Not just a vintage reel, but vintage TA Fishing. When I first started following you all those years ago, it was these types of videos I loved the most. From the bottom of my heart, thankyou. You’ve saved me from boredom, sadness and malaise many a Friday night!
Best T.A.F. episode I've watched. I love 'back to basics' stuff. Any berk can hook a bass or pull out a perch. This was quality. My best grayling ever was as a child by the green bridge on the river tees, Barnard Castle, County Durham. I grew up on that river using ledger rigs and fly. Awesome stuff here as I now fish canal in the west midlands. Thanks Graham. Really love your work sir.
Brave to go out fishing in this weather. My fishing gear is packed away until spring. I hate the cold and have bad circulation. No fishing for me until it warms up. Thanks for posting.
I could feel your pain Graham! As a sufferer of HAVS it can be excruciating in very could weather and has indeed put pay to my deep winter piking sessions. Well worth the effort for those quality fish! Thank you for all of your valiant efforts this year, your videos are a real treasure. Tight lines for 2023!
best fishing and general content channel about i thoroughly enjoy your uploads every friday and any bonus content during the week, have a great weekend graeme
Cheers Graeme ... Really enjoyed the video and picked up some great tips, never would have thought of heating up my wellies in a bucket of hot water Brilliant. Stay safe and keep warm 👍🎣🎣
Tackle I would be ashamed of being seen putting in a bin and you couldn't give a **** about using it and show us all its still perfectly good. Fantastic stuff and well done, I actually like that loop idea on the reel, never seen it before.
Brilliant Graeme I've fished 4 times in the last 2 weeks had a few chub, also had a thick layer of frost on my tackle bags ! Also had a beautiful clear moonlit sky! I don't think I've ever got back to my car so quickly, heating on full! Lovely.
Well Graeme, wonderful video, your the man for sure, massive respect mate, now go home, look after yourself, we want to see loads more to come next year, I do remember useing that float back in my younger days, keep well, warm, and thank you very much mate, all the best.
I can remember the smog in the mid fifties Graeme , remember my mum having to walk in front of the car for miles so that my dad could find his way home, we'd been to buy a capon for Christmas at a farm and it was still alive in the boot .
24:13 Graeme you never cease to amaze me! Suffering so much for our entertainment. And..What a fish! That reel works well for it's age too. Love to see quirky bits like this to add some twist to the show. 46:57 Oh Graeme you make me laugh... Reel review of the day right there!
I like to mix the films up a bit..I can't just do the one thing just for the sake of numbers..too boring for me...I need different stuff to keep me in the right lane....Was out Pike fishing this afternoon,nailed an absolute lunker...should be on our TA FIshing Facebook in a day or so.
Great bit of action Graham, fantastic photography of the hoar frost. But Graham you need to be careful going out in those conditions the guys from the looney bin may catch you 🎣🎣😜... Merry Christmas to you and all watchers
Thank you for another enjoyable video. The last time a saw a hoar frost was in the mid 80's when I lived in the midlands. I appreciate the effort you put into making these films.
Excellent video Graham, your a real trooper for the fishing , very interesting and much appreciated you using that valuable reel for us and sharing it much appreciated.
Nice one, graham awesome out of, season brownie. Just lots of whiting for me. So back on the, river tomorrow deadbaiting/live baiting for pike. I used to do the maggot in mouth when i was a teen. Til i swallowed one. That was the last time i ever did that 😂🤢. Keep up the hard work mate.
You sir have made my day just subscribed it's great seeing someone ignoring the pain and keep on keeping on and with the same tackle he got when he was a boy you made me chuckle brother , ican only fish in the warmer months really though my pal Jim the whipper snapper ( mid fifties !) Kindly baits up for me when my hands size up ( arthritis) tight lines friend 👍😂👌
Great fishing Graeme, just goes to show you don't need all the latest gear to catch fish but you do need to know what you're doing. Have a great christmas and a fantastic new year to you and Mike and all your families. See you in the new year 👍🏻
Good to see you've acquired a good selection copper items for Mrs G to assist your rehabilitation from a cold night night at the office. The bedwarmer must be of particular comfort when having a blank!......tel me though, In what situation has she found a usefulness for those big brass tongs apart from picking up your socks ?
@@TAFishing 🤣 Thank god for that, was worried she might be interfering with your tackle box' better letting her deliver a fishy smelling note at the parlour than divulge the value of its contents
Another great video mate, hope you warmed up OK. You and all your family have a lovely Christmas and a happy New year. And keep the fantastic videos coming. Cheers, Dave. 🎣😉
The ending reminds me of when I got told off at junior school for taking a box of maggots in to feed the birds when we were doing a garden bird spotting project. 🙊
Well done Graeme that looked like hard work but you did it very interesting smashing fishing thank you for all your efforts kind regards Mr D Hey Merry Christmas
The Alvey Sidecaster now I remember. The reel swivelled so that the line came off as in a fixed spool but winding it in was much faster than a fixed spool if I recall.
Great video Graeme, wellies are the worst possible footwear to wear in freezing conditions, no insulation whatsoever, you need a pair of sturdy boots and thick merino wool socks, then your feet will be ok. Fingerless gloves, and a bib and brace plus jacket made for winter fishing. Then you won’t feel the cold for few hours. 👍
Totally enjoyable and very brave of you to venture forth in such freezing weather. I’m a child of the 50’s and it’s made us tough Graham. Thanks for all your time and effort, stay warm👏👏👏
Excellent Graeme! Hope your hands recovered, I know all about numb hands and that, I can't stand whenever one or the other goes numb and I don't have to get cold for them to do that. Anyhow, good show mate, I wish you and yours a very Happy Christmas ⛄🎄🧑🎄☮️, I remember a long long time ago I was with a buddy in his boat at Dale Hollow lake fishing for smallmouth bass, in early February and it was snowing, freezing cold and the eyes of the rod's would ice up and the only way to get it off the eyes was to dunk the rod into the water, all the way to the handle just about but that would work for a little while and then we'd have to do it again. We were casting lures for the smallmouth bass, the only reason we were down there then was because that was supposedly the best time of year to have your best chance at the big smallies. He did catch about a 6 and a half pound one that day. I caught several in the 4 lb range.
That's a big Smallmouth...When I fished for them I found the Smallmouth were better scrappers than the Largemouth. Just my observation,don't know if anybody else thinks they scrap differently.
@@TAFishing - absolutely, I always thought that about the smallmouths, they just dig and dig, and the acrobatics too, nothing like it, hardly. And yeah I was froze to the bone that day, needless to say, when we were at Dale Hollow, oh and something else about that lake, it grows some huge carp and buffalo, I never caught any out of there myself but I known plenty of fellas who have. I wish you and yours a very happy Christmas buddy 🧑🎄🎄
Hi Graeme, Lovely Trout there. Great filming of the wee Birds too. My favourite is the Robin. Their very trusting Birds and i'm feeding my regular one daily with kitchen scraps. Incredibly cold up here in Fife. The driving during the night for work in Dundee and Perth etc has been really challenging last few days. My Snakes etc are in full hibernation even on heat mats. Lucky buggers. Ha Ha. Steve in Fife.
Dear Santa, Could you please send Mr Pullen a pair of Neoprene wellies for Xmas, he has worked so hard this year, and really deserves some foot warming boots. Have a wonderful Christmas and tight lines for 2023
You’re braver than me. I’m only 44 but have suffered with Raynaud’s phenomenon for years where my hands turn white and numb and stinging sometimes just from holding a cold drink. I’d be interested if you could do a review of different hand warmers / fishing gloves as nothing I’ve tried really help at all. Cheers
Hi graham you ok matey, made me laff about warming wellies in water n worrying about wife coming bk i'm the same with bait n stuff hahahaha what she dosn't no wont hurt will it graham. I want to wish you n wife a merry xmas n a happy new year from GRIMSBY.
Your perseverance paid off...well done. I've never caught a grayling...few a far between here in Kent. Hoping to have a go on the Itchen or test in the new year 🤞
NICE ONE GRAHAM WE ARE OF THE SAME GENERATION ALTHOUGH I AM A FEW YEARS OLDER THAN YOU NICE TO SEE WE CAN STILL TEACH THE YOUNSTERS OUR TOUGH WE USED TO BE , AND STILL ARE ; MERRY CHRISTMAS MATE AND ALL THE BEST FOR THE FUTURE IN THIS MAD WORLD WE NOW FIND OURSELVES IN.
Oh not had dace that size for a long time, I used to go after work on the Thames and trottting for the dace, and they were big ones, I think there coming back, my biggest Dace 1lb.
Theres a reason why those reels are not used anymore,😄. Fair play for taking on those temperatures not for me anymore, don't recognise the first venue but grew up fishing the Hart in the late 60s and 70s , great to see the Dace are still thriving.
Keith Arthur used to swear by rubbing vaseline into his hands to keep them dry and warm. Remember the old Millar Mitts? They started doing them again so bought a few pairs a few years ago. Fingerless hand stitched with waterproof backs and cotton palms
Hi G. Simple charcoal pocket warmer would tea help. Like having a little furnace in a pocket to take the absolute chill away. Christmas is coming so maybe Mike can sort it out.
I know its cold and certainly not comfortable conditions for fishing, but there's something about frosty landscapes that make me want to go fishing. Hot, humid, or rainy weather never has that effect on me.
Im sure you have thought of this but market stallholders stand on multi layers of cardboard. The same can be achieved by standing on a piece decent thickness of foam insulation Its amazing how it keeps your toosies warm and fingerless gloves keep the palms warm and improves circulation to the phalanges.❤️
Once upon a time, it was during the early capitalism in Poland, the 90's, I was at a lake. All I had is some filoselle (embroidery) and a pin (the needle type pin). So I found a stick, tied the filoselle to it, bent the pin into a hook, tied it to the end of the filoselle. I don't remember what I used for bait, but it must have been something I could find, like earthworms. I caught quite a few fish, roach mostly, but we still had a nice meal... This hoar frost - it's normal where I live - have nice pics, too.
Some crackin Dace Greame, lovely Grayling too. I'm somewhat perplexed. Why did you have to remove the line from the bail crook each time? It is quite efficient really, but taking the line out from it seems pointless. As for the leather drag washer, make it grippier by cutting a circle of 1200 grit aluminium oxide paper and push it between the leather and the face of the spool. Is your intention to leave it unmodified to retain it's value? You could modify the bail crook to have a rotating line roller, tungsten ideally or over a small roller bearing from a reel that you could pick up a car boot sale. I think that bail crook works lovely but get a small aerosol of WD 40 , 80ml for spraying the eyes it wont cause the line to stick in the eyes then The line getting hot from abrasion could be a BIG problem with bigger fish or fill the spool with dynema braid. A good roller mod would cure all of those issues though .It has been 40 years since I've caughtt Dace that size. My nearest running water is the Arun, not certain that there's dace that size in it anymore. The Adur is close too but again as to if there's dace that size in there anymore I just dont know. I did about 4 years ago land a 3 lb 1oz perch. Lovely fish, fin perfect. A size 10 Drenna specialist hou as many red maggots I could cram onto it With the wellies get Scholl thermal insoles, they keep you toes 'toasty'.😉
Well done Graeme for sticking it out with frozen digits and a pound rod with that antique reel , just goes to show it’s not the gear it’s the fisherman.
Your the only other person I've heard talk about how the frost was the other week I was telling me misses the exact same thing how nice it was in the low bright sun
After years of using normal wellies with a few pairs of socks and feet getting cold in winter, I defo recommend some proper thermal wellies! I got some Hot feet wellies come with liners also and my feet didn't get cold at all on a 4 hr session and I was standing in 3 or 4 inches of cold water.
@@TAFishing They are a bit more awkward to walk in, well the ones I have anyway, but for standing in one spot fishing, they can't be beat. Keep up the good work always look forward to the videos on a friday evening after my steak sandwich and a beer.
Not just a vintage reel, but vintage TA Fishing. When I first started following you all those years ago, it was these types of videos I loved the most. From the bottom of my heart, thankyou. You’ve saved me from boredom, sadness and malaise many a Friday night!
Glad the films have been enjoyed...more to come.
Graeme, what a lovely fella you are, you keep us old softies going in these cold months.
Been waiting for this 👍 have a great Xmas mate thanks for your efforts this year 👌
Thanks,have a good,safe Xmas yourself.
Best T.A.F. episode I've watched. I love 'back to basics' stuff. Any berk can hook a bass or pull out a perch. This was quality. My best grayling ever was as a child by the green bridge on the river tees, Barnard Castle, County Durham. I grew up on that river using ledger rigs and fly.
Awesome stuff here as I now fish canal in the west midlands.
Thanks Graham. Really love your work sir.
Brave to go out fishing in this weather. My fishing gear is packed away until spring. I hate the cold and have bad circulation. No fishing for me until it warms up. Thanks for posting.
You must not steelhead/salmon fish much then.
@@elonmust7470 yes, when i lived in BC Canada but age eventually catches up with all of us. Enjoy it while you can.
Thanks Graeme, I love your enthusiasm, even in the cold months trying to catch fish 😀
I could feel your pain Graham! As a sufferer of HAVS it can be excruciating in very could weather and has indeed put pay to my deep winter piking sessions. Well worth the effort for those quality fish! Thank you for all of your valiant efforts this year, your videos are a real treasure. Tight lines for 2023!
best fishing and general content channel about i thoroughly enjoy your uploads every friday and any bonus content during the week, have a great weekend graeme
Could not agree more.
Cheers Graeme ... Really enjoyed the video and picked up some great tips, never would have thought of heating up my wellies in a bucket of hot water Brilliant. Stay safe and keep warm 👍🎣🎣
Nice Video as usual Graeme and a lovely fish to start with👍
Tackle I would be ashamed of being seen putting in a bin and you couldn't give a **** about using it and show us all its still perfectly good. Fantastic stuff and well done, I actually like that loop idea on the reel, never seen it before.
Brilliant Graeme I've fished 4 times in the last 2 weeks had a few chub, also had a thick layer of frost on my tackle bags ! Also had a beautiful clear moonlit sky! I don't think I've ever got back to my car so quickly, heating on full! Lovely.
Still nice to get out,even on a cold short session. Fish are a bonus.
Well Graeme, wonderful video, your the man for sure, massive respect mate, now go home, look after yourself, we want to see loads more to come next year,
I do remember useing that float back in my younger days, keep well, warm, and thank you very much mate, all the best.
Very interesting content and the hard work really shows off in each and every video keep it up 👍👍
A bit patronising
Loved this 1,its great to see old tackle catching fish today. Hope you and family have a great Christmas. Will be watching your channel over Christmas
I can remember the smog in the mid fifties Graeme , remember my mum having to walk in front of the car for miles so that my dad could find his way home, we'd been to buy a capon for Christmas at a farm and it was still alive in the boot .
Brilliant! I love old vintage fishing gear, I actually use some vintage gear myself on an occasion 👌
I’d love to fish and listen to you tell me stories as if I’m a child haha.
Not left wing left handed I love this man 😂
Thank you Graeme 👍🏻 great video, Have a lovely Xmas to you all
Great video Graeme, old skool TA Fishing video with the old tackle and catching my favourite fish as well. Happy Christmas to all the family 🍻
What a lovely video, well done for your perseverance in v cold 🥶 conditions, a pleasure to watch 👍👌
Thank you for all the great videos this year Graeme. Wishing you and your family a joyful and peaceful Christmas and a happy New Year
Need to get your self some "hot hands" really helps take the edge of that cold. It can get brutal at times, I know the feeling! Nice video 👍🏾
24:13 Graeme you never cease to amaze me! Suffering so much for our entertainment. And..What a fish! That reel works well for it's age too. Love to see quirky bits like this to add some twist to the show. 46:57 Oh Graeme you make me laugh... Reel review of the day right there!
I like to mix the films up a bit..I can't just do the one thing just for the sake of numbers..too boring for me...I need different stuff to keep me in the right lane....Was out Pike fishing this afternoon,nailed an absolute lunker...should be on our TA FIshing Facebook in a day or so.
Thanks for all the videos Graeme. Have a great Christmas 🎄
Same in return.
Great bit of action Graham, fantastic photography of the hoar frost. But Graham you need to be careful going out in those conditions the guys from the looney bin may catch you 🎣🎣😜... Merry Christmas to you and all watchers
What an absolutely wonderful film. G Man, you’re a legend x
Thank you for another enjoyable video. The last time a saw a hoar frost was in the mid 80's when I lived in the midlands. I appreciate the effort you put into making these films.
Excellent video Graham, your a real trooper for the fishing , very interesting and much appreciated you using that valuable reel for us and sharing it much appreciated.
More films to come...I just hope you guys can take it !!
Another fantastic video , merry Christmas Graham , take care out there everyone
Same in return,have a good one.
Good effort. Hard enough fishing in that weather, let alone with an ancient reel 🥶🎣❤️
Hardcore oldies you get the fishery to yourself absolutely beautiful!!!!!
I can live with that !!
Grahame is a wealth of knowledge. Never would have heard about keeping maggots in your mouth to stop them freezing. Not going to try it though.
Brilliant brown trout!!🤣 Thanks for the vid.
Nice one, graham awesome out of, season brownie. Just lots of whiting for me. So back on the, river tomorrow deadbaiting/live baiting for pike. I used to do the maggot in mouth when i was a teen. Til i swallowed one. That was the last time i ever did that 😂🤢.
Keep up the hard work mate.
High sea drifter will be missed
Thank you for sharing 💞 I enjoy your adventures sending warmth and love from Florida in this special season ❣️
Brilliant video as always. You are braver than I am going out in this weather
I saw some young lad sleeping out on the bank the other night in -6 weather 🥶❄️
@@oliverlinehan2603 maybe 20yrs ago I might have been
You sir have made my day just subscribed it's great seeing someone ignoring the pain and keep on keeping on and with the same tackle he got when he was a boy you made me chuckle brother , ican only fish in the warmer months really though my pal Jim the whipper snapper ( mid fifties !) Kindly baits up for me when my hands size up ( arthritis) tight lines friend 👍😂👌
Good luck,at least you are out there trying.
Nice video Graeme 🎣, Have you ever seen the Frost. Push the water out of the ground, & form ice mushrooms 🤔.
Great fishing Graeme, just goes to show you don't need all the latest gear to catch fish but you do need to know what you're doing. Have a great christmas and a fantastic new year to you and Mike and all your families. See you in the new year 👍🏻
Have a great Xmas yourself.
Absolutely epic Graeme.
Good to see you've acquired a good selection copper items for Mrs G to assist your rehabilitation from a cold night night at the office. The bedwarmer must be of particular comfort when having a blank!......tel me though, In what situation has she found a usefulness for those big brass tongs apart from picking up your socks ?
Picking up and moving burning logs to the back of the logburner,or extracting a £20 note from my bullet-proof wallet for here nails to be done.
@@TAFishing 🤣 Thank god for that, was worried she might be interfering with your tackle box' better letting her deliver a fishy smelling note at the parlour than divulge the value of its contents
Brilliant Video. Wishing you & Family a Great Christmas & New Year 👍🎅🎄🍺
Gotta love a bit of stream fishing...
Another great video mate, hope you warmed up OK. You and all your family have a lovely Christmas and a happy New year. And keep the fantastic videos coming. Cheers, Dave. 🎣😉
The ending reminds me of when I got told off at junior school for taking a box of maggots in to feed the birds when we were doing a garden bird spotting project. 🙊
Cracking session, Graeme. Early Christmas present.
Well done Graeme that looked like hard work but you did it very interesting smashing fishing thank you for all your efforts kind regards Mr D Hey Merry Christmas
You needed some of those hand warmer packages. That trout was beautiful.
Really good watch hope your keeping warm and safe
Weve had that graham last week on the humber. I ve never seen so many cobwebs frozen. N it was foggy n -5 for ten days.
The Alvey Sidecaster now I remember. The reel swivelled so that the line came off as in a fixed spool but winding it in was much faster than a fixed spool if I recall.
Nice grayling. No way would I be out in this weather. My gear, packed away till spring. Well done,keep warm 🎉
Thanks!
Thanks Clive! Sorry for the late reply! All the best - Graeme
@@TAFishing No problem mate, i have no insperation at this moment, the weather is aweful, have to take care of my lungs, all the best mate.
Merry Christmas 🤶 🎄 to you and family. And a happy new year.
Well done for getting that brown trout, have a great Christmas Graeme.
Thanks so much for sharing Mate :) I really enjoyed watching as always !
Keep warm and merry Christmas and a great 2023.
Cheers ,
Rob.
Have a great one yourself.
Great video Graeme, wellies are the worst possible footwear to wear in freezing conditions, no insulation whatsoever, you need a pair of sturdy boots and thick merino wool socks, then your feet will be ok. Fingerless gloves, and a bib and brace plus jacket made for winter fishing. Then you won’t feel the cold for few hours. 👍
That’s brilliant, thanks Graeme. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
How do I give you my details without posting them on an open forum Graeme?
Great video as usual 👌
Totally enjoyable and very brave of you to venture forth in such freezing weather. I’m a child of the 50’s and it’s made us tough Graham. Thanks for all your time and effort, stay warm👏👏👏
Particularly the "stay warm" bit,I like the sound of that as I was out Pike fishing this afternoon and luckily nailed a lunker.
@@TAFishing well done, I didn't expect anything else💪
I have caught two grayling, many years ago, and they are wonderful fish, I was sitting in the warm saying, go home mate go home, brilliant.
Always look for your upload on a Friday that's my evening sorted
Excellent Graeme! Hope your hands recovered, I know all about numb hands and that, I can't stand whenever one or the other goes numb and I don't have to get cold for them to do that. Anyhow, good show mate, I wish you and yours a very Happy Christmas ⛄🎄🧑🎄☮️, I remember a long long time ago I was with a buddy in his boat at Dale Hollow lake fishing for smallmouth bass, in early February and it was snowing, freezing cold and the eyes of the rod's would ice up and the only way to get it off the eyes was to dunk the rod into the water, all the way to the handle just about but that would work for a little while and then we'd have to do it again. We were casting lures for the smallmouth bass, the only reason we were down there then was because that was supposedly the best time of year to have your best chance at the big smallies. He did catch about a 6 and a half pound one that day. I caught several in the 4 lb range.
That's a big Smallmouth...When I fished for them I found the Smallmouth were better scrappers than the Largemouth. Just my observation,don't know if anybody else thinks they scrap differently.
@@TAFishing - absolutely, I always thought that about the smallmouths, they just dig and dig, and the acrobatics too, nothing like it, hardly. And yeah I was froze to the bone that day, needless to say, when we were at Dale Hollow, oh and something else about that lake, it grows some huge carp and buffalo, I never caught any out of there myself but I known plenty of fellas who have. I wish you and yours a very happy Christmas buddy 🧑🎄🎄
Hi Graeme,
Lovely Trout there. Great filming of the wee Birds too. My favourite is the Robin. Their very trusting Birds and i'm feeding my regular one daily with kitchen scraps. Incredibly cold up here in Fife. The driving during the night for work in Dundee and Perth etc has been really challenging last few days.
My Snakes etc are in full hibernation even on heat mats. Lucky buggers. Ha Ha.
Steve in Fife.
I could do with one of those heat mats for my feet !! I think I could easily hibernate until April...
I think we all appreciate the sacrifice you make for our enjoyment 🥶
I enjoy making them,but -5 or so is about my limit now. Its OK walking the bank,but any stopping to fish and the body temperature starts to drop.
Love this content keep up the good work graham pal
Dear Santa,
Could you please send Mr Pullen a pair of Neoprene wellies for Xmas, he has worked so hard this year, and really deserves some foot warming boots.
Have a wonderful Christmas and tight lines for 2023
Well done Graham, great video.
had same graham icicle on rod tip eye hole frozen with braid piking your a hero
You’re braver than me. I’m only 44 but have suffered with Raynaud’s phenomenon for years where my hands turn white and numb and stinging sometimes just from holding a cold drink. I’d be interested if you could do a review of different hand warmers / fishing gloves as nothing I’ve tried really help at all. Cheers
Hi graham you ok matey, made me laff about warming wellies in water n worrying about wife coming bk i'm the same with bait n stuff hahahaha what she dosn't no wont hurt will it graham. I want to wish you n wife a merry xmas n a happy new year from GRIMSBY.
Great video Graham. Some lovely fish there in freezing conditions. 🥶
The spool on that reel was designed before monofilament. Be careful putting mono on it, the pressure can crack the spool. Cracking video!!!
Good tip,I never thought of the compression from the mono...
Another great video 👍🎣🐟🍺👍
Nice Session!Merry Christmas to all!
Your perseverance paid off...well done. I've never caught a grayling...few a far between here in Kent. Hoping to have a go on the Itchen or test in the new year 🤞
NICE ONE GRAHAM WE ARE OF THE SAME GENERATION ALTHOUGH I AM A FEW YEARS OLDER THAN YOU
NICE TO SEE WE CAN STILL TEACH THE YOUNSTERS OUR TOUGH WE USED TO BE , AND STILL ARE ;
MERRY CHRISTMAS MATE AND ALL THE BEST FOR THE FUTURE IN THIS MAD WORLD WE NOW FIND
OURSELVES IN.
The world has certainly gone crackers , and the prices are now outlandish.I cannot see them going down again. We are all now trapped !!
Oh not had dace that size for a long time, I used to go after work on the Thames and trottting for the dace, and they were big ones, I think there coming back,
my biggest Dace 1lb.
What a cracking session! Love this light gear in the middle of the suburbs.
This is great, I really appreciate it♡♡♡
Looks like fun although , usually subzero fishing here comes with 3 foot of snow and 12 inches of ice.I like your option much better.
Theres a reason why those reels are not used anymore,😄. Fair play for taking on those temperatures not for me anymore, don't recognise the first venue but grew up fishing the Hart in the late 60s and 70s , great to see the Dace are still thriving.
Keith Arthur used to swear by rubbing vaseline into his hands to keep them dry and warm.
Remember the old Millar Mitts? They started doing them again so bought a few pairs a few years ago. Fingerless hand stitched with waterproof backs and cotton palms
Great stuff. Happy Christmas!
Same in return.
Brrr! Great video Graeme
The Alvey ‘reversable’ scarborough/fixed spool, sea reel. Class bit of kit cant understand why it didn’t take off
Fascinating reel and must of been quite inovative at the time.
Hi G. Simple charcoal pocket warmer would tea help. Like having a little furnace in a pocket to take the absolute chill away. Christmas is coming so maybe Mike can sort it out.
I know its cold and certainly not comfortable conditions for fishing, but there's something about frosty landscapes that make me want to go fishing. Hot, humid, or rainy weather never has that effect on me.
Im sure you have thought of this but market stallholders stand on multi layers of cardboard. The same can be achieved by standing on a piece decent thickness of foam insulation Its amazing how it keeps your toosies warm and fingerless gloves keep the palms warm and improves circulation to the phalanges.❤️
“Just one fish”.
Catches one fish
Keeps fishing
😂😂
Once upon a time, it was during the early capitalism in Poland, the 90's, I was at a lake. All I had is some filoselle (embroidery) and a pin (the needle type pin). So I found a stick, tied the filoselle to it, bent the pin into a hook, tied it to the end of the filoselle. I don't remember what I used for bait, but it must have been something I could find, like earthworms.
I caught quite a few fish, roach mostly, but we still had a nice meal...
This hoar frost - it's normal where I live - have nice pics, too.
Some crackin Dace Greame, lovely Grayling too. I'm somewhat perplexed. Why did you have to remove the line from the bail crook each time? It is quite efficient really, but taking the line out from it seems pointless. As for the leather drag washer, make it grippier by cutting a circle of 1200 grit aluminium oxide paper and push it between the leather and the face of the spool. Is your intention to leave it unmodified to retain it's value? You could modify the bail crook to have a rotating line roller, tungsten ideally or over a small roller bearing from a reel that you could pick up a car boot sale. I think that bail crook works lovely but get a small aerosol of WD 40 , 80ml for spraying the eyes it wont cause the line to stick in the eyes then The line getting hot from abrasion could be a BIG problem with bigger fish or fill the spool with dynema braid. A good roller mod would cure all of those issues though .It has been 40 years since I've caughtt Dace that size. My nearest running water is the Arun, not certain that there's dace that size in it anymore. The Adur is close too but again as to if there's dace that size in there anymore I just dont know. I did about 4 years ago land a 3 lb 1oz perch. Lovely fish, fin perfect. A size 10 Drenna specialist hou as many red maggots I could cram onto it
With the wellies get Scholl thermal insoles, they keep you toes 'toasty'.😉
Well done Graeme for sticking it out with frozen digits and a pound rod with that antique reel , just goes to show it’s not the gear it’s the fisherman.
Your the only other person I've heard talk about how the frost was the other week I was telling me misses the exact same thing how nice it was in the low bright sun
After years of using normal wellies with a few pairs of socks and feet getting cold in winter, I defo recommend some proper thermal wellies! I got some Hot feet wellies come with liners also and my feet didn't get cold at all on a 4 hr session and I was standing in 3 or 4 inches of cold water.
Sounds like they are worth looking at.
@@TAFishing They are a bit more awkward to walk in, well the ones I have anyway, but for standing in one spot fishing, they can't be beat. Keep up the good work always look forward to the videos on a friday evening after my steak sandwich and a beer.
Well done Graham, you brave sole,
Loved the old gear fish! Well done