I grew up watching john wilson on tv and although he was a legend and i never got bored of watching his programmes i must admit you are so much more entertaining than anyone else so thank you very much Graham
Sir, I love your videos because they show raw fishing. No fancy pansy equipment, just experience, and skills. The first part, the hornet nest part is totally awesome! Sir Attenborough is proud of you.
Used leather jackets a lot as a kid. The larvae / grub of craneflies found mostly in the soil or under grass roots. Used to always get a few when digging up worms.
Don’t need shouting when ya on the bank… but also I bet you rocking up an catching first cast also made them a little aggy 😂😂 all the gear an no idea springs to mind well done mr P ✔️😎
GRaham super video mate brought back some memories. Mate of mine used to work at pest control and would often bring me wasp grubs .i remember having my best bag of chub ever on the grubs and cake on the river wye .was and still is a magic bait if you can get ya hands on them .of course they were banned on river contests in my day as its such a lethal bait in the right hands .chub just cant resist .i have had barbel take them too..tight lines
@@TAFishing different times Graham , the word consideration isn't in their vocabulary. All the fish you were catching , in the old days young lads would come and try to learn something from you , you certainly wouldn't want those two near you more chance of getting mugged by them.
Match men in the 70s fishing on the Gloucester Canal used to grow their own maggots for bream fishing .The size , and more importantly the softness of the maggots were supposed to be far superior to shop bought maggots.
Good and educational as always. Love the fishing techniques.Keep it up Graham, brilliant stuff. I found a couple of old fishing books the other day in my loft and I do believe one of them is one you produced. (Freshwater bites,)brings back old memories..🎣
Can i just say me and my girlfriend love watching uncle grahams videos, he really helped me het her onboard with fishing and now she complains when its time to pack up! We love you uncle graham
You can get a sting of a dead Hornet . I used to be a pestie and got tagged several times 0:04 kneeling on dead wasps in attics! You should be wary of using insecticide around fish too as it can be toxic. Brilliant video, love the old school feel. Keep up the good work Graham.
I washed the baits in freshwater before using them for that very reason. But I will be wary about kneeling on dead wasps when up in lofts checking header tanks and the like,so thanks for the tip.
@@TAFishing Thought you had given them a wash. I sometimes forget the stuff I could get my hands on was much more toxic that stuff you buy in garden centres! My wife has asked if you can do more videos of Colin,She's a big fan.
well this channel definitely lives up to it name 'cos that was TOTALLY AWESOME i did a bit of digging around and it is thought that either the yellow and black is a warning (for animals that see colour) or the contrast between the two colours (for colour blind animals) are a warning too, it was in a "pond life" online forum someone asked if wasps can kill fish with their sting, but either way the carp loved them grubs and didn't fancy a gob full of hornet, keep up the great work Graeme
Hi Graham, the reason the carp didn't take the hornets off the top is because they can sting the fish and kill the fish!! Just Googled it. Love your videos GP!! 🎣🎣🎣🎣
Graham vs Hornets! this had me in stitches.... grubs are a fantastic free bait for alot of species... I remembering reading a John Wilson book of Baits years ago and trying it myself for Chub and Carp, they was wasp grubs. this babies are huge and ripe... works a treat.. the fish love them!
You are a much braver man than I am Gunga Din!!! I imagine that there was considerable poison left on the actual wasps...perhaps that is what turned the fish off? In any case, while I might be willing to use the grubs, the fact that they WILL eventually turn into the Hornets turns me off of the idea of using them. Thanks for the wonderful and amazing videos!
Graham, they used to bake wasp grubs in the oven to toughen them up. Don't think your good lady would be too keen on that idea though! You could always give them a quick blast in one of your bush camping ovens!
Must make them sort of crispy ?..I would be worried they might stretch and explode !. Mind you I should drop a few Hornets down my mole hills,someone said they can still sting when they are dead ..
Absolutely brilliant. So funny watching you tackle the nest, I would be scared too. We accidentally disturbed a hornets nest at a lake once and had to flee the swim as they were very angry, my daughter who was about 8 at the time still mentions it ,20yrs later,still traumatised😂 Great idea using the grubs though and the fish obviously find them delicious. Wait for the big bait manufacturers to start producing hornet glug!!
Hello Graham.. I have only just found and started watching your videos, . Now i know just by memory i recognise that bit of river i used to fish back as s teen the river wey that runs though the town of Farnham, that is even Gostrey Meadows in the back ground.. Oh the joy.. Thank you so much for bringing back found memories of my youth... Tight lines.. 🎣...
Graham so retro this. 50 years ago, in a small Yorkshire village I served my apprenticeship at a village green garage. We were the go to place for any villager with a wasp issue. My boss had this enormous tin of a cyanide based product which with a 6 ft bamboo pole and teaspoon on the end we provided a free wasp nest solution for the village. The grubs our quarry. We had a very isolated venue on a river that no-one knew of. After work we journeyed there and simply free lined the grubs and had so many memorable chubby nights.
Would love to see more videos of you fishing tiny streams and creeks like this! The fish were small but looked absolutely stunning! Would be interesting to see if there were any bigger creek chub there.
Ive watched a few wasps one day cutting little strips of wood from the side of our shed tiny little lines appear on the surface of the wood then they fly away to create the hive. Its also quite amazing at how straight the lines were too.
Those are the European hornets, not Asian, and it's only the females that sting. You are quite safe handling the males. Yes and back in the day, anglers used to kill off wasp nests with cyanide powder at the entrance to their nest. Break up the cake and mix with crumb for groundbait and use the grubs as bait. They can't sting so you're safe handling them. They still work as you found out. 😁 Happy days.
Hi graham you ok pal, holy moly thats crazy. Made me laugh your brain was on overdrive about using them for bait hahaha. All the best graham from GRIMSBY.
Yellow and black stripes are natures warning colours which is probably why they aren't taking the hornets. Years ago, my Uncle used to collect wasp grubs for fishing bait when my Father and I were visiting. They never failed to catch.
I agree. That is my understanding as well. Yellow in nature is a warning of danger or simply a defence. However,.. I have caught many trout on a bumblebee fly.
I caught plenty on black and yellow zigs so not sure it's down to colour to be honest. I think its the shape or scent.. Like they've been stung before.
i would love to bet that some of them grubs on a hook with maggots in a feeder would be a good days fishing on the river. Future video perhaps? All the best keep fishing !
TIP for you Graeme from a qualified pest control technician... if you ever have a wasps nest inside your house, generally your loft, then leave it. when the wasps die out in september, the queen leaves and searches for a new place to build her nest. They NEVER populate an abandoned nest so you will only ever get wasps in 1 specific space, once. unless of course you remove all remnants of a current nest, then there is a chance you will have a nest built in its space in future.
thats a good question. i believe due to parasites and potential diseases being present when the new colony is established. it prevents the egg, larval and pupa stages from becoming affected by parasites mainly.@@TAFishing
Brilliant video Graham. I think birds naturally avoid black and yellow insects so perhaps fish might too. Those grubs certainly took fish. Thanks for sharing
Hello Graeme. If ever you come to Milton Keynes please have a look at the river Ouzel. The MKAA stretch starts at the Leighton Buzzard by pass and goes all the way through MK to the M1. The section I try to fish is no wider and no deeper that this river you are fishing in, but we have weeds, weeds and weeds on top of weeds. Please let me know if it’s me doing it wrong or the water because I blank every time. The canal and Lakes are ok. The river Ouzel last year was very good.
Was them gunshots at the end putting an end to that argument on the far bank 😅 Great video really enjoyed the whole smashing the nest and the fly killer 😂
I remember when I was a kid people would knock my dad's door when they found a wasp nest. He would remove the nests for the wasp grubs for his fishing. His preferred method of nest removal was to use his gas gun which he used for warming floor tiles that was his day time job. It was all over very quickly. ;)
Oh mate reminds me of a wasp nest in my broken down shed, well down, and glad your safe, always thinking man, great video, was going to fish today, but some diy had to be done, will go after work tomorrow, no matter what, great video, be safe out there.
That was a lot fun to watch! Not many would tackle an Hornets nest! We get quite a few in our garden, we have caugth some close on 2" long! It is not untill you put one side by side with a wasp that you appreciate just how big they are. I measured the sting on one at 8mm long!! about the same as the whole yellow body length on a regular wasp. These are European Hornets, the Asian ones would dwarf these!
Hornets are the most passive of all our vespids. You could have happily come and gone and they wouldn't have bothered you. I've sat under a hornet's nest and fished a day out and not died even a little bit. The nest is made from wood - mostly bark - and green plant material. It's chewed up and mixed with saliva. It's incredibly intricate and really quite beautiful. Your colony was our own European Hornet, Vespa crabro. There is a slight misconception over the invasive species. In the UK, it is the Asian Hornet, Vespa velutina. This is actually slightly smaller than our own. Where the confusion comes is there's a separate species called the Asian Giant Hornet, Vespa mandarinia. That one is huge and is invasive in the US, where it's known as the murder hornet, but it's never been recorded here. A few idiot red-top newspapers didn't check their facts - hard to believe, I know! - and the two were reported as being one and the same.
Thanks for your in-depth comment. Nobody has actually covered why in fact the Hornet even has a sting ? Does it use the sting to kill its prey ? or does it just clamp on them with the front fangs ? Or is the sting purely defensive ?
@@TAFishing The sting is purely defensive. When they catch prey, it's done with the jaws. A sting in the tail's mostly quite an awkward thing for use as a predation tool. It's well away from anything that can hold a prey item still (legs, mouth) and it's difficult to get it into position without the potential meal moving off. But as a defensive tool, if you're fleeing something, your most dangerous tool is right where your enemy is coming from, so it's in prime position to get a first strike in! There are exceptions. parasitic wasps use their stings as offensive weaponry. But they're preying on large things like spiders, so getting the sting in a useful position is easier. It's also used only to disable the prey, not to kill it. They then lay eggs inside the live spider, then the larvae hatch out and gradually munch their way through the (still living) host. Some eat their way through the host in a specific order to keep it alive as long as possible. Charming creatures...
As a pest controller that was hillarious, I'd have lent you my bee suit if I knew. It is paper, they chew on wood, sometimes the nests are multi-coloured from chewing fences. The danger of procuring them from pest controller is putting pyrethrins or bendiocarb into the waters and that's really bad, in the old daysground nests wasps were sought and they were killed with carbon tetrachloride. Apparently the chub go ballistic for the honey combe as well......But its the lifecycle, the symbiosis between adult wasps n hornets, the adults feed the grubs things they foraged and in resturn get fed sweet sticky honey dew so that's what probably attracts them.....The insecticide you used to kill the hornets would probably be detected by the fish, the grubs are in semi sealed cases.
A bit off topic here but my dad used to fish with rush grubs, they burrow inside the stems of bullrushes, by seeing holes on the foilage then stripping the leaves back would reveal the large white grubs, great for perch fishing.
Many years ago, my mates and me came across a hornets nest in woods near our home and decided to jab at it. One mate got hammered stung several times. His granny covered him in the go-to treatment in the 70's for stings blue bag. If I remember correctly, it was a washing aid for keeping net curtains white.
I trod in a wasps nest In the late fifties. My granny also recommened the blue-bag treatment, but even in those days most people were using modern washing powders and blue-bags were becoming obsolete.
The queen's will bunker down ready to hibernate towards the end of summer, beginning of autumn, after mating with male hornets. As the temperature rises in the spring or early summer they'll wake up and look to find somewhere to start a nest. They do this on their own at first, running backwards and forwards looking for decaying timber which they'll chew with their mandibles, which mixes with saliva to create the "paper" to form their nest which is basically a covering of the comb. It is used for protection and to maintain a temperature on the fast developing comb. She will lay a few eggs to begin with, which will hatch out workers which she'll feed herself. The grubs eat insects etc as for their diet, and the hornets actually eat the grubs secretion so one can't survive without the other. When enough workers have hatched, they will look after expanding the nest and feeding the grubs whilst the Queen concentrates purely on egg laying. Towards the end of the season she'll stop laying eggs to produce workers, and start laying both Queen eggs and Male eggs which will eventually start the whole process over again!
Did you try using the nest material on the hook? I've used wasp nest as a hook bait for chub. It works - if you can get it to stay on! I've never tried it for carp though. I used to add wasp nest material into groundbait too. Not sure if it attracted the fish but it boosted my confidence! Where was the lake that you fished?
Many many years ago when i was around 15. I watched a old guy catch about 50 chub on bees honeycomb filled with honey. He just cut a small piece off and hooked ot on a size 2 hook link ledgering. The chub were mental for the stuff. Never heard or, sean anyone else ever use it. He said it was chub bait no1 par excellentce.
The colour is intended as a warning to anything coming into contact with such a beast. It seems universal, even though they probably have never seen a hornet before. I used to catch grayling on dead wasps in the autumn though.
Well Wasp Grubs are a well known Bait especially on Rivers. They got banned in Match Fishing. Apparently they not only used the grubs as bait but crushed the nest and added it to a ground bait mix.
I feed beetle grubs to my reptiles as a treat and when I have some left over I take them fishing.they are about an inch and a half long. Absolutely amazing bait on rivers for multispecies. I've even had a 7lb Jack pike take one.
The nests are made of tree bark, where they mix their saliva with the bark to join them together. There can be anywhere between 30,000 to 50,000 in a nest depending upon the size of the nest. They can be quite nasty when they are angry from being disturbed.
Hi Graeme. I've been watching your channel for years now and I'm a big fan. I think you should put a disclaimer on this video to make sure that nobody tries this if they find a hornet's nest. You've been very lucky with this nest as they are massively aggressive and very territorial too. A good friend of mine was very seriously injured as a kid after curiosity got the better of him with a hornet's nest and a big but no big enough stick!. He spent a few days in hospital and still has a back covered with scars!🐝
Rice fried hornet grub dinner mmmm delicious! .. delicious....but will those bream be tempted??? Interesting the black and yellow venom warning stripes instinctively apply to carp species as well...maybe a large chub...nice scaled carp..those Are all lavas types of maggots..and vice versa...now there's a thought..
They were dying as I had dosed them with wasp killer to even get near. I wasn't going inside until I had them subdued a bit. Its a confined space to meet a swarm of Hornets.
I have to re-felt the roof at some stage. I bought the shed for £2 when I was about 20,secondhand then,came from a house clearance in Arborfield,I remember it well. Still going strong...well maybe not strong,but its standing.
I rinsed them in water before using them.Someone else said its the black and yellow "danger" sign in nature ,but they definately pulled away after nosing them.
Oh yes! Nature's warning...... could well be because we don't see black and yellow lures either. At least, I don't think I've seen any. They definitely like the grubs though!
Excellent as always Graeme. Never try fishing with live hornets given the aggravation comatose/dead ones give you. Wasp grubs used to be an excellent bait and probably still would be though some of the chemicals used to subdue them would probably be banned nowadays!
Scary stuff 🐝🐝 some people keep the old nests intact and hang them up in the garden. Apparently deters other hornets/wasps setting up a new nest in the garden. Had to get rid of a nest last yr underneath my rose beds. Called someone out though.....not as brave as you
Greame, wasps, bees and hornets CAN sting when dead, that venom sack is still attached to the stinger and the stinger works on a pressure system to release..
@@TAFishing I was literally screaming at the screen, "DONT TOUCH THEM!!" 😂 Anything that stings should never be touched even if dead, the stingers are directly attatched to the venom sack and its an automatic trigger when its touched, and hornet stings will make a grown man cry..
We had a lot of red wasps here I always keep a spray bottle with dawn dish washing soap mixed up it will kill wasps on contact when spraid on them it is toxic to them thanks for the video.
I had them the night before last on a Carp overnighter. In the lake behind me. Even at 1am they never found the "off" button. Its not like they talked quietly. Must have been a nightmare for the other anglers fishing that lake.
I grew up watching john wilson on tv and although he was a legend and i never got bored of watching his programmes i must admit you are so much more entertaining than anyone else so thank you very much Graham
Same here mate
Sir, I love your videos because they show raw fishing. No fancy pansy equipment, just experience, and skills. The first part, the hornet nest part is totally awesome! Sir Attenborough is proud of you.
Not just the BIGGEST fishing show on RUclips but the one with the most variety of fishing also. Graeme, thanks for going to the lengths you go to.
Totally awesome as always and thanks for the laughs Graham 😂
Used leather jackets a lot as a kid. The larvae / grub of craneflies found mostly in the soil or under grass roots. Used to always get a few when digging up worms.
Don’t need shouting when ya on the bank… but also I bet you rocking up an catching first cast also made them a little aggy 😂😂 all the gear an no idea springs to mind well done mr P ✔️😎
What a cracking video Graeme. I was enthralled right through. Thank you so much. Such a funny guy!
GRaham super video mate brought back some memories. Mate of mine used to work at pest control and would often bring me wasp grubs .i remember having my best bag of chub ever on the grubs and cake on the river wye .was and still is a magic bait if you can get ya hands on them .of course they were banned on river contests in my day as its such a lethal bait in the right hands .chub just cant resist .i have had barbel take them too..tight lines
You really dont need people like that around when you are trying to spend an evening of relaxed fishing
I thought they were getting close to a full-on scrap...funny thing was they were supposed to be fishing together...One just wouldn't leave it alone...
@@TAFishing different times Graham , the word consideration isn't in their vocabulary. All the fish you were catching , in the old days young
lads would come and try to learn something from you , you certainly wouldn't want those two near you more chance of getting mugged by them.
Idiots but no match for Mr p 🥊🥊🥋❤ great session.. wow we seen it here 1st again 😅😁🙏 hornet grubs 👍🏻😍
Idiots like that really p*** me off. I go fishing for some peace and quiet but too often it is ruined by these morons. @@jamescoughlan8193
We used to put the wasp comb in the oven for a couple of minutes. This killed the grubs and toughened them up
The white stuff in the nest Graham is cotton fibers. To make the Grubs firmer you could pour salt over them to draw some of the moisture out!
Very entertaining and enjoyable video. You did well not to get stung when you attacked the nest.
Match men in the 70s fishing on the Gloucester Canal used to grow their own maggots for bream fishing .The size , and more importantly the softness of the maggots were supposed to be far superior to shop bought maggots.
😂so bloody funny,mate you never fail to entertain me and the missis
Good and educational as always. Love the fishing techniques.Keep it up Graham, brilliant stuff. I found a couple of old fishing books the other day in my loft and I do believe one of them is one you produced. (Freshwater bites,)brings back old memories..🎣
Can i just say me and my girlfriend love watching uncle grahams videos, he really helped me het her onboard with fishing and now she complains when its time to pack up! We love you uncle graham
You can get a sting of a dead Hornet . I used to be a pestie and got tagged several times 0:04 kneeling on dead wasps in attics!
You should be wary of using insecticide around fish too as it can be toxic.
Brilliant video, love the old school feel. Keep up the good work Graham.
I washed the baits in freshwater before using them for that very reason. But I will be wary about kneeling on dead wasps when up in lofts checking header tanks and the like,so thanks for the tip.
@@TAFishing Thought you had given them a wash. I sometimes forget the stuff I could get my hands on was much more toxic that stuff you buy in garden centres!
My wife has asked if you can do more videos of Colin,She's a big fan.
well this channel definitely lives up to it name 'cos that was TOTALLY AWESOME i did a bit of digging around and it is thought that either the yellow and black is a warning (for animals that see colour) or the contrast between the two colours (for colour blind animals) are a warning too, it was in a "pond life" online forum someone asked if wasps can kill fish with their sting, but either way the carp loved them grubs and didn't fancy a gob full of hornet, keep up the great work Graeme
Hi Graham, the reason the carp didn't take the hornets off the top is because they can sting the fish and kill the fish!! Just Googled it. Love your videos GP!! 🎣🎣🎣🎣
Absolutely loved this video cheers grezza ✌🏾
Graham vs Hornets! this had me in stitches.... grubs are a fantastic free bait for alot of species... I remembering reading a John Wilson book of Baits years ago and trying it myself for Chub and Carp, they was wasp grubs. this babies are huge and ripe... works a treat.. the fish love them!
You are a much braver man than I am Gunga Din!!!
I imagine that there was considerable poison left on the actual wasps...perhaps that is what turned the fish off?
In any case, while I might be willing to use the grubs, the fact that they WILL eventually turn into the Hornets turns me off of the idea of using them.
Thanks for the wonderful and amazing videos!
Graham, they used to bake wasp grubs in the oven to toughen them up. Don't think your good lady would be too keen on that idea though! You could always give them a quick blast in one of your bush camping ovens!
Must make them sort of crispy ?..I would be worried they might stretch and explode !. Mind you I should drop a few Hornets down my mole hills,someone said they can still sting when they are dead ..
We used to boil the nest in a muslin bag. Then pick out the grubs. Getting the nest taught us how to run like buggery.
Absolutely brilliant. So funny watching you tackle the nest, I would be scared too. We accidentally disturbed a hornets nest at a lake once and had to flee the swim as they were very angry, my daughter who was about 8 at the time still mentions it ,20yrs later,still traumatised😂 Great idea using the grubs though and the fish obviously find them delicious. Wait for the big bait manufacturers to start producing hornet glug!!
you have mastered the art of free bait !!! legend.
I respectfully suggest that you do not put insecticide-covered wasps into a watercourse.
I said in the film I washed them ?
Hello Graham..
I have only just found and started watching your videos, .
Now i know just by memory i recognise that bit of river i used to fish back as s teen the river wey that runs though the town of Farnham, that is even Gostrey Meadows in the back ground.. Oh the joy..
Thank you so much for bringing back found memories of my youth...
Tight lines.. 🎣...
Its nothing like it was 30 years ago. More water flow then ,loads of decent Chub,like so many rivers its a shadow of its former self.
Graham so retro this. 50 years ago, in a small Yorkshire village I served my apprenticeship at a village green garage. We were the go to place for any villager with a wasp issue. My boss had this enormous tin of a cyanide based product which with a 6 ft bamboo pole and teaspoon on the end we provided a free wasp nest solution for the village. The grubs our quarry. We had a very isolated venue on a river that no-one knew of. After work we journeyed there and simply free lined the grubs and had so many memorable chubby nights.
Good retro story,thanks for commenting. Chub fishing is certainly not what it used to be.
Would love to see more videos of you fishing tiny streams and creeks like this! The fish were small but looked absolutely stunning! Would be interesting to see if there were any bigger creek chub there.
We have chub over here but not creek chub like the ones in the USA.
What a brilliant discovery G, totally awesome nest removal 😂.
Appreciate your efforts mate👍🏼
Ive watched a few wasps one day cutting little strips of wood from the side of our shed tiny little lines appear on the surface of the wood then they fly away to create the hive. Its also quite amazing at how straight the lines were too.
Great video
another entertaining one Graeme interesting too
Loved this video good job as usual. I think these are the European hornets.
Lovely, it reminds me of the lake I found full with fishes
Those are the European hornets, not Asian, and it's only the females that sting. You are quite safe handling the males. Yes and back in the day, anglers used to kill off wasp nests with cyanide powder at the entrance to their nest. Break up the cake and mix with crumb for groundbait and use the grubs as bait. They can't sting so you're safe handling them. They still work as you found out. 😁 Happy days.
Hi graham you ok pal, holy moly thats crazy. Made me laugh your brain was on overdrive about using them for bait hahaha. All the best graham from GRIMSBY.
Howdi Graeme, hornests build their nests from wood pulp, old fence panels are a favourite of theirs.
Great video again buddy. 👍
Yellow and black stripes are natures warning colours which is probably why they aren't taking the hornets. Years ago, my Uncle used to collect wasp grubs for fishing bait when my Father and I were visiting. They never failed to catch.
I agree. That is my understanding as well. Yellow in nature is a warning of danger or simply a defence. However,.. I have caught many trout on a bumblebee fly.
I caught plenty on black and yellow zigs so not sure it's down to colour to be honest. I think its the shape or scent.. Like they've been stung before.
Good fishing
😂😂 pwaa sod off, bloody blue bottle. This had me in stitches
i would love to bet that some of them grubs on a hook with maggots in a feeder would be a good days fishing on the river. Future video perhaps? All the best keep fishing !
TIP for you Graeme from a qualified pest control technician... if you ever have a wasps nest inside your house, generally your loft, then leave it. when the wasps die out in september, the queen leaves and searches for a new place to build her nest. They NEVER populate an abandoned nest so you will only ever get wasps in 1 specific space, once. unless of course you remove all remnants of a current nest, then there is a chance you will have a nest built in its space in future.
Worth knowing...I wonder why they never use a nest the second year after all that building work ??
thats a good question. i believe due to parasites and potential diseases being present when the new colony is established. it prevents the egg, larval and pupa stages from becoming affected by parasites mainly.@@TAFishing
Brilliant video Graham. I think birds naturally avoid black and yellow insects so perhaps fish might too. Those grubs certainly took fish. Thanks for sharing
Hello Graeme. If ever you come to Milton Keynes please have a look at the river Ouzel. The MKAA stretch starts at the Leighton Buzzard by pass and goes all the way through MK to the M1. The section I try to fish is no wider and no deeper that this river you are fishing in, but we have weeds, weeds and weeds on top of weeds. Please let me know if it’s me doing it wrong or the water because I blank every time. The canal and Lakes are ok. The river Ouzel last year was very good.
Was them gunshots at the end putting an end to that argument on the far bank 😅
Great video really enjoyed the whole smashing the nest and the fly killer 😂
I remember when I was a kid people would knock my dad's door when they found a wasp nest. He would remove the nests for the wasp grubs for his fishing. His preferred method of nest removal was to use his gas gun which he used for warming floor tiles that was his day time job. It was all over very quickly. ;)
Oh mate reminds me of a wasp nest in my broken down shed, well down, and glad your safe, always thinking man, great video, was going to fish today, but some diy had to be done,
will go after work tomorrow, no matter what, great video, be safe out there.
You are an absolute madman.
That was a lot fun to watch! Not many would tackle an Hornets nest! We get quite a few in our garden, we have caugth some close on 2" long! It is not untill you put one side by side with a wasp that you appreciate just how big they are. I measured the sting on one at 8mm long!! about the same as the whole yellow body length on a regular wasp. These are European Hornets, the Asian ones would dwarf these!
now thats a damn good use of that nest :D giving them fish some quality baits too :D
Hornets are the most passive of all our vespids. You could have happily come and gone and they wouldn't have bothered you. I've sat under a hornet's nest and fished a day out and not died even a little bit. The nest is made from wood - mostly bark - and green plant material. It's chewed up and mixed with saliva. It's incredibly intricate and really quite beautiful.
Your colony was our own European Hornet, Vespa crabro. There is a slight misconception over the invasive species. In the UK, it is the Asian Hornet, Vespa velutina. This is actually slightly smaller than our own. Where the confusion comes is there's a separate species called the Asian Giant Hornet, Vespa mandarinia. That one is huge and is invasive in the US, where it's known as the murder hornet, but it's never been recorded here. A few idiot red-top newspapers didn't check their facts - hard to believe, I know! - and the two were reported as being one and the same.
Thanks for your in-depth comment. Nobody has actually covered why in fact the Hornet even has a sting ? Does it use the sting to kill its prey ? or does it just clamp on them with the front fangs ? Or is the sting purely defensive ?
@@TAFishing The sting is purely defensive. When they catch prey, it's done with the jaws. A sting in the tail's mostly quite an awkward thing for use as a predation tool. It's well away from anything that can hold a prey item still (legs, mouth) and it's difficult to get it into position without the potential meal moving off. But as a defensive tool, if you're fleeing something, your most dangerous tool is right where your enemy is coming from, so it's in prime position to get a first strike in!
There are exceptions. parasitic wasps use their stings as offensive weaponry. But they're preying on large things like spiders, so getting the sting in a useful position is easier. It's also used only to disable the prey, not to kill it. They then lay eggs inside the live spider, then the larvae hatch out and gradually munch their way through the (still living) host. Some eat their way through the host in a specific order to keep it alive as long as possible. Charming creatures...
As a pest controller that was hillarious, I'd have lent you my bee suit if I knew. It is paper, they chew on wood, sometimes the nests are multi-coloured from chewing fences. The danger of procuring them from pest controller is putting pyrethrins or bendiocarb into the waters and that's really bad, in the old daysground nests wasps were sought and they were killed with carbon tetrachloride. Apparently the chub go ballistic for the honey combe as well......But its the lifecycle, the symbiosis between adult wasps n hornets, the adults feed the grubs things they foraged and in resturn get fed sweet sticky honey dew so that's what probably attracts them.....The insecticide you used to kill the hornets would probably be detected by the fish, the grubs are in semi sealed cases.
Hahahaha "mrs comes out does her drying in there.......IVE GOT BOILIES DRYING IN THERE" 😅😄😃😂😁😀😊☺
I find beetle grubs from the compost heap work well, and are tougher than most other maggot type baits.
A bit off topic here but my dad used to fish with rush grubs, they burrow inside the stems of bullrushes, by seeing holes on the foilage then stripping the leaves back would reveal the large white grubs, great for perch fishing.
Never heard of those,I shall start looking at rush stems in a whole different light now.
Many years ago, my mates and me came across a hornets nest in woods near our home and decided to jab at it. One mate got hammered stung several times. His granny covered him in the go-to treatment in the 70's for stings blue bag. If I remember correctly, it was a washing aid for keeping net curtains white.
I trod in a wasps nest In the late fifties. My granny also recommened the blue-bag treatment, but even in those days most people were using modern washing powders and blue-bags were becoming obsolete.
The queen's will bunker down ready to hibernate towards the end of summer, beginning of autumn, after mating with male hornets. As the temperature rises in the spring or early summer they'll wake up and look to find somewhere to start a nest. They do this on their own at first, running backwards and forwards looking for decaying timber which they'll chew with their mandibles, which mixes with saliva to create the "paper" to form their nest which is basically a covering of the comb. It is used for protection and to maintain a temperature on the fast developing comb. She will lay a few eggs to begin with, which will hatch out workers which she'll feed herself. The grubs eat insects etc as for their diet, and the hornets actually eat the grubs secretion so one can't survive without the other. When enough workers have hatched, they will look after expanding the nest and feeding the grubs whilst the Queen concentrates purely on egg laying. Towards the end of the season she'll stop laying eggs to produce workers, and start laying both Queen eggs and Male eggs which will eventually start the whole process over again!
Thanks for the comment..There was a mess of gunk on the floor under the nest,I guess " number 2's" from the worker Hornets ??
@@TAFishingyep! 💩
Great video mate, you showed them how its done, and so funny, you always deliver.
I see your boat is back 😂🎣
your viudoes are fantastic and they cheer my day up and i love it ur humor is amzing keep it up
Glad they helped cheer you up..more to come,I might double upload again next week. Depends on "real" workload.
I just wanna see the look on the guys face in the tackle shop when I ask him for a pint of Hornets' larvae
I remember using wasp \ hornet grubs for bait on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal and local lodge when I was a kid👍
The grubs are good cos full of protein and tasty. They make the hive with there spit.
Job done indeed. Well done.
Did you try using the nest material on the hook? I've used wasp nest as a hook bait for chub. It works - if you can get it to stay on! I've never tried it for carp though. I used to add wasp nest material into groundbait too. Not sure if it attracted the fish but it boosted my confidence! Where was the lake that you fished?
Many many years ago when i was around 15. I watched a old guy catch about 50 chub on bees honeycomb filled with honey. He just cut a small piece off and hooked ot on a size 2 hook link ledgering. The chub were mental for the stuff.
Never heard or, sean anyone else ever use it. He said it was chub bait no1 par excellentce.
As a kid used to use wasp grubs one of the best baits going
The colour is intended as a warning to anything coming into contact with such a beast. It seems universal, even though they probably have never seen a hornet before. I used to catch grayling on dead wasps in the autumn though.
when i was a kid me & dad used to dig out wasp grubs,excellent bait for Chub.
Well Wasp Grubs are a well known Bait especially on Rivers. They got banned in Match Fishing. Apparently they not only used the grubs as bait but crushed the nest and added it to a ground bait mix.
I think they called it "cake"...
Madness 😂😂
I feed beetle grubs to my reptiles as a treat and when I have some left over I take them fishing.they are about an inch and a half long. Absolutely amazing bait on rivers for multispecies. I've even had a 7lb Jack pike take one.
The nests are made of tree bark, where they mix their saliva with the bark to join them together. There can be anywhere between 30,000 to 50,000 in a nest depending upon the size of the nest. They can be quite nasty when they are angry from being disturbed.
Hi Graeme. I've been watching your channel for years now and I'm a big fan. I think you should put a disclaimer on this video to make sure that nobody tries this if they find a hornet's nest.
You've been very lucky with this nest as they are massively aggressive and very territorial too.
A good friend of mine was very seriously injured as a kid after curiosity got the better of him with a hornet's nest and a big but no big enough stick!. He spent a few days in hospital and still has a back covered with scars!🐝
The Queen, the King , the Knight,, who runs that joint,, very likely some slimy politician.
Monster chub bait love your videos
Fairplay to you Graham , I'd hate to be stung by them , free bait mate 👍
The nest is made from scraping fence panels etc mulching it up to make the nest.
I remember my dad telling me of his misadventures digging up wasp nests for the grubs when he was a kid
loving your vlogs
When we were kids we dig up a wasps nest for the grubs to catch chub, five of us all gat stung at least once, you live and learn.
Rice fried hornet grub dinner mmmm delicious! .. delicious....but will those bream be tempted???
Interesting the black and yellow venom warning stripes instinctively apply to carp species as well...maybe a large chub...nice scaled carp..those
Are all lavas types of maggots..and vice versa...now there's a thought..
It’s made of chewed wood and my grandfather has used wasp grubs for trout fishing for years and years
Great video as always, but why were the hornets already dying before you saw their nest?
They were dying as I had dosed them with wasp killer to even get near. I wasn't going inside until I had them subdued a bit. Its a confined space to meet a swarm of Hornets.
My boy loves watching you if your near Westbury Wiltshire and you fancy fishing the cement works one day he would love it keep up the good work thanks
Shed needs a revamp, Mr. G 😂
I have to re-felt the roof at some stage. I bought the shed for £2 when I was about 20,secondhand then,came from a house clearance in Arborfield,I remember it well. Still going strong...well maybe not strong,but its standing.
Looks like good bait, i wonder if wax worms would work the same.
Graham mate ive always wonderd if botfly lavae would be amazing bait,
With the bait be so dangerous to get you would expect they would attract the tougher fish, pike at the least, but a great white would be appropriate 😂
I’ve twitched a housefly lure along the surface and they took. I wonder whether they are able to detect the fly spray?
I rinsed them in water before using them.Someone else said its the black and yellow "danger" sign in nature ,but they definately pulled away after nosing them.
Oh yes! Nature's warning...... could well be because we don't see black and yellow lures either. At least, I don't think I've seen any. They definitely like the grubs though!
Excellent as always Graeme. Never try fishing with live hornets given the aggravation comatose/dead ones give you.
Wasp grubs used to be an excellent bait and probably still would be though some of the chemicals used to subdue them would probably be banned nowadays!
I washed the bait first.
We used to catch crickets. Works well for small fish
here in Thailand we get coconut beetle larvae, they are as big as ones thumb and the lake i fish the Amazon red tails love em.
Scary stuff 🐝🐝 some people keep the old nests intact and hang them up in the garden. Apparently deters other hornets/wasps setting up a new nest in the garden. Had to get rid of a nest last yr underneath my rose beds. Called someone out though.....not as brave as you
a brown paper bag will do that trick too.
I always have one in the garage and under the appletree..
Greame, wasps, bees and hornets CAN sting when dead, that venom sack is still attached to the stinger and the stinger works on a pressure system to release..
Now you tell me !!!!....Good job I initiated them with some "sleepy dust" and then froze them first. I was impressed with how long the sting was.
@@TAFishing I was literally screaming at the screen, "DONT TOUCH THEM!!" 😂 Anything that stings should never be touched even if dead, the stingers are directly attatched to the venom sack and its an automatic trigger when its touched, and hornet stings will make a grown man cry..
Nice one G Man. Now, in a survival situation, at what point do you start eating the grubs? 😂 Great film as usual thank you
We had a lot of red wasps here I always keep a spray bottle with dawn dish washing soap mixed up it will kill wasps on contact when spraid on them it is toxic to them thanks for the video.
Thanks Shire
Are you fishing in farnham?
The river stretch was in Farnham. A shadow of what it was 30/40 years ago ,but then most rivers seem to be in decline.
Right lads, I,ve got an idea lets take a Hornet, freeze it and see if a carp will take it off the surface! Absolute legend!
Nothing worse than listening to idiots on the bank, when you want peace and quiet. Well done graeham
I had them the night before last on a Carp overnighter. In the lake behind me. Even at 1am they never found the "off" button. Its not like they talked quietly. Must have been a nightmare for the other anglers fishing that lake.
@@TAFishing a lot of us have been in same situation mate. Dont let it get to you. Ive had to leave fisherie before cos of selfish idiots.