love watching Graham fish it feels in the weeks I can't go mind you I prefer beach,sea fishing but the knowledge behind Graham is brilliant not just the fishing but the areas he goes to tides on what they can be like and the rivers ponds etc what they are like and the best marks to look out for. one of the best you tubers out there and for us brits the best you tuber.
No probs Stuart from the Frozen North...more to come,might start double uploading again as I get bored easily now the nights are drawing in....GP from the grey,miserable,windy South....
i have only just found your channel 🙂 and have been glued to it all day. i am recovering from a operation and stuck in bed , hopeful of a recovery in time for a spot of pike fishing. some of the best fishing uploads i have seen on youtube 🙂🙂🙂😉
Some lovely fish there Greame. Never caught a zander but used to see some big ones come out of Coombe Abbey many years ago when I used to fish for the large bream shoals there. Think I may have to give fishing for zander a try. 👍
Another great video Graeme, lovely setting, great night filming and editing, you deserve all the praise you get for the entertainment you bring to us. I will be cheeky and throw you a tip for a change. Get the wife to sew leather patches into your trousers where you kneel in the damp, although you may not have it now it could save you from rheumatic pain later on in life. Thanks for posting.
Hi Graham. While zanders teeth look like pikes they are in fact very different, they are not sharp on the sides like a pikes (so they won't slit you up like a razor) rather they are just sharply pointed, for that reason you can fish for them without a wire trace, they will not break you off. We mostly use fluorocarbon 0.20-0.45mm normally gets the job done, with a braid mainline. Zander aren't as finicky as you think, it's just the ones you are fishing for are pressured and not living in ideal conditions being stuck in what is basically a pond like that, naturally they are found in tidal areas, flowing estuaries and move into brackish water, in fact when they are found in still water they tend to only be deep eutrophic lakes, it's actually quite sad to see that they've been stocked there. I'd love to invite you over to the nieuwe Maas to fish for them with lures, I guarantee you will see they are a powerful and voracious Predator, nearly ripping the rod from your hands when they take. You can catch them all times of the day however the dead of the night is best, in shallower water they will even move up in the water column and take top water lures, but only in the summer and only in the dead of the night. Hope I could give you some info! From a scouser living in the Netherlands (ps in Netherlands it's "snoekbaars" snoek meaning pike, baars meaning perch and pronounced snook-baahs.)
I found your post very interesting. Thanks for taking the time to write it up. I've caught them in Spain (reservoir called Santa Anna). Heavy, continuous rain made the cliff-side track impassable so we ended up having to eat them! Is it true that the Wels catfish is a protected species in the Netherlands & fishing for them is strictly verboden?
@@TAFishing are there also pike at this fishery? As I wonder if fishery owner realises he is probably doing more harm than good if demanding people use wire, it can cut into the fish causing lip and jaw damage much worse than the damage caused by a hook. If there's no pike maybe he should think about swerving the wire trace rule.
Graeme, I've started using my headphones when watching yer vids , all the background noises make it feel like I'm there with you... the sound levels jump around a bit but its great... As its night fishing, I also turn the lights off in the living room... next step might be to remove the coffee table & set up the bivvy ! 😂 From the Emerald Isle 😎👍☘️🍺
i just discovered your channel a few weeks back and really enjoyed the content and have subscribed, i think I'm going to spending a lot of time catching up on your old videos. i laughed so much when you rinsed out your kettle incase there was a spider lurking..haha.. all the best and tight lines for future ventures
I keep thinking you should do a colab video with Barry Lewis. It could be a fun mix of laid back all-day or overnight fishing and cooking something fun to fill in the time between the action.
The usual alternative to wire is thick fluorocarbon, it'll survive pike and all sorts toothy critters (do check it for damage after a fish though). Obviously it's not as bombproof as wire but it's tough stuff, a good bit more flexible and a lot harder to see
When me and my friends fish for Zander we use fluorocarbon line as trace material. About 0.45 mm is the diameter we use. This will often hold even if you catch an odd pike or two.
Always great viewing.....have you tried mullet fishing? Do you ever eat a fish you catch, say just 2 small fillets on the camp grill when all nighting? Perch or barbell reckon would be nice eating.
Well, as with everything in fishing, there are no hard and fast rules. A kid down my local lake caught a pike on sweetcorn in the summer. But in general, zander are much less likely to take sea baits as appose to freshwater ones, so I’m lead to believe.
@@jimmyfireball I’m quite lucky as I live in the midlands and fish the canals for them. I can experiment a lot. Smelt and roach sections my go to baits for them. Water dependant I’m sure like any venue I suppose, fish will prefer certain baits.
@@piscatorialquagswagging good info to know that pal. As the nearest place to me I know to hold zander is about 1hr & 1/2 away. I do plan to go at some point to target them.
Great vid as always, what is that sharks mouth from on your wall? I would love something like that. A proper fishing trophy! I Had a 4lb rainbow trout head mounted. 😀
I'm no zander expert either Graeme, but I knew a couple of old boys back in the 80's who were phenomenal!! ... That's when angling associations considered zander to be an alien & illegally stocked species, & wanted them eradicated. And I passed the 2 old boys on the bank early one morning & I must have looked sceptical when they told me that they'd been fishing for 3hrs & caught 18 zander, because they said "look in the hessian sacks behind you!". They had zander from 3lbs to 14lbs, with many close to or over double figures!! 😨😨 = all on "freelined" freshly caught & killed gudgeon deadbait. ... which they "slashed" a couple of times along the length of the fish using a sharp craft knife before casting (very important apparently)
More to come hopefully,I just got back from sea fishing in Ireland after driving through the night....set a new record for me...EIGHT films in the files from just six days and 4 night sessions...Took me 4 hours just to sort all the clips out...
40 years ago we fished cambridge drains and it got to a stage where we were catching four,five inch zander on maggot they were definatly packed up together,in the end thats all that was left to catch.
When I first started fishing for big cats ( flatheads and Blue cats) back in the early 90’s , I was using steel leaders ( wire trace if you prefer) until I caught some flatheads that had a steel leader coming out of its gullet or sticking out of it’s “bunghole”, bumhole, whatever, anyway after seeing that I stopped using steel leaders and just used heavier monofilament. The places I’m talking about that I fished were what we called paylakes or pay ponds, probably sorta similar to what you all call syndicated lakes or whatever? I don’t know what you would call them over there, but you probably know what I’m talking about Graeme when I say paylakes or pay pond’s..? Oh and those Zander or Pike Perch, looks like what we call Walleyes here, I guess in different parts of the world certain same fish have a different name.
Come and fish orchid lakes in oxford club lake is a really good catfish water but packed full of loads of species would love to get on the bank with you
Im just starting out specimen carp fishing, ive been course fishing for years however, but ive just brought a bivvy, has anyone had any bad experiences night fishing? Or got any good advice? Thanks
what do you do if you need a wee or a poo on an alnighter with all your gear out, I can't imagine you can leave it just asking as you say it's for beginners who need to know!!
Love 2C a bit ol' Bury Hill pike G!? 🐊 Never show in these vids, do they bud. Wonder why? Love 2C U whack on a whole mackerel on a second rod my man! How about it? Love the show. Long time viewer x
I always appreciate your videos but fishing for Zander just seems such an uninspiring form of angling. Pathetic fight, ugly looking fish, fairly small. Not nearly as inspirational as your Carp or Catfish videos.
But I try to catch as many different species with as varied techniques as possible. I cannot think of anything more mind-numbing that getting stuck on one or two species...Once you've got a ceiling weight in either where do you go from there ? I just got back from sea fishing in Ireland...So refreshing just to get out in a boat and bend the rods on different species.Each to their own I guess.
@@TAFishing I’ve caught >1000 plus fish on the midlands canals my best 11lb 8oz. They are stunning looking fish especially at that size and they do fight well on balanced gear. As you say variety is the spice of life I couldn’t think anything worse than fishing for carp 24/7. Keep up the good work !! And keep them coming !!
I love these over night fishing videos . Brings back the memory s of when me and my grandad went night fishing. He would have loved these video. 👍🎣
love watching Graham fish it feels in the weeks I can't go mind you I prefer beach,sea fishing but the knowledge behind Graham is brilliant not just the fishing but the areas he goes to tides on what they can be like and the rivers ponds etc what they are like and the best marks to look out for. one of the best you tubers out there and for us brits the best you tuber.
know its going to be a good night when you have Graeme on the cam!
Thanks Graeme and team. Regards Stuart from the frozen North👍
No probs Stuart from the Frozen North...more to come,might start double uploading again as I get bored easily now the nights are drawing in....GP from the grey,miserable,windy South....
i have only just found your channel 🙂 and have been glued to it all day. i am recovering from a operation and stuck in bed , hopeful of a recovery in time for a spot of pike fishing. some of the best fishing uploads i have seen on youtube 🙂🙂🙂😉
That first zander was so small that seagull seemed to fancy its chances!!
Have been wanting another TA over nighter carping vid, fantastic stuff 👌
Some lovely fish there Greame. Never caught a zander but used to see some big ones come out of Coombe Abbey many years ago when I used to fish for the large bream shoals there. Think I may have to give fishing for zander a try. 👍
Another great video Graeme, lovely setting, great night filming and editing, you deserve all the praise you get for the entertainment you bring to us. I will be cheeky and throw you a tip for a change. Get the wife to sew leather patches into your trousers where you kneel in the damp, although you may not have it now it could save you from rheumatic pain later on in life. Thanks for posting.
good tip ,thanks for that. I think there are outdoor trousers that have those knee pads sewn into them.
Nice evening session Graham, tight lines
I love night videos
Hi Graham. While zanders teeth look like pikes they are in fact very different, they are not sharp on the sides like a pikes (so they won't slit you up like a razor) rather they are just sharply pointed, for that reason you can fish for them without a wire trace, they will not break you off. We mostly use fluorocarbon 0.20-0.45mm normally gets the job done, with a braid mainline. Zander aren't as finicky as you think, it's just the ones you are fishing for are pressured and not living in ideal conditions being stuck in what is basically a pond like that, naturally they are found in tidal areas, flowing estuaries and move into brackish water, in fact when they are found in still water they tend to only be deep eutrophic lakes, it's actually quite sad to see that they've been stocked there. I'd love to invite you over to the nieuwe Maas to fish for them with lures, I guarantee you will see they are a powerful and voracious Predator, nearly ripping the rod from your hands when they take. You can catch them all times of the day however the dead of the night is best, in shallower water they will even move up in the water column and take top water lures, but only in the summer and only in the dead of the night. Hope I could give you some info! From a scouser living in the Netherlands (ps in Netherlands it's "snoekbaars" snoek meaning pike, baars meaning perch and pronounced snook-baahs.)
I found your post very interesting. Thanks for taking the time to write it up. I've caught them in Spain (reservoir called Santa Anna). Heavy, continuous rain made the cliff-side track impassable so we ended up having to eat them! Is it true that the Wels catfish is a protected species in the Netherlands & fishing for them is strictly verboden?
Good info there,thanks for taking the time to write as it might give others some food for thought.
@@ultravires987 that was the case until around a year ago when sport was opened for them again as the stocks had replenished.
@@TAFishing are there also pike at this fishery? As I wonder if fishery owner realises he is probably doing more harm than good if demanding people use wire, it can cut into the fish causing lip and jaw damage much worse than the damage caused by a hook. If there's no pike maybe he should think about swerving the wire trace rule.
Graeme, I've started using my headphones when watching yer vids , all the background noises make it feel like I'm there with you... the sound levels jump around a bit but its great... As its night fishing, I also turn the lights off in the living room... next step might be to remove the coffee table & set up the bivvy ! 😂
From the Emerald Isle
😎👍☘️🍺
TA Fishing on a Friday night....i love it!
i just discovered your channel a few weeks back and really enjoyed the content and have subscribed,
i think I'm going to spending a lot of time catching up on your old videos.
i laughed so much when you rinsed out your kettle incase there was a spider lurking..haha..
all the best and tight lines for future ventures
I don’t fish but I love your videos! Always a blast! Thanks Graham!
One time in the mountains a marmot ran off with my sweaty civies! 😂
You are a legend Graeme . Love your videos and I have learnt a lot from you especially sea fishing 👍
Moe sea stuff to come. Might start double uploading again as the nights draw in.
@@TAFishing fantastic
Amazing perfect content as per watching around my camping with a beer Mr pullen you smash it once again I think the best fishing RUclipsr in the world
What a credit..."Best RUclipsr in the World" ...I like the sound of that...has a certain ring to it.
Agreed, I can’t find a better fishing channel.
I keep thinking you should do a colab video with Barry Lewis. It could be a fun mix of laid back all-day or overnight fishing and cooking something fun to fill in the time between the action.
Happy Friday boy's✌
Graeme. Thanks for taking us out on the trip.
Pleased to take everyone along...
Excellent video full of info and atmosphere...thnx
Pure class
The usual alternative to wire is thick fluorocarbon, it'll survive pike and all sorts toothy critters (do check it for damage after a fish though). Obviously it's not as bombproof as wire but it's tough stuff, a good bit more flexible and a lot harder to see
Cracking session Graham. Lovely zander. I've done well for barbel on a full moon.
Good Ole vampire fish
Grahame what a loverly fishing trip proper bagged up ✌️
Quality stuff Graeme!
I remember, years ago watching Keith Floyd cooking "pike perch". I had no idea what it was, as it was already filleted. Now I know.
You are like the grandfather I never had coz mine didn’t like fishing & I love it
Great video Graham. Old school name pike perch but not a, cross. A Completely different species.
We’re booked in to fish this lake next week. Cannot wait
What lake is it and what's the biggest fish?
Looks a lot like bury hill to me
@@botluke190 bury hill fisheries, old lake 👍
@@animalboy4122 do you know the biggest carp in it?
@@botluke190 I believe that the carp go over 30lb in the old lake. but they also have another lake with 40lb carp in. Have a look on their website 👍
You’re a fountain of fishing knowledge!
Gushing with information ! Trickling out tips ,not watering down anything !!
Absolutely wonderful
Nice video Graeme 🎣 ,🇨🇦😉
Nice video Greaeme thank you .
Man I wondered where you were. Man alive.
When you are smiling at the camera with a beautiful fish in your hands you look as young as Mike! Nice fishing trip to share with us. Thanks.
I feel as young as Mike,but the joints are saying otherwise....
Che belle catture 👏👏👏👏
Great video as always! 👍
When me and my friends fish for Zander we use fluorocarbon line as trace material. About 0.45 mm is the diameter we use. This will often hold even if you catch an odd pike or two.
good vid
Always great viewing.....have you tried mullet fishing? Do you ever eat a fish you catch, say just 2 small fillets on the camp grill when all nighting? Perch or barbell reckon would be nice eating.
Yes done mullet fishing but we generally return them.
I will have to give that a go 👍 🐟
Plagued by water shrews yesterday....very creepy and not scared at all.
More of these gray pls mate 🙏
Hi bro stay safe viewers from Singapore 🇸🇬
I’ve read a few places that unlike pike, zander will only take freshwater baits.
I've caught them on smelt and also sprats
Well, as with everything in fishing, there are no hard and fast rules. A kid down my local lake caught a pike on sweetcorn in the summer. But in general, zander are much less likely to take sea baits as appose to freshwater ones, so I’m lead to believe.
@@jimmyfireball I’m quite lucky as I live in the midlands and fish the canals for them. I can experiment a lot. Smelt and roach sections my go to baits for them. Water dependant I’m
sure like any venue I suppose, fish will prefer certain baits.
@@piscatorialquagswagging good info to know that pal. As the nearest place to me I know to hold zander is about 1hr & 1/2 away. I do plan to go at some point to target them.
Great vid as always, what is that sharks mouth from on your wall? I would love something like that. A proper fishing trophy! I Had a 4lb rainbow trout head mounted. 😀
I'm no zander expert either Graeme, but I knew a couple of old boys back in the 80's who were phenomenal!! ... That's when angling associations considered zander to be an alien & illegally stocked species, & wanted them eradicated. And I passed the 2 old boys on the bank early one morning & I must have looked sceptical when they told me that they'd been fishing for 3hrs & caught 18 zander, because they said "look in the hessian sacks behind you!".
They had zander from 3lbs to 14lbs, with many close to or over double figures!! 😨😨 = all on "freelined" freshly caught & killed gudgeon deadbait. ... which they "slashed" a couple of times along the length of the fish using a sharp craft knife before casting (very important apparently)
Greame, this autumn started September 22nd.
Going this weekend! Tight lines!
Good luck.
So you wash out your water pot for possible spiders. Well, I guess the British spiders like a spot of tea now and then.
Looks like what we call walleye/pickerel here in Canada
Thank you for sharing.... Nice video, I always enjoy watching your videos....
More to come hopefully,I just got back from sea fishing in Ireland after driving through the night....set a new record for me...EIGHT films in the files from just six days and 4 night sessions...Took me 4 hours just to sort all the clips out...
Wow 4 hrs that's allot of work .
I can't wait to see your trip to Ireland. I look forward to all the new vlogs....!!!!😊👍
40 years ago we fished cambridge drains and it got to a stage where we were catching four,five inch zander on maggot they were definatly packed up together,in the end thats all that was left to catch.
When I first started fishing for big cats ( flatheads and Blue cats) back in the early 90’s , I was using steel leaders ( wire trace if you prefer) until I caught some flatheads that had a steel leader coming out of its gullet or sticking out of it’s “bunghole”, bumhole, whatever, anyway after seeing that I stopped using steel leaders and just used heavier monofilament. The places I’m talking about that I fished were what we called paylakes or pay ponds, probably sorta similar to what you all call syndicated lakes or whatever? I don’t know what you would call them over there, but you probably know what I’m talking about Graeme when I say paylakes or pay pond’s..? Oh and those Zander or Pike Perch, looks like what we call Walleyes here, I guess in different parts of the world certain same fish have a different name.
Called day ticket waters in UK if any one can pay to fish or syndicate if own by group of anglers.
And Zander are cousin of walleye
@@phillbarlow125 - Cool! Thank you, I appreciate that!
All nighter. Sea fishing for me tomorrow... 6 pm to set up in daylight, then right through the tides till around 7am.
It's either that or "strictly"
Should be "strictly Fishing !"...Good luck with the trip.
On my local river in Suffolk, smelt used to work well for zander I had my pb of 9lb 6oz on one
No wire? Circle hooks would be my choice fresh or salt... i love em for barracuda on live bait.
"Didn't these fish do well!"
I'd love to fish for Zander but nothing near me as far as I'm aware, and Bury Hill is now Members only.
Graham you have amazing content keep it up buddy 👏 👍
I try to keep it real...you get what you get with my films,no frills,just the way it is.
Great films buddy 👍 you deffo taught me a thing or ten haha thankyou!!
Brilliant thank you
No problem,more to come.
Kind of looks like a walleye from New York
Zander kind of look like Walleye. I wonder if they are in the same family.
There cousins
@@phillbarlow125 I think you mean they're.
@@chipparker781 atleast I didn't have to wonder chip
I used to catch a lot of Zander on the Warwickshire Avon. Lovely looking fish and apparently they are great eating.
Come and fish orchid lakes in oxford club lake is a really good catfish water but packed full of loads of species would love to get on the bank with you
Thnx for another great video, Graeme :) Have a nice weekend
Thanks,I'll be cracking out some sea fishing vids I think ,nothing on tv so I might start doing some double-load weeks.
Looking forward to the next trip on High Sea Drifter and/or on the beach Graeme
Just back from a mega sesh fishing in Ireland.Check our Facebook,big Common Skate on there.
Not on faceache ,will it be on RUclips Graeme ?
Nothing beats night-fishing. Any plans on spending a night after catfish Graeme?
Not now the weather is on the change.
Im just starting out specimen carp fishing, ive been course fishing for years however, but ive just brought a bivvy, has anyone had any bad experiences night fishing? Or got any good advice? Thanks
sometimes you set your clock to the bite. every 1/2 hour or so.
Is this the Bury Hill fishery in Surrey. Never been there but looks like a visit on the cards, if I have the right place .
Yes,its in Surrey.
what do you do if you need a wee or a poo on an alnighter with all your gear out, I can't imagine you can leave it
just asking as you say it's for beginners who need to know!!
Toilet at the fishery.
I have a designated bucket with a biohazard sticker on it
Critical balanced my arse
I guess you never got the tongue in cheek rib at critically balanced then ?
Nope. Oh and in Holland that use either straight braid or line for the reel to catch zander
I love the cook ups you do but miss you sea fishing, I suppose you live to far from the sea never mind your are still a legend 👻👽
Just got back from driving through the night after a very productive trip to Ireland. Films to follow. Check out our Facebook.
Love 2C a bit ol' Bury Hill pike G!? 🐊 Never show in these vids, do they bud. Wonder why? Love 2C U whack on a whole mackerel on a second rod my man! How about it? Love the show. Long time viewer x
Its always great to have a session at OBH...one of the last natural Estate type lakes with mixed fishing.
Graeme i think the mini pike pack is various fish not actual baby pike 😂🙈
Please upload mullet fishing videos thank you
I always appreciate your videos but fishing for Zander just seems such an uninspiring form of angling. Pathetic fight, ugly looking fish, fairly small. Not nearly as inspirational as your Carp or Catfish videos.
But I try to catch as many different species with as varied techniques as possible. I cannot think of anything more mind-numbing that getting stuck on one or two species...Once you've got a ceiling weight in either where do you go from there ? I just got back from sea fishing in Ireland...So refreshing just to get out in a boat and bend the rods on different species.Each to their own I guess.
@@TAFishing I’ve caught >1000 plus fish on the midlands canals my best 11lb 8oz. They are stunning looking fish especially at that size and they do fight well on balanced gear. As you say variety is the spice of life I couldn’t think anything worse than fishing for carp 24/7. Keep up the good work !! And keep them coming !!