What's the point in Sea Angling ?
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- Опубликовано: 26 фев 2024
- Today i head to Kents South Coast to fish for Thornback ray.In this video I share some of my reasons for going sea fishing. There are many thoughts that go through my head when it comes to fishing from thinking this is the best thing to be doing to why do i even bother! well i think Sea fishing is one of the best ways to connect with nature , make friends and get a real pleasure out of life here in the U.K. I do love your comments on this channel and politely ask you to subscribe- It helps the channel and means i can keep you updated on catches as the seasons change.
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I go fishing because i had to take early retierment due to a heart attack 3 years ago. It hit me very hard and was so down.I was told to go home asnd watch the grass grow not even to cut it .I had to do somthing before i went crazy . Now i dint watch TV i only watch youtube fishing streams like yours. It gave me the urge to get out so i invested in some good quality gear and get out when ever i can . I am crap at it and dont catch much boohoo . But guys like you realy help . Thanks 👍👍👍
Thanks for sharing this. Your story resonates with us anglers as you will probably see by the amount of likes you well get. Cheers mate enjoy the journey and i hope you get out as much as you can
I f you had a heart attack then fishing is not a good hobby for you mate 😂😂👌👌
I've just had 2 heart attacks put on these 6 7 tablets under kings colkegevhospital I hope this helps I'm in Brixton SOUTH LONDON my wife stole 132,000 pounds Brixton police if I say SHERLOCK Holmes is turning in his grave
Sea fishing is great for mental health I'm in Stu London catch fish and eat them 3hoom paternoster I picked 3 plaice and flounderscbut I wanted a big cod never orca DOVER sole never fishing helps ya mind PEOPKE it's a lit off work but very stimulating BIG up channel
I have been a sea angler around the Kent and Sussex coast for 61 years. Catching a fish is a bonus nowadays. Its like an addiction to me. My first fish i caught at the age of 5 on Dungeness beach with my late father, was a double shot of a Rockling and a Dab. I was hooked from that point on. Im still fishing and catching at the age of 66 and hopefully for a good few years to come. Great video as always. May see you on the beach at some point. Tight lines. 👍
Thanks Andy, lovely comment
First fish was a flounder at 5 years old. Love the anticipation, the drive and walk to a mark, preparing my rigs and bait, the sights and nature. Best of all that electric feeling from a good bite.
My fishing year is over after one session, a sudden shoulder condition has taken all that away. All hopes on a shoulder specialist now, if he can fix me I’ll never take another dogfish for granted again!
Im lucky enough to live in Cornwall, the sea fishing and scenery here keeps me sane ,beautiful beaches stunning daybreaks and sunsets .so many different place's to fish all within a 15 mile radius from my home .all the fish i catch are returned, i fush with friends and family members, its a great all round hobby ,i don't always catch ,but there's always tomorrow. Ive been fishing for over 50 years and always loved it .its great to watch you fish and show exactly how it really is.thanks for all your great videos and tips. Always learning something new .
I really appreciate that thanks enjoyed reading how fishing sits with you
Everything about fishing gets me energised. The senses taking in the sights, the sounds, the smells and the individual location settings. I camp a lot at the venues I fish and use an E-bike and trailer that easily lugs a lot of gear around. Going to be spending a month or two cruising the South East coast from Wicklow to Cork this year (for a start). I'll be focusing mainly on bass, but there's plenty of other species of good size along the South.
At last ill get to do some bass fishing in Cornwall this June too. Looking forward to it all.
Hi thanks as always for your comment. I have been thinking about an ebike to go fishing great idea and set up - please let us know how you get on this year in those great venues
My first sea fish was a flounder when I was around 7, although most of my fishing growing up was in rivers and streams. At 68, I now live close to the sea and enjoy fishing regularly; sometimes it's the solitude of fishing alone and other times it's fishing with friends or in a competition. We face west and when weather conditions permit, there's nothing better than fishing while watching a sunset which is different each evening.
Thanks for sharing that Steve - living near the sea really helps I think
Really enjoy your down to earth ventures. Your' right it's about much more than catching. Sanity!
Sanity ! Yes good point
Why we go fishing , for me is that feeling that can't be expressed. Learning to connect with the sea and sky . Its not something you can explain in words . Sea fishing opens you up to a different world . Sometimes its not about catching but it does help hahahha like the channel my friend
Great comment thanks
Morning. Great video.
I’ve been course and carp fishing since I was a kid. A few years ago a mate invited me sea fishing. Loved it. Bought some second hand gear from our local tackle shop and go regularly now. Here on the east coast it’s pretty tough but love the fact we can get to the beach after work and spend four or five hours fishing and catching up.
Whiting, whiting and whiting at the moment but we still have fun👍
I fish because I wanted to get back to it from nearly 45 years ago! I started looking at RUclips vids and then got in touch with my cousin Roy from Wallasey who is an amazing sea angler. He pointed me in the right direction. This was summer 2023. My first cast got me a lovely 1 1/2lb bass! I was hooked! I love the technical aspect of the gear and rigs. Getting out to the coast is fantastic and living in central Lincolnshire its less than 2 hours away. If I blank, it doesn't really bother me, but I am competitive so I see it as a challenge. I want to learn from all you Tubers, which is great as you share your secret ways, this was never available all those years ago! So for that, I thank you for your great videos! Tight lines 🎣
Loved reading this thank you for sharing your thoughts and the beginnings of your sea angling adventure
I am 67 now. First fish was an Eel followed by a Flounder. I was 14. I remember it as if it was yesterday.
I love being by the sea. The anticipation of catching.
Funny how I wouldn't hike or walk in bad weather, but will quite happily fish 😁
Not interested in competition or the latest gear. I obviously do update my equipment but my methods, " bait and wait" are still basically the same. I love the idea of catching wild fish.
Good job we are all different.
Thank you for all you do Matt.
Love this ⬆️
My first fish was a flounder caught in the Menai Straits many years ago. As a teacher it's about the peace I get when I'm out on my own and the laughs when out with the lads 🐟🎣
Well said !
I have been both sea boat fishing and shore fishing I’m pretty sure for as long as I remember my location choices when shore fishing aren’t the best and I blank about 80% of the time but I do like the serenity of the beach. Being out and the only one on a peaceful beach watching the sunrise is just calming for me but unfortunately or more fortunately my first catch was a conger that was the height of me at the time when I was about 14-15 over lockdown
Thanks for sharing! That’s a great first catch
I am a newcomer to your channel and wanted to say a huge thank you! I have learnt loads already and it’s so nice to see somewhere familiar (Hastings!) have been coming there since I was a very young kid and will be there again next week…. Of course fishing! Hopefully we cross paths would really like to have a chat and pick your brains!
For me it’s the perfect excuse to sit and relax in the most natural and stunning surroundings perfect for anyone’s mental health!
Great content
Tight lines Matt
Thanks for saying hi- appreciate the feedback - feel free to say hi if you see me on the beach fishing
About 60 years ago i caught an eel, i was with my mates we were all in the region of 10-11years old, i was over the moon fishing from a jetty with a centre pin reel and a rod made out of a bamboo cane home made. In them days you had to improvise whipped homemade eyes on made of stiff wire and talked to all the older fishermen and caged hooks, weights, even learned to make our own weights.👍👍👍🎣🎣🎣
What a memory! Love this thanks as always
Homemade rods? That would have been satisfying. I still love the look of those professionally made split-cane rods. Beautiful craftsmanship.
Ah those were the days. fish in the sea. Primitive tackle, but boy was it fun!
I need to watch your videos more! Great one right here, I love the style. My first answer to why I fish would be to be outside, outdoors, not surrounded by straight lines and shape angles. To see the sunlight unobstructed by glass. And then, I always was saying that I'm after trophy fish. Not after another bass or another dogfish but trophy fish! That speaks to this optimism you gotta have while getting set up. I feel like this optimism is becoming depleted in me. Anyway, it's a mixture of all of the above why I go fishing. Thanks for this video and big kudos on all your hard work on this channel!
Awesome thoughts mate. Although you might feel your optimism waining . There will come a moment that changes that, a black swan event a surprise catch or a moment in nature you don't expect.
Nothing beats being outside in the fresh air amongst nature. And after all the hard work and hours standing out in the freezing cold, when you eventually get home with that fish and eat it…the sense of accomplishment is like no other 👌🏼
Superb comment thanks !
my first sea fish were caught with a shrimping net at Greatstone in Kent, on our annual day out to the beach back in the 70's. Tiny little flatfish of multiple species. Then going to Dungeness with a little spinning rod and catching a pouting wirh some lugworm when I was about 6 years old . After that going on my first holiday to Pevensey bay and using shrimps as bait to catch whiting. Then a year after getting a small conger on Mackerel and losing a big bass in the edge . such happy memories . Loved the video and really got me thinking . Tight lines
Wonderful comment thank you enjoyed reading that
First fish 50yrs ago, a clyde cod, second argyll brownie, and 3rd a beautiful seatrout... and I was hooked. Now older probably realise, its the on yer own, in God's country. Thanks for what you do.
I’m smiling here reading that ! 💪
First fish as a kid with my dad was a Rainbow Trout.
It was so beautiful straight out of the river on a children's rod.
My dad didn't catch but was really happy when i reeled it in.
We took it back to the caravan it went straight on the BBQ, it tasted so nice.
I was hooked as much as the Trout.
😂
After that we would be on a key side in Cornwall or Devon fishing, that was when it got really interesting.
My first sea fish was a little pouting followed by a Pollock.
They got put back to live another day.
I always came back to sea fishing, i don't think you can beat a day by the coast.
Never knowing what night be on the end of the line.
Peace the noise of the sea and the wildlife.
Good company sometimes.
What a beautiful way to enjoy life.
Thank you for a fantastic video Matt all the best 👍🖖
Hey thanks for that reply really appreciated a nice read
Great topic Matt why do we do it ? I remember my first fish a work mate invited me down to Shoreham 30 odd years age I borrowed one of his rods and I caught a small whiting the excitement at the time was never to be forgotten, but now 30 years on my two boys still come fishing and as a new grandad hopefully my grandson will join us, what I get out of fishing is spending time with my son's as best mates and coming away without eny stress........Brendon
That's awesome 👏
You've got some waders Matt!! I remember you saying you liked to physically feel the water temperature & conditions, etc., which is a very valid point, & something that hadn't occurred to me, but at this time of year waders have their advantages! For me, the attraction is the pure & simple joy of catching a fish, born in childhood as with most anglers, catching sticklebacks in the local canal, but I soon decided sea fishing is the only way for me, whether from boat or shore, it doesn't matter. Just being by or on the sea does something very beneficial to you, puts everything in perspective. There's nothing quite like it, and if you happen to catch some fish it's an added bonus! Well done Matt, a very well constructed and thoughtful video, thank you.
hello mate, as always appreciate your comments. Some good fish memories there. Waders rule (at least in Feb)
I was actually involved in something else and was listening radio style and suddenly realised how mindfulness your commentary is.
Absolutely spot on
My greatest pleasure while fishing was viewing the Milky Way for the first time due to the location, absolutely mind blowing for a city boy…
Yes 👍 that lack of light pollution, thanks must fish a more remote venue this year to see that again
I'm 63 my first fish was a eel I was 7 then.and love fishing for peace and tranquillity 😊
Amazing ! Happy memories I recon a fair few of us when we were kids had eels as our first fish
My first fish was a Ballan Wrasse too…. From a small boat off the coast of the Isle of Wight with the Bembridge Angling Club…. Great days with the BAC and their monthly members competition… Loved it.
Nice am now looking up some the BAC history online !
Always puts a smile on my face ....thank you
great
My first fish was a bass, a wee little thing but to be it was the biggest fish ever, love beach fishing as it clears my head and listening to the waves really relaxes me and I forget all my problems, it’s freedom of mind for me.
Thanks for sharing!
My first fish was a schoolie caught using a old shakespeare boat rod with a white rag ,sitting on the end of a groin with a incoming tide in about a foot of water when I was about 9
30 years on I still love it 😀
Love that !
Great vid mate . Fishing is for me peace and time to take stock of life I’m happy sat with the radio on dog roaming around and staring out into the sea
Im right there with you!
Optimism in shore angling, the triumph of hope over experience. Not been out for ages, but these videos keep things ticking over until I can go again. Cheers.
Well said!
Is nice to get out. Best thing is when a carefully laid plan, tactics and home-spun methods work out and catch the target species. Of course, a lot of times the plans come to nowt but when they do, your enthusiasm is renewed and all of a sudden the water in front of you is jammed with other hungry imagined customers. Of course, another bite never comes but the optimism is boosted again in the moment - think'll come back tomorrow....
My Dad took me and my brother fishing from a very young age. We’ve been fishing together for over 50 years. Unfortunately our Dad passed away recently so it’s just me and my brother now but we’ve loads of great memories of the time we spent together with Dad and that’s what it was all about to us.
Thanks for sharing that , A strong family bond there.
I go fishing for no other reason than I like it! My first seafish was a small wrass caught off of Bournemouth pier in 1951 with a handline. I remember several years later again fishing with a handline this time off Clarence Pier in Southsea catching a large ray. It was bigger than any of the fish that the experts with their fancy rods caught!
Sounds great!
My first fish was a wrasse off pulpit rock with my Dad when I was about 10 years old on a pole, nearly turned it inside out as I launched it 20 feet through the air on the strike, I was a tad over-excited. That was the only real time I sea-fished until last year. Now I go to either Hayling or Eastney every chance I get and just chuck in a flapper for whiting/doggies/flatties (without much luck) and always a nice big pulley pennel on the off chance there's something big to be had though there hasn't been as of yet. As for why, a day by the sea is better than a day almost anywhere else and maybe, just maybe, I'll catch a fish. Have watched almost all your content over the last year, it's taught me loads and I always look for the next one. Thanks for doing them.
What a great memory thanks for sharing , I looked up pulpit rock too 😀 thanks really interesting comment
I sometimes have mixed feelings about being the only angler on the beach! Enjoy the solitude but then wonder... are there any fish here. Always enjoy your videos. I like the angles that you shoot. Different from the rest in a good way.
Great thank for that feedback too
My first fish was a freshwater Chub, I was 10 at the time, caught on a bamboo cane with a plastic cotton reel screwed into the cane. I took it home in a bucket on the train to show my mum. I'm 75 now and my best was a conga caught near the Sand Banks ferry. I plan to go there in June to see if I can get another. I'm living in Norfolk now and go infrequently to the North coast when the weather is a little kinder. I still have the first rod by the way.
Wonderful memories ! Can’t believe you have the same rod!
Fishing for me these days is an escape from the stress of everyday life plus the opportunity to teach others some of the fishing skills I have picked up over the years.
Hi Brian - yes most rewarding isn't it. I always remember you saying that getting the kids to catch a fish really helps. Keep it up your doing a good job for our community. (Brian is a Angling trust coach who does lessons for all- catch him as the angling coach on facebook - you will also see him in Sea Angler this month)
Spent a good chunk of my childhood on the river bank or day dreaming in class about being on the riverbank . My first time shore fishing was on a family holiday in North folk just after the first lockdown. Like most of the best moments in life completely unplanned, chanced upon a somewhat neglected but serviceable rod and sand spike in the pill box that was at the bottom of the air b&b that we where staying at. Haven’t looked back since.
Thanks for sharing! Love that Irish coastline many memories
Started fishing year ago just great to be outside wee some great places here in North coast of northern Ireland one my doorstep thinks for great video again
Sounds great! Some terrific spots there for you and thanks for watching
I used to fish constantly. In the Summer I would fish for Mackerel / garfish/ Pollack maybe 10 or 12 times. Last year despite numerous observation trips to the Marina I saw precious few mackerel being caught. Never fished there once, only saw one shoal on the beach but caught NONE. I did catch horse mackerel though. Such a shame that kids today don't go fishing in the numbers they used too. They wouldn't believe the numbers of fish we used to catch in the Summer!!!!
Hi Kerry yes i agree. Although experienced anglers and coastal goers like ourselves can understand the holistic elements - For Kids catching fish at the start of their sea fishing journey is so important. Those mackerel seasons very hit and miss.
My first sea fish was a dab fishing off Great Yarmouth pier, Billy Fury was doing a show there.
Great memory thanks for sharing
You hit the nail on the bead at the start. That antispation!!!! And the mentel health side if things. Fishing really helps me out in That aspect of things mate. My first fish was a sea bass. I had next to no gear just the 1 rod no teypod just standing there holding my 15ft cheep rod from ebay on a pully panel with squid and lug. I felt the nock. Thort that was strange reeled in and a cracking bass on the end. You can't beat it. Tight lines matt all the best 🎣🎣🎣
Thanks as always - really good to get your input here- lols to those first rods but they still caught fish
My first fish was a Cole fish on the palice pier Brighton. Many moons ago 😊😊. Just like being out taking part in the hobby weather on your own or with others. If you catch bonus 😊
Yep I’m with you there! Don’t think there’s many coalfish left here In Sussex any more but there were a few caught last year
Although we have an inbuilt primal hunter instinct within which drives man to fish, it does need a catalyst to inflame. My catalyst was my uncle Ray taking me fishing for roach on the Thames, in Henley when I was 5 years old. Instant attraction! My further exploits took many diverse methods and varieties of fishing. Beach fishing holds a special place. It can be a desolate and wild place, testing your skill with the many moods of the sea. You feel at one with nature. Just being outside and having a small reward of success can make you feel alive. I never take a phone!
Glad you gave your thoughts again - great comment as usual 😀
Started fishing last summer and caught a couple of mackerel and that's me hooked, had some great late summer nights fishing off Portencross pier enjoying the sunset across Arran and Cumbrae with owls going off in the background
Good stuff
That's a lovely video and it echos for me why I love my fishing
Glad you enjoyed it
I Caught a little Dab in the summer of 77 from Hornsea North end beach when I was just Eleven and have never looked back 🌊🌊
I was 3 ! great comment thanks
Fishing gives me an opportunity to stop, breathe and reconnect with the natural world. First sea fish? A mackerel from a boat out of Mevagissey. Tight lines 👍
Thanks for that 🎣☀️💨
Awesome again Matt my first fish was a slug those brittle stars r a good bait 4 plaice , as much as I try to beat my granddaughter she kicks my but , love eating what fish we catch , weather here 29 today days r getting shorter forecast 4 weekend rain ( haven't seen rain for months ) .Happy catching from Australia Nick
Good stuff Nick- i didn't even think of using them as bait !
Early days was about 10 fishing off prince of wales pier dover, with grand-parents, caught a small plaice. Then later schoolie bass off Dungeness beach. Hooked for life.
Hooked for life! Love that
My first fish flounder Bournemouth beach I was 8 happy times 65 now u tube has made me to go sea fishing again live in London now
bamboo rod down the dykes with my Dad...some line tied to the end..bottle cork as a float..and a big old garden worm...cork didn't move but i pulled in a Flounder of about a pound...i shall never forget it...we took said fish home (the old man was Irish) and he told me to clean the fish !!!! all i done was wash it under the cold tap....my Dads face was a picture..!! miss you Pops x
Love this thanks
My first fish was a Cuckoo wrasse on the Prince of Wales pier Dover, I was about 10. I used to fish regularly as a kid, All my kit was very basic as we didn't have much money. I have recently taken it up again. I save hard for new rods, reels tackle etc, nothing fancy like century or Ziplex, but I love my penn and akios rods, and I enjoy learning about weather conditions, and bait presentation. I love being in the open, I got sick of staring at a phone and wasting my time off work. It's really good for my mental health as I have condition that effects my quality of life. Planning a fishing trip is a much welcome distraction.
Thanks for sharing with us here. Ive always appreciated your comments here on the channel too
@@SaltwaterAngler Thanks alot I appreciate your comment. Like you I tried recently for a Ray, I've not caught one yet. I was over at Leysdown on the isle of Sheppy recently. Blanked! Fishing with 2 rods on pulleys, nice bluey and herring baits, only had one rod rattle in 5 hours. Everything looked perfect in terms of wind, conditions etc. What made it worse was a guy uploaded a video of the same mark a few days before I went, and he and his pals caught at least 6. I'll keep plugging away. Thanks for your videos, a real motivation and help to me. Every video gets a 👍
A great form of relaxation .
Yes I agree
Hi Matt - great video thanks as always. On catch-up again.
Why do I go fishing? Well, I'm not going so much these days, but it was always to catch Fish for the pan, plus the camaraderie of fishing with good mates. Health problems have meant I can't go so much, the bad weather affects that too. Also, my favourite guy that I fish with has found out that his Wife is terminally ill, so neither of us have been out yet this year.
First fish I caught was over 50 years ago. I'd gone down to a local tidal estuary in my early teens with some friends & family, and had been casting out lures on a little old Edgar Sealy spinning rod. Nothing was biting, got fed up, and left the rod on a grass bank with the lure still in the water. I saw the rod move so grabbed it quickly and I'd caught an Eel! Keep the vids coming - stay safe & well! 🎣🎣👍👍
Hi Dave , sorry for the delay I just though you hadn’t commented for a while … and there you were! Thanks mate some interesting thoughtful comments there thank you 🙏
@@SaltwaterAnglerHi Matt - sadly, I just dont seem to have the time for RUclips that I used to. Hope you're having a good Easter. Wifey's Offspring here so been busy all weekend so far! 👍👍
A nice try & a nice little video 👍. I live in the area & Dymchurch has been quite disappointing this year, which I believe is due to commercial fishing (netting) & all the freshwater being dumped in the sea from all the marsh outflows.
Thanks for that - it faired well that year after covid but maybe it comes in cycles. You raised a good point here interesting about the water conditions
Escapism , sometimes solitude, sometimes a match fish , general mental health refresh but… always always looking for a PB whatever species . First fish a flounder and still amused to this day anglers debating 🤔plaice or flounder …. 🤔Could be a dab🙄😁😵💫 thanks for sharing
Ha yes great reply as always
Great for getting out the house when the Missus is on one.
Yea I wasn’t bold enough to mention that !
@@SaltwaterAngler 🤣
I was about 8 in the Scilly Isles, first fish a ballan wrasse on a cheap orange handline with limpet for bait - unforgetable.
Terrific
You are right about the benefits of sea fishing you always feel good after a couple of hours down the beach, especially when it all comes together with a good catch or the weather has been kind and you have had a relaxing session. I am lucky, I live on the coast and live only a couple of hundred yards from the beach so I can pick and choose when I want fish but you also see the other side of the state of our coastline. I spend a fair bit of time picking up rubbish alongside other local people, we all know the joys of hauling in plastic bags! {not}. Enough of the rants! On a lighter note, my first fish was a Billet (The North Yorkshire name for Coalfish) from Whitby Harbour in 1957 when I was five years old.
Love it mate. Reading your comment with a smile and nod! We always take a bin bag fishing and put more rubbish in it than an average coastal user. I think of it as a net gain
I do the 5 rule, I collect 5 items, or if its gone well I collect rubbish for 5 minutes. Enjoyed your post 👍
I’ve started to get into sea fishing again as I have not renewed my subscription for the Welsh Dee, salmon are almost as rare as rocking horse poo now, mainly due due to the lack of effort by the NRW.
That’s a shame - I have read up on some of the old Salmon rivers. There should be plenty of help here on the channel for the Sea fishing side
My first sea fish I ever caught was a small floundering was about 7yrs old so I took it home and my mum fried for me bean fishing ever since now iam 66yrs old.
I love all kinds of fishing, fly, course and sea. Sea is always excuting its 2hrs in all directions so getting ti the seaside is a trek but worth it.
First fish Matt caught was codling from sheerness in front of where tesco is in was in height of Winter in or around 1973
Ha before i was born! Long live the cod- one day they will be back
It's probably redicelos but I started to beach fishing after reading book sea wolf 😄
As a city dweller I go for solitude and 360° skies
Yes! its like a window on the world
First fish also a bright red balian wrasse, seemed like a record breaker at the time, aged 6 in Alderney harbor on a red and white float, can’t remember the bait
Amazing ! Love that you remember the colour of the float
first sea fish was a sole bognor pier 1980s i like the rig making use to like bait colecting too old now i like out doors and i feed the cats the odd dog fish i like the like minded friends x
Yes interested how the elements within sea fishing change with age
When I sent out that 12 ft beachcaster and 3 plaice in 5 minutes the buzz was amazing seeing these flat fuckerscflapping on pebbles under a full moon unreal
Fishing the ebb at night is key in Kent
My first fish was a Whiting… as it happens so was the last fish I caught (about a week ago)
Ha ha ! Welcome
first fish i ever caught sea fishing was a whiting on a friends boat about 3 miles out from southend pier... i had my first dogfish on the same day.. i was chuffed to bits
Yes! i think its important to remember that how good it felt- even that dogfish i remember being my mini shark!
Like to think so Matt 1997 was brilliant lot codling caught were around 3pounds from thames gravesend, mark behind gandi curry house very deep water.
My first ever go at sea fishing my first cast l caught a bass ,it was in a foot of water .
Thats a great first catch and memory !
Are the star fish any good as bait?
10" wild brown trout 😊
A classic!
After spending £100’s on kit and hours collecting bait and driving an hour to spend another 4 waiting for the rod tip to go, ruining the kitchen and stinking out the bin gutting and filleting, there’s nothing quite like eating that free fish you cought 😅
Excellent observations !
I need to get out with an experanced fisher man who can tell me where i am going wrong . I dont know anyone so thats it . They say practice makes perfect???? i just drown worms lol . I live in Galway Ireland so if anyone whos watching willing to teach me please get intouch .Many Thanks 👍👍👍👍
Anyone help out here ? Thanks @cbirder726
I like fishing because itl gets me away from all the noise and stress of my life. I do quite well and definately do not spend much money on kit, it doesn´t have to be modern expensive kit for me, just have to have the right bait at the right place at the right time. I use mussels and anything I find at the local beaches as baits, mackrel as well. Catching fish is not that important as such, where I live (Denmark) it is limited to one cod and one salmon per person per day. I don´t mind what fish I catch as such, a lot of flatties here, mackrel and herring, some good sea trout (biggest I have caught is 6,8kg) garfish. I own a kennel, so peace and quiet is the bonus, although I do take friends out in my boat sometimes. First sea fish I caught was a flattie in the river Colne (Colchester) at the mill at the bottom of East Hill (I was about 10 years old), before they cut the brackish water off from coming up the river, I remember the glass-eels climbing over the weir. Now I live abroad, but I often think of the cold winter nights catching whiting from the pier at Walton on the Naze.
Hi can you make a video to pendrulum cast how you do it I want to be able to cast super fat but not that good at it
Ok 👍
in river was a brown trout sea was a pouting
Good old brownies!
I'm an out an out tackle tart lol
Ha ha ! There’s always something you need
I like catching something I can eat but I still enjoy it if i blank
Sea fishing for me is a way of getting away from everything the peace and solitude especially with mental health issues 52 years of fishing and I still don't eat fish
Thanks for sharing that I like that there are so many elements within sea fishing we can choose to lean in to or disregard
Fishing to me is an excuse to sit by the sea and ignore the unpleasantness of the modern world. I often say if they banned fishing tomorrow, I would still go and sit down the beach, pier and harbour (after rioting).
Why Sea Fishing?
For me, there's a degree of freedom sea fishing that you definitely don't get with (In Britain at least) coarse, river and fly fishing. Though I am entirely catch and release, have the highest care for fish welfare and am a stickler for fishing regs national & local, I can't stand being told what to do.
I occasionally read through the pages and pages of rules for day ticket lakes and club waters around me and always end up irritated, despite never having any plans to fish there.
Maybe I'm just antisocial. Making solitary sea fishing, usually at night, the ideal pursuit.
I’m chuckling and agreeing with you here- making me think too
@@SaltwaterAngler Great video mate.
Piscator non solum piscatur.
Exactly !
mental health due to my illness
Thanks for your comment -wish you well 🎣
@@SaltwaterAngler sorry to say that it will kill me in the end that is way i call my self dead man walking C.O.P.D is not nice thing to have and i could tell you a lot about Hastings from the 60's
I love if but after having heart surgery I'm w0rrted about being on my own
Yep understood. Piers and Jerry’s with other anglers a possibility maybe ?
You don't take the barbs off !!!..I've had a barbed hook taken out of my finger twice..do you know how painful and hard they are to get out..!!.???..I've taken barbs off ally hooks for over 25years, including lures...I have NEVER lost a fish..!!
There is no point.the fish in most places are not about.traweller from all over the world have taken and destroyed everywere.i gave it up.
Sorry to hear that
What's the point in Sea Angling ? I know : wasting time 😂😂👌👌
My first fish was a perch on spinner when I was 7 or 8. That spinner went on to catch me probably 40 or 50 trout and perch that year, while my friends were catching only leaves and twigs next to me. I ended up loosing it into some bushes- spent at least 6 hours looking for it but with no success. I still have dreams about where its exact location is to this day 😂
You. Will have to get another one ! The lucky spinner