@@Cofo97 thanks mate, yes it was indeed and not even lifted from the water, #catchnrelease 👍👍🎣

@@whitetroutchannel if there were more like you we'd have better naturally stocked estuaries and rivers. I like to do the same , there's not enough of it .

@@kevm7751 its a big 1 for the wee stream mate, it needed that bit of rain mate it was dangerously low gettin, i startin to forget what it was like to catch a fish 😂😂

@@whitetroutchannel bit more rain expected mid week. It will do the rivers good.

@@kevm7751 another 4 or 5cms would suit me lovely mate, the loughs just not fishin great at the min or id be at it, but it gets me out an hour at least when i go to the river

@@whitetroutchannel yip I sure get it mate. A quick scoot out somewhere handy scratches the itch.

@@Rev_Kim_Love they can be really pretty, the name brown trout never seems to do them justice!!

Maybe if in between times weren’t as long I’d be fluent 😉😂🤗

@@Rev_Kim_Love sorry real world thigs keep gettin in my way recently 😪😪

@@whitetroutchannel Yah, I get it, real stuff happening a lot to me too. 🙏🏼❤️🤗 Blessings for you & your family ❤️

@@dazlee3257 bit of a shock mate the wee stream rarely has them over a 1lb so gettin a fish near double that was a bit of a treat

@whitetroutchannel aye there's a stream near me has some unlikely big fish, usually the older ones just get big heads though 😅

​@@dazlee3257that usually was the case with our fish 2 mate but a bright spark released roach in one of the lakes that feed it and now its full of roach and i think the trout have a taste for them

@@whitetroutchannel 😅

@@southerneruk seatrout mate sadly ive no salmon runs round me, these young fish are termed whitling not yet adult seatrout probably just left the river system this spring and is its first season at sea feeding, thank you for leaving a comment, ive vids of much better fish i promise 👍👍🎣

@@whitetroutchannel Young 1 to 3-year-old Sea Trout are also grilse, both salmon and sea trout belong to the Salonidae family as do all trouts, we used to get grilse sea trout around the 4 to 6 lbs, a full 4-year sea trout will be about 7lb to 10lb, those small 1lb and less our local name is trotters, which is what you call whitling

@@southerneruk maybe in welsh waters mate irish fish are smaller stamped, a 2lb fish here is well into adulthood, salinity affects them different, ive never heard once seatrout being termed grilse but i know locality changes names for example we call seatrout "whitetrout" in ireland north and south

@@whitetroutchannel 2lb wow that is small, sea trout here don't be surprise to hook into one that is 30lb plus, they get as big as salmon here (south coast UK).

@@southerneruk the irish record is only 16lbs, i read before that the high salt levels around the seas this far north more or less stunt their growth, its not lack of food weve an abundance of bait fishes in stuff, ive a very old seatrout book that mentions the monster seatrout like salmon in those rivers

@@soultrader57fishingandmusi25 you'll land a good un thou mate on your trip up north 👍👍🎣

@@povfishingorkney id one a wee bit bigger hit it first but didnt hook up then that wee skitter took about 2 turns of the handle later, pretty quiet here mate this season, bitta decent weather wouldnt go a miss either

@whitetroutchannel Weather is honking up here too, but I'm going anyway 🤪 Big stickleblade session in Rousay for a few days. I had a hook straightener last time there, going to see if I can introduce myself properly this time! 😅

@@povfishingorkney awww no mate, its a pure sickener straightens the hook, ill keep an eye for those buttery browns on your channel mate 👍👍

@@AnyoneForToast its def played its part in makin things trickier mate no arguing on that one, a bit of heat would help

@@peterjohnston4472 very few about inside the lough this season for sum reason, heard much better fishin at the usual haunts outside the lough thou seen a few pics of some big 1s last week

@@AmarkanskFishing these are true words!! maybe next time i can see his grandfather 😂🎣

@@stiofain4693 cheers mate, june just slipped me by without hardly gettin out, thanks for watchin and leavin a comment mate, hope youve turned a few 👍👍🎣

cheers daz, only a wee baby 1 and it was the only 1 i seen all night, but just gettin out seemed a treat, hope your doin well buddy 👍👍🎣

@whitetroutchannel yeah im ok cheers, been dead around here lure wise, small tides and bllooms, stagnant water, even struggled to get mackerel, freshening up with this weather though so fingers crossed. Had a couple of tope in my 13ft dinghy which was fun 👍🤣

@@dazlee3257 id say that was fun mate in the wee boat 😂😂 hate the wee tides too mate good for nothin

@@kevm7751 mate ill fire you an email 2moro, things conspired the whole bloody month against me

@@whitetroutchannel no worries James, I know that feeling.

​@@kevm7751if i didnt have bad luck this last 3 months mate id have no luck at all 😂😂

@@whitetroutchannel Ah, I know that feeling too mate. At least you've had a wee bit of luck with the fishes.

@@JohnnyWright-ft5zr great choice 👍👍🎣

@@articledimension-im6ij yes mate i do, it helps a bit, gives them less leverage, ill give you another tip, swop your trebles to singles, better hook ups and you'll hardly lose a lure in kelp again

mate i think this one was the ultimate blag lol it was beyond kind westin sendin it i was pretty humbled

not that ive heard mate, usually mid/end july they start landin in

😂😂😂👍 class mate!! it prob had a gopro on its head recordin data on me dave lol

the wee streams tidal for a good 2 mile but it doesnt have what you'd term an estuary in a traditional sense it just dump straight into a harbour, think either its a slob or a over winterd seatrout thats revertin to a brown but as you say mate its hard to tell 100% esp without scale samples and all too

cant complain mate, it beat sittin in the house with snotters and coughin 😂 cheers 4 leavin a comment my man 👍👍

i bet you guys across the pond think were all pirates callin each other "mate" all the time 😂😂

im back at it again until the next bio hazard is transported home from school in the lunchbox 😂😂

see i knew you'd be speakin "norn iron" before you knew it!! 😂😂👍

cheers 4 droppin in mate, hope ur feelin a bit better 👍👍

@@whitetroutchannel functional thanks 👍

​@@dazlee3257 good man 👍👍

you know the score dave mate 👍👍🎣

yes mate your bang on the money with everything you said, the licence is 17.50 (thats under review at the min) and again your bang on with you only need the licence if your targeting seatrout or salmon OR you fishing in an area deemed a migratory route (thou thats a very grey area as what thats defined as im guessin its the old 1 mile from any river mouth entrance) the DEARA website is hopeless mate in terms of information they didnt even know you needed a licence to fish the lough until the people behind the failed ADSEA project informed them that under law it was required that was in 2003, id encourage every fishrrman to have a look at the 1966 fisheries act, theres a lot of stuff on it on angling regulations

Looking at experimenting with single hook sizes. What do you think is the most effective size. I'm currently using the one that comes standard with the savage gear seeker lure as the replacement. I think it's a 3/0. Do you think a smaller size would be more effective or stick with that size.

​@@brillo86mate im fishin about size 4 inlines circles at the min with the seekers and it covers them dead on, ive dropped down a bit to smaller hook sizes and it seems to be lip hookin them way better, i hooked a wee fish last year with the bigger hooks that come on them seekers and it prob killed it the hook went in that deep, the smaller lures mate like the 8-10g thinks im usin 6-8 circles just pendin on lure length n width, i just make sure the gape on the hook is about the same width as the widest point of the lure, the thing i say 4 singles mate is when there hooked they stay hooked if you get me

its one i never had much luck with kev but i know other anglers swear on them, its the modded blue streak and holo foil is makin the difference 😂😂

@@whitetroutchannel I've no doubt mate. You have the knack with the modding of these lures. The "raw" seeker proved it's worth and the wee 9g silver spoon with the added blue. At least your lures are now EU compliant with the "Add Blue".🤣🤣

@@kevm7751 hopefully no-one triggers a petition of concern over it kev 😂😂👍

@@whitetroutchannel 🤣🤣

its a few bad apples still at it mate, sensible anglers like yourself understand it better for your target species survival rate hence more fish and second the amount of ££ to be saved in not loosin lures in kelp is another winner!!

circles are the way 4ward mate deffo agree way easier on fish and they also cut back on snags , really annoyed me seein a fish ripped like that its like the 1970s mindset will never die, its all single hook fishin by law over here mate but there are still special people who have to be different!

Surly trebles are not illegal ? Anyone fishing to keep usually use trebles I stoped using them seeing the carnage they were causing when pollock fishing as pollock will hit the lures hard with there head yo stun the bait then come around pick it up was sick of pulling hooked from heads and eyes as I saud best decision I've made and I've never managed a fish on my 2 sessions on the lough yet lol 😆

@@peterjohnston4472 aye mate for seatrout and salmon in ALL deara areas its singles only and theres even restrictions on sizes nothin bigger than a 4 i think, thats it mate like who honestly wants to treat fish like that, it just gives fuel to all the anti-blood sport groups that would stop our way of life, the loughs not easy fishin mate id be the first to say it, one night you could see them next night its empty and could be empty for weeks, baitfish will be about next few weeks and theyll feed a few weeks and then be sick eatin fry and not take again until the autumn lol!! 😂

@@whitetroutchannel yea mate 💯 I almost stoped fishing because of the mess trebles were making I've always debarred any trebles I've used on trout but I'll only use singles as I don't eat fish at all I've spent a fortune on lures for the lough after watching ur lure videos woukd be nice to actually catch a bar of silver this year . Seen some big brutes follow my lures last year . Anyway reels are greesed up ready to go . Tight lines James

@@whitetroutchannel am I better to fish from low tide to high or hight to low what do yiu thinks better 🤔

​@@peterjohnston4472it depends what bit your at mate some places fish better lw to HW (outside the lough seems to lend itself to this better) inside the lough youve prob an hour or so on hw and after that its a dead loss mate inside

cheers mate, i cant complain with 1 like that!! cheers 4 droppin in mate 👍👍🎣

it looks good mate but they where the only 2 fish ive seen in the 2 nights, tides are pretty pants at the min 4 it but still it was a nice silvery 1 the night

was a nice wee 1 mate, better than sittin on the sofa thats 4 sure, cheers 4 commentin mate 👍👍🎣

mate the only thing ill say is, the past 2 nights ive seen 2 fish and it was the 2 i landed, need the migrators in the lough soon so theres a few to cover, but tight lines if you are 👍

@@whitetroutchannel cheers m8 for the heads up fancey a few chucks anyways can alway hit Ardglass for some action tight lines

certainly what the doctor orderd mate 😂 thanks 4 watchin and leavin a comment mate 👍👍

been a bit of a mare mate but i was happy even gettin out the night so gettin 1 was an extra special treat, no dramas mate 👍👍🎣

mate i hope to goodness it wasnt my illness, i wouldnt have give it to my worst enemy, the rags blew the lot here last month but theres not many fish around me mate, im waitin on your pals comin on holidays 😂

@whitetroutchannel aye not been as many here this spring, i think they already left here, a bit of a flurry few weeks ago and that was it, I'll get the sandy lice scratchers soon i think.

​@@dazlee3257i hope theyve not followed that mackerel school up north or ill never see them this year, its been a funny year mate for me too, just single fish here and there and 1000 casts as per to get 1, at least youve decent bass to fall back on mate

@whitetroutchannel yeah allsorts here, i fish for whatever is around so not over troubled, had a few nice trout. mackerel baseline is plague proportion here in the evening.

​@@dazlee3257dont mate, after the amount i got last year i dont wana get 1 for a decade, this entrance to my sea lough is so narrow some years they just miss it, im hopin this year is like that lol 😂

cheers mate, first night out in ages, this was the only 1 i seen hard floggin but wasnt a bad 1, cheers 4 leavin a comment pal 👍👍🎣

guna kick the feet up now mate and celebrate with a steamy 1 😂😂

@@whitetroutchannel 💪

That will soon pick you up mate, nice fish, they are bloody hard work lately..

​@@stiofain4693dam right mate, after a fornight of sweatin i was just glad to get a throw!

a little otter

i hear itll be glowing nuclear green round ang soon 😪😪

@whitetroutchannel it's only last few years the power station hasn't been running in my memory, the outfall used to be amazing for mullet and bass 🤣

@@dazlee3257 seatrout love those fresh outlets when its really cold too, i guess theres a plus side to it 🤣👍