Love the enthusiasm, this is what fishing is all about. It's not neccesarily about the biggest fish, or the most fish, but the joy of enjoying the the beautiful outdoors. Catching a few fish doesn't hurt! ;) Subbed, love the channel
Now THIS is my kinda fishing …. Stripey fishing of all sizes and from an old quarry lake too ,,… cracking spot and another banger of a video George …. Just catching up on watching some videos as been busy with one thing or another and just want say it’s made my Sunday evening watching these …. Love em …… all the best my lad 😁👍🎣
@@adventurefishinguk love it George …….. you know me when it comes to perch ,…. I am working away at the moment and yesterday I managed to get a couple of hours on the river soar Near Leicester.. Never fished it before. Only had a couple of hours but managed a couple of perch & three pike … was nice, just to have a break from work. … best part was I was getting paid to do it. 🤣🤣🤣 wish this was the case every day. Now that would be the life.🎣🎣🎣😉😉😉😁😁😁 all the best to you and the family George 👍🥰
Beautiful spot mate. Lovely stuff and that was a cracking fish. I'd be a little bit more careful with tossing those small fish into water that shallow with a rocky bottom though.
What a spot that is George! the quarry was absolutely teaming with life not just fish but tadpoles too! Cant go wrong with fishing a natural venue you never know what you'll catch (Roach on lure 🤣). Awesome video mate! 😊
@@onsight2822 Never ask for a location. It's just not done, no matter how tempted you might feel. Do your own homework - google maps is an excellent place to explore possibilities without leaving your fireside. Make a shortlist of possibles, then do some recce visits. That process is sometimes even better fun than a decent day fishing. And when you find somewhere worthwhile, keep it to yourself! Having said that, waters like the one shown here are dangerous places often with dropaways from inches depth to water deep enough to drown a herd of elephants. So best to take a trusted pal or else wear a flotation device. Be safe!
Used to fish there as a kid,long long time ago!, no roach in it then, just perch and minnows....and tadpoles! and one year got stocked with some trout, that soon went walkies!....where you caught the big perch was called the "happy birthday" swim, as someone had spray painted Happy birthday on the cliff in huge letters,obviously long gone....great to see the place again-thanks for the video...a magical place
Another great vid. It’s awesome catching perch on light tackle. Do you have bluegill, sunfish or crappie over there across the pond? I also like catching them on a fly line using poppers and some other type flies. It’s a blast either way. A lot of old quarries where I grew up in Pennsylvania that we would fish occasionally and thanks for showing such a cool place.
Thanks for watching! We don't have any of those fish unfortunately. I believe there is one lake though in the south of the country that has something called 'pumpkinseeds', are they from the US?
@@adventurefishinguk yes they are like what we call a sunfish here and they are very pretty and fun to catch. Will give a great fight on light tackle. Keep filming as it is fun to watch and too see what the fishing is like in other countries
It is always fun to see these vids with brits being overjoyed with a perch of this size, here in the netherlands they grow quite a bit bigger. Stunning scenery tho.
What a beautiful spot to fish Sir. When I lived in the UK, (I now live in New Zealand), I used to fish the river at Emberton Park in Olney, Buckinghamshire with my ex-father-in-law. We would use lob worms or brandlings. Using a waggler close to the bank, we always had plenty of Perch at least 50% of which required a landing net. My personal best was a beauty of 2lb 2oz. Happy days!
@@adventurefishinguk Trout fishing is pretty much NZs biggest tourist attraction. There is a 45cm minimum catch length for keeping. Which is pretty average. My biggest have been a 5lb 1oz Rainbow, and a 6lb Brown. The sea fishing here is also phenomenal.
@@NetfishnChill haha well you don’t have it bad over there, every time i see an insta post from you I miss Amsterdam bad. Hopefully I’ll be able to come back this year
I've just got into fishing, literally had my first fishing trip just recently. Got the bug, can't wait to get out and catch more man. My friend got me straight into it with Carp fishing 🎣
What a great video! Beautiful spot! I'm about to have my first trip in a few years so I'm super pumped! Heading out tomorrow to camp by some rivers and do some fly fishing in the mountains. Got all my batteries charged for my cameras.
@@adventurefishinguk Yeah sure did, unfortunately the rivers were washed out but I found some spring fed lakes that were stocked and caught some rainbows and brook trout. Haven't had a chance to edit the footage from the trip yet though.
Beautiful isolated spot. I've fished a lot of abandoned limestone quarries in the upper US midwest for bluegills and bass but this must be much much older. I can't help wondering what stone was quarried there and how it was transported out.
If youre fishing for perch. I can highly recommend. fox rage spikey shads. Ive had loads of perch out with them and pike love them too! Give them ago if you havent tried them before!
You sounded like the two tailors from the fast show , "oh suit you you sir oh oh !! Did you spend the evening with a Lady sir ? Oh did she want it sir??!, I'm just messin it's not that bad if you've not seen it check it out lol I know it's not a fishing thing but hey it'll make you laugh 😆
Wow that's a BEAUTIFUL spot, theirs an old lime stone quarry and a mild jp the coast from me and it use to be stocked with rainbow 🌈 and brown trout but I don't think theirs any of them left as that was about 30 years ago but I know theirs big eels and perch in there. It's a lovely spot.
You've certainly found another stunning place George , shame you didnt take Georgia with you she could have done some wonderful paintings down there . Not realy convinced about that roach though , it looked like a hybrid to me the colours were a bit wishy washy for me . Best wishes to you both anyway 👍
If you're where I think you are. I used to fish there as a kid. There used to be a pike in there. Just the one I guess as they've not bred so probably dead now. Hooked it once when reeling a roach in but sadly snapped me.
@@adventurefishinguk I'm quite new too it, I use metal's in the sea mostly, with a few different top water and shllow diver's, fresh water not done alot as yet.
Really glad u enjoyed it.under that lege at the end there live monsters u need live bait or worm 🐛 really there's even rumours someone has put a cat fish in there
@@adventurefishinguk not sure how many but there breeding like mad so I'd say a few my mate got a random brown trout out once big one .problem is all the swimmers etc in summer .I've took a dingy over other side to fish b4 now they call it frog island .I had a mega day at embsy last Friday it's fishing mega in the heat wave
Great video glad I came across this, it is an amazing place tooked away just off the main road I've been there tons of times still looks there same from when I used go down there with my mates when we were younger. That water is very deep I've heard there's even a crane in the bottom of there and a couple of people died not sure how, true that is.
@@adventurefishinguk I do have a place which you could try not far from here in Barnoldswick if you look on Google maps for a place called (little cut) Barnoldswick theres a nice little abandoned spot I've never fished there but it's worth a try.
@@adventurefishinguk there are some huge perch in a lake that we fish in Warrington, please can you tell me what a decent rod is for plastic lure fishing
@@garrymobey912 that sounds really good what’s it called if you don’t mind me asking? There are all sorts of different rods for different purposes. In each video I make I list the gear I’m using, the details to this set up are in the description!
@@adventurefishinguk it’s mersey valley country club, let me know if you fancy it I’ll take you as I’m a member. I love fly fishing for carp, it’s fantastic
Hi, love your videos, im thinking of buying the x5 multi rod but i just want to know what the max weight fish it would be able to hold roughly ? Many thx
What a great way to finish the session.😲 A lovely day, at a stunning lake.🫣 Thank you so much for taking us with you.👍 Until the next one, take care and stay safe.😷
Thanks mate! Lip grip can be the best way to hold them if done properly. Fast unhooking with minimal contact with the fish. Good for places where it’s not possible/practical to make sure you’re hands are always wet
yes george, been a while away in central America but I'm back in the Uk and the lakes, ready to smash a summer of angling. been chatting to Harry loads he's having a mad one out in Japan, hit us up if ur feeling lonely and want a fishing buddy since he's not here anymore ;) cracking video as usual pal keep em coming.
Well it depends where you are, My drive to work is 1hr 15 mins -1hr 30mins depending on traffic and that is a bit long but I'm used to it. So a fishing drive is no issue. :)@@adventurefishinguk
I love catching perch, theyre the most beautiful little predators. But I was wondering, how do fish get into an abandoned quarry? There's one near me that looks quite similar to this but ive never considered fishing it as ive always assumed there would be no fish in it.
Awesome place to fish! I would not believe the rumors of there being no pike, its such an old water and thered plenty of bait. Waters like that can be super tricky for pike and it doesnt seem like its fished a lot so people probably just gave up. Maybe a video later in the year fishing deadbaits? You never know!
I was informed yesterday that the best bait for a really large Perch was a small Perch. If you were dropshotting and had obviously hooked a small fish, the best thing you could do was leave it in the water for a chunk to munch.
Makes sense, that perch definitely looked like it had been in a tussle with another. If a big one did take a small one on the way in though, I doubt there would be enough exposed hook to hook-up. Perhaps though!
The wife and myself watched the video today. I am 68 I said it took me back to when myself and my friends went fishing Forth and Clyde canal, I told her we did not have the equipment that you have now as 95% of the time we caught a cold.
@@adventurefishinguk I dont think I could find it now, high cliffs on 3 sides and a thick wood on the open side. I do remember it was not possible to ledger there. Never found the bottom when I tried !
I grew up catching abandoned quarry perch. One day I caught 66 perch (66 "catches") in one afternoon from a hole in the weeds just in front of me, all the same size you were catching and mostly all on a single red maggot. I had a float on but I was dropping a maggot in and it was away before the float hit the water. I would watch them suck the maggot in and just lift them out. Several times I would catch one, toss it back and then watch that exact same fish go for the bait and I'd catch the same fish twice in a row. I started taking tally marks around 20 something, I was alone and I told my friends about it and none of them believed me. 'MON THE DEED DUG!
@@adventurefishinguk I think the flowers just raw but the leaves and seed heads are nice too…in salads etc with permission from the landowner you can dig up the bulbs and eat those too - like normal garlic - but then the plant is ‘finished’ hence the need for permission.
@@adventurefishinguk thank you very much for the quick reply. I’d already bought some 8lb fluro but only came in a 50m length lol. Not enough I don’t think.
A small swivel is a good idea yeah, as long as he has a couple of feet of leader it should be no trouble at all! Can be easy to reel past the swivel and damage the rod eyes though, that's something to be careful of!
Fluoro/mono leader with a small snap swivel works great for me. Swivel on the snap will make it slithtly bigger but it wont scare the perch if its tiny. I fish without a swivel at times and I dont notice a difference in catch rates
You always stand a chance of catching a silver fish on a lure when using passive baits. I've had roach, bream and rudd on passive soft plastics similar to what you are using
We have a small lake on the isle of man that's got roach n rudd its a resivior but I've never had chance to fish there, I'm pretty impressed to hear soft plastics can catch roach n rudd etc I've seen them caught on the fly aswell 👍
@@adventurefishinguk soft plastics that don't resemble a swimbait, so like soft plastic maggots, slugs and worms, but there are a lot of other passive bait options available. I had a roach just this afternoon on a 25 mm Fish Up Tanta copy from China
There are two abandoned quarrys down near me. very small one, maybe quarter if an acre in size, people who fished it managed to craft out three fishing peg. Carp in 20lb+ have come out and different fish. There is a 2nd one which is full of rudd, absolutely packed full of rudd, but once you get through the rudd there are some good tench in it, 8lb tench was caught before. "nd one you need the farmers permission to fish though and only two places to fish
Could be fooled into thinking you were fishing in a different country other than the uk stunning water gin clear fantastic surrounding and some nice fish to boot
Hello bud! Doubt youll see this at this point but im uk based and on the look for some remote wild spots this place looks like a dream where is it? I havent finished the video so if you mention it there ignore me
Small perch in the margins or shallows are quite possibly there because the predator grandfathers are in the deeper areas in full daylight. Perch naturally tend towards the deeps when light is strong so I'm surprised you didn't twig about why you were only getting tiddlers - with one exception. Let those small swimbaits sink well down, try progressive counts to vary the depth till you feel the line go slack, which will be either the bottom or maybe the perch of a lifetime. One of those wee ones fished as livebait on or near the bottom might have seen you packing up early from arm-ache caused by serial 2-3lb fish! (Its happened to me when I used to explore all sorts of largely unfished oddments of waters just as you're doing. One time my young brother and me stopped counting when we got to 65 sizeable perch, smallest about 1.25lbs and the biggest a bit short of 3lbs.) And not a single pike, strangely enough.. It was a big shallow water with zillions of perch fry crowding the margins with shoals of hunting biggies pushing them in towards the shoreline. We were using Mepps-minnow spinners. Deadly things, those. Fished as slow as possible. It got too repetitive so eventually we left, pretty well tired out as well as we'd "had enough". Later on that water was hit by perch disease and never seemed to regain its former ability to harbour a massive biomass of big perch...😢 Explore the deeps until whatever time the light weakens, when they'll be more inclined to patrol the margins hunting the wee things you kept catching. So - fish deep or hang around till dusk! Worth another visit maybe? (If you can get a small inflatable there you might explore those vertical shoreline cliff type areas - try jigging the deep water close in - perch love "structure") But if you do be sure to wear a flotation jacket! Tight lines!
Yeah you're probably right about that! I'd definitely have more luck going at dusk or dawn. its 100% worth another visit, not sure when i'll have the time to make it over there but i'll see what I can do!
My question with all these spots is do you need a permit? I'm put off fishing many spots due to the rabbit hole of trying to find out what permissions you need beyond a standard fishing licence.
It really just depends on the place mate, sometimes you do sometimes you don't! Internet research normally will give you the answer. Having a look for signs works well too 👍
Fair enough I can respect that, I certainly hope the person who found this spot continues to enjoy it, there are spots like this just past Tottley on the way to Bakewell I love the whole walking to to spots just as much as fishing them tbh lol👍👍
Fishing isn't about the size of the fish you catch. It's about the size of the smile it brings you while you're doing it!
Couldn’t have said it better myself mate!
Very true but the smiles a lot bigger when you catch a massive pne
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Its about getting 5 mins away from the wife 😂😂
Smile is directly proportional to size. That’s what I believe, and of course, that’s what she said.
Love the enthusiasm, this is what fishing is all about. It's not neccesarily about the biggest fish, or the most fish, but the joy of enjoying the the beautiful outdoors. Catching a few fish doesn't hurt! ;) Subbed, love the channel
Couldn't agree more! Thanks for watching 👍
Now THIS is my kinda fishing …. Stripey fishing of all sizes and from an old quarry lake too ,,… cracking spot and another banger of a video George …. Just catching up on watching some videos as been busy with one thing or another and just want say it’s made my Sunday evening watching these …. Love em …… all the best my lad 😁👍🎣
Glad you're enjoying having a little catch up. I knew you'd like this one!
@@adventurefishinguk love it George …….. you know me when it comes to perch ,…. I am working away at the moment and yesterday I managed to get a couple of hours on the river soar
Near Leicester.. Never fished it before. Only had a couple of hours but managed a couple of perch & three pike … was nice, just to have a break from work. … best part was I was getting paid to do it. 🤣🤣🤣 wish this was the case every day. Now that would be the life.🎣🎣🎣😉😉😉😁😁😁 all the best to you and the family George 👍🥰
Great video mate, grats on the perch! Amazing fish when they get big! We do love an abandoned lake aye!
Thanks mate, hopefully i'll be topping that one this year!
Great vid mate and lovely spot, congrats on the big'un! Also great to see someone having so much fun catching the smaller fish too, rare to see!
Thanks mate! Yeah I just love fishing, size isn’t everything 👍
Beautiful spot mate. Lovely stuff and that was a cracking fish. I'd be a little bit more careful with tossing those small fish into water that shallow with a rocky bottom though.
Thanks mate and good point, I made to only put them back where it was deep enough 👍
Just found the channel and my first watch. Great vid and what a setting. With that track down I bet it’s rarely fished too. Subbed and will watch more
Thanks for watching mate I really appreciate it!
Beautiful spot George,and what a Perch,a fish of a lifetime mate 🦈🦈
Thanks mate, beautiful place isn’t it! Hopefully I’ll have one bigger this year 👍
What a spot that is George! the quarry was absolutely teaming with life not just fish but tadpoles too! Cant go wrong with fishing a natural venue you never know what you'll catch (Roach on lure 🤣). Awesome video mate! 😊
Lovely place isn’t it! Yeah I was really surprised to see a roach on the end of my line. Pleasantly surprised that is!
Could i ask where it is, , , not for fishing but for potential climbing??? Cheers
@@onsight2822 Never ask for a location. It's just not done, no matter how tempted you might feel. Do your own homework - google maps is an excellent place to explore possibilities without leaving your fireside. Make a shortlist of possibles, then do some recce visits. That process is sometimes even better fun than a decent day fishing. And when you find somewhere worthwhile, keep it to yourself! Having said that, waters like the one shown here are dangerous places often with dropaways from inches depth to water deep enough to drown a herd of elephants. So best to take a trusted pal or else wear a flotation device. Be safe!
@@SirBeauJanglesI know exactly where it is and have caught loads of fish from there
Used to fish there as a kid,long long time ago!, no roach in it then, just perch and minnows....and tadpoles! and one year got stocked with some trout, that soon went walkies!....where you caught the big perch was called the "happy birthday" swim, as someone had spray painted Happy birthday on the cliff in huge letters,obviously long gone....great to see the place again-thanks for the video...a magical place
That's really cool to hear! Yeah the happy birthday swim definitely pulled it out the bag for me! thanks for watching
Wow, that place is magical and the perch are just beautiful. So important to let the bigger ones go for good genetics. Well done mate 👍🎣
Really amazing place isn’t it! I let them all go regardless of size 👍
Fantastic little gem hidden in the woods.
Nice one! Those fish were in immaculate condition. I bet there is an even bigger perch in there!
I bet there is too mate!
You fish in some amazing places, thank you for sharing and some nice perch of various sizes and finish with a decent one.
Thanks for watching mate! Yeah the big one was definitely the icing on the cake!
What a beautiful place that is and some nice fish too.😊 nice one George 😊😊
Thanks mate, really picturesque place isn’t it!
Another great vid. It’s awesome catching perch on light tackle. Do you have bluegill, sunfish or crappie over there across the pond? I also like catching them on a fly line using poppers and some other type flies. It’s a blast either way. A lot of old quarries where I grew up in Pennsylvania that we would fish occasionally and thanks for showing such a cool place.
Thanks for watching! We don't have any of those fish unfortunately. I believe there is one lake though in the south of the country that has something called 'pumpkinseeds', are they from the US?
@@adventurefishinguk yes they are like what we call a sunfish here and they are very pretty and fun to catch. Will give a great fight on light tackle. Keep filming as it is fun to watch and too see what the fishing is like in other countries
catching a roach on a lure is a madness, haha you've defo been watching ur db fishing with all that LMAB gear and the la mosquito rod, love it
haha thanks mate! Doing a bit of work with them that explains the gear 👍
It is always fun to see these vids with brits being overjoyed with a perch of this size, here in the netherlands they grow quite a bit bigger. Stunning scenery tho.
Yeah you have it good over in the Netherlands! There are some big ones in the UK too, I just don’t seem to be able to catch them 😂
@@adventurefishinguk Just good old worms work best :)
What beautiful perch you caught there the markings were perfect. Loveky location to catch them in too.
Thanks mate, really fun unique spot to fish isn't it! Hopefully next time i'm there I run into a bigger one 👍
What a beautiful spot to fish Sir. When I lived in the UK, (I now live in New Zealand), I used to fish the river at Emberton Park in Olney, Buckinghamshire with my ex-father-in-law. We would use lob worms or brandlings. Using a waggler close to the bank, we always had plenty of Perch at least 50% of which required a landing net. My personal best was a beauty of 2lb 2oz. Happy days!
A 2 pounder is a great fish well done! I bet you have some great fishing over in New Zealand though. Especially the trout!
@@adventurefishinguk Trout fishing is pretty much NZs biggest tourist attraction. There is a 45cm minimum catch length for keeping. Which is pretty average. My biggest have been a 5lb 1oz Rainbow, and a 6lb Brown. The sea fishing here is also phenomenal.
Saw your mountain pond video and now i am on a binge :D
Thanks for watching mate I appreciate it!
@@adventurefishinguk you got a viewer for life now 😂
Well played mate definitely worth coming back for a bigger one!
Thanks mate, I definitely will be!
Beautiful scenery bro what a magical place to fish for sure . Gotta take me there perching one day bro 😄 stunning perch too man 🎣
Thanks mate, it's a cracking spot! You'll have to get yourself over to the UK 👍
@@adventurefishinguk I do bro everyone of your videos makes me miss home 🏡 😢. I'm afraid if I go back I won't leave again 🤣
@@NetfishnChill haha well you don’t have it bad over there, every time i see an insta post from you I miss Amsterdam bad. Hopefully I’ll be able to come back this year
@@adventurefishinguk yeh man aha would be nice to have another session with you before I possibly go to Asia after summer
I've just got into fishing, literally had my first fishing trip just recently. Got the bug, can't wait to get out and catch more man. My friend got me straight into it with Carp fishing 🎣
It's definitely addictive! Just wait until you get into lure fishing, such an exciting way to fish. I much prefer it to carping!
Great video George, awesome scenery 😎
By the way I'm Coast 2 Coast Fishing 😅
Ah okay, that makes sense thanks for letting me know!
What a great video! Beautiful spot! I'm about to have my first trip in a few years so I'm super pumped! Heading out tomorrow to camp by some rivers and do some fly fishing in the mountains. Got all my batteries charged for my cameras.
Glad you enjoyed the video, did you manage to catch any mountain fish?
@@adventurefishinguk Yeah sure did, unfortunately the rivers were washed out but I found some spring fed lakes that were stocked and caught some rainbows and brook trout. Haven't had a chance to edit the footage from the trip yet though.
@@adventureducklings Great effort! Let me know when it's up i'd love to watch it
Great Video and what a place to fish , Just awesome
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it!
First time come across your channel. Subbed, love these types of videos natural beauty.
Thanks for subscribing I appreciate it!
Great video m8 just subscribed 👍 👊❤️beautiful perch m8 .
Thanks for subscribing mate, really appreciate that! Glad you enjoyed the video 👍
Beautiful isolated spot. I've fished a lot of abandoned limestone quarries in the upper US midwest for bluegills and bass but this must be much much older. I can't help wondering what stone was quarried there and how it was transported out.
I think this was a limestone quarry mate, abandoned before world war 2 👍 Thanks for watching!
If youre fishing for perch. I can highly recommend. fox rage spikey shads. Ive had loads of perch out with them and pike love them too! Give them ago if you havent tried them before!
I’ve tried them a few times, really good aren’t they!
I've been here this morning but no look. Very local to me but never fished it. Well in 😁
Thanks for watching mate!
Well done mate, lovely surrounding, nice catch
Thanks mate, beautiful place isn't it!
First video I've seen of yours.....subscribed from the USA
Thanks for watching mate, really appreciate it! Awesome to hear you’re watching from over the pond
You sounded like the two tailors from the fast show , "oh suit you you sir oh oh !! Did you spend the evening with a Lady sir ? Oh did she want it sir??!, I'm just messin it's not that bad if you've not seen it check it out lol I know it's not a fishing thing but hey it'll make you laugh 😆
Hahaha just went and watched that it's so funny. Glad you showed me, cant say i can hear any sort of resemblance though 😂
Wow that's a BEAUTIFUL spot, theirs an old lime stone quarry and a mild jp the coast from me and it use to be stocked with rainbow 🌈 and brown trout but I don't think theirs any of them left as that was about 30 years ago but I know theirs big eels and perch in there. It's a lovely spot.
It certainly is mate! Yeah the trout are probably long gone if they were triploids, could be some massive eels in there!
You've certainly found another stunning place George , shame you didnt take Georgia with you she could have done some wonderful paintings down there . Not realy convinced about that roach though , it looked like a hybrid to me the colours were a bit wishy washy for me . Best wishes to you both anyway 👍
Great place isn’t it! That’s a good idea, maybe next time she can come along and do some painting 👍 it could well be a hybrid, I wouldn’t know!
Nice video and stunning place to fish.
Thanks mate glad you liked it!
If you're where I think you are. I used to fish there as a kid. There used to be a pike in there. Just the one I guess as they've not bred so probably dead now. Hooked it once when reeling a roach in but sadly snapped me.
It wouldn't surprise me if someone put one in! No sign of it when I was there 👍
Can’t help but notice the hoodie your wearing, Gerry’s fishing tackle shop is just round the corner from where I live 🎣
That’s cool! I’m not far from there myself 👍
Another belter of a video, beautiful wild place, next time you fishing Anglesey let me know, we could do a colab.😊
Thanks mate! Hopefully I’ll be there quite a bit this summer. Do you do much lure fishing?
@@adventurefishinguk I'm quite new too it, I use metal's in the sea mostly, with a few different top water and shllow diver's, fresh water not done alot as yet.
That was a good perch indeed. I swim in flooded quarrys on the moors around here. I often see fish and wonder how they got in there
It certainly was! I reckon someone probably put some in years ago and they established
If you didnt catch 1 fish in that stunning location you just wouldn't mind would you mate . What a stunning place thanks for the vid 🙏
Very true, stunning place isn't it! Thanks for watching
Really glad u enjoyed it.under that lege at the end there live monsters u need live bait or worm 🐛 really there's even rumours someone has put a cat fish in there
Thanks again for the advice mate! Are there quite a few big perch in there or just one or two? I’ll have to go back at some point for another go 👍
@@adventurefishinguk not sure how many but there breeding like mad so I'd say a few my mate got a random brown trout out once big one .problem is all the swimmers etc in summer .I've took a dingy over other side to fish b4 now they call it frog island .I had a mega day at embsy last Friday it's fishing mega in the heat wave
Great video glad I came across this, it is an amazing place tooked away just off the main road I've been there tons of times still looks there same from when I used go down there with my mates when we were younger. That water is very deep I've heard there's even a crane in the bottom of there and a couple of people died not sure how, true that is.
Thanks for watching mate! I don’t suppose you know of any other abandoned places to fish in the North west do you?
@@adventurefishinguk I do have a place which you could try not far from here in Barnoldswick if you look on Google maps for a place called (little cut) Barnoldswick theres a nice little abandoned spot I've never fished there but it's worth a try.
Encouraging to see a young gentleman like yourself enjoying fishing in a beautiful place
Thanks mate, nothing beats a good view when fishing!
@@adventurefishinguk there are some huge perch in a lake that we fish in Warrington, please can you tell me what a decent rod is for plastic lure fishing
@@garrymobey912 that sounds really good what’s it called if you don’t mind me asking? There are all sorts of different rods for different purposes. In each video I make I list the gear I’m using, the details to this set up are in the description!
@@adventurefishinguk it’s mersey valley country club, let me know if you fancy it I’ll take you as I’m a member. I love fly fishing for carp, it’s fantastic
@@garrymobey912 I’d be up for that, are you allowed to spin for the perch?
Hi, love your videos, im thinking of buying the x5 multi rod but i just want to know what the max weight fish it would be able to hold roughly ? Many thx
What a great way to finish the session.😲
A lovely day, at a stunning lake.🫣
Thank you so much for taking us with you.👍
Until the next one, take care and stay safe.😷
Thanks for coming along Ian, glad you enjoyed watching!
Cracking place and a lovely watch, what’s with lip gripping 3 inch perch?
Thanks mate! Lip grip can be the best way to hold them if done properly. Fast unhooking with minimal contact with the fish. Good for places where it’s not possible/practical to make sure you’re hands are always wet
Loving the channel, really informative
Thanks for watching mate!
You need to come to Australia mate, we get perch (redfin as we call them), well over 2 pounds... Still a cool fishing spot though.
I’ve been once and I’d love to do it again, barramundi is on the bucket list!
yes george, been a while away in central America but I'm back in the Uk and the lakes, ready to smash a summer of angling. been chatting to Harry loads he's having a mad one out in Japan, hit us up if ur feeling lonely and want a fishing buddy since he's not here anymore ;)
cracking video as usual pal keep em coming.
That sounds class, did you have a good time? Will do and glad you enjoyed the video
@@adventurefishinguk was mega mate, got plenty of fishing done too ;)
The colour on those perch were amazing post the locaction
Thanks mate!
Nice video! What is a jig head? Do you put a hook with Weight through the rubber lure?
Thanks mate! It's just a hook with a weight on the front, you thread different softbaits onto them 👍
As someone who fishes in Australia, I really want to go back to the UK and fish. I also want to try fly fishing at some point.
You're lucky to fish in australia the rock fishing over there looks crazy, quite the drive between spots though i've heard!
Well it depends where you are, My drive to work is 1hr 15 mins -1hr 30mins depending on traffic and that is a bit long but I'm used to it. So a fishing drive is no issue. :)@@adventurefishinguk
Super perch at the end 👌👌
I love catching perch, theyre the most beautiful little predators. But I was wondering, how do fish get into an abandoned quarry? There's one near me that looks quite similar to this but ive never considered fishing it as ive always assumed there would be no fish in it.
I love catching them too! People must have put them in years ago and they've established. Either that or eggs on birds feet!
I've heard that fish eggs can cling onto birds which then visit other waters.
God put them in
Awesome place to fish! I would not believe the rumors of there being no pike, its such an old water and thered plenty of bait. Waters like that can be super tricky for pike and it doesnt seem like its fished a lot so people probably just gave up. Maybe a video later in the year fishing deadbaits? You never know!
Yeah you could well be right! It is a bit smaller than it looks on camera though, but plenty of depth I suppose!
I was informed yesterday that the best bait for a really large Perch was a small Perch. If you were dropshotting and had obviously hooked a small fish, the best thing you could do was leave it in the water for a chunk to munch.
Makes sense, that perch definitely looked like it had been in a tussle with another. If a big one did take a small one on the way in though, I doubt there would be enough exposed hook to hook-up. Perhaps though!
@@adventurefishinguk could always hook up a live bait perch?
I've always found that you cant beat a juicy lob worm for Perch, they cannot resist them.
Yeah I've heard they love them! Something about lure fishing just keeps me coming back though!
Chunk of a perch mate,well done 👍🏻
Thanks mate, my biggest in quite some time! Hoping for an even bigger one this year 👍
The wife and myself watched the video today. I am 68 I said it took me back to when myself and my friends went fishing Forth and Clyde canal, I told her we did not have the equipment that you have now as 95% of the time we caught a cold.
Thanks for watching, I really appreciate it!
Brill video amazing location and my favourite species i'm hooked lol
Thanks for watching mate, appreciate it!
I live in central Texas near Austin. It's nice to see what it is like to fish in remote areas of the UK.
I bet the fishing is great over in Texas! thanks for watching 👍
Is that the green lagoon arlsey??
I used to go there as a kid
It's not mate! Does it look similar?
how do the fish get into the abandoned quarry, has someone introduced them like years back ??
I imagine that’s probably the answer yes and they’ve successfully established
Cracking little video
Thanks mate!
Very scenic spot. Amazing.
Thanks mate!
Nice were abouts is this?, reminds me of a place we used to go as kids in a place called longridge
Sorry I can't give away locations on youtube mate!
Reminds me a a quarry i found when i was younger in the south west, so many wild carp there. I never did catch one though.
Maybe you should head back with a rod and settle the score 👍
@@adventurefishinguk I dont think I could find it now, high cliffs on 3 sides and a thick wood on the open side. I do remember it was not possible to ledger there. Never found the bottom when I tried !
Lovely place that , the roach will have thought that to be a worm and snaffled it 👍👍
Thanks mate, very true! Can’t have been a nice moment of realisation for it
I grew up catching abandoned quarry perch.
One day I caught 66 perch (66 "catches") in one afternoon from a hole in the weeds just in front of me, all the same size you were catching and mostly all on a single red maggot. I had a float on but I was dropping a maggot in and it was away before the float hit the water. I would watch them suck the maggot in and just lift them out. Several times I would catch one, toss it back and then watch that exact same fish go for the bait and I'd catch the same fish twice in a row. I started taking tally marks around 20 something, I was alone and I told my friends about it and none of them believed me.
'MON THE DEED DUG!
That sounds like a great place to fish mate, plenty of action! Thanks for watching 👍
Have you tried adding scents even to the scented lures?
It's not something i've ever tried mate, does it work?
wow,...
A lovely place to fish.
I wanne be there,...I wanne be there.
greetings and tight lines.
It certainly is! Thanks for watching mate, I appreciate it!
Fascinating atmospheric place...
Couldn’t agree more!
Superb perch, great video - really relaxing until that bite! I also love wild garlic, I hope you harvested some? It's fully edible raw or cooked 😊
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! I didn’t harvest any unfortunately, what part of the plant is the best to eat?
@@adventurefishinguk I think the flowers just raw but the leaves and seed heads are nice too…in salads etc with permission from the landowner you can dig up the bulbs and eat those too - like normal garlic - but then the plant is ‘finished’ hence the need for permission.
You can also make a very nice soup with wild garlic
@@alison8526 some good info thank you!
What is your line setup for this sort of lure fishing?
I’m just starting out
Here i'm using 10lb braid down to an 8lb fluorocarbon leader mate 👍
@@adventurefishinguk thank you very much for the quick reply. I’d already bought some 8lb fluro but only came in a 50m length lol. Not enough I don’t think.
@@BushmanOutdoors That's plenty! You use braid on the reel, then a couple of feet of fluoro as it's invisible to the fish 👍
As the saying goes..a big Perch is the biggest fish of all...or something like that,...great stuff
Not heard the saying myself but I’m definitely starting to agree!
George me son has been tying straight on to the lure and getting line twists could he use a small swivel to prevent this or would the fish see this 🤔🤔
A small swivel is a good idea yeah, as long as he has a couple of feet of leader it should be no trouble at all! Can be easy to reel past the swivel and damage the rod eyes though, that's something to be careful of!
Fluoro/mono leader with a small snap swivel works great for me. Swivel on the snap will make it slithtly bigger but it wont scare the perch if its tiny. I fish without a swivel at times and I dont notice a difference in catch rates
@@FelixFiske thank you 👍👍
@@FelixFiske thank you 👍👍
Beautiful fish mate
Thanks mate!
Good size roch welll done
Thank you, really wasn’t expecting that to happen!!
You always stand a chance of catching a silver fish on a lure when using passive baits. I've had roach, bream and rudd on passive soft plastics similar to what you are using
What's a passive bait?
We have a small lake on the isle of man that's got roach n rudd its a resivior but I've never had chance to fish there, I'm pretty impressed to hear soft plastics can catch roach n rudd etc I've seen them caught on the fly aswell 👍
@@adventurefishinguk soft plastics that don't resemble a swimbait, so like soft plastic maggots, slugs and worms, but there are a lot of other passive bait options available. I had a roach just this afternoon on a 25 mm Fish Up Tanta copy from China
@@peteredwards1528 ah yeah that makes sense! I’ll have to use them a bit more, I love a surprising catch every now and then
What a stunning place. What part of the country is this. My kind of solitary peaceful fishing
Thank you! The North 👍
Hey man the day where you get a bunch of small ones make for great days!
I couldn't agree more! Thanks for watching
There are two abandoned quarrys down near me. very small one, maybe quarter if an acre in size, people who fished it managed to craft out three fishing peg. Carp in 20lb+ have come out and different fish. There is a 2nd one which is full of rudd, absolutely packed full of rudd, but once you get through the rudd there are some good tench in it, 8lb tench was caught before. "nd one you need the farmers permission to fish though and only two places to fish
They sounds like great fun to fish mate I bet there’s some really interesting fish in the both of them!
What’s with all the Lmab lures recently dude? U the next one on their list??
Doing some work with them mate, not in the same capacity as the new people on their list though!
Can you go back there and use the perch as a bait and see what you catch?
That’s not really my style unfortunately! I bet it would work, but it’s prefer to let them go and use artificial baits 👍
Thanks for a nice video. Personally I would take a quiet scenic setting over more ,larger fish.
Thanks mate and yeah i completely agree!
Have you used red worm liquid?
Never heard of it!
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You should smuggle some largemouth bass up there, they would love it
legality aside, I wouldn't even know how to get my hands on them!
There's some cracking fish in there. Not been up for a while. And there never used to be a rope on that hill.
Yeah I reckon there are some much bigger ones lurking for sure!
Could i ask where it is , , , not for fishing but for potential climbing ?? Cheers
Could be fooled into thinking you were fishing in a different country other than the uk stunning water gin clear fantastic surrounding and some nice fish to boot
Yeah it definitely felt like that when I was down there mate! Thanks for watching
Hello bud! Doubt youll see this at this point but im uk based and on the look for some remote wild spots this place looks like a dream where is it? I havent finished the video so if you mention it there ignore me
Thanks for watching! Sorry unfortunately I can't give out locations on youtube
where is this? cant find any commenst about it on the old videos?
Sorry mate I can’t give out the location on TH-cam!
Freeze dried sprats are good and cheap perfect size for perch.
Good idea thanks for the suggestion mate!
@@adventurefishinguk No worries m8 you can get them most pet stores which is good.
Small perch in the margins or shallows are quite possibly there because the predator grandfathers are in the deeper areas in full daylight. Perch naturally tend towards the deeps when light is strong so I'm surprised you didn't twig about why you were only getting tiddlers - with one exception. Let those small swimbaits sink well down, try progressive counts to vary the depth till you feel the line go slack, which will be either the bottom or maybe the perch of a lifetime. One of those wee ones fished as livebait on or near the bottom might have seen you packing up early from arm-ache caused by serial 2-3lb fish! (Its happened to me when I used to explore all sorts of largely unfished oddments of waters just as you're doing. One time my young brother and me stopped counting when we got to 65 sizeable perch, smallest about 1.25lbs and the biggest a bit short of 3lbs.) And not a single pike, strangely enough.. It was a big shallow water with zillions of perch fry crowding the margins with shoals of hunting biggies pushing them in towards the shoreline. We were using Mepps-minnow spinners. Deadly things, those. Fished as slow as possible. It got too repetitive so eventually we left, pretty well tired out as well as we'd "had enough". Later on that water was hit by perch disease and never seemed to regain its former ability to harbour a massive biomass of big perch...😢 Explore the deeps until whatever time the light weakens, when they'll be more inclined to patrol the margins hunting the wee things you kept catching.
So - fish deep or hang around till dusk! Worth another visit maybe? (If you can get a small inflatable there you might explore those vertical shoreline cliff type areas - try jigging the deep water close in - perch love "structure") But if you do be sure to wear a flotation jacket! Tight lines!
Yeah you're probably right about that! I'd definitely have more luck going at dusk or dawn. its 100% worth another visit, not sure when i'll have the time to make it over there but i'll see what I can do!
My question with all these spots is do you need a permit? I'm put off fishing many spots due to the rabbit hole of trying to find out what permissions you need beyond a standard fishing licence.
It really just depends on the place mate, sometimes you do sometimes you don't! Internet research normally will give you the answer. Having a look for signs works well too 👍
Where abouts is it George ..looks lovely there ..could you say where your fishing in yr bio pls 👍🎣
Sorry mate I can’t give out locations on TH-cam!
@@adventurefishinguk aww soz I didn't know..anyway love yer channel..👍
@@markburras2371 thanks mate I appreciate that!
Banging perch
Thanks mate!
Looks amazing where abouts is this?
Sorry mate it’s not my place to share!
Fair enough I can respect that, I certainly hope the person who found this spot continues to enjoy it, there are spots like this just past Tottley on the way to Bakewell I love the whole walking to to spots just as much as fishing them tbh lol👍👍
little worm lures catch everything, once I caught a massive Rudd on one
I'll have to start using them more, I love a bit of variety!