredible
@theanglingfront the give away was the roadside barriers, don't know if the old quarry parking area is still available, after all the years since, another brilliant area, is on the other side, which you get to off the road along forrest road, park right hand side, and make your way down to the loch side, cracking site, sheltered, large boulders you fish from, depth of 90ft or so around 75 ft from the rocks, but as I said on the first site, an absolute bugger if it's damp, suffered a really scary moment there when I was fishing with my mate Ronnie Woods, I hooked a conger around the 25lb mark, at that time we were gaffing conger under the chin, I had a 4ft gaff, with a loop round the wrist in case you dropped it, got the conger gaffed under the chin, then I forgot, they spin coming out of the water, loop tightened drastically round my wrist cutting the blood off, crapped myself with hand and fingers going blue, before we could cut the loop away, a day never to be forgotten, tight lines young man
Looks like a cracking spot mate, beautiful views. if you like pollock/wrasse then you would love a trip to west cork in ireland. 60cm wrasse to 7-8 pound are caught there each year aswell as monster pollock. great vid really enjoyed it
Yeah, Ireland is on the bucket list mate, I’ve seen the monster sized pollack and wrasse they get, it’s unbelievable, appreciate you commenting, tightlines
Class act setting up your mate there, makes me proud my ancestry is Scottish. I'm an open book when it comes to sharing my fishing success with others. Any Atllantic Salmon near you?
Cheers Allan, and thankfully a lot of the fishing community here in Scotland is like that always willing to help! And the local rivers just now will be having the salmon run up them just now, it’s a species I’ve been planning to catch on the fly for a while now, just need to put the time and effort in and hope for success 😄
@@theanglingfront Very cool, I live on Vancouver Island and operate a salmon fishing charter on the salt chuck in Sooke, which is at the southernmost tip of the Island(Juan de Fuca Strait). I do a bit of Halibut fishing as well. Cheers eh! :)
Hi Gary I use a variety of jig heads between 3-10 grams, and as for the set up, the rod I use is a HTO urban finesse 7-17 gram rod with a Fox rage reel 2500 equipped with 8 Pound Diawa sensor
Good to see Wrasse ur way Was in Ullapool and Skye and fhe potmen where getting paid by fish farmers to use as lice control KILLING THE STOCK Great content Thankd
@@theanglingfront i think the entrance into my lough is the strongest tidal current in northern europe, do you ever make crab soup and throw it in mate, crushed up hardbacks make them go insane too
@@theanglingfront the congers are somethin else mate you know when youve hooked one of those sea serpents lol bet theres some good uns up were your at too mate
@@ciancopeland5790 Aw nice one, My brother who used to stay in wales used to use the method I do in the video and got plenty of big wrasse from it!! If your looking for a good scrap on the light gear it’s absolutely amazing
@theanglingfront by any chance would that be down the Llyn Peninsula? Because there's some big wrasse the further down you go. I'm trying Tudweiliog sometime this year so I'll get the jigs out for it
@@ciancopeland5790 Yeah, he has fished there, with great success, but a lot of his fishing was Oggmore, he said there was some really terrific fishing, unfortunately I never got to fish down there, but it’s on my bucket list for sure 😀
Yeah mate, I like the diverse range of species that can be caught here, haven’t fished it in months however as whenever I drive past it’s always full 😂
Can you recommend any good spots to try ? I’m in the west coast but not having any luck at all, I’m new to the whole fishing thing but my boy loves it and it’s a bit disappointing taking him out all the time and not getting any results ..
Hi mate, if your after anything I’d suggest going up to the likes of Arrochar, any rock ledge up there will produce Mackerel, Wrasse, Pollock, Coddling and small micro species, plenty of action to keep yourself and the boy entertained, I do suggest taking Ragworm as bait if you can this will help your success! Bear in mind that usually during this time of year the place gets plagued with folk fishing for mackerel etc! So watch out you will probably have to try avoid stepping on the rubbish that they leave on the shoreline, lying at their arse. But other than that it can be a very productive place to fish 😁
@@theanglingfront thank you for your reply mate, it’s much appreciated.. I will definitely try and head up over the next couple of weeks 😆. Really unfortunate that people are going up and making a mess. For all the effort it takes to gather their rubbish it’s just laziness 😡
I think there may be some sort of hole, it’s rather deep at high tide, funnily enough it’s extremely shallow at low tide yet it can still throw up a few fish 😁
@Angling front, I haven't see any fisherman taking wrass for the table, have u ever tried them? I would personally would love to try them coz some fish are just undermined or underrated 😂
Hi mate, Never tried them at all, I thought because of the structure of them being full of muscle and cartilage there might not be a great deal of meat on them maybe? But the fight they put up it’s immense 😄
@@theanglingfront I just watched catch n cook videos so yeah wrass are good eating. I do my fishing here in Aus, snapper, bream, flathead, whiting etc, that's why I enjoy having a look at what you guys are catching 👍
Hi mate, I think you are allowed to eat them, I can’t imagine them tasting great as they look like a species with a lot muscle and cartilage, I’m personally not interested in keeping fish to be honest mate, but I’m not against anyone keeping them either I just prefer the sport of it as it’s absolutely enjoyable! 🤘🏻🎣
Gouging a fish with a hook when you aren’t going to eat it is fucking retarded. No offence intended but I think catch and release is the dumbest most stupid ‘sport’ in the world. This is coming from a man who hunts all his own food and catches fish to eat. Causing an animal suffering for ‘sport’ is for morons.
Nothing makes me more proud of being Scottish than to see our generous and genuineness when helping people out. Well done on thefish too 😊
Thanks for that mate, really appreciate it, always willing to help regardless, that’s what I love about the fishing community 🤘🏻🤘🏻🎣
You have to be one of the most friendly fishermen I've ever seen. Offering your bait and jig heads to a stranger so he can enjoy your experience is just lovely.
I've lived a decent part of my life in Scotland, Hamilton in fact, Fairhill. I'm now in Los Angeles.... There are Northern pike all over Scotland, also salmon and some of the biggest trout I've seen in my life. I miss fishing the Clyde, it was one of the best memories I had as a kid.
Hi mate, that’s awesome, the Clyde holds some decent fish still, I am quite fortunate I live 2 mins away from the sea, I’ve never ventured to the states before, it’s on my bucket list for travelling at some stage in my life, do you fish at all over there mate?
Great video! It's great to see great to see you representing the kindness and kinship that most anglers embrace. I am planning my first trip to Scotland at the end of February and will be looking for somewhere to fish. Im not really sure what is biting and where to go? I will probably have 1 day to get out fishing. I will be around Edinburgh and plan to rent a car for a day to explore and try to fish. Do you have any suggestions on places or equipment? I am flying from the US to Paris and working my way up to Scotland. I am only packing a carry-on and backpack. I have a few telescopic poles, takedown poles, and a fly rod that will probably fit in my bag.
Good luck and tight lines 🎣
Nice to see anglers getting on thanks for sharing.
Thanks Tony, appreciate that 🤘🏻🎣
Glad to see a couple of good fellas out there cooperating and helping one another! Cheers and happy fishing from Kansas, USA
Thanks mate, really appreciate that! What types of species do you target in the USA?
@@theanglingfront my pleasure! I primarily only fish for freshwater species. I love to target large and small mouth bass and crappie.
Love the energy and enthusiasm. Cracking vid mate
Thank you mate, really appreciate that, Love the fight from wrasse!!!
@@theanglingfront They're a great catch; I caught plenty down in Portloe last year.
Great video, cracking fish too mate 🎣
Helping the guy out was pure class 👏🏻 Tight lines 🏴🎣
glad i stumbled on here, absolutely smashing channel keep up good work!
Thanks mate, I really appreciate that, 🤘🏻🤘🏻🎣
Good video, well documented keep up the good work son 🎣🐟🐻🐾🐾
Thank you very much for this, really appreciate it, 🤘🏻🎣
Brilliant bit of winter sport there Michael! Very scenic spot too.
This has to be one for my list!
What a gent too, generous to a fault.
I love the rock n roll fighting pose on the thumbnail 😂👍👍👍
Thanks Dave always appreciate your comments as always and yeah the rock and roll thumbnail 😂🤘🏻🤘🏻 awesome
Absolutely terrific video .Keep up the good work my maaaaaan 😊
Thanks Col, always appreciate your comments mate 🤘🏻🤘🏻🎣
@@theanglingfront Always appreciate your time taken to share .Majic .
Nice session Michael, some lovely wrasse buddy, great footage👌
Thank you Doug, really appreciate your comments as always 🎣🤘🏻
Visited Edinburgh from the US. Such a beautiful city and country in general. Fishing in Scotland is on my bucket list for sure.
Awesome!! Yeah you definitely should, scenery on the West coast of Scotland is beautiful too 🤘🏻🎣
I was up there on the kayak just before the clocks changed. I got talking to an older guy fishing from where you are and he said that Wrasse were gone after October. I guess not lol. Well done.
Thanks mate, and they seem to just hang about this area all year round with the pollock which is great, especially for winter purposes 😃
Where is this by the way
Great video! Love a god wrasse session. Tarbet Ness near Portmahomack in the summer is unreal for it. Sliding floats great fun seeing it smash down
Thanks Craig, really appreciate that, quite a lot of anglers i come across tend to prefer pollock fishing, but I’m with you mate, wrasse fishing is top tier fun!! And as you said watching them smash your bait or lures is awesome, thanks for the comment mate 🤘🏻🎣
Excellent video, good stamp of fish,also you come across as a nice fella,new sub here mate
Thanks Mick really appreciate that, I try my best mate 😀🤘🏻🎣
Hey man your videos are amazing. Just watched a ton of them. Im an a id fisherman from ontario in canada. My parents are from glasgow so its a bit of a bucket list to go back there (its been years for me) and fish. Those wrasse look like they fight cery hard for their size. Reminded me of a smallmouth bass. Similar tactics too (i often use dropshots and jigs for them). Have you ever tried to texas rig soft plastics? I bet it would work and really help with snagging. I use that technique often on rocky bottoms. Ned rigs too. If i ever make it there again I’ll try a few of those techniques just to see!
Anyways keep up the great work man. The scenary is enough to get me to come back
Thanks man, really appreciate that, pretty cool you have Scottish blood in you too, you should definitely try get over here as you said the scenery is amazing and the fishing can be great too, I did try a Texas rig many years ago and it was great for not getting snagged! And the wrasse fishing here is awesome, they fight like hell man especially using light gear rods! They absolutely love Ragworm here too! What is your favourite species to catch where you stay?
Hmmmm thats a tough question brother. Id break my fishing into 3 seasons. Summer, winter (ice fishing) and spring/fall. Summer probably small mouth, ice fishing crappie, and spring/fall (autumn) migratory rainbow trout (aka steelhead). If i had to pick between those probably migratory rainbow. You cant beat seeing your float drop and tying into those on a centerpin reel. Especially awesome in a light snow storm waist deep in a river. Plus since im not driving a boat and can walk to my favourite river i can enjoy a bevvy with the boys on the bank lol
@@brooger3216 Aw brilliant man, ice fishing looks amazing would love to give this a try!!
Thats amazing I love a good wrasse for a little fish they don't half give a good fight . And that king ragworm was a absolute monster . I do this type of fishing im my area on a bubble float with lug or rag . Thanks for the video . Happy fishing fishing tight lines
Thanks wicked tuna really appreciate that, and totally agree, the fight is tremendous on light gear!! 🤘🏻🎣
Well done Michael, looks a good mark that 👍
Thanks Michael really appreciate that, and this is one of my favourite marks on Loch long, has a diverse range of species
@@theanglingfront I’m heading out shortly actually for a bit of pollock fishing from the rocks, we actually got a day without wind or rain so better make the most of it lol, great videos Michael, I watched 4 or 5 there, really enjoyed them 👍
@@michaeldunn9297 Thanks Michael, that’s awesome, I was chocking to get out that weekend there however the weather had other ideas 😂 so I spent the weekend looking at new fishing marks, Good luck Michael, and please let me know how you get on?
@@theanglingfront 3 small pollock, was very quiet until dusk then started to get bites, at least I didn’t blank lol
@@michaeldunn9297 Great stuff and exactly 3 fish is better than zero, 🤘🏻🤘🏻🎣
I love my course fishing but this looks amazing. Thanks for sharing your day
Thank you Martin, really appreciated, definitely worth a go as it’s extremely exciting 😁
Great video!
Thanks Sam, really appreciate this!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🎣
Superb sir I normally fish the other side of loch long from where you are for the sea trout but now I'll may have a go for the wrasse
Thank you very much mate, always appreciate your comments, and I would like to try the top of the loch for sea trout at somepoint, however those wrasse fight hard!! Amazing to catch in my personal opinion, how has the fishing been on the other side during the season for the sea trout?
Only fished it twice this year round at the torpedo firing range only had one fish had a few follows on the fly one of them a really nice fish sat there for about 10 secs literally 3ft in front of me I'd reckon about 3lb +seen it following the fly for about 20yds also there was a few following later like 2 and for fish nosing up to it ,I suppose because it was calm and little wind they're a bit more cautious
@@9suuupersonic Yeah, that’s amazing stuff, I will defiantly need to try this at the start of the season 🤘🏻🎣
New sub. The size of that tailfin, no wonder they scrap well. Solid machines!
Thank you mate, really appreciate it, and yeah, there one of my favourite species to target, it’s like hooking into a tank 😁🎣
Great video and loved sharing the info & bait.
Thanks Robert, really appreciate that, 🤘🏻🎣
Wrasse fishing on light gear has to be there up amongst the most exhilarating.
Noticed they were all of a dark Green markings,, here in Wales the Ballans range from a dull Brown, up to bright Red.
Excellent video, and thanks for sharing 🎣🎣👍👍
Hi Anthony, really appreciate that, and totally agree with you, a bright red Ballan would definitely be on my bucket list! Do you use mostly lures for you Ballan wrasse down in Wales?
Amazing content as always. What a session you had cant wait to get one soon with you mate
Hey Lewis, really appreciate your comments as always, and don’t worry we will have a session soon, gonna have a lot more time next year 😉 🤘🏻🎣
@@theanglingfront definitely mate, looking forward to it
Great video pal. Good angling.
Thank you Martin, really appreciate your comment mate 🤘🏻🎣
Brilliant Michael. Great fishing. I've put all the gear away since the end of October. This makes me want to get out again.
Thanks Colin, always appreciate your comments, but during the winter, this has to be my favourite style of fishing, Atleast till the start of the season again, hope your doing well mate 🤘🏻🎣
@theanglingfront I was brought up doing that style of fishing near stranraer. Float fishing for them as well. Spinning with Redgills for pollock.
Very good Michael, I'd no idea you could catch wrasse and pollock in the winter months there. Thanks for that
Nice one Michael. Just subscribed. I am moving tp the area next month and looking forward to getting out.
That’s Awesome Scott, your gonna have a great time I reck! What will you mostly be fishing for bud?
@theanglingfront Thanks mate. I have got an explorer elite with a little 50hp on it. I am hoping to get out on that and do some cod fishing at some point. Just need to try and find a mooring. I don't know the area too well yet, so will have to do some exploring.
@@theanglingfront love to fly fish too, can't wait to get up there and settle in now. I will be in upper donside, Aberdeenshire.
You will have plenty of fun with that! I have a similar boat myself, just not got the time to take it out at the moment unfortunately! And you will have a lot of rivers to explore for your fly fish up there I’d imagine, or you could even tackle the sea trout also, sorry for the later reply, a lot of the time I don’t get notifications for reply’s, it’s very annoying 😂🤘🏻🎣
Great vid, cracking session!!
Hi Enn, always appreciate your comments, when are we getting back out fishing together?
Im actually ill at the moment, been in and out of hospital with different things, dont want anyone to worry though so kept it to myself, maybe next year when im out the chair. 👍
@@BoatAngler666 Sorry to hear this Enn, hopefully you make a full recovery, and I will see you on the shoreline very soon hopefully
class video from a fellow scot 🏴🙌
@@ConnorKD1876 Thank you Connor, really appreciate it man 🤘🏻🎣🏴
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Great stuff. Just found your channel by chance. Love catching wrasse on light gear. As one of the comments said, get wrasse of all colours down in Pembrokeshire from emerald green to red. Think it’s basically due to the colour of the seaweed they live in 😉
Thanks Ian, really appreciate that, and yeah I think your right with the sea weed colour, and as you said catching wrasse on light gear is tremendous
I fished the loch in September and had some mackerel and lost a much bigger fish there were sea trout cruising the edges great video!
Thanks Carl, and yeah as for the sea trout the last 2 sessions I done at loch long during November and this one there was still so many sea trout active on the surface, amazing to watch them I must admit
Brilliant thanks . Some local fishing when the Mackerel are not there .
Looks like an area of loch long I fished years ago, also had some cracking congers off it as well, but a bugger to get down and up from it, if it was wet, rainy
Yep, that’s it, as soon as you said it was a bugger to get down 😁 had a few congers but nothing of great size, wrasse and pollock there can be incredible
@theanglingfront the give away was the roadside barriers, don't know if the old quarry parking area is still available, after all the years since, another brilliant area, is on the other side, which you get to off the road along forrest road, park right hand side, and make your way down to the loch side, cracking site, sheltered, large boulders you fish from, depth of 90ft or so around 75 ft from the rocks, but as I said on the first site, an absolute bugger if it's damp, suffered a really scary moment there when I was fishing with my mate Ronnie Woods, I hooked a conger around the 25lb mark, at that time we were gaffing conger under the chin, I had a 4ft gaff, with a loop round the wrist in case you dropped it, got the conger gaffed under the chin, then I forgot, they spin coming out of the water, loop tightened drastically round my wrist cutting the blood off, crapped myself with hand and fingers going blue, before we could cut the loop away, a day never to be forgotten, tight lines young man
@@edwardryan9125 Wow, that’s crazy! Must have been a frightening experience to say the least! Thanks for sharing, Edward 🤘🏻🎣
Great video again. Great attitude too, did the other angler who you shared your bait with catch?
Thanks Mate, always appreciate that, unfortunately I left before him, but fingers crossed he managed a few fish 🤞🏻🎣
The pollock at Neist Point are the hardest fighting fish I've ever come across.
Looked most enjoyable 👌🏼
Thanks Harry, it was one of the best winter sessions I’ve had in a long time! 🤘🏻🎣
Looks like a cracking spot mate, beautiful views. if you like pollock/wrasse then you would love a trip to west cork in ireland. 60cm wrasse to 7-8 pound are caught there each year aswell as monster pollock. great vid really enjoyed it
Yeah, Ireland is on the bucket list mate, I’ve seen the monster sized pollack and wrasse they get, it’s unbelievable, appreciate you commenting, tightlines
Where are you talking abiut the beara?
Great stuff .👍
Thank you Robert 🤘🏻🎣
WAAAARGH thats scary worm monster
great video, came here to learn the accent for a dungeons and dragons game tomorrow haha
😂😂😂 Thank you, hope you the game goes well 🤘🏻🎣🐉
Just found this channel and subscribed
@@andrewsimpson482 Thank you Andrew, really appreciate that man, tightlines 🤘🏻🎣
Just Lovely
Thank you Stephen 😁
Lovely 👌🏻
Thanks Dave, appreciate that 🤘🏻🎣
Class act setting up your mate there, makes me proud my ancestry is Scottish. I'm an open book when it comes to sharing my fishing success with others. Any Atllantic Salmon near you?
Cheers Allan, and thankfully a lot of the fishing community here in Scotland is like that always willing to help! And the local rivers just now will be having the salmon run up them just now, it’s a species I’ve been planning to catch on the fly for a while now, just need to put the time and effort in and hope for success 😄
@@theanglingfront Very cool, I live on Vancouver Island and operate a salmon fishing charter on the salt chuck in Sooke, which is at the southernmost tip of the Island(Juan de Fuca Strait). I do a bit of Halibut fishing as well. Cheers eh! :)
Thats how you know its a true Scotsmen right there with the orange lucozade 😂
😂😂😂 So true Kenny!! Surprisingly im not a fan of Irn Bru, so orange Lucozade it is 😂
Ok what size or weight is the jig head and the set up
Hi Gary I use a variety of jig heads between 3-10 grams, and as for the set up, the rod I use is a HTO urban finesse 7-17 gram rod with a Fox rage reel 2500 equipped with 8 Pound Diawa sensor
Good to see Wrasse ur way Was in Ullapool and Skye and fhe potmen where getting paid by fish farmers to use as lice control KILLING THE STOCK Great content Thankd
I live in Invergarry up in the highlands I fished the lochs for the pike and trout I fought for nearly a 1 hour against a huge pike
Nice! Did you manage to land it??
Yeah it nearly snapped my pike rod
@@COTWPRO200 Amazing, I’m actually wanting to do some pike fishing during the winter, have you got any tips? Never fished for them before!
I would use swimbait or small live bait
White and red
Nice video
@@ceeej1290 Cheers Man, appreciate that
great sess that 1 mate, some nice 1s too, id love to get a go at them lrf but were i get them the tides that strong its 8oz weights to hold bottom
Thanks WTC, yeah I can only imagine the swells that you have where you stay,
@@theanglingfront i think the entrance into my lough is the strongest tidal current in northern europe, do you ever make crab soup and throw it in mate, crushed up hardbacks make them go insane too
@@whitetroutchannel I have made a little chum mix for them many years ago, very effective, also good when you have a conger rod out too 😀
@@theanglingfront the congers are somethin else mate you know when youve hooked one of those sea serpents lol bet theres some good uns up were your at too mate
@@whitetroutchannel There is some really nice congers up here but my god they are time consuming to catch 😂 well worth the patience however 🤣
I actually tried small tungsten jig heads on size 14 hooks for trout, whack on a small worm and it was the best few sessions I've ever had
That’s Awesome! Were you catching plenty of wrasse and pollack?
@@theanglingfront I've only tried up in the rivers for brownies, loads of small streams here in wales
@@ciancopeland5790 Aw nice one, My brother who used to stay in wales used to use the method I do in the video and got plenty of big wrasse from it!! If your looking for a good scrap on the light gear it’s absolutely amazing
@theanglingfront by any chance would that be down the Llyn Peninsula? Because there's some big wrasse the further down you go. I'm trying Tudweiliog sometime this year so I'll get the jigs out for it
@@ciancopeland5790 Yeah, he has fished there, with great success, but a lot of his fishing was Oggmore, he said there was some really terrific fishing, unfortunately I never got to fish down there, but it’s on my bucket list for sure 😀
“Lovely” 😂
@@andyfaulds 😂😂
Brilliant video !! would love to catch a wrasse on a fly
Thanks Tony appreciate your comment, this is something I totally want to do, imagine big Ballans on the fly? That would be incredible!!
I also fish this mark, its a decent wee spot.
Yeah mate, I like the diverse range of species that can be caught here, haven’t fished it in months however as whenever I drive past it’s always full 😂
Can you recommend any good spots to try ? I’m in the west coast but not having any luck at all, I’m new to the whole fishing thing but my boy loves it and it’s a bit disappointing taking him out all the time and not getting any results ..
Hi mate, if your after anything I’d suggest going up to the likes of Arrochar, any rock ledge up there will produce Mackerel, Wrasse, Pollock, Coddling and small micro species, plenty of action to keep yourself and the boy entertained, I do suggest taking Ragworm as bait if you can this will help your success! Bear in mind that usually during this time of year the place gets plagued with folk fishing for mackerel etc! So watch out you will probably have to try avoid stepping on the rubbish that they leave on the shoreline, lying at their arse. But other than that it can be a very productive place to fish 😁
@@theanglingfront thank you for your reply mate, it’s much appreciated.. I will definitely try and head up over the next couple of weeks 😆. Really unfortunate that people are going up and making a mess. For all the effort it takes to gather their rubbish it’s just laziness 😡
Where about is this mark
Great vid!!
So if I was on the Clyde,say Helensburgh and I targeted the same species,I would be successful?
Many thanks.
Thanks mate, really appreciate that, and possibly! You just need to find deep rocky sea weedy ground for the chance of some Ballan wrasse 😁
Lovely spot that mate Has that got a deep hole ? sure I seen someone else fish that.
I think there may be some sort of hole, it’s rather deep at high tide, funnily enough it’s extremely shallow at low tide yet it can still throw up a few fish 😁
Great video mate just curious was this recently ?
Hi Alex really appreciate that, and it was 2 days ago mate, unreal winter session 🤘🏻🎣
@Angling front, I haven't see any fisherman taking wrass for the table, have u ever tried them? I would personally would love to try them coz some fish are just undermined or underrated 😂
Hi mate, Never tried them at all, I thought because of the structure of them being full of muscle and cartilage there might not be a great deal of meat on them maybe? But the fight they put up it’s immense 😄
Where are you fishing at?
Hi alan, this is Loch Long at a mark called the Caves
The caption printer can't even make out what he's saying... hilarious!
😂😂😂 I can hardly understand what I come out with the majority of the time 😂
OMG a video about something in the Highlands with an actual Scottish person making it for once.
What loch is that? Looks familiar but not sure.
Hi Neilly this is loch Long 🤘🏻🎣🏴
I was thinking you were at Ballachulish till you stood up
@@bubbles356 Ballahulisch is going to be my next trip, heard quite a few blokes saying the wrasse and Pollock up there is terrific
@@theanglingfront ah ok, just round the corner from me. I’m on loch fyne.
@@Neilly1984 Loch Fyne has some terrific wrasse and pollock fishing too!
Very entertaining video. What language are you speaking
Thanks mate really appreciate that, and I’m Scottish 😁🏴🤘🏻🎣
That was a good fishing session. Are the wrass good eating ?
Thanks Johnny, and I’m not so sure, they look and most certainly feel like one ball of muscle 😆
@@theanglingfront I just watched catch n cook videos so yeah wrass are good eating. I do my fishing here in Aus, snapper, bream, flathead, whiting etc, that's why I enjoy having a look at what you guys are catching 👍
@@JohnnysCafe_ Thats awesome mate!
Yer too nice in the old days if you showed someone your secret Mark and what method and bait you were using you had to kill them before you left. 😂😂😂
😂😂😂 brilliant
Who says he didn’t 😮
Lovely 😂
Can’t help it mate 😂😂
😂 a legend none the less 👏👏
I must add when you said look at the teeth my thoughts went to Tim the Encanter
😂😂😂 Good monty phyton reference 😁 a classic may I add
String vest cadging, miles of water to pick from and pestering me for freebies🤣🤣
😂😂
Was it a Glasgow pike 😂
😂😂😂 Brilliant mate
In New Zealand we call them Parrot fish. Always thrown back.
That’s awesome Dougie, what do they take in New Zealand? Do you get them on bait and lures?
The lucozade😂
Angels tears it tastes like Jonathan 😂
I know!
The sound effects are tremendous 😅
😂😂 Thanks Andy, I must admit I sometimes can’t contain myself 😆
@@theanglingfront no wonder superb session, love it 😉
Are you not allowed to eat them. If I can't eat them I find it boring. Meaningless I guess.
Hi mate, I think you are allowed to eat them, I can’t imagine them tasting great as they look like a species with a lot muscle and cartilage, I’m personally not interested in keeping fish to be honest mate, but I’m not against anyone keeping them either I just prefer the sport of it as it’s absolutely enjoyable! 🤘🏻🎣
@@theanglingfront
Wrasse taste like ass 😂
Gouging a fish with a hook when you aren’t going to eat it is fucking retarded. No offence intended but I think catch and release is the dumbest most stupid ‘sport’ in the world.
This is coming from a man who hunts all his own food and catches fish to eat. Causing an animal suffering for ‘sport’ is for morons.
GERMANY 🇩🇪
😂😂 Woeful performance last night from Scotland
If I never hear the word lovely again it will be to soon !
Scotland s hardest fighting fish, a salmon would put eny them to shame mafriend, go up the forth or up the tay n try up their .
Your right, however you can’t diminish the fight of a winter Ballan wrasse surly? 🤣 next year I will be attempting the salmon fishing definitely 🤘🏻
Cant really compare a Salmon to a wrasse mate🤣 Think most people with common sense would know the title isn't fact lol
Agree ^ Salmon is the King of fish in Scotland for sure and they fight like no other fish .
Those wrasse are tiny go to devon and catch a 5ib wrasse and you will know you have a fight on your hands
Rock fishing alone and you're not wearing a life jacket ?
....and in Scotland they walk down main roads without body armour
Nothing p*sses me off that much, than saying "lovely" that many times..🙄
😂😂 Can’t help it mate, it’s just the way I speak unfortunately!
'Lovely'..
@@MKordalewski Lovely indeed!
Get pissed of with some other things mate.... @Angling front great video and it lovely mate,,, lovely 😎🤠
@@gambittandreas6756 Thanks Man 😄😄🤘🏻
Tiddler bashing with a kids rod...Mackerel put up a better fight on light tackle..
If you think that wee little wrasse fights hard,… you can try your hand at the Humphead Wrasse … it’s massive..!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂 Sounds awesome,
@@theanglingfront … look up Napoleon fish … just another name that was given to this fish… it wasn’t a joke
@@jaaron2834 don’t worry I believe you, looks like an absolute beast of a fish!!!
Great video!
Thanks mate, really appreciated