Hi! To improve your perch fishing and catch more fish, check out my Simple Fishing Guidebook! With 100 pages of tips, rigs, knots, bait + lure advice and 21 in-depth species guides, you’ll definitely improve your knowledge and skills. Get yours here: fishwithcarl.co.uk/products/the-simple-fishing-guidebook
is it true you sacked alex 'the camera man' and he is now parking up all around Sussex forced to live in a Volkswagen golf eating nothing but field mushrooms wild garlic and honey?
Great video mate I've been looking forward to more perch videos especially livebaiting....your a lucky boy I've been on shauns case to get on Charlie's lake but its closed to the public till 2023...would love to see more of this content 👍
October 2022 I will be reopening perch fishing 👍🎣, I love my fish so a rest for them was a must, and it has been beneficial to the perch, and the future for them👍🎣
@@shaunbickford38 fair play to ya mate that says a lot about you as a fishery owner...I can't wait to get on and have a few days perch fishing...I really look forward to fishing Charlie's one day in the future 👍...no doubt you'll hear off me again before u open it up lol.
Hiya mate, been watching your vids sine you were young .. this one made me go out and target some big perch Not targeted them since a teenager.. we used to catch them to about a pound…. and today, at 53. … Got a 2 pounder.. on float and worm . 2lb 2oz …. Buzzing …
Nice to see you using a paternoster rig, often seems to be a neglected method these days. Personally I love using it for predator fishing, live or dead baits, just seems to work better.
Great vid! Some lovely specimens there! Carl (and Alex!! GOOD TO SEE YOU TOO I've been watching your other adventures), do you find that fishing static for perch on the patanoster tends to give the Perch more chance to wolf the bait down deeper and then harder to extract with the disgorger? I find myself striking earlier rather than later in the hopes that I just nick the lip rather than having fiddly job with tiny greedy perch devouring massive fat worms! Also intriguing at 3:21, is that an inlet and where is the water going to? Great vid gents thankyou love to see it on a Saturday!
Great video caught my pb perch the other day totally by accident I was fishing for live baits to use for cats and I caught it on a single maggot on a size 16 hook I was absolutely buzzing, just shy of 2lb
i need some advice. i want to get an all reound travel rod so i can lure fish for pollock, then perch and trout. theres a 5-40g rod but im using 14lb mono so apparently 5g lures wont cast well. instead of grttin that rod, should i just buy a heavier rod (15-40g) and use heavier lures? if so, what 15g+ lures are there for perch and trout?
If you want a pb perch take a trip to Beeston canal Nottingham. I fish for pike on there regularly with live bait and there's perch well over 4lb and in abundance.
Whilst the little ones drive me mental with their habit of swallowing the bait, is there a better looking fish than a really big Perch? (Rudd possibly excepted) . Have a small, shallow river near me that always seems to come up with the goods when you least expect it, have had a number of two pounders and did a PB of 3lb 2oz last year whilst trotting for Chub. That looked a mighty fish at the end, what weight was it?
I've been out of the fishing game for about 35 ish years so just wondering in your opinion what tc rod would you recommend to fish for these size Perch (2-4lb)? I have a 1.25tc feeder rod (it does have option for 2oz or 3oz tips to be used) but I think that is too stiff? I have a new rod but not tested it yet, it's a map parabolix black edition 12ft waggler, but I have no idea on the tc, as its a float rod it should be less then 1.25?, I don't want something too stiff that it rips the hook out of their mouths lol. I'm gunna try my luck at this pond in a few months time, it's a 5.5hr drive down south for me though lol. What gram slide floats where you using? Around 5-10? Cheers
had some monsters out of a local canal in the midlands before i moved away about 15 years ago mostly from the disused locks which made for some interesting landing techniques at times few up to 2ib on worm but the biggest all fell to live baiting when trying for a pike just outside the locks on the downstream side with one of the better sessions resulting in 4 perch back to back all over 3ib with the biggest very close to 4ib. sadly im 90% sure most of these fish are gone from the canal these days . non of the match reports from the area have anywhere near the bag size they used to with winning bags now being around 20ib of fish compaired to them being over 100ib of fish ina 4-6 hour match.
Cheers Tom! Had some delays! A hole in the fibreglass has been fixed, the coping has been finished. Will be filming planting up the beds this week. Have filled the pond up, and turned on filtration, all working perfectly! Nearly finished filming, will ready to edit pt 3 soon. Looking like it will be out in May :)
@@fishingtutorials oh man not ideal with the hole but glad it's been fixed 🤙🏽 glad to see you back out on the bank and definitely a great way to relax. Hopefully I'll be able to get a bit in this next coming month and use some on the advice you give 🤞🏼 Can't wait to see pt3 and the long awaited return of Charlie 🤣
Thank you Tom! :) Yeah been so good to be on the bank again for longer. Haha yes not ideal at all, so relieved it is resolved now. Yep, so nearly ready for Charlie to go in! Can't wait... All the best for your session! Hope you manage to get out soon :)
Great video! With some amazing perch! I do have some little question, what is the advantage of a patanoster rig over a normal float set up? Can this type of fishing also be done with the ledger rig you guys showed quit some time ago on this channel?
It's a good way to fish as if your float fishing the hook can get caught on bottom but with the hook been higher up the line less chances of get the hook caught on the bottom and when using a worm 🪱 higher up the line seems to work great
Not sure if the UK has bullhead minnows ( gudgeon) or galaxis minnows but here in Australia they are bloody dynamite. Catch a lot of 3lbers+ on them ( around 40+cm )
No we don't have bullhead minnows here! We have the Eurasion minnow but don't call them gudgeon, they're called common minnow! We do have a fish called a Gudgeon though (Gobio gobio) Very cute! We do use the minnow for live baiting though - works a treat :)
An interesting Video, greedy little devils aren't they! I believe that most Waters would benefit from stocking a few good sized Perch to keep the numbers of Silver Fish fry down. Many a good Water has been ruined by the neglect of allowing uncontrolled breeding!
A nice fish well done. However I've just looked up that venue and got the shock of my life! I'd no idea that it was so expensive, never realised that such places charged so much. A total ripoff, my local commercial fishery charges £5 a day. Its a lovely lake about the same size and I've caught several perch 3•5lb+ from it.
@llmama7527 I've found that most commercial fisheries have large perch in them. They're introduced naturally by birds because their eggs are sticky and attach to the birds legs. I have a shoal of of them in my pond that got there that way.
I tend to catch pretty decent perch with live red maggots , biggest one was just bigger than both my hands together (I didn’t have a measuring tape) but yeah an overall decent bait to use for them , might help if anyone else is looking to catch perch ❤
I'm missing this time with Alex 😢 By the way, I never saw a float system like this. Maybe you could make another tutorial about it? I'm from Germany, I never saw anybody using it. Maybe it's more kind of an English thing?
Always loved chasing these fish back home and had so much respect for them, since moving to Australia it turns out they are everywhere in the freshwater here, and an invasive species so they have to be killed once caught, never even thought of eating them but apparently they are one of the best eating fish out there. Anyways love your stuff even though it doesn’t directly translate to the Southern Hemisphere waters ahahah
I've been trying to figure out perch this last month , but yesterday I caught a weird hybrid looking perch that was fully silver with a black back ... Is this a thing ? I can find anything saying anything about hybrid perch .So yesterday I caught my PB perch ! (I've only fished for perch a few times before but a big perch was one of my fishing goals for the year)
@@lakzerk2344 Place your hand from the head and down to fold their dorsal fins and grab onto them over their back no way your getting spiked then. Alternatively, you can thumb grip them like americans do for bass which works unless you got trebles on the end or you risk getting a hook in your hand
Iv seen a perch with a fish tail hanging out of its mouth because the fish was that big.. ok when I was young I had a pet perch 🙄 kept eating all my livebait!
I feel the channel is turning into one of those where you just show yourself catching fish rather than teaching people how to catch them. Barely mentioned the live baiting, how you hook them, if you just chuck it in a random spot or if you bait the area up, hook size etc
Thanks for the feedback Simon, it's not what the channel is becoming - just might be this particular video that seems this way, I will alway aim to include as much detail as possible, but sometimes somethings may slip through.
I'm not calling anyone a liar and don't want to say this is clickbait but I recall that Carl went abroad and caught a certain 7 pound perch in the Netherlands a while back, so this might be 'PB' back at the old homestead.
Hi! To improve your perch fishing and catch more fish, check out my Simple Fishing Guidebook! With 100 pages of tips, rigs, knots, bait + lure advice and 21 in-depth species guides, you’ll definitely improve your knowledge and skills. Get yours here: fishwithcarl.co.uk/products/the-simple-fishing-guidebook
Great Video Carl! Nice catch by the way, Great to See Alex once more fishing! 🎣
Yeah
What a lovely little lake in gorgeous surroundings!
Great fish!!
Great to see Alex with you !
Your better together 🙏
Great video and nice to see the ‘guest appearance’ of Alex!!! ✊😁
Cheers! glad you enjoyed it :)
Good seeing Alex doing fishing and you guys enjoying life
That last big perch looked right hard , I bet he has a regular tear up with the pike. Seriously, great bit of fishing Carl, 🎣 👌 👏
Well done Carl that's a nice one not everyone fishes for Carp enjoying the change of direction and different species keep up the great work.
Thanks Mark, appreciate it :) will do!
good to see alex back from the bee,s
is it true you sacked alex 'the camera man' and he is now parking up all around Sussex forced to live in a Volkswagen golf eating nothing but field mushrooms wild garlic and honey?
Haha what a story!
It’s always nice to see the brothers fishing together!
Great video mate I've been looking forward to more perch videos especially livebaiting....your a lucky boy I've been on shauns case to get on Charlie's lake but its closed to the public till 2023...would love to see more of this content 👍
October 2022 I will be reopening perch fishing 👍🎣, I love my fish so a rest for them was a must, and it has been beneficial to the perch, and the future for them👍🎣
@@shaunbickford38 fair play to ya mate that says a lot about you as a fishery owner...I can't wait to get on and have a few days perch fishing...I really look forward to fishing Charlie's one day in the future 👍...no doubt you'll hear off me again before u open it up lol.
Cheers Gavin! Glad you enjoyed the video :)
@@shaunbickford38 is this Charlie's in Andover Kent?
@@jonnymc4519 no bud Charlie's lake part of Angels lakes complex
Love this video carl, simple tactics love the Sargents. Great to see you spending time with Alex.
Thanks Gareth :)
Need more people using lives on RUclips... its all I use for perching .Well done
Hello from Romania! I envy you for the beautiful fishing spots you have, the lakes and rivers are unreal. Nice video.
Thank you Jack! Glad you enjoy them - hopefully you get to fish here one day :)
Great vid again Carl that's some nice perch nice to see your brother with you again has well 💯👍
Thanks Marcus! :)
Once again on the magic witching hour the big ones go a hunting...keep it up u guys....
Thank you! :)
Nice one Carl, beautiful giant Perch ,what a fish. Keep the fishing coming 😄👍
Thanks so much Trevor!
Hiya mate, been watching your vids sine you were young .. this one made me go out and target some big perch
Not targeted them since a teenager.. we used to catch them to about a pound…. and today, at 53. … Got a 2 pounder.. on float and worm . 2lb 2oz …. Buzzing …
Great to hear that Gary! Bet you are :) that's good going!
Great to see Alex bankside
A new video on a special day for me
Great video good tutorial shows you have to keep trying and move to get on the fish sometimes
For sure! Cheers John, appreciate it :)
Nice to see you using a paternoster rig, often seems to be a neglected method these days. Personally I love using it for predator fishing, live or dead baits, just seems to work better.
Top lad for keeping it moving 👍
Great vid! Some lovely specimens there! Carl (and Alex!! GOOD TO SEE YOU TOO I've been watching your other adventures), do you find that fishing static for perch on the patanoster tends to give the Perch more chance to wolf the bait down deeper and then harder to extract with the disgorger? I find myself striking earlier rather than later in the hopes that I just nick the lip rather than having fiddly job with tiny greedy perch devouring massive fat worms! Also intriguing at 3:21, is that an inlet and where is the water going to? Great vid gents thankyou love to see it on a Saturday!
Great video caught my pb perch the other day totally by accident I was fishing for live baits to use for cats and I caught it on a single maggot on a size 16 hook I was absolutely buzzing, just shy of 2lb
Oh wow! What a result haha
i need some advice. i want to get an all reound travel rod so i can lure fish for pollock, then perch and trout. theres a 5-40g rod but im using 14lb mono so apparently 5g lures wont cast well. instead of grttin that rod, should i just buy a heavier rod (15-40g) and use heavier lures? if so, what 15g+ lures are there for perch and trout?
Hej good tips. i have just bought some redworms and earthworms in rubber with a scent. How best should i fish for perch etc using these ? Thanxx
Lovely fishing lads. From Ireland 🇮🇪
Glad you enjoyed it Ryan!
I love perch, nice video dude. Inspired me to take the pole up the canal to try catch a few significantly smaller perch 😎
Cheers! Me too :) Have fun
If you want a pb perch take a trip to Beeston canal Nottingham.
I fish for pike on there regularly with live bait and there's perch well over 4lb and in abundance.
Quick question what rod is alex using and what casting weights on it btw great video
Great video nice to see you catch a massive perch keep the videos coming 🎣❤️
Glad you liked it Edward :) Will do!
@@fishingtutorials grate
Whilst the little ones drive me mental with their habit of swallowing the bait, is there a better looking fish than a really big Perch? (Rudd possibly excepted) . Have a small, shallow river near me that always seems to come up with the goods when you least expect it, have had a number of two pounders and did a PB of 3lb 2oz last year whilst trotting for Chub. That looked a mighty fish at the end, what weight was it?
I've been out of the fishing game for about 35 ish years so just wondering in your opinion what tc rod would you recommend to fish for these size Perch (2-4lb)? I have a 1.25tc feeder rod (it does have option for 2oz or 3oz tips to be used) but I think that is too stiff? I have a new rod but not tested it yet, it's a map parabolix black edition 12ft waggler, but I have no idea on the tc, as its a float rod it should be less then 1.25?, I don't want something too stiff that it rips the hook out of their mouths lol. I'm gunna try my luck at this pond in a few months time, it's a 5.5hr drive down south for me though lol. What gram slide floats where you using? Around 5-10? Cheers
Great vid again mate 🔥
Thanks!
had some monsters out of a local canal in the midlands before i moved away about 15 years ago mostly from the disused locks which made for some interesting landing techniques at times few up to 2ib on worm but the biggest all fell to live baiting when trying for a pike just outside the locks on the downstream side with one of the better sessions resulting in 4 perch back to back all over 3ib with the biggest very close to 4ib. sadly im 90% sure most of these fish are gone from the canal these days . non of the match reports from the area have anywhere near the bag size they used to with winning bags now being around 20ib of fish compaired to them being over 100ib of fish ina 4-6 hour match.
Outstanding video production
Thank you! :)
Hi Carl what rod were you using for the float fishing? Cheers!
Another great video Carl 👌🏼 need to see a longer session and when is the next pond video update?? 😯
Cheers Tom! Had some delays! A hole in the fibreglass has been fixed, the coping has been finished. Will be filming planting up the beds this week. Have filled the pond up, and turned on filtration, all working perfectly! Nearly finished filming, will ready to edit pt 3 soon. Looking like it will be out in May :)
@@fishingtutorials oh man not ideal with the hole but glad it's been fixed 🤙🏽 glad to see you back out on the bank and definitely a great way to relax. Hopefully I'll be able to get a bit in this next coming month and use some on the advice you give 🤞🏼
Can't wait to see pt3 and the long awaited return of Charlie 🤣
Thank you Tom! :) Yeah been so good to be on the bank again for longer. Haha yes not ideal at all, so relieved it is resolved now. Yep, so nearly ready for Charlie to go in! Can't wait... All the best for your session! Hope you manage to get out soon :)
Nice tutorial Carl. decent perch at the end 👍
Cheers mate!
Yeah, nice kipper!
brilliant video carl
Cheers Ollie!
Nice vid Carl loads of inspiration
Cheers :) Glad to hear it!
First and Keep up the brilliant vids I love them so much and u put so much work into them 🔥🔥
Thank you Myles! Yeah so much goes into it, I really love making them. Always glad to hear they're enjoyed :)
Great video! With some amazing perch!
I do have some little question, what is the advantage of a patanoster rig over a normal float set up? Can this type of fishing also be done with the ledger rig you guys showed quit some time ago on this channel?
It's a good way to fish as if your float fishing the hook can get caught on bottom but with the hook been higher up the line less chances of get the hook caught on the bottom and when using a worm 🪱 higher up the line seems to work great
Ah Carl you listened to me about the hat😉😂😂😂
Nice there's a wild lake close to me where i fish for perch and i use live bait and spinners
Awesome guys awesome 😎
Not sure if the UK has bullhead minnows ( gudgeon) or galaxis minnows but here in Australia they are bloody dynamite. Catch a lot of 3lbers+ on them ( around 40+cm )
No we don't have bullhead minnows here! We have the Eurasion minnow but don't call them gudgeon, they're called common minnow! We do have a fish called a Gudgeon though (Gobio gobio) Very cute! We do use the minnow for live baiting though - works a treat :)
What float fish reel do you use / recommend
An interesting Video, greedy little devils aren't they! I believe that most Waters would benefit from stocking a few good sized Perch to keep the numbers of Silver Fish fry down. Many a good Water has been ruined by the neglect of allowing uncontrolled breeding!
Yes they are haha! Yes agree, managing waters to maintain a balance by introducing the right apex predator.
welkom back Alex.. 👍🎣
Thanks bro I just ordered my fishing guide book
Ahh you're welcome! Thank you :) Hope you enjoy it!
@@fishingtutorials how long does it usually take to arrive I live in LONDON
A few days usually, and never more than two weeks :)
Hi good video some nice Perch there especially the one at the end. Which fishery is this and where is it? Thanks.
Charlies lake :)
This video was great I caught my on perch cause of this cheers lads ☺️
Great to hear!
Great video! Have yet to try and catch a perch
Thank you! Go for it, it's great fun :)
Great video carl 👍👍
Thanks! :)
Great to see the bros out together again. Been following you since before you could grow chin hair.😁 How big was that perch?
The name that begins with A . I can’t handle typing it out . The legend himself
Hahah
It is he
hey carl can you put a link for your rod and real you use in the videos
Red fin are serious predators in the water , they often will go something even bigger than them selves the greedy little buggars .
A nice fish well done. However I've just looked up that venue and got the shock of my life! I'd no idea that it was so expensive, never realised that such places charged so much. A total ripoff, my local commercial fishery charges £5 a day. Its a lovely lake about the same size and I've caught several perch 3•5lb+ from it.
what’s the fishery in the video? charlie’s lake? also if u don’t mind do u know any big perch lakes
@llmama7527 I've found that most commercial fisheries have large perch in them. They're introduced naturally by birds because their eggs are sticky and attach to the birds legs. I have a shoal of of them in my pond that got there that way.
@@tonycamplin8607 thank you
thanks for the great video
You're welcome Maria :)
I tend to catch pretty decent perch with live red maggots , biggest one was just bigger than both my hands together (I didn’t have a measuring tape) but yeah an overall decent bait to use for them , might help if anyone else is looking to catch perch ❤
Yeah I caught a 3lb Perch with two maggots on a hook. Just goes to show that you don't need a big bait to get a big fish.
What are you using for a hooklink?
Great video but die’ing to know how much the big one weighs???
2pounder
correct me if i am wrong please but i thought live baiting was illegal??? just likr feeding live prey to snakes is illegal
Is this Charlie's lake in Ashford
When did you film this ?
I love your chanel
Ah glad to hear you enjoy it! :)
Perch and trench were my favorite fish to target, but I moved from Europe to Texas and they don't exist here :(
I'm missing this time with Alex 😢
By the way, I never saw a float system like this. Maybe you could make another tutorial about it?
I'm from Germany, I never saw anybody using it. Maybe it's more kind of an English thing?
nice fishing
where’s this lake? would love to check it out
Hi mate, here it is! www.angelslakes.com/charlies-lake
I had an unexpected specimen perch in a comercial in North Wales
Oh wow, sounds like a great session :)
Nice video carl, question what is the name of the floats you are using and are they available anywhere online
They're carp floats
Drennan Zepler floats, get them in various colours and various sizes too 👍🏻
Good video friend , was just checking out your channel and i joined up
Cheers! Welcome :)
Charlies lake Andover?
What lb line?
if you want big perch go back to the res! monster perch in there mate
Always loved chasing these fish back home and had so much respect for them, since moving to Australia it turns out they are everywhere in the freshwater here, and an invasive species so they have to be killed once caught, never even thought of eating them but apparently they are one of the best eating fish out there. Anyways love your stuff even though it doesn’t directly translate to the Southern Hemisphere waters ahahah
Where is that lake I would like to go and try and beat my pb
i think theyve said
Seriously Carl just put on a bigger coat 🧥- great vid as always
Hahah thank you Phil!
I've been trying to figure out perch this last month , but yesterday I caught a weird hybrid looking perch that was fully silver with a black back ... Is this a thing ? I can find anything saying anything about hybrid perch .So yesterday I caught my PB perch ! (I've only fished for perch a few times before but a big perch was one of my fishing goals for the year)
Zander?
@@leem25 it had orange fins
Chub
No Zander or chub in my area
brilliant video you two, is it coz Alix filmed it lol thank you 👍👍
Haha thank you James!
what rods!!
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I wentfishing today and I got loads of good perch and I got my pb
Well done Jake!
hi carl i love ur vids so sad to see you stop making vids i look up to you so much
I'll be carrying on, just Alex who isn't into fishing anymore :)
@@fishingtutorials thanks for commenting this made my day
You're welcome! :) Ah I'm glad!
How to unhook a perch without their annoying spikes getting you?
common sense when you hold it?
Slide your hand down them from their head is a good way but you'll stick get nicked at some point 😄
@@LiamJProduction the lil buggers always flap their gills and fins, worse when they're tiny
@@lakzerk2344 Place your hand from the head and down to fold their dorsal fins and grab onto them over their back no way your getting spiked then. Alternatively, you can thumb grip them like americans do for bass which works unless you got trebles on the end or you risk getting a hook in your hand
Thumb grip inside it's mouth is a really secure way to hold them :)
norfolk broads used to have big perch
Iv seen a perch with a fish tail hanging out of its mouth because the fish was that big.. ok when I was young I had a pet perch 🙄 kept eating all my livebait!
I feel the channel is turning into one of those where you just show yourself catching fish rather than teaching people how to catch them. Barely mentioned the live baiting, how you hook them, if you just chuck it in a random spot or if you bait the area up, hook size etc
Thanks for the feedback Simon, it's not what the channel is becoming - just might be this particular video that seems this way, I will alway aim to include as much detail as possible, but sometimes somethings may slip through.
When are u going to belgium with alex ? And where are u going
I wanna know where u go fishing so i know what lakr has nice fish
Early May :) but can't disclose location, sorry Marcus!
@@fishingtutorials no problem good luck!
Thank you! :)
I'm not calling anyone a liar and don't want to say this is clickbait but I recall that Carl went abroad and caught a certain 7 pound perch in the Netherlands a while back, so this might be 'PB' back at the old homestead.
Ah yeah, that was my brother Alex. :)
it's still Carlton and Alex, but not as we know it 😀
We'll always be Bros :)
Go boat fishing with daniel weyers in holland.
You should go tricklebrook there lots of big perch the biggest that come out I believe is 5lb
Luarrr biasa