I Smashed my PB 3 TIMES! From This Lake (new species)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.พ. 2024
- This session it was time to target a species of fish that has been requested multiple times. The Zander. I visited a lake known to hold this prehistoric species of fish. Unfortunately there's no lure fishing allowed, so I went for a ledger and float approach using small dead roach and rudd In the hopes of catching a new personal best!
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One of the best tasting fresh water fish. Similar to Seabass. Used to catch them in the Netherlands in the big lakes. They are everywhere.
Zander are definitely my favorite fish in the River Rhine here in Germany. I usually fish for them jigging 10-13cm soft lures or shallow running minnows at night but since the River Rhine is infested with Goby's, these are also great as dead bait on a bottom rig. You can also use larger Roach or Rudd but then the Zander usually first take them sideways and swim away with it for some distance. Then they stop to turn and swallow it. As soon as they start swimming again after the pause it's time to strike. They take the smaller baits in one gulp so with those you can basically strike immediately, which is why I also prefer those of around 10cm. Great video!
I think i speak for us all. Can we have more brother ginger on the channel please mate. I love going fishin with my brother. Nice seeing siblings fishing without fighting like some do haha good banter if anything.
Handy tip I uses from sea fishing at 700ft deep for Norwegian Cod. As its so deep, you don't want to pull up without a fish. So stuff cotton wool in through the mouth, then inject it with cod liver oil. Easier than putting oil on 1st. I had amazing results with dead baits in fresh water. Plus it got my my biggest pike at 29 lb 7oz, perch 4 lb 9oz and Zander 14 lb 2 oz. 😊 not all together lol 😆 😂 🤣
Nice session, 75 is a good sized fish. Please more of Zander fishing. And you mentioned the river Trent, a video from there wold be awesome.
Super days fishing well done to Dom giving advice you owe him a pint 😊
Brilliant session. Amazing fish ... the Zander. Thank you!
I never realised Zander were this beautiful! Great video, love the content.
Love how you so local. Every time I watch your videos it’s takes me down memory lane! Now you wheir I used to fish again ❤. Love the videos
Hi again they were great the Zander lovely fish well done Chris
G'day Chris, awesome Zander welldone on your PB. Looking forward to you goings back there. All the best form down under mate 👍🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Wow three zander in one session great going. Well happy for you.. Cheers for sharing.
Beautiful fish! Well done with your pb. I have never caught a Zander myself.
Caught my own pb Pike on Friday morning 20lb 2oz. on a Smelt.
Thanks for another great video.
Tight lines! 👍
Fantastic video your brothers advice was bang on
I fish for Zander most days and small Baits is the key it’s nice to see someone speaking out for the Zander as they have such a bad time classed as a Demon fish when they are such fun to catch thank you Chris
Ooooooo, I HATE these bloody "No this, No that, No t'other" blooming rules!
Lake full of predators? NO LURES!
Lake full of wild brown trout: FLY ONLY!
Grrrrrrr!!! Give the lure fishermen a break, we are good folk, honest Guv'na! 🫡
Great sesh, Chris, keep 'em coming!
If you think about it, it makes sense. Just a years worth of lure fishing would mean the lake is completely littered with snagged lures and hooks. This fishery is just trying to preserve the quality, thus making is available to fishing for many years to come.
@@silasestlander So you are saying that you can only get snagged with lures and the hooks are only on lures.. ccc..
@@aripenik Agree here with you here....I'm always dragging up bungs, rigs, dead-baits etc when I'm lure-fishing. If anything, lure-fishing snags cause far less debris than dead-baiting does. There also seems to be a perception that throwing lures is dangerous - my local lake in a park has banned lure fishing because of the potential danger to passers-by.with back-casting.....but allows dead-baiting. You can't make it up!!!!
@@silasestlanderI don't know how it is in the UK, but here in the states I cannot seem to reel in a snagged lure. It's always dozens of feet of line and a few oz of lead weights with a live/dead bait hook. It's probably because lure fishing snags usually mean that your knot breaks since its the weakest point, leaving no line in the water. Pretty much all the decent rigging options for dead and live bait have a weak point with many feet of line after them. Where I DO find artificial lures is in the trees and brush, many times perfectly withing reach. No idea why anyone would leave their gear within reach and just walk away, but its very common and it keeps my 'second hand' tackle box full.
None of that comes close to the amount of bobbers and plastic worm cups littering every fishing spot, which really says it all about the average live worm user. Disrespectful urbanite trash who belong in a landfill just like all the plastic they leave.
@@svengalt9546 It seems i've been very lucky! Im from Denmark, not the UK. The rules here for coarse and match fishing are quite strict. I have hooked into and reeled in lots of rusted spinners and crankbaits over the past few years. Will agree though, i see tons, of litter - especially from the packaging tackle comes in. Absolutely abhorrent behavior
Great Chris,some lovely zander you caught. Hopefully we see you doing more zander fishing .👍
Amazing fish. Proper jealous - as they are on my bucket list! Congratulations. 🐳👍 And trap your spool when you strike - you make me nervous when the drag sounds on the strike! 😂😂 Thanks for the video. All the best. And tight lines.
I like the bobbin you used that you see before you land the third one 😁 great vid mate
Great video pal always good to watch !!
They were the biggest and the best looking zander i've ever sceen.
Nice one Chris!!!
😎🎣🐟
Well done mate, glad that the day turned into a success.
Great vid! My favourite part was as the bag as a rod rest and broken stick as a bobbin 😂 my kind of fishing!
Great video, i love Zander myself, they are such awesome looking fish, well done on your new PB, its worth trying on lures for them as they absolutely smash the lure when they hit it
Awesome vid and great catches as usual Chris. Well done pal
Great video. I caught my first Zander spinning & jigging on the GU canal last year.
Nice one mate! Zander are my fav specie to catch (and perch of course) Keep up the good work!
Finally i have been asking and waiting for the day you catch zander💪💪 way to go man
Well done Chris on catching two pbs, i did that earlier last year with Tench 7lb then later in the day i had one at 7lb 6oz, luckily on video as well, Thank you,
Great Chris well done mate 👍👍
Nice 👍 one of my favourite species. Lots in the canals and rivers in the midlands
Nicely done. Still to catch my first Zander despite having a session on the famous and now sadly closed Bury Hill Lakes in Dorking. The owner of my local tackle shop has had success with them including some doubles,he reckons that the worse the weather the bigger the fish as their eyesight gives them an advantage in poor light conditions.
I catch a lot of big ones in really clear water when its miday an the sun is out.. but only on spots where there is no pressure.. on other water u need to go out past sunset.. . it can differ a lot.
The lake in this video is bury hill
@@bigfishinlittlebritain9808 We were told it was closing last year as the owner was retiring and selling it off - The 3 smaller lakes staying open on syndicate. Has this changed?
Not sure, but pretty sure this is burry hill right ?, not many lakes in the U.K. that you can Zander fish that have a single hook only rule
Form what I've learned they take head first almost all the time... great video as always... keep fishing and tight lines...
Great stuff
Bravo majstore.
Smashing video Chris, i would have liked it more if was lure fishing 🎣😂
Great session mate well done 👏
Never lose that excited feeling when it all comes together, great viewing!
Amazing video! Here in Finland is still lot of ice every where and the open water season starts in 3 moths. I cant wait!
Great sesion 😊
Packing up leaving the rods of course till last. Dom giving u good advice...fine tuning on the zander fishing...
Beautiful fish…stay on…stay on
Amazed that zander have been stocked into a lake when you think the CRT are always trying to eradicate them through electro fishing. Proves as well you don't need to fish for them at dusk or dawn!
Have they been stocked or a result in flooding maybe. Are be surprised if people are stocking them
Yes its a place that takes them rather than killing them. I didn't know they were intoduced into canals back in the day. We've nothing like that in Fife just boring trout fisheries here@@Onthebank.
@@Onthebank. I thought that, but if they had swam in during the floods, into a carp fishery, I would have thought the owners would have a catch & kill policy - however zander & pike in that lake so maybe they are enlightened!
You catch them better at dawn and dusk
I live in Michigan USA and now some rivers are full of fish that look just like that called walleye there is some new videos out from the Saginaw river if you can find them
Zanders are my favourite fish. 👍🏼
Good lad! I cut a roach that size into 3 baits and hair rig them on a very long hair. Seems to work for me. Their mouths are quite narrow which might help to explain why you had a good day on the smaller baits. Good luck next trip!
Been waiting for this Chris👌
Great vid
Nice one😁 Trying to catch them on lure is different level of fishing
It’s nice to see you trying some different species and venues it adds some variety to your channel.
Well done GFM, you are just the best fisherman on TH-cam, good advice from your Brother, lucky for you, that you have him to give good advice, now how about some big catfish ?? seen a lovely lady fisherwoman catch a 50 pounder on TH-cam, how about you and your brother, go get some big old cats ???? both of you keep up the great work, you both make it look so easy :)
Great big zander welldone Chris!
I sometimes catch zander while piking, my PB is 78cm.
This was great!
The ginger river monster strikes again 🎣👍😉 Keep up the good work Very Nice videos chears from 🇩🇰🎣👍
Great video
Zander is also the tastiest freshwater fish, almost as good as cod. I fish their cousin walleye in Canada, favourite fish. They love lures in 2-5” size, jigs, rapalas, spoons, spinners.
Love to see you on Trent targeting zander
I always think they look like a sea fish.
Nice vid (again!). Some tips; give the fish more time, the take is more subtle than a pike. Bony mouth, so tighten the brake, and a 9-10ft fast action rod with a good backbone. Smaller baitfish; 10cm gudgeon or bleak and one treble hook (when allowed) size 4-8. 3-4 pound fish are very good for fish&chips 🤤 Keep up the good work, your vids are really great!
Also delicious on the bbq
Well done mate, wish there was a Zander lake near me.
My biggest zander so far, 9lb, was caught on the tiniest baits. A fileted 12cm perch on a really small circle hook!
Filets are better, takes them down easier and you set the hook better.
Taste delicious, like haddock. No annoying pin bones too.
I am an ex pike fisherman, no pike where I live now. Plenty of Zander though 🙂 It takes some time to adapt the pike fishing to zander. Finesse is the key! Smaller baits, lighter traces or even no trace, just heavy mono. It always feels tougher catching zander compared to the free biting pike! Great session!
If you're wrist hooking the baits, trim the tail fins off and it will help prevent them from fouling the point of the hook and use fine gauge hooks, Kamasans size 4s are great. Zeds have very boney mouths and a fine gauge hook will penetrate easier. Great vid. I love your content 👍
Great video well done on the pbs. Tried a lot of different hooks myself to try and reduce lost fish/missed runs and I’d recommend using a circle hooks like you’ve used in your pike videos and you will get a lot more fish on the bank.
Just use trebles when allowed, almsot never miss or loose Zander on size 10 trebles
Amazing! I wouldnt mind if you did more videos targeting those fish
Zander is very good to catch with makerel on the bottem. Free running lead, no float needed, only a pikeswing is enough
A pleasure as always
They taste amazing 😅😅
Caught some 8 and 10lb on the river Ouse using spratts and lures. You need treble hooks to get a good hold really. Well done on a single hook.
The problem with fishing for Zander is their small mouths. Maybe try a smaller hook like a 4 or 6 Chris? That last fish was a beauty though. Chunky but long indeed. Great colours too. Another cracking video mate. Tight lines. 🎣🙂
I love the fact how invasive and damaging to our rivers and canals in the the uk how people say but we have to go to lakes that have stoked them lol.
Iv fishing the canals for years and never had lol
Wow awesome
Great stuff as usual and I'm glad to see the old fisherman's still in you using a stick for a bite indicator. Who else still does this?
Been piking for 45 yrs never had one ,,,and ive tried 😢will get one its on me bucket list 😊
Spent most of covid catching zander on the Oxford canal. They have very bony mouths so sometimes tricky to get the hook to get a firm hold
9:05 not only did we see you land a cracking fish, but we saw a bit of crack as well 😳😂
Hopefully a belt company will sponsor Chris for us 😂
3:28 we’ve all been there…just have to take a moment after you’ve lost one! 😢
I’ve never caught a zander myself, they really are nice looking fish though
Wow amazing session.Great size zander.What make is the baitrunner your using.
I caught one quite big Zander in my entire life. I caught it in crystal clear water and I used a giant worm. Zanders are quite delicate to catch and they have extremely good eye sight. And they are very careful. In the South of Switzerland there are giant Zanders. I have seen some over a meter long and extremely fat. By the way in this Swiss lake someone caught a world record one a few years back.
Many people go fishing for them at dawn, late evening or even at night. Theos guys often use very small bait.
But iI swear the one I caught and kept was the best fish I have ever eaten. Even beating the taste of greylings and brown trout. And that does really mean a lot.
When i have been deadbaiting, i often find runs come within the 1st 15kins of a cast
They are good to eat..Very popular in Canada !
Nice Zander you had there. I do a lot of Zander fishing with dead baits over here in the Netherlands.
My go to set-up is a 10ft float rod paired with a 2000 baitrunner with 22/00 nylon, a 4-6 gram sliding float, a size 1-1/0 hook and a 35/00 trace, and if there is pike around I use a 10kg wire trace.
A 8-10 cm baitfish is big enough. I mostly use a dead roach, but smelt or sprat can also be a great bait. Don’t wait to long with setting the hook for zander can be really greedy and will swallow the hook. 10 second is long enough.
I hope you break your pb Zander next time.
My setup is the other way around. 22/00 trace, 35/00. 3gr. Float.
Brilliant days fishing mate, I still need to catch a Zander!!! I was wondering do you think circle hooks might help with a more positive hook up??? 🎣👍
Good to see you out on a lake , nice fish the zander , Everyone is fishing your little river now
Never thought you would have much success as zander are usually a nocturnal species.
You actually do not need a wire trace at all, thicker fluoro or even mono is best cause zander can be very aware of the wire because of their eyesight, they have big teeth but they are not sharp. Used to fish form them on a 0.18 mono. For better hookup ratio try using double hook ant set the hook hard-- very bony mouth ;D also if they are coming of try giving them more time to eat the bait.
The pond has pike to thats probably why he uses trace fluoro is pike proof from 1mm and up .8 .9 wil work but can make you lose one if you have bad luck
Good video the channel needed something different and it was really good. Hopefully you'll get chance to do more.
Single and a treble is my preference for full roach of a decent size. The gap must be kept short Single for smaller baits.
You should give the severn a go around Tewkesbury for the zander. Had me a pb of 16ib 8 and a fair few doubles. Gudgeon is a great bait👍
My Zander catch many years ago was seven and a half pounds on a midlands river. I won’t disclose where I caught it because some anglers throw them in the hedge to get rid of them. They are not a native species they were bred and introduced into our waters illegally by unscrupulous people!! They decimated fish stocks in all waters they were introduced into!
They are not native, but neither are carp! And the ‘decimate all the fish’ thing is all bollocks and has 0 evidence for it, Zander all on every water body in Europe and do no harm with the exact same ecosystems and species present that we have
In these parts (Gulf of Finland), zander is caught during the summer months in topwater, at night, with lures that are indeed on the smaller side. Basically, when selecting lures think perch rather than pike. Never managed to catch one during the day in 40 years.
One of a tastiest freshwater fish🙂
So who is that legendary "brother" thou is speaking of?
Edit: love the new hights in editing thou has shown. The drone to pov was very nice! Carry on lol
Love catching these I say more powerful than pike
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Same here buddy. But trumped you at 7secs😉
late june, trough july, is usually peak season for zander in denmark.
Nice Zander like if we had them in Ireland be good to catch con from Ireland 🇮🇪 😊
You have trout and salmon thats a huge plus im from belgium so trout here is really small compared to your ferox 😅
We have asp tho and big wels im guessing ireland doesnt have those but i would rather have trout than asp (my goal this year is catch an asp on the river (caught small ones before but not like 60cm biggest was maybe 40 ) went to lough derg once ireland is really beautifull
And calm
You have 1/3 of belgiums population and the country is twice the size 😅
guessing these are stocked right, used to hate zander due to them being invasive but after catching some solid ones i really grew to love them
When I am fishing for Zander I use small circle hooks and wait really long before I „set“ the hook.
You eat them? Sportfisherman rather lose a fish due to hooksetting to soon than losing a fish that died from swallowing the hook
In France, I have the best results with bleaks. Do you have them in the UK ?
Surprised you didn't use circle hooks.
Rule number 1 when targeting zander - tighten the drag. They have a really stiff skull, so without a proper strike you'll lose a lot of fish. Literally make sure you can barely take the line with your hands. Accompany that with a slightly heavier line and rod and you're hookset ratio will go up.
I found it very convenient to attach deadbait on a hair rig. 2 reasons for that: 1)you'll lose less bait while casting (especially important during the night, when you can't see if the bait is still on when casting), 2) zander strikes hard, with a hair rig you'll reduce the chance of fish taking the bait from the hook after the initial hit. But I guess you can use a stopper on a hook to address above mentioned.
After seeing your genuine smile after this session, I guess we'll see more of zander action on the channel! :D