A Day in a Life of a Salmon Fishing Guide with James Stokoe

Follow us through a day in the life with the incredible James Stokoe as he takes us through his average day as a Salmon Fishing Guide on the River Tyne, or as James knows it to be, 'the greatest office in the world'.

[@rangerwhite5165]

Great presentation James. We have to engender the same passion in the younger anglers, so they look after the fish after we're gone.

[@philipmckibbin4252]

What a job my friend! Couldn’t agree more in needing to pull together to protect this magnificent creatures! Well said James 100% 👍

[@est9662]

Absolutly true and great spirit you show here. Small thing that every salmon fisher (and of course anybody else) could do is stop eating farmed fish Your a fantastic guide m8 keep up the good work.

[@johnburns3703]

The Scottish east coast is better probably because there are far fewer fish farms. Norway have realised it and moved the farms much further offshore.

[@neilmason158]

James last time I fished the Tyne was at least 12years ago, need a new rod lenght of rod and atm would recommend

[@YukionChannel]

Great video 👍 I have subscribed to your channel !!

[@flyfisher8030]

Surprised the naughty man has his top on

[@alexcorg9007]

I am told that salmon can mostly be caught and released... Do you confirm that it's not possible to fish salmon to eat it? I never eat farmed fish, while I find some wild-caught small fishes, I had to completely give up with salmon. I'd like to know if it's true that this is only a sport (as you called it) or it could be a way of living... I would never bother a fish if it's not for eating it.

[@skunkhead2007]

ive been living on salmon and game for 42 years catch enough to eat there then then come september before the fish start to change colours spawning colours i stock up for winter months so example salmon in winter ever two three maybe four weeks summer every other day or trout perch i eat perch they better than salmon pike are ok but not my cuppa tea carp are good and not a native species to uk....caught a pink salmon this season on river wear durham they native to pacific ocean and none native so i bumped its head ate it was quite nice eating not as flakety as atlantic fish but ok........its not wrong to eat fish keep fish but if yer beleive in covid global warming or santa clause then if the snowflakes say they declining and we cant eat them thats wrong then so be it be a sheep salmon numbers are well up easy to see look on their very own websites the ones who make the claims of decliing bs snowflake news

[@johnburns3703]

You want to get that net well sunk and out of sight of the fish. Been there and lost the fish..

[@David-uj2ms]

Let the fish go for fucks sake, keith!

[@jamo78s3]

I'd love to go salmon and trout fishing but I'm afraid I'd be doing it mostly because you can eat them.

[@skunkhead2007]

ive fished that ection for over 30 year fished for salmon 42 season i eat my fish as i know the declining thing is a bogey man its global warmin g covid etc fake news BS made up by vegans who look after fishing and hunting in uk ive investigated the whole nest for the past 10 years using linux bash scripts so people in charge of fishing are vegans and lgb types not lets go brandon ;-) hexham is a cracking spot never in my life av i paid to fish there and i fish it every single season with out fail and always catch.....i dont pay silly money to fish who the F as the right to tell me where and where i can and cant fish eh? late at night is better time fish are on the move or settled till first light on low water hexham weir pool island pool changes every season but what a place from june onwards ive caught and seen fish in april there but theys a counter downriver that acts as a temp barrier to the fish so march and april fish aint common unless we get warm winter spring//////.................you are allowed to keep fish on tyne wear tees coquet whitby esk but not on humber ouse trent rivers ..catch release

[@bonfaceakapia1984]

I'm interested to tei flies fishing then I will be able to do business with company

[@richardbrown4294]

Very American phrase guide, I prefer grilled.

[@tonebonetones]

Meanwhile, this highly debatable, silly virtue signalling that is turning game fishermen into coarse fishermen is laughed at by drift net fishers hauling in salmon by the hundreds and hundreds off the estuary mouths all around the UK. As far as I know, it's only the ever sensible Irish salmon anglers that are still game fishermen, and know game fishermen fish for game yet also balance this with conservation. Around 25 years ago, I was secretary of a fly fishing club and used to get the catch returns for the estuary nets as well as the river rod returns from the Environment Agency as they now title themselves. It was sobering reading, the staggering disparity between salmon and sea trout hauled in by nets ( many not even given a coup de grace, but left instead to gasp out their life in massive cooler boxes on the drift boats) and the catches of the rod anglers. Even back then, the Environment Agency put the pressure for fish conservation on the rod anglers while turning a blind eye to the slaughter off the harbour mouths. I, and many other fishing club secretaries, wrote year in, year out to Trout and Salmon magazine expressing frustration and exasperation at the truly unbelievable antics of the Environment Agency who seemingly didn't read their own catch returns for the UK rivers and estuary drift nets. The drift licenses seemed expensive, but if one worked out the annual catches of an average drift boat, and how much they made selling their salmon, it was a bargain. Thus, the bonanza continued for drift nets for years and years at the expense of the rod angler, the EA did sweet FA (except blame rod anglers and landowners for the by now diminishing fish stocks, and berate them to adopt more and more conservation measures). Rod anglers pay through the nose for this sport, and even back in my day, we more than balanced fish we killed for the pot with what we returned, especially at the back end of the season where the fish get coloured and stale. The land owners in turn, maintained the rivers, ensured the spawning redds were monitored for condition and for any poachers. Eventually, exasperated, frustrated at the lack of action by the EA, landowners got together, along with the rod anglers who fished their beats, and bought out considerable numbers of the drift nets, all around the UK, at considerable expense. The reduced numbers drift nets operating today (thanks to rod anglers and landowners) are bad enough. Imagine what it was like back in the mid 1980's! And here we are today, with this young lad of a Tyne 'guide' pontificating and virtue signaling his heart out, oblivious and ignorant of what generations of rod salmon anglers actually did before he was even born, but here we have this video adding to the peer pressure to release a perfectly and hard caught and played salmon and go buy a Godawful farmed fish instead lol. At least we still have some Irish salmon fishers, however, who catch and take the odd spring fish ( instead of letting them go stale in the river all summer and autumn, and more likely to die after spawning, because of another absurd EA pre June 16th mandatory release in the UK), catch them on worm and prawn, and actually be.....game fishermen.