Barbel In The Winter Weirpool - Fred Crouch

[@tutts999]

Today this video would be a mass of tackle plugs, slow mo clips and R&B music. Thank God I can remember when angling was this simple and enjoyable. Great watch. ❤

[@eastsussexbeesandwildlife5801]

Thanks for posting. Fred was a real gentleman and was always pleased to share his methods and love of his barbel with others. Only fished with him once, at the Old Mill, Aldermaston, on a freezing day, one of the ABE fishing days. He is still in our hearts and sadly missed.

[@monkeybrains]

Very good. Love watching the older videos. Fishing is so commercialised now.

[@ianroberts3948]

Real fishing from a famous angler superb times long gone

[@VWJourneymananglingadventures]

I had this video many years ago and can no longer find it. Thanks, thanks, thanks for sharing 👊🏻

[@derek6579]

Takes me back to when tackle and tactics were simpler, and fishing was an enjoyable pastime.

[@stevehodges4092]

A great video, very nostalgic.

[@walliswizard]

Steve... go tell BFW about this one:
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;)

[@borderlands6606]

Guessing this is early 1980s, the tackle and watercraft is timeless. Love the old VHS how-to videos, a comfortable warm glow of how fishing used to be (and for some of us still is!).

[@portcullis5622]

Eight minutes in, he mentions that this was the spot where he caught his first ever barbel "More than 40 years' ago . . . .in 1956". So, this must have been filmed in the late 1990s.

[@borderlands6606]

@@portcullis5622 Crikey, as late as that? I watched it again for clues but the tackle Fred displays is difficult to date. I have some Drennan hooks like the ones in the video, and I think they date back to the 1980s. I remember blokes in the 1970s fishing with gear from the 50s, maybe earlier. Video technology has come on so far it all look old, so you are likely correct.

[@stevequinny]

Wow. Watched this last night. I remember reading about Mr Crouch in Dave Costner's Anglers Mail cartoon diary when I was a kid. Even Dave Costner said he 'was a character'. This is a definite, fascinating insight into a bygone era. Homemade rustic feeders and homemade wonky leads.

[@portcullis5622]

"I like to keep my rod tip down low, as I explained earĺier, just because everyone else likes to put their rods up in the air".
Love his attitude!

[@markward8216]

What lovely memories

[@ks-eq3yx]

It's all about experience , not the latest fashion in tackle.

[@fishersgreen]

Wow fantastic video

[@markward8216]

Used to catch great fish in those days. Can’t get a bite now without boiley and bolt

[@sallyfolkes2650]

That was really great, I enjoyed that a lot. Back to the times when bait selection and tactics were quite simple. Do you know what year this was filmed? It’s a great shame you haven’t got the summer episode. Neil

[@walliswizard]

I'm not sure if the Summer episode actually exists. I'd be interested to see it myself if it does.

[@150rents]

weir fishing in the 1980,s perfect

[@Roving_Rolling]

thanks one of my angling heroes do you have the summer one he talks of at the end...

[@walliswizard]

I'm afraid not, sorry.

[@Roving_Rolling]

@@walliswizard Ok Thanks again

[@markpoyser4075]

Doesn’t appear to be any audio?

[@walliswizard]

There is. Has to be at your end I'm afraid.

[@markward8216]

Used to catch great fish in those days. Can’t get a bite now without boiley and bolt

[@borderlands6606]

I had a 9.5 yesterday freelining meat. Admittedly the rod and line were heavier than Fred's 6 lb line and pound and a bit cane.