Just jumped back to my predictor fishing now from chasing barbel, back to chasing big stripeys 😂 absolutely love the channel and what you do, I always seem to rewatch your videos to get me back in the mood 🫡 keep the hard work up, it’s really appreciated, please please pleaseee,,, more perch masters 🥰
Just been watching all your old perch vids again to get the juices flowing. Cant wait for some new ones. Best on you tube for me. Good luck out there. Let's catch some tanks!!!
Nice fish!👌 I know that strech well used to always be down there after work in the evening! 😉 Also had some luck with the perch in the next town if you follow the canal down with the water on your right🎣 Tight lines!
@@alfredshearing6793 the features were quite subtle. First fish was near a bridge, second was where the river widened and the last was just up from where a tributary joined the main river. I totally get the question though, they do love structure 👍👍
Nick, Great vid - love it! - some amazing Sergeants there!!! Use Salmo Hornets quite a bit - the 4.5cm I use is the 'Holographic' - both in deeper diving and shallow - saved my bacon on more than one occasion!!! - have the 'Pearl Shiner' but in smaller sizes - must check out the larger ones! Had some nice Perch but not yet to your calibre - will continue to persevere!! Nice to see the advise re the use of 'lighter trace' material (wire) - personally use the Drennan 10lb - never had a problem with it yet - but will also check out what you use. Carry on the good work Nick!😁😁
Thanks so much for your kind comments! I’ve used the ESox stuff in 10lb. Can’t fault it, except I used to heat and twist it. This stuff just knots really easy. Thanks again, good luck with your fishing 👍👍🎣
Great video nick !!! Some great fish there 👍👍 My local rivers been very flooded lately but will definitely be trying some cranks on some different venues and hopefully catch a few. Also was wondering wether we will be seeing a few vids in the kayak soon, but to be fair it is fairly cold to be taking a swim at this time of year 😂. Anyway ill be looking forward to the next one mate ✌️
@@Lifeonthebank yeah definitely pal,, the crank I use which they nail is the Shakespeare Big s and Mega s..... Good size for a pike, hugeee for a perch........ Tight lines pal
Great video nick ! Albeit show any unhooking tips on film to add to fish care welfare particularly 4 beginners u have lots of followers & there must be more than a couple of viewers who might panic with fish taking hooks deep !
Cahira nitinol titanium wire is excellent, available in very fine diameters and lasts and lasts. I only used three or four leaders last year and one would have done if it wasnt for snags!
@@gothicgorey I crimped mine because I already had suitable crimps and tools. I'll make up leaders at home using the entire coil of wire and just carry them in a little zip lock bag. I don't want to waste fishing time making leaders. My mate ties it with a three turn blood knot.
@@daniellaw8999 That’s the plan I am thinking of making a load at home. Because winter conditions makes it hard work and my eyesight not the greatest . I have found a site that sells all the stuff with correct sized crimps literally everything . Like the idea of the crimps with them being so fine it won’t impact. What tool do you use for such delicate crimping ?
Some fantastic Perch caught there Nick, do you crimp the barbs down on those Salmo Cranks, I do you use Salmo floating lures for Trout keep saying to myself i will give them ago for the Perch.
Hi Nick, another brilliant video, I always look forward to them as they have taught me so much. The one thing I struggle with is getting troubles out when the swallow them. Can you please do a video of how and best ways to remove them. Cheers John 👍🏻
Thanks for the advice, I’m now doing that with success. Just one other thing Nick, will the channel remain open so we can still view all you brilliant videos because I often use them to refresh my fishing? Thanks John
OMG, you lucky bugger😊. I'll bet you haven't managed to get the grin off of your face yet ? that last one was an absolute stonker well done mate. Quicky? You mentioned fluro carbon, wire trace, were you using fluro in the mix or did you go wire direct to braid 🤔. Just a little confusing as to wether you had gone, braid, fluro then wire ?. Great result for you and a lovely bit of viewing for all of us mere mortals. Cheers Les.
As alwasy Nick great stuff. I wish we had Perch that big here in the U.S. I do have one man made pond not to far from me that has monster Bluegill's and Yellow Perch. The Bluegill would hit 3/8 oz. spinnerbaits like a freight train. Need to make a trip there now after watching this video.🎣🐟
@@Lifeonthebank Got some mini cranks with a single hooks that look great can’t wait to try them at weekend . I don’t like using trebles personally just my preference
This is my fav perch series ! I don’t know how but I’ve never managed to crack that 40cm mark. Had 3 39cm perch over the years but can’t find any 40s! What’s ur advice to finding those fat ones?
Hi nick . May I ask u something? . The other day I was fishing for small perch on a 1 to 9 gram’s rod with 8lb braided line 6 pounds carbon line and a small pike bited me of I was only fishing a small 2g jig head on a small lure the AFW wire u use does that tie to your flarcarbone line ? Then your flarcarbone to your braid. Or is the line instead of use flarcarbone as your leader.would be really appreciated your opinion on this
You should come hit up small urban streams in alton area with me theres perch but many trout of all sizes but they love small lures as they only really feed on minnows.
Some of the finest perch content in the UK nick keep them coming mate!🔥🎣
You’re very, very kind mate. Thank you! 🙏
Just jumped back to my predictor fishing now from chasing barbel, back to chasing big stripeys 😂 absolutely love the channel and what you do, I always seem to rewatch your videos to get me back in the mood 🫡 keep the hard work up, it’s really appreciated, please please pleaseee,,, more perch masters 🥰
Just been watching all your old perch vids again to get the juices flowing. Cant wait for some new ones. Best on you tube for me. Good luck out there. Let's catch some tanks!!!
Go get those tanks!!!! Let me know how you get on!!! Thanks for the support 🙏👍👍
Nice to see you back on the perch class video as always keep um coming
Thanks 🙏 Appreciate you watching the videos 👍👍👍
Tanks on cranks! Best name for a video ever! 👌👌👌
Cheers Thom 😂👍🎣
Wow.. that was a cracking Salmo cranking tutorial!
Thanks a lot for showing
and sharing Nick! 🤝🏻Richie.
Appreciate you checking out the video 👍👍 Love these little cranks! 😉
You are very welcome Nick!
Imho is the Salmo Hornet the benchmark for small and big perch angling.
Cheers mate! 🍻
Another great video Nick, braid straight to trace or braid to flouro then trace . Thank you 👍
Braid, fluro then trace. Thanks and good luck!!! 👍👍👍
Brilliant Nick , very good watch mate 👍 lovely big perch to end on . Must buy some of that AFW trace wire . Nice one.
Thanks Trevor. Nice to see you again the other day. Yep, fine wire is essential imo. 👍👍👍
Another inspiring film
Thanks. Good luck with your fishing 👍👍🎣
Very informative, absolute beasts of perch buddy, great channel 🎣👌
Thanks James. Hope some of the info helps you land a CHUNK!
@@Lifeonthebank 🎣🐊👌
Nice fish!👌
I know that strech well used to always be down there after work in the evening! 😉
Also had some luck with the perch in the next town if you follow the canal down with the water on your right🎣
Tight lines!
So awesome the monsters you get! Next month I will fish in lake Michigan for perch but i have never
gotten a monster like you get. thanks for videos!
Wow. Lake Michigan. What else is in there?
Didn't seem to be any cover or structure you were targeting? What was your thinking ? Great vid
@@alfredshearing6793 the features were quite subtle. First fish was near a bridge, second was where the river widened and the last was just up from where a tributary joined the main river. I totally get the question though, they do love structure 👍👍
Big Smallmouth bass and big Lakers this time of year.@@Lifeonthebank
Nick,
Great vid - love it! - some amazing Sergeants there!!!
Use Salmo Hornets quite a bit - the 4.5cm I use is the 'Holographic' - both in deeper diving and shallow - saved my bacon on more than one occasion!!! - have the 'Pearl Shiner' but in smaller sizes - must check out the larger ones!
Had some nice Perch but not yet to your calibre - will continue to persevere!!
Nice to see the advise re the use of 'lighter trace' material (wire) - personally use the Drennan 10lb - never had a problem with it yet - but will also check out what you use.
Carry on the good work Nick!😁😁
Thanks so much for your kind comments! I’ve used the ESox stuff in 10lb. Can’t fault it, except I used to heat and twist it. This stuff just knots really easy. Thanks again, good luck with your fishing 👍👍🎣
Great video nick !!! Some great fish there 👍👍 My local rivers been very flooded lately but will definitely be trying some cranks on some different venues and hopefully catch a few. Also was wondering wether we will be seeing a few vids in the kayak soon, but to be fair it is fairly cold to be taking a swim at this time of year 😂. Anyway ill be looking forward to the next one mate ✌️
Can’t wait to try this on the Thames and my local canal which I’ve never fished before!
Awesome! Let me know how you get on! 👍👍👍
Great perch!...a harbinger bream😂 excellent tutorial!.. thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
All my pb perch have came as a side effect when pike fishing using big cranks, it's amazing the size of the lure these beasts will attack
Heard of them nailing BIG cranks on the ressies!
@@Lifeonthebank yeah definitely pal,, the crank I use which they nail is the Shakespeare Big s and
Mega s..... Good size for a pike, hugeee for a perch........ Tight lines pal
I’ve had perch take a 16cm salmo😂 incredibly ambitious the bigger ones
@@Jimbob-yp6yi 😮😮😮😮
Same. 10-18cm is a lunch for a big hungry perch at fall. Greetings from Finland@@Jimbob-yp6yi
Great content with some fabulous fish landed.
🙏🙏🙏 thanks for checking it out 😁👍
Great video mate
Cheers mate. Always appreciated 🙏👍
Great video as always mate. Very informative 👏
Thanks for checking it out 👍👏👏👏
Alright Nick, I just get a beer bottle top, attach a size 2 and fling it about in Dobbs Weir....hey presto endless 4 and 5lbers. Standard.
😂😂😂 love to come watch you spoon them out one day! 👌👌👌
Cracking stuff Nick. Bet you enjoyed revisiting those chunks on the memory card! 🔥
Cheers Mat. There’s bigger on that memory card that I ain’t shared yet! 😳🎥👍
Great video nick ! Albeit show any unhooking tips on film to add to fish care welfare particularly 4 beginners u have lots of followers & there must be more than a couple of viewers who might panic with fish taking hooks deep !
Great suggestion! Thanks for checking it out
Cahira nitinol titanium wire is excellent, available in very fine diameters and lasts and lasts.
I only used three or four leaders last year and one would have done if it wasnt for snags!
Thanks for this comment this stuff looks good and better price . What knots do you use for it and length of trace ? Similar to video in set up ?
@@gothicgorey I crimped mine because I already had suitable crimps and tools.
I'll make up leaders at home using the entire coil of wire and just carry them in a little zip lock bag.
I don't want to waste fishing time making leaders.
My mate ties it with a three turn blood knot.
@@daniellaw8999 That’s the plan I am thinking of making a load at home. Because winter conditions makes it hard work and my eyesight not the greatest .
I have found a site that sells all the stuff with correct sized crimps literally everything . Like the idea of the crimps with them being so fine it won’t impact.
What tool do you use for such delicate crimping ?
Thanks for this! Hopefully there’s more on the spool than AFW!! 👍
Really nice fish. Great video
Want one off the yak!! 😂👍
They will come
Some fantastic Perch caught there Nick, do you crimp the barbs down on those Salmo Cranks, I do you use Salmo floating lures for Trout keep saying to myself i will give them ago for the Perch.
I often crimp down two of the 3 trebles. Definitely try them for the perch! 👍👍👍
Hi Nick, another brilliant video, I always look forward to them as they have taught me so much. The one thing I struggle with is getting troubles out when the swallow them. Can you please do a video of how and best ways to remove them. Cheers John 👍🏻
Pinch down the barbs. You can always remove the front set of trebles too. I often do that. Hope that helps! 👍
@@Lifeonthebank thanks Nick I will give it a try, Perch do swallow the hooks 👍🏻
You can even swap them for single hooks. Many do this when fishing for chub.
Thanks for the advice, I’m now doing that with success. Just one other thing Nick, will the channel remain open so we can still view all you brilliant videos because I often use them to refresh my fishing? Thanks John
Absolutely 100% 🙂
OMG, you lucky bugger😊.
I'll bet you haven't managed to get the grin off of your face yet ?
that last one was an absolute stonker well done mate.
Quicky? You mentioned fluro carbon, wire trace, were you using fluro in the mix or did you go wire direct to braid 🤔.
Just a little confusing as to wether you had gone, braid, fluro then wire ?.
Great result for you and a lovely bit of viewing for all of us mere mortals.
Cheers Les.
Hi Les. Thanks for the kind comments. I go from braid to fluro to trace. I hope that helps! Thanks for checking out the video 👍👍👍
Love your videos mate, just want to know how do you get the deep hooked crankbait out as im sometimes struggling?
Thanks for checking out the video. You can pinch down some of the barbs and remove the front set of trebles. 👍
Brilliant...... As always 👊
Thank you!!! So many nice comments. It’s really appreciated ❤️👍
Where did you get the afw from everywhere I look they are sold out of 6 an 11lb.
Great video as usual. 👍🏻
I put some links in the description. Hope that helps!
Salmon Hornet. Always good. 👊
A cracking lure 👌👍👍👍
As alwasy Nick great stuff. I wish we had Perch that big here in the U.S. I do have one man made pond not to far from me that has monster Bluegill's and Yellow Perch. The Bluegill would hit 3/8 oz. spinnerbaits like a freight train. Need to make a trip there now after watching this video.🎣🐟
Amazing to get comments from over the pond!!!! Bluegills look awesome 👌👍👍👍
@@Lifeonthebank Yes the big slabs fight very hard. Better than a bass for their size.
Yesss perch time on canal !!!
That time of year again! BE LUCKY 👍🤞🤞🤞
@@Lifeonthebank Got some mini cranks with a single hooks that look great can’t wait to try them at weekend .
I don’t like using trebles personally just my preference
This is my fav perch series ! I don’t know how but I’ve never managed to crack that 40cm mark. Had 3 39cm perch over the years but can’t find any 40s! What’s ur advice to finding those fat ones?
Fish big lures like creature baits and fish them slow 👍
Hi Nick,love your channel,is your fishing local or how far do you travel,thanks.
Good Video!!
Do you use the silent Version, or rattlin Version of Salmo??Tanks...
Nick do you ever use Squarebill crankbaits? They are the 4 x 4 of crankbaits. You can work them through some nasty stuff.
I’ve seen them but not used them. Definitely looking into this again. THANKS!!!!
Nick, how do you tie the loop knot of the trace to your main line? Another figure 8 on the braid/fluro and just "loop" them together?
Yeah, you can loop to loop, but I prefer to just use a grinner knot to tie the trace to the end of my fluro leader 👍
Very informative video, what rod and reel are you using.?
Fox Rage 14g Med Light Spin Prism X rod. And a Prism X 1000 size reel.
@@Lifeonthebank Thanks
Hi nick . May I ask u something? . The other day I was fishing for small perch on a 1 to 9 gram’s rod with 8lb braided line 6 pounds carbon line and a small pike bited me of I was only fishing a small 2g jig head on a small lure the AFW wire u use does that tie to your flarcarbone line ? Then your flarcarbone to your braid. Or is the line instead of use flarcarbone as your leader.would be really appreciated your opinion on this
I have a length of fluorocarbon line, then the AFW wire trace attaches to the end of the fluoro leader. I hope that helps! 👍
Yeah it does help thanks 👍. Love your perch videos helps me to think to try new things keep up the great work
You should come hit up small urban streams in alton area with me theres perch but many trout of all sizes but they love small lures as they only really feed on minnows.
What pound braid were you using
11lb illumin8 braid 👍👍
@@Lifeonthebank thanks
have Korum stopped producing predator stuff now mate? 😭🎣 nice perch
Unfortunately Snapper has been discontinued, but thanks for checking out the video.
Salmo Hornet 3 in trout colours gets absolutely smashed by all fish round my end, good quality oily meat is trout init haha.
Love that pattern 👌👍👍👍
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Thanks for checking it out mate 👍👍👍
@@Lifeonthebankpleasure as always mate, I’ll be getting on the perch myself soon 🤞🏻👍🏻🎣
You regularly follow my stuff and it’s really appreciated. I enjoy following your fishing too. Tight lines mate 👍🎣