Thank you Jon You are not just already set up On the side of the bank fishing. You are showing the hard work That goes in to being a good angler Thank you for the insight
Soil is a bulking agent that adds weight but no feed and I'd use anything from 20% to 80% soil in my river mixes. PV1 is a sugar-based additive that you can use as a binder and I'd probably only add 10% to my mix to help it stick and get to the bottom, however I don't use it too often on tough venues like Evesham. It would be better for faster flowing venues and where you need to hold more particles inside the balls.
@@JonArthur thanks! I'm just back into fishing after about a decade. Going to practice for a season (Corvid19 depending) then try and get into matches again. Going to be fishing the Trent mainly so will need both soil and PV1 I reckon.
Fantastic tips Jon.....especially for the casters with the brown bags will definitely give it a go.......super insight into match preparation. Lovely video......thanks Jon.
John yet again another excellent video made even better by the running commentary you gave which is not easy when you’re getting plaqued with pike and bleak please keep them coming yours little Rich 👍👍👍
Wow 100% spot on video. And I was only just thinking a few days ago. Come on Jon next one please. That was really good. We were there with you. Thanks Jon.
Thanks for putting that up, John. Great stuff to watch. Shows just how much goes into these matches. It makes me feel better that I wasn't the only one knackered, i'd had it after day one. Quite a bit older than you and didn't sleep before either match, just running on adrenalin lol.
Fantastic insight as always jon no messing just straight to the point awesome angler and vids to boot my dad used to scrape with the late jeff moores knee high in u know what, dedication top man jon keep em coming
@@JonArthur yh top bloke mate, i sold all my match gear recently due to family ties but still love the sport and enjoy ur vids pal so keep em comin and all the best jon x
Great video Jon. Not done much river fishing before, but will use a few of your tips when I give it a go. Would love to see a similar video for a canal match at some point? Best wishes
Great video Jon , thanks for putting it up . On our gin clear local Nene if you ball it you always get pike trouble , if you cup it all in you seem to get less trouble
On today's Great British Bake Off Jon is cooking Tares with a hemp and wild blackberry jeux 😀 Meanwhile on gardeners question time we have Jon from Coventry on the line asking if it's OK to dig soil out of his wife's garden and blame it on the moles.
Always enjoy your videos. Nice bait prep bit to start with too. Need to do a "What sandwich has Mrs. Arthur put in my lunchbox today?" snippet in these "live" videos. Thanks.
Sorry you never got further up the board Jon but congratulations on your section win as it at least got you some pocket money, you seem to put in a lot of work with prepping bait especially if you need to go out to scrap some fresh bait due to what you buy not being good enough and I would never of thought of putting ferrous phosphate into tares and hemp to make them blacker🎣🎣
Great video Jon. Hard work but worth it after day before. Interesting what you said about hemp milk, I use it a lot from September onward and always seem to do reasonably well on both pole and feeder.
Thanks, mostly 6in (15cm) but might go shorter 4in for bleak or bread fishing and longer 8in for hemp fishing or faster venues or if I'm laying on a bit of line for quality fish. Flat float fishing and holding back big rigs with worms etc I often use 10-12in as I am fishing much deeper than the swim. Hope that helps, but stick to 6in for general work.
Love this video informative and entertaining any chance of a change of shot to what you are looking at the float? then it would be perfect merry christmas Jon
I make my own ground bait from fine crumb I boil my hemp in 2ltr of cheap red wine . Once I strained the hemp from the wine I add cloves , star anise , sugar , cherries ,strawberries and mixed spice to the wine leave for 1/2 hour blitz to make a paste . You can add to ground bait a good flavouring works well with pelletts
Very nice video as ever Jon ! I don't know how much you're fishing the river in a season but I'm really wondering what's the depth of your backyard after a all those years of fishing ;-)
Superb vid Jon, what topkits have you used during this video? finesse kits or match ultra 1 kits? i'am doubting on buying some finesse kits... Thanks in advance!
I keep maggots and pinkies tightly bagged up in polythene bags with all the air taken out. Pop them in the fridge and they’ll keep for several days. Unbag them and they’ll come around in a few hours. You can bag them up again and repeat once they’re all wriggling again. Last much longer this way.
Hi John, I am not sure if you'll get this comment, as the video is from last year, but please could you advise me where to order some hempseed from. There are some on Amazon, but I am not sure what is the best for boiling. I do hope you see this, and reply. Best wishes from Surrey.
Hi Emma, the best two places I've found uncooked hemp are Lanes in Coventry and the Tackle & Bates shop at Rookery Waters. Not sure where they get it from but it's nice medium-large grains and ideal for the Avon. A lot of hemp is tiny now or far too big and it's ALL very expensive these days.
@@JonArthur Many thanks Jon, and sorry for mis-spelling your name, ooops. I will proceed with your recommendations, and thank you for replying so swiftly. I am returning to fishing after a 40 year gap, and things are so different now, so I am having to re-educate myself to modern methods and terms. Anyway, thanks again and tight lines.
I would have caught a similar weight possibly but not sure I could have had more weight as it would have had to be short lining for them, plus I would have missed out on any bonus fish. I always have one eye on glory on these bigger matches and bleaking is too negative and defeatist in my opinion, unless it was the Team Champs day when points are at stake. At least if you are bottom fishing there is always a chance of hooking something special...
Simply they were far too small and too far out where the main flow was. Absolutely pointless fishing 6m or 7m to hand for 100 to the pound bleak, chublets and minnows unless it's a team match. I was fishing to WIN and there was absolutely no chance of catching a bonus fish doing that. The fact that I managed 6lb of roach and a section winner's envelope proves that.
It takes skill, but they take our roach not our bait and live baiting with them is not allowed. If they were allowed it would soon turn into a pike match with everyone targeting them.
Hi, you should look how Russian mining blood worms. I can write this words on Russian and you can copy that words then paste in searching field . (как эфективно добыть мотыль)
Possibly, but any bonus fish I would have really struggled and presentation suffers with a 6m whip and it catches the wind a lot, especially when it channels through a bridge. I've worked with top anglers like Mark Pollard who have done time trials with whip v short lining and it isn't as much of a time saver as you think. You miss more bites, the presentation isn't so good and the stamp of fish is often smaller. But each to their own. More than happy with my final catch on the day.
@@JonArthur I've landed big roach plus crucians, tench, bream, goldfish and perch to 2.1/2 lbs on my whips with a flick tip. Using big floats you can stay in touch better. As you say Jon each to their own but look at the video and see how much time you wasted shipping in and out.
I forgot to add, Evesham is THE hardest fished river in the country, so you'll struggle to compete with anything thicker than a 0.08mm hooklength for the roach, and I prefer 0.07mm, especially with bloodworm etc and on a sunny day with added pressure of all the extra noise of a festival. That can lead to crack-offs on even the finest flick tip if you're not careful. If I was fishing what I'd class as an easier river, such as my local Thames or the Severn or Trent, then a bigger float and a 0.10mm bottom would possibly make whip fishing an option and yes you'd get a lot of bonus fish out on that. I just don't rate whip fishing with a true 0.07 bottom, which I find you need at Evesham in August after countless matches on it 3 and 4 times a week. A different venue I'd have the whips on standby for sure...
Good point Jon. I've never fished at Evesham and doubt I ever will but as you say 3 or 4 matches a week is a thrashing. If I'm on the South Yorkshire canal it's 12' straight down where I fish so I use 2 & 3 gram floats with 4lbs main line to 1.1/2lb hook lengths but I'll drop down to .2 or .3 gram floats depending on wind strength to 1lb or even 12oz hook lengths if I'm on the local pond as the maximum depth is only 5'. Biggest goldfish so far is 2.7 lbs (2-11 in old money) The Bailiff says someone dumped fish from their garden pond several years ago and they've grown on. Cheers, Dave.
No probs Dave. Wish we had some deep canals down this way. I've just watched some footage of a lake near my mate where some 'dumped goldfish' have reached 20lb+!
It would probably have been Polish joker, but here in England we class that type of joker as Russian or Polish. It apparently comes from brackish, salty water and doesn't wriggle much. English, French and Belgian joker is different and much more active.
The joker spread out like a map of the USA in the newspaper 👍🏻😂 scraping your own bloodworm is dedication to the cause sir! Excellent video as ever
Was there watching you Jon you deserved your £200 section money for all the hard work you put in . Keep the uploads coming .
Thank you Jon
You are not just already set up
On the side of the bank fishing.
You are showing the hard work
That goes in to being a good angler
Thank you for the insight
Brilliant video thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
@@JonArthur what's the difference between using soil compared to using PV1?
Soil is a bulking agent that adds weight but no feed and I'd use anything from 20% to 80% soil in my river mixes. PV1 is a sugar-based additive that you can use as a binder and I'd probably only add 10% to my mix to help it stick and get to the bottom, however I don't use it too often on tough venues like Evesham. It would be better for faster flowing venues and where you need to hold more particles inside the balls.
@@JonArthur thanks! I'm just back into fishing after about a decade. Going to practice for a season (Corvid19 depending) then try and get into matches again. Going to be fishing the Trent mainly so will need both soil and PV1 I reckon.
Putting the effort in payed off in the end. Well done Jon
Great again Jon love your videos
Glad you like them!
I learn so much from your videos. Keep up the great work
Fantastic tips Jon.....especially for the casters with the brown bags will definitely give it a go.......super insight into match preparation. Lovely video......thanks Jon.
Thanks Phil
Best video up to date Jon! Very nice to watch with al the prebwork and stuff. Loved it.
Bloody brilliant! Well done Jon!
Thanks Wilson
Brilliant to see the bait prep,storage organisation etc. Very informative. Superb stuff.
Realy enjoyed the film. Alot of hard graft put in and Katy looked happy too see you. Nice to see the family on the bank. 😊
Cheers Gary
John yet again another excellent video made even better by the running commentary you gave which is not easy when you’re getting plaqued with pike and bleak please keep them coming yours little Rich 👍👍👍
Thanks little Rich :-)
Nice to see another video, thanks Jon
Wow 100% spot on video. And I was only just thinking a few days ago. Come on Jon next one please. That was really good. We were there with you. Thanks Jon.
Cheers Mike
Enjoyed that format, most watchable.
Fantastic video Jon...thanks
Enjoyed that one
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video buddy nice to see the family and thanks for letting us in all the prep that goes into a match
Thanks FWB!
Ace video that. Really appreciate the thought going in and the insight. Real end to end process. Great and unique stuff!
Thanks James
Thanks for the bait prep tips great info
Thanks for putting that up, John. Great stuff to watch. Shows just how much goes into these matches. It makes me feel better that I wasn't the only one knackered, i'd had it after day one. Quite a bit older than you and didn't sleep before either match, just running on adrenalin lol.
Cheers Mark
Great footage mate, really enjoyable
Great video Jon !
Well done Jon on the section win 💪
Bloody great video mate. Really enjoyed that 👍
Thanks! :-)
Fantastic insight as always jon no messing just straight to the point awesome angler and vids to boot my dad used to scrape with the late jeff moores knee high in u know what, dedication top man jon keep em coming
Fantastic bloke was Jeff 👍
@@JonArthur yh top bloke mate, i sold all my match gear recently due to family ties but still love the sport and enjoy ur vids pal so keep em comin and all the best jon x
Great video Jon. Not done much river fishing before, but will use a few of your tips when I give it a go. Would love to see a similar video for a canal match at some point? Best wishes
Great upload Jon...cheers.
Great video Jon , thanks for putting it up .
On our gin clear local Nene if you ball it you always get pike trouble , if you cup it all in you seem to get less trouble
On today's Great British Bake Off Jon is cooking Tares with a hemp and wild blackberry jeux 😀
Meanwhile on gardeners question time we have Jon from Coventry on the line asking if it's OK to dig soil out of his wife's garden and blame it on the moles.
Ha ha ha ha! Those pesky moles!
Super video as always Jon, you could not have tried any harder,thanks for sharing
Always enjoy your videos. Nice bait prep bit to start with too. Need to do a "What sandwich has Mrs. Arthur put in my lunchbox today?" snippet in these "live" videos. Thanks.
The answer was 'no sandwich'! :-(
Top Video Jon.
Magnifique vidéo Jon ! (a belgian fan ;-)
As always jon great vid bud keep them coming 🤘👍
Great vid as always Jon . Dam those pesky pike
Another great video Jon, shame about the pike and well done for winning the section👍👍👍👍
Wow, my missus would never let me cook hemp on her Neff induction hob. Great video as always.
Ha ha. It's OUR hob and as I do most of the dinner cooking it's allowed! :-)
She’s definitely a keeper though Jon 😂
Just caught up with this Jon, well done, that was hard work. A good result especially with the Pike and the lack of decent Roach in your peg.
Thanks, a nice busy day cannot be taken for granted at Evesham!
Swinno the legend,
Him and Dean B are proper blokes.
Had some good laughs with them 2 back in the day
Great video.
Well done Jon, ain't seen you in a while but nice vid mate.
Subscribed.
Sorry you never got further up the board Jon but congratulations on your section win as it at least got you some pocket money, you seem to put in a lot of work with prepping bait especially if you need to go out to scrap some fresh bait due to what you buy not being good enough and I would never of thought of putting ferrous phosphate into tares and hemp to make them blacker🎣🎣
Ferrous sulphate (AKA iron tablets)
Great video Jon.
Hard work but worth it after day before. Interesting what you said about hemp milk, I use it a lot from September onward and always seem to do reasonably well on both pole and feeder.
Cheers Mike
Great video mate I hope you enjoyed the bank holiday which was a scorcher.
Sadly I don't think you can tell it's 30ºC and no shade in the vid!
Great to see the work that goes into your matches can we have some more back ground before fishing please
Hi John, great insight into your river rigs. What length hook lengths do you use on your river pole rigs. Cheers Jason
Thanks, mostly 6in (15cm) but might go shorter 4in for bleak or bread fishing and longer 8in for hemp fishing or faster venues or if I'm laying on a bit of line for quality fish. Flat float fishing and holding back big rigs with worms etc I often use 10-12in as I am fishing much deeper than the swim. Hope that helps, but stick to 6in for general work.
@@JonArthur thanks Jon much appreciated. Jason
Love this video informative and entertaining any chance of a change of shot to what you are looking at the float? then it would be perfect merry christmas Jon
Logistically impossible to film the float unless you have a cameraman with you, but would certainly be nice.
I make my own ground bait from fine crumb I boil my hemp in 2ltr of cheap red wine . Once I strained the hemp from the wine I add cloves , star anise , sugar , cherries ,strawberries and mixed spice to the wine leave for 1/2 hour blitz to make a paste .
You can add to ground bait a good flavouring works well with pelletts
Very nice video as ever Jon ! I don't know how much you're fishing the river in a season but I'm really wondering what's the depth of your backyard after a all those years of fishing ;-)
Still got a few years worth :-)
Superb vid Jon, what topkits have you used during this video? finesse kits or match ultra 1 kits? i'am doubting on buying some finesse kits...
Thanks in advance!
Probably a mixture of both, but finesse kits don't have a side puller slot on the No2, so would be better for general river silvers.
Keep the videos coming mate, maybe one at meadowlands
Yes definitely
@@JonArthur 👌😁
Great video and lots of good info. What did you mean about keeping pinkies in a bag?
I keep maggots and pinkies tightly bagged up in polythene bags with all the air taken out. Pop them in the fridge and they’ll keep for several days. Unbag them and they’ll come around in a few hours. You can bag them up again and repeat once they’re all wriggling again. Last much longer this way.
@@JonArthur great info, thanks.
After watching you riddle soil I’m thinking you played the maracas in the happy Monday’s 😂
Yes I'm actually Bez! :-)
Your twisting my melons man 😂😂
Hi John, I am not sure if you'll get this comment, as the video is from last year, but please could you advise me where to order some hempseed from. There are some on Amazon, but I am not sure what is the best for boiling. I do hope you see this, and reply. Best wishes from Surrey.
Hi Emma, the best two places I've found uncooked hemp are Lanes in Coventry and the Tackle & Bates shop at Rookery Waters. Not sure where they get it from but it's nice medium-large grains and ideal for the Avon. A lot of hemp is tiny now or far too big and it's ALL very expensive these days.
@@JonArthur Many thanks Jon, and sorry for mis-spelling your name, ooops. I will proceed with your recommendations, and thank you for replying so swiftly. I am returning to fishing after a 40 year gap, and things are so different now, so I am having to re-educate myself to modern methods and terms. Anyway, thanks again and tight lines.
wish the river hull banks were well maintained like the avon
How do you get your float through that mesh on your garden pond? 😁
😂
Great vid mukka. Rum Hmmmm Winter league West Germany . Won it 2 times on the trot. with hemp and rum. Just saying like :)
Rum in the hemp or rum-assisted hemp fishing?
schönes Video danke dafür
Danke fürs zuschauen! :-)
immer wieder gerne
solid angling
In hindsight . Do you think that bleaking could have improved your weight ?
I would have caught a similar weight possibly but not sure I could have had more weight as it would have had to be short lining for them, plus I would have missed out on any bonus fish. I always have one eye on glory on these bigger matches and bleaking is too negative and defeatist in my opinion, unless it was the Team Champs day when points are at stake. At least if you are bottom fishing there is always a chance of hooking something special...
If there were so many Bleak around, why did you not fish for them, long line to hand?
Simply they were far too small and too far out where the main flow was. Absolutely pointless fishing 6m or 7m to hand for 100 to the pound bleak, chublets and minnows unless it's a team match. I was fishing to WIN and there was absolutely no chance of catching a bonus fish doing that. The fact that I managed 6lb of roach and a section winner's envelope proves that.
If you had landed a like would it have counted?
Bicarbonate soda is good to add to ya hemp while cooking, splits every one
👍🏻👍🏻
Jon could the Russian joker be used in my boile marketing for big carp
Might be a bit messy but maybe.
Mole hill soil is the one
You should be allowed to catch and weigh pike straight away, it takes skill to catch them as it is, all part of angling
It takes skill, but they take our roach not our bait and live baiting with them is not allowed. If they were allowed it would soon turn into a pike match with everyone targeting them.
Paper bags inside plastic bags to keep your caster, genius Jon why didn't I think of that????
An idea for Dragon's Den perhaps? :-)
The effort required makes me realise why I only pleasure fish nowadays. Gone are the days of breeding your own gozzers on sheep's hearts....
Yes Steve, thankfully I don't go to this effort every match. Some days I just tear open a bag of pellets and crack open a can of corn. Thankfully! :-)
Hi, you should look how Russian mining blood worms. I can write this words on Russian and you can copy that words then paste in searching field .
(как эфективно добыть мотыль)
Thanks David! :-)
Yet another great video but a 6 mtr whip to hand would have been easier and saved you many minutes throughout the match.
Possibly, but any bonus fish I would have really struggled and presentation suffers with a 6m whip and it catches the wind a lot, especially when it channels through a bridge. I've worked with top anglers like Mark Pollard who have done time trials with whip v short lining and it isn't as much of a time saver as you think. You miss more bites, the presentation isn't so good and the stamp of fish is often smaller. But each to their own. More than happy with my final catch on the day.
@@JonArthur I've landed big roach plus crucians, tench, bream, goldfish and perch to 2.1/2 lbs on my whips with a flick tip. Using big floats you can stay in touch better. As you say Jon each to their own but look at the video and see how much time you wasted shipping in and out.
I forgot to add, Evesham is THE hardest fished river in the country, so you'll struggle to compete with anything thicker than a 0.08mm hooklength for the roach, and I prefer 0.07mm, especially with bloodworm etc and on a sunny day with added pressure of all the extra noise of a festival. That can lead to crack-offs on even the finest flick tip if you're not careful. If I was fishing what I'd class as an easier river, such as my local Thames or the Severn or Trent, then a bigger float and a 0.10mm bottom would possibly make whip fishing an option and yes you'd get a lot of bonus fish out on that. I just don't rate whip fishing with a true 0.07 bottom, which I find you need at Evesham in August after countless matches on it 3 and 4 times a week. A different venue I'd have the whips on standby for sure...
Good point Jon. I've never fished at Evesham and doubt I ever will but as you say 3 or 4 matches a week is a thrashing. If I'm on the South Yorkshire canal it's 12' straight down where I fish so I use 2 & 3 gram floats with 4lbs main line to 1.1/2lb hook lengths but I'll drop down to .2 or .3 gram floats depending on wind strength to 1lb or even 12oz hook lengths if I'm on the local pond as the maximum depth is only 5'. Biggest goldfish so far is 2.7 lbs (2-11 in old money) The Bailiff says someone dumped fish from their garden pond several years ago and they've grown on. Cheers, Dave.
No probs Dave. Wish we had some deep canals down this way. I've just watched some footage of a lake near my mate where some 'dumped goldfish' have reached 20lb+!
why not just get a spinning rod out and catch some pike/perch?
Not all matches allow pike to be weighed in. I assume this is one of them.
Bought the jokers from russians? 😂
It would probably have been Polish joker, but here in England we class that type of joker as Russian or Polish. It apparently comes from brackish, salty water and doesn't wriggle much. English, French and Belgian joker is different and much more active.
@@JonArthur, I saw the newspaper in which they were wrapped, that was written in russian.
He’s fishing to far out .
There is the odd big chub out there but .
Down the side for big perch and better roach
That little girl needs someone to pinch her nose. I can hear it calling to me all the way across the ocean.
So I’m assuming that on this match you either scratch out a weight on the Bloodworm or go can go all in and try and get a Barbel?
There are noted chub pegs, perch on the feeder, bonus perch and bream possible if there is colour in the river
If you had landed a like would it have counted?
Nope. They don't count on many matches these days as most are hooked accidentally rather than on actual angler's bait