Just watched this episode again and it made me so happy and reminiscent. I grew up in the late 70s and 80s fishing the Dorset Stour free stretch at Muscliffe (just above Throope) in Bournemouth ,when I was 13 to 18 yrs old.Caught my first large chubb on floating breadcrust in the summer of the great drought of '76, and caught many more chubb and barbel on rolling meat, sweetcorn etc. link ledgered (upstream touch ledgering) with no more than 2 swann shot and often freelined in the jungle swims there. Most swims you had to wade up to your waist to get access to a 3 or 4 ft square area of open gravel between the rununculuss weed and reeds, and those days I couldn't afford waders so waded in my shorts and trainers. Great times and so beautiful.....water voles and kingfishers were common then :-). These days I live in NZ, where the fishing both fresh and salt is amazing, but I still miss those glorious early mornings on the Stour, sight fishing, rolling baits over gravel in crystal clear 2 ft deep water for beautiful English coarse fish. This video made me very happy Graeme - how about some new ones, with maybe floating crust on the Dorset Stour ? Had enough of commercial fisheries yet - or do you fancy a big OE to NZ (TA Fishing International Season) ? We'd put you up and show you around - how about Matt Watson meets Greame Pullen ? Thanks so much, LOVE your channel - Andy
Sounds interesting but I'm not about to jump out of a Helicopter to land on a Barramundi !!...Yes,the 70's was a great time for clear water/streamer weed fishing. Not much like that now I'm afraid.
Remember most of my chub are caught visually,in the summer,when the sun is high and light penetration at its best to spot the fish.Autumn and winter means the sun is lower and you don't get to see them so easily.I suggest from now through the winter you try big lobworms,or soften the cheese and make a softer paste by kneading it with a slice of white bread.Straight cheese will go very hard in colder water temperatures. Good Luck!!
Bud,you don't know how true that is.Can't say more as we are about to release a new 3-part DVD. The old guy is bang on,but you need to know what to do .Keep checking the"Tube"or our Its coming,and its a good one.
Check out our Pike playlist which you can find on our channel page, most of our Pike videos are all filmed on the dorset stour. The Stour can often get coloured but once conditions are right it is a great place to fish.
its funny to see the expression on pedestrians walking by in places like this,they say to you "you aint gunna get nothing in there" haha but when they see you there faces drop !
It depends on how the chub are reacting.Generally I fish it on the bottom,and watch them gain confidence and work upstream towards it.But if in a shoal and they don't pick up a static bait,you can tweak it to set it rolling and they zoom over to grab it as they think its either washing away,or one of the others will grab it.Try static first,but remember its all visual,so you need to see them take the bait. Good luck.
Glad to hear! We have done a "feeder fishing in winter" video, if you go on our channel and looks for "series 1" you will find it in there. All the best! The T/A crew!
Love your videos Graeme. I'd really like to see you doing alot more coarse fishing videos mate. I enjoy watching these alot more than the "tackle tart" anglers out there. This is proper fishing to me - Light gear, Self-made baits, Technique. Not £££ and brand names. Keep it up my friend, tight lines!
Yes, we use them a lot. Don't know if they are still Made though. Why pay more ? The fish don't see the make of rod till they are in the landing net !!!!
I had a 4lb 1oz chub on Luncheon meat on the Edwinstowe stretch of the Maun river... Must be about 3 feet deep and 6 feet wide .. under a bridge... I'm only ever able to catch one in the swim because i cannot return it anywhere else but it certainly relieves a stressful day of school!
No.They get more pronounced with colouration when they live in clear fresh rivers, generally chalk stream. The orange fins are more vivid in fish around 1lb to 2lbs.In my experience anyway.
I have no idea. Never been there. Maybe someone else who watches out Totally Awesome Fishing Shows can help you with that one. Or try an angling forum. Good luck with wherever you fish.
@TAFishing could you please tell me which of your videos were recorded on the dorset stour as i throughly enjoyed watching your roach fishing vid on the stour and heard you are going to do a barbel vid there as well i have fished that exact spot myself with hardly any luck. any other tips for the stour .
Thanks have had a few from there lately on bread and spam, sorry it looked like it had a signal cray in its mouth, it annoys me how much signals are in there. Have taken a few out to eat, they are defo signals! Looked up the differences before taking them out! Tom
Chub are very greedy and if you can find some you can generally catch them all year round in all waters on almost anything from lures to a piece of bread
Only used cheese for this film,not a crayfish in sight.Never use them myself as the white(UK) species are under threat from the invasive Red Signals.They don't need someone using them as bait on top of that pressure.Cheese will catch way more as well.Or lobworms,or 2 pints of casters.Or bread.Good luck.
The chub swallows the hole piece of cheese, when the bite is detected you strike which pulls the hook out of the cheese and into the chubs lip. Hope this helps :)
I love fishing for chubs, though our creek chubs here in central North Carolina don't get as large as yours... Fews Ford Chubs Don't Disappoint /watch?v=Kyb_eu2yhsA BTW here in western Raleigh, we have a Pullen Park. :^)
Just watched this episode again and it made me so happy and reminiscent. I grew up in the late 70s and 80s fishing the Dorset Stour free stretch at Muscliffe (just above Throope) in Bournemouth ,when I was 13 to 18 yrs old.Caught my first large chubb on floating breadcrust in the summer of the great drought of '76, and caught many more chubb and barbel on rolling meat, sweetcorn etc. link ledgered (upstream touch ledgering) with no more than 2 swann shot and often freelined in the jungle swims there. Most swims you had to wade up to your waist to get access to a 3 or 4 ft square area of open gravel between the rununculuss weed and reeds, and those days I couldn't afford waders so waded in my shorts and trainers. Great times and so beautiful.....water voles and kingfishers were common then :-). These days I live in NZ, where the fishing both fresh and salt is amazing, but I still miss those glorious early mornings on the Stour, sight fishing, rolling baits over gravel in crystal clear 2 ft deep water for beautiful English coarse fish. This video made me very happy Graeme - how about some new ones, with maybe floating crust on the Dorset Stour ? Had enough of commercial fisheries yet - or do you fancy a big OE to NZ (TA Fishing International Season) ? We'd put you up and show you around - how about Matt Watson meets Greame Pullen ? Thanks so much, LOVE your channel - Andy
Sounds interesting but I'm not about to jump out of a Helicopter to land on a Barramundi !!...Yes,the 70's was a great time for clear water/streamer weed fishing. Not much like that now I'm afraid.
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The barbel video is on River Kennet and River Severn .Waiting for floods top go down before I go filming again.
once had an elton john concert playing while i was on the wharfe catching barbel near harewood house lol
Remember most of my chub are caught visually,in the summer,when the sun is high and light penetration at its best to spot the fish.Autumn and winter means the sun is lower and you don't get to see them so easily.I suggest from now through the winter you try big lobworms,or soften the cheese and make a softer paste by kneading it with a slice of white bread.Straight cheese will go very hard in colder water temperatures. Good Luck!!
Bud,you don't know how true that is.Can't say more as we are about to release a new 3-part DVD. The old guy is bang on,but you need to know what to do .Keep checking the"Tube"or our Its coming,and its a good one.
Don't forget Slugs...excellent Chub bait!
Because it has a better bite indication and you can strike faster with a shorter rod than a longer rod
Check out our Pike playlist which you can find on our channel page, most of our Pike videos are all filmed on the dorset stour. The Stour can often get coloured but once conditions are right it is a great place to fish.
its funny to see the expression on pedestrians walking by in places like this,they say to you "you aint gunna get nothing in there" haha but when they see you there faces drop !
The Wey is great fishing, good dace in there! Cant get the chub
It depends on how the chub are reacting.Generally I fish it on the bottom,and watch them gain confidence and work upstream towards it.But if in a shoal and they don't pick up a static bait,you can tweak it to set it rolling and they zoom over to grab it as they think its either washing away,or one of the others will grab it.Try static first,but remember its all visual,so you need to see them take the bait. Good luck.
No worries, glad the video helped you!
Glad to hear! We have done a "feeder fishing in winter" video, if you go on our channel and looks for "series 1" you will find it in there. All the best!
The T/A crew!
i love your attitude = do it the simple way i`m in the usa and your way should work here good fishing my friend
Love your videos Graeme.
I'd really like to see you doing alot more coarse fishing videos mate.
I enjoy watching these alot more than the "tackle tart" anglers out there. This is proper fishing to me - Light gear, Self-made baits, Technique. Not £££ and brand names.
Keep it up my friend, tight lines!
Yes, we use them a lot. Don't know if they are still Made though. Why pay more ? The fish don't see the make of rod till they are in the landing net !!!!
I sometimes fish there, there's a few little carp in there, I had an 8lb carp from there last month and some chub! Great fishing
In my local river 5lb chub are always so common its the river medway up near teston bridge
I had a 4lb 1oz chub on Luncheon meat on the Edwinstowe stretch of the Maun river... Must be about 3 feet deep and 6 feet wide .. under a bridge... I'm only ever able to catch one in the swim because i cannot return it anywhere else but it certainly relieves a stressful day of school!
thanks for the advice.so when is your Stour barbel video coming out then as I think that would be a good watch a will help me alot.
No.They get more pronounced with colouration when they live in clear fresh rivers, generally chalk stream. The orange fins are more vivid in fish around 1lb to 2lbs.In my experience anyway.
I have no idea. Never been there. Maybe someone else who watches out Totally Awesome Fishing Shows can help you with that one. Or try an angling forum. Good luck with wherever you fish.
@HookedOnFishing0001 This place Farnham Park in Hampshire.
@TAFishing could you please tell me which of your videos were recorded on the dorset stour as i throughly enjoyed watching your roach fishing vid on the stour and heard you are going to do a barbel vid there as well i have fished that exact spot myself with hardly any luck.
any other tips for the stour .
Thanks mate, will try, those farnham trout are too weary!
you should be on tv great to watch thanks
Love you Bruce ❤️
Hi Graeme, another question do you just leave the bait on the bottom or trot it down with the shot bouncing on the bottom?
Thanks have had a few from there lately on bread and spam, sorry it looked like it had a signal cray in its mouth, it annoys me how much signals are in there. Have taken a few out to eat, they are defo signals! Looked up the differences before taking them out!
Tom
Will chub feed in the winter and in flooded rivers and if so what baits would you recommend and what baits to stay away from
Chub are very greedy and if you can find some you can generally catch them all year round in all waters on almost anything from lures to a piece of bread
Only used cheese for this film,not a crayfish in sight.Never use them myself as the white(UK) species are under threat from the invasive Red Signals.They don't need someone using them as bait on top of that pressure.Cheese will catch way more as well.Or lobworms,or 2 pints of casters.Or bread.Good luck.
my local stream has loads of chub carp roach bream
dang, these are huge chubs!
wow live music and chub lol..what could be better? oh a nice ale...lol.
great video i love small stream chubbing!
was that one chub a hybrid cause it had orange fins
i have tried that on my local brook and i didn't catch anything do you have any tips
is that a john wilson avon quiver?
thanks so much for the help graeme!!! got 1
The chub swallows the hole piece of cheese, when the bite is detected you strike which pulls the hook out of the cheese and into the chubs lip. Hope this helps :)
Did you catch your 3rd chub on a crayfish?
Tom
Gostry Meadows, i live right near there!
what river would you recamend to fish in lincolnshire?
Fin mace river trent
No,its just in good condition.
i would love to catch a chub,but they are classed as an invasive species in ireland =[ barbel too
9:50 dont stop me now by QUEEN
love it!
I used cheese bait for carp not chub but I hooked a turtle lol!
I love fishing for chubs, though our creek chubs here in central North Carolina don't get as large as yours...
Fews Ford Chubs Don't Disappoint
/watch?v=Kyb_eu2yhsA
BTW here in western Raleigh, we have a Pullen Park. :^)
how does this work because the hook is buried in the cheese man ?! :-0
wow
That rod is ment for a bait caster not a spinning reel look how small the eyes r
i tried it didn't work :(
I meant chub!!!
thats what she said.
look at some of my chub vids
like your vidio
cheese catches catfish where im from.
that's a 2 pounder
dat music do
No, it was a live do, not DAT.