Thanks 🙏 Really do appreciate the comment and it’s great you also appreciate the significance of that baby whiskers 😀

Thanks, Paul, your warm words are always appreciated - please keep ‘em coming! 🙏🤗🎣

I believe it’s 100% natural and a couple of club members have said as much - feeling as happy about its appearance as I did. No recent stockings that I’m aware of and it was so small it had the feeling of being a survivor from last year’s spawning 👍

Amazing! I’m still yet to make it over there, but it’s legendary for coarse fishing and I grew up reading about the huge hauls of roach, bream and hybrids. You keep trucking - and fishing - as long as you can! 🎣 ✊😀 We have a chap still fishing my old club matches up north who turns 90 this year.

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for commenting.

Sounds great Clive and well done on an early start - it’s something I don’t do enough of. I hope you had a good day, even if our angling plans don’t always go down exactly as we envisaged them 😄🎣👍 You’ve certainly had the ☀️

@@themagicoffishing The lake is really lovely, spoke to David the bailiff, but how did it go, well you will find out soon, have a nice Sunday mate.

You are unfortunately bang on the money, Neil - I’ve never been a morning person, even though that means I miss a lot fishing-wise. I’ve always preferred my evenings, although I do get up relatively early for my northern club matches each summer a do a 360-mile round trip each weekend to fish them. That’s dedication after 25 years of living in the south! But wait until you see the next vid on here - I managed to get up early again and really enjoyed it!

Thanks for watching and commenting - makes it all worthwhile 👍

Thanks as always Graham - you are the poet amongst this rag tag band of anglers and your comments always bring a smile to my face. Yes, I’m lucky to have Rachel who is a cracking woman. She not only keeps me on my toes but knows how important my fishing is in my life. I’m glad you’ve had similar success in the romance department and it’s great to hear your eyes will soon be able to behold her - and the tip of a float - much better. My dad likes to draw and paint and that’s another noble passion. God luck with it and hope the recovery is smooth ❤️‍🩹

Love it, Jim, and know exactly what you mean about becoming immersed in and absorbed by the river. I appreciate not everyone can do it (depending on access to venues and health etc), but it’s a magic way of fishing and seeing nature go by. Look out for another video in the next couple of weeks where I again spend several hours in the water 👍👌🎣 Thanks for commenting 🙏🤗

Cheers, Clive, and the same to you! 🎣

Glad you liked it!

Welcome to the club, Dave! Hope you enjoy the existing videos and stay tuned - thanks for commenting and feel free to get involved again every week 👍🎣🐟

Many thanks for watching and commenting. Really appreciate it and of course the best way to improve your knowledge and skill level - aside from watching KZbin vids - is to fish as much as possible😀🎣☀️🕶️🫶

An absolute pleasure. And I love to see, or hear of an angling mad couple! We don’t see enough in the sport but Lynne Baxter, who is married to my match fishing mentor, Jim Baxter, up in Sheffield, is also a competitive fishing ace - canalrivertrust.org.uk/things-to-do/fishing/blogs-articles-and-news/the-fisheries-and-angling-team/lynne-baxter-my-life-in-fishing I hope you get to Frog Island before too long (you can park right next to the pool in summer, when it’s not too wet) and have a good day out there.

Totally agree - and what a great ‘angling legend’ name you have! 😀 That’s an unbelievable achievement to land that double-figure pike but I also think it’s amazing what you can do with balanced gear. A forgiving rod is the main component and I’m all for using the lightest gear you can, other than when you are fishing near snags or actually targeting big fish. When I was a lad, fishing for Sheffield Juniors and learning from some of the amazing Barnsley Blacks match anglers, we would regularly be told to ‘fine down’ to 12 or even 8oz bottoms to target roach and perch on the waggler - relying on the spliced tips of our rods to cushion any lunges from better fish. But that was in the days before carp became almost ubiquitous of course. I’d love to fish in Ireland some day… Thanks for watching and commenting.

@@themagicoffishing I was over in Ireland in early May and had several 4lb plus tench. I'm going back in mid August. If you're interested, if you give me your email address, I'll send you some photos, along with that pike.

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What a special comment - you just made my night, thanks. And what a night it is - the 15th of June and we’re on the eve of a new river season 🎉🐟🎣 I’m also on my way back from a mate’s birthday party in London and have enjoyed quite a few ales, so the only question is what time I’ll make it on the bank 😂😱🤕 But I can’t wait to be there, whatever time it ends up being! Really glad you enjoyed the book and comments like this make me think about a return to the very early and very rough ideas I have for a second. I’d just need a LOT more spare time to get that going again. One day… Cheers for now and enjoy the new season 🍻

Oh wow, that’s amazing! I’d always wondered who it was holding that monumental fish 🐟 Now I’m extra glad I recorded that special bit of history in the nick of time. I’m sure Michael and his dad will still have the pic somewhere but I always remember it by the door when I nipped in for my bait ahead of a match. I used to fish the Riverlin and Loxley a little bit as a lad, too! The trout in there were a touch smaller than your dad’s though… Thanks for watching and commenting 👍🎣🐟

Wow. This comment means a great deal to me because what you describe is exactly what I set out to try and do, even if it was unknowingly at the time 😄 Of course to begin with, you have no idea if your own fishing style and interests, never mind your VERY basic editing ‘skills’ and even your accent will appeal to anyone out there on KZbin… Or whether it might see most fellow anglers hitting 👎 😰 In other words, it’s a little bit daunting, but receiving feedback like this makes all the botched vids, blank sessions and long evenings spent hunched over a laptop more than worthwhile. Because my main aim with this KZbin channel, much like it was with the book, is to capture some of the magic feelings that fishing has always inspired in me and then share that magic with as many interested people as possible. For me, fishing’s the best thing in the world, up there with family, friends and nature - and, as you say, it can make you feel everything from moments of massive tension to moments of pure relaxation and bliss. I can only imagine the massive frustration and sadness caused by not being able to do what we both love as much as you used to, or want to. So I hope you can still manage some time on the bank with extra effort, assistance or the use of disabled swims for example. At other times, I’ll keep bringing you as much KZbin entertainment as possible, in amongst my busy work and family life, and I will really appreciate your ongoing views and comments. Thanks again for taking the time to share your story and all the best for now 🥰👍🎣🐟

@@themagicoffishingI felt it a necessity to put such a comment as I realise the hard work & hours you put in to bring others pleasure & entertainment. I understand the hours it must take to edit & produce such stunning videos, whilst trying to enjoy your passion for the hobby, along with work & family life. I thought it was only right to try & give you some understanding of what enjoyment you bring to others for all that you put into these videos. Thank You for your personal comments, & I try to get out when my health, the weather & my few friends can allow it. 💙💙👍🏻🎣

@@kennyscouse3388Great to hear ✊❤

Graham, it was your comment on the last vid that made me think 🤔 I thought as long as there’s plenty of fish, why not try a longer one.

BRILLIANT 😂🤣 Many of us are the same, Clive! If you can afford it then there’s now’t wrong with building a tackle collection, just make sure you go and use it as often as possible 👍🎣

Cheers!

That sounds like a plan! I’m torn but with this recent rain I may try for barbel on the big day. The other option I was considering was the deep ‘flapper gate’ stretch between the ruined abbey and Walsham weir. Anywhere along there with either groundbait feeder and maggots, or stick float with hemp and caster should get you a few bites and there are loads of small fish as well as some good bream and chub. It fishes best early morning or evening of course. I’d be tempted to fish float down the margins and keep the feed going in little and often because it’s 10ft deep off the rod end there and it also avoids you reeling in every time a boat, paddle boarder, canoeist or swimmer comes by! The footpath gets busy during the day but everyone is friendly. Tight lines 🎣🤞

Thanks 🤗

Thanks so much mate. We will definitely have to try the river together before winter comes. With the extra rain we’re seeing I’m thinking barbel and chub too - luncheon meat at the ready. I’ve STILL never fished Goldsworth (crazy, I know), but I did walk round the Sunday match there 2-3 weeks back to see where the bream might be. But, like you, everyone was struggling on there. Tight lines for Sunday 🎣

Haha, the wittiest worm dangler of all 😂🎣 Lucky you can back it up with some serious fish 🐟 I WILL try and get amongst the barbel and chub soon… 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

My pleasure and glad you enjoyed it. Yep, you might have some bad memories of that diving duck…? 🦆 Absolutely quackers 😄

Cheers Paul!

Enjoy when you can! 👍🎣

Wow, that’s made my day! And all the effort worthwhile. I enjoy it, too, of course, but it’s comments like yours that convince me to keep it going whenever I can. Cheers and tight lines 👍🎣 Especially for Sunday if you’re a river man!

Thanks Graeme and likewise! I did manage one in the end but it was a slow day as you warned. Would love to have a fish together or another chat sometime. I’ll have to give floater fishing a go when chance too - not done any for ages. Tight lights for the 16th! 🎣

😂 I try to offer a wide range of entertainment on here but that’s a step too far 😁 👠

Thanks so much for a brilliant comment and for reading the book - I love hearing it’s still finding a few new readers. Enjoy your day tomorrow and I’m no early bird myself either 😄🎣 I’m sure I’d catch a lot more big fish if I could conquer my hatred of early alarms!

@@themagicoffishing Actually down here in West Cornwall, Nance Lakes, not brilliant early morning fishing, but just a beautiful time of day before the world (not the sunrise and wildlife amidst the dawn chorus) awakes. Like evenings when time appears to standstill and is so peaceful, beautiful. Like heaven touching earth. But you capture the essence of that both through your videos and book. Haven’t finished the book, but already don’t want it to end. Trying to take it slowly. 👩‍🌾🙏🫶🎣🌅👍

@@themagicoffishing Funnily enough don’t ever remember having to set alarms as I’ve a tendency to naturally wake up especially if a morning fishing session is in the offering. Only recently, last 2 years got back into fishing after a nigh on 50 year break, apart from a few months in 1999 when I was made homeless and stayed with a family who lived below Carn Marth, near Lanner, Redruth in Cornwall. It was visiting the cafe at Nance 2 years ago last May that I fell in love with the 3 small lakes there. Bought my rod license next day and was fishing 5am on the Thursday. I’d recently retired a year after my 65th Birthday with ‘burn out’ being a Mentor in the local secondary school, it was like refinding my roots. Just loved it, but so much to learn with the incredible changes that have happened in the intervening 50 years or so. Don’t get many opportunities to fish evenings as I’m main cook and bottle washer at home of an evening, but I’ll have to address that situation as evenings are such a beautiful time to be bankside, and the fish do tend to come on and feed. 👩‍🌾🫶🎣🌅👍

That’s awesome to hear - thanks for your custom and the support for the channel. Hope you had a great holiday and get back on the bank before long 🎣

Cheers Calvin! I hear you paid a visit to Jerry and Frog Island not so long ago 👍 Look out for a nice video I filmed there soon.

@@themagicoffishing yes 👍 feeder fishing

I’m not sure what that means but thanks for watching

Thanks 👍

Haha, absolutely! 😆

Great minds think alike.

A double-figure dustbin lid… We have a few down here, too, but I’m yet to get one! Closest was an 8lb PB but I had that while carp fishing to be fair. I’ve had a 7lb+ river bream and they are different creatures all together. A bit more lively 😀

You too!

Many thanks, it means a lot. I’ve been fishing a match near my native Sheffield this weekend, but I agree there are a lot of videos by much better match anglers than me! Love my natural waters too 👍🎣

I know the Minnow! Used to pedal down there from Woking with my little lad on one of those one-wheel bike extensions off the back, back when we lived by the canal. Great exercise but a pint at the halfway mark was always grand in summer. I’ve got a ridiculously busy few months coming up (much involving fishing) but maybe we’ll have an afternoon on the river sometime. Enjoy the big day 🎣 I will be on the Wey somewhere before watching the England game with my lad (now as tall as me) - as it’s also Father’s Day.

What a day the 16th! Fathers day, season starting, England game, I'm avoiding the river on 16th & probably do an afternoon session on Wednesday as my son has martial arts training in Weybridge in the evening , but, you're busier than I so I'll work around your schedule. Very kind of you to offer your time, thank you. Take care, hope to link up soon🐟🪱🎣👍

Brilliant - just spotted it 👏🏼

Thanks Paul, it really is an idyllic spot and nice to do some single bank fishing where it looks like proper wilderness on the other side.

Cheers mate. I’ve just fished a match near Doncaster and although it ended up being nice and sunny it was like autumn this morning! Grey, windy, rainy and single digits. Welcome to June eh?

LOL, I know… Cheers Neil. P.S. I just did rubbish in a match up north but it was a very difficult day and one bloke managed third with just two fish! I had 31 silvers but nothing over half a pound.

Good luck! 🤞🎣

Sure did! Cheers 🍻