Alfie Russell - Little Rivers, Big Perch.

[@MrNonch1]

Lovely video- no ego trip or anything. The enjoyment shines out of his eyes- well done!

[@Listermintsluesh]

My best fish I've ever caught was a big perch. I was in awe truly. It was over the lea, fairly industrialised part but my local really. Remember using the biggest worm I've ever seen collected from my garden. I was convinced nothing big enough would take it, but I gave it a go anyway. It was afternoon, the river was quiet and few people about. Used a bob float which I since lost sadly. It's funny, as a bob float has a big surface area...so when it's under you know it's gotta be something worthy. When hooked I was sure it was a carp. In fact I had two attempts, and on the second time that bob skidded across and under to the far bank it was hooked. Unless you've had a really big perch you can't understand the experience. I guess it's probably cos all the ones you've ever caught, even the bigger ones are dwarfed by the biggy........that's the specimen you've dreamed of. That perch from that part of the river, which had been and is now, like a lot of waters under pressure from various factors including pollution. So for a large perch to survive is even more amazing. I wonder if any remain now..........I hope so....

[@eliankaison7472]

instaBlaster...

[@CrunkyOMan83]

The way he explains things makes me love fishing

[@cliveeariss880]

Wow these Perch are something else, I must get on the Thames soon, ome very big Perch in this river, really enjoyed this, excellent talk, and saying it as it is, wonderfull colours on these fish.

[@Lifeonthebank]

Nicely shot. Gotta love a big perch.

[@geoffsaunderson5766]

Lovely vid! Really captures that indescribable passion we have for them, anglers hey day! No mortgage, no kids, no ever hungry career that begs more and more time and energy, just big beutiful stripeys!!!

[@benhowlett7693]

No women aswell maybe that all fucks things up!😂

[@deividas_kimontas]

Awesome video Alfie, great fishing buddy💯👌

[@Lifeonthebank]

Love this video. Clearly has a big passion for big perch 🎣

[@greybeardfishing1996]

Nice video, would of liked to have seen your set up for the float though.

[@-BOOMA-]

Amazing fish and a quality video I wish it was longer watched it so many times lol

[@garyadams3634]

Alfie They are some fantastic fish. Great to see them being caught. My local reservoir has some really big perch but being 100acres it can be a task to speci hunt them. If you ever fancy another river you do well on the Trent or Wye

[@alfredshearing6793]

From one Alfie to another. That was a great video. See you on the bank.

[@lexingtonlad5745]

Great video. Never caught anything over 1 pound but they are so much fun to catch.

[@benstormbadass1936]

Nice video mate 👍🏻 Keep up the good work . I caught a 4.5 lb Perch at Berkhamstead on the Grand Union canal 🐟👍🏻

[@Listermintsluesh]

That's a great fish.

[@TheEssexSpurs]

WOW!!!!Fantastic record you have young man.I am off to the Chelmer/Blackwater Canal tomorrow morning armed with prawns to try and smash my personal best of about 1lb back in the early seventies!!!

[@JamieGlasscock]

Cracking video really enjoyed that, some monster perch there !

[@keithdainton6043]

Reminds me of growing up fishing the river Kennet back in them days in the late 60s we had loads of big perch if you knew where to look .

[@JP-ic2ze]

No longer with NASH? Hope see more of your videos. I'm off to Spain Perch fishing in 5 weeks. I hope I catch some nice ones like you clearly are. You should also try some lure fishing too sometimes.

[@garyryan646]

Brilliant.A joy to watch.Thank you Alfie.

[@phiilyphil8900]

Another great video Watched one lastnight about fishing in the dark with a headtorch great idea 💡 you seem a sound bloke would be ace to have a day big perch hunting with ya would be megga keep up the good informative videos or blogs whatever you call them and awesome angling skills brother

[@mark_kellett_angling95742]

I've watched this video so many times I'm in aw of the beasts. Some angler mush

[@stevenhowe6677]

Well done and thanks, everything seems to be Carp Carp with young anglers these days but catching a specimen Perch or Roach etc etc can be so rewarding. For many people their first fish was often a Perch, mine was, fantastic fish and a great clip.

[@Jahfriend]

Cracking stripeys some dream fish there good for you enjoyed watching all the best 👍

[@philchapman9484]

Lovely vid mate .a true angler all your weights are true .you should come an fish south hanningfield res very large perch in there .all the best

[@tomcummings492]

Awesome short film Alfie, I'd like to see some of the carp fishing you have been up to aswell 😁

[@chrismartin4607]

I'm sure many would! Probably 'under the radar' carping 😂

[@allanblyth6150]

Brilliant video mate, well done!

[@TheFishingNomad]

Excellent video. Those are so similar to the yellow perch in North America, but they get so much bigger.

[@charliesebbage9401]

Beautiful video thanks for sharing!

[@johnathanryan2117]

Brilliant fishing that Tommy. You've found a real venue there. Got something similar near us in Lancashire but fish run to about 2lbs. Good head of roach too. Real fishing on real venue. Having to work for the catch is great fun. Keep it up, great video.

[@sebastianpociennik7516]

You're lucky to have spots like this. Stunning fishes. Unfortunetly in Poland is almost impossible to catch some many perch in spots like U. Anyway congrats.

[@elmozzito]

Fair Play to you mate. Brilliant job 👍

[@clooperman3745]

What a cracking little video for several reasons ,a big perch is a stunning looking fish, the location urban canals and rivers, not some tucked away private water so available to anybody, then there is the angler Alfie, a young chap who obviously loves fishing and not just for carp and takes you through the video explaining things as it progresses, angling needs more exposure with people like Alfie who will appeal to youngsters to encourage them to try it for themselves.

[@jimbojet8728]

Great fun. Thank you for sharing.

[@Duyf]

Beautiful images and filming!

[@cns180784]

Now those are beauties, proper Perch I need to catch one's like these. Has to be the rivers and canals.

[@ianbourne9970]

This lad is like the Terry Hearns of Perch fishing ‼️💯🤘👏👏👏

[@jamesdoyle3885]

Great video with some stonking stripeys. I really would just love a fish of 2 pounds or more, these ones you have caught are stunning, looks like you've really put the work in too. Well done and tight lines!...

[@richardbarrett7544]

Very nice again Alfie, shows what an all round angler you are. Really hope there is more to come. Don't worry about the knockers, most anglers would love a sponsor so they could fish more. Great video and editing nothing like a big Perch mate.

[@benewgillian6823]

I love when a fisherman get obsessed about one fish in particular ... Thousands of fish out there , and just you get hooked by one !!!

[@Deathst4lker]

Just found this clip mate - what great dangling ! Cracking fish - thanks for sharing !!

[@PhillWyattFishing]

Some amazing looking Perch in this video 👍🤯

[@sophiebuck8279]

Quality fish and fishing. A big perch is the biggest of fish said the great Dick Walker. Nice to see you using a perch bobber, use them myself. Were you trotting livebaits or lobs? Gonna take some lobs on a trip to the Wye next week, aiming for barbel and chub but would love a quality Wye perch or roach.

[@davidnash1220]

Great work really good

[@richardosborne5535]

Well done Alfie cracking fish well worth all that effort

[@fredbloggs8362]

Excellent vid Alfie, the big ones really are very fine looking predators. The biggest ‘Redfin’ ive seen caught in oz were taken by a bloke using live minnow under a float. Cheers.

[@FishWithBish]

Great video

[@ussweeneyd]

Wow, memories of Ashstead pond in the 60s. Never a four though !!!!!!!

[@hownowbrowntrouttasmania7389]

Now ive caught some rippers I'm hooked.

[@tedwinni6121]

What a film this is

[@SnaggedBro]

Good work Alfie!

[@314WESTERN]

Great video loved it.🦈🦈🦈

[@davidprocter1585]

Very talented young man! Judging by the bobber float, was that live bait? 🤔

[@kevinbeardsworth3756]

I would say he probably is live baiting. Maybe the reason why he never shows much about what he’s doin.

[@Burnersforvanlife]

Well done lad. Awesome!

[@janosczovek8524]

Good video really enjoyed it 👍

[@paulfranciosi8155]

Always had my biggest on dead baits ,live minnows and lobs but fish baits are the best.

[@skeeter0194]

Big up Alfie!!!!! Kipper that!!!!

[@Lpsgenny]

Awesome mate,

[@yunwuxin3348]

Do you have your own channel and they where some beautiful english river perch mate sound like you had a session of a lifetime 😎

[@briandouglas4964]

Absolutely brilliant video bud those are some really nice specimen perch there I love perch fishing with a passion but very very hard to get anything near those sizes where I am what's your preferred method of bait?

[@Chazie_]

Great fish great fisherman

[@jackhindle6179]

amazing video I love fishing the same venues for predators on artificial baits keep up the good work 🦈

[@thomasben3991]

Quality video!

[@jeromepersonelle8234]

Man, those are some BIG perch

[@zoymmil]

Lovely fish👍

[@K.B.Fishing]

Great video!

[@hercules_E164K]

Your video production quality is absolutely insane. Well done. One of the best videos out there.

[@GIBBO4182]

This guy reminds me of Professor Green

[@MDB-amandrinksbeer]

Nice catch

[@simonprice1938]

Great fishing bud but what 3 baits would you use...

[@dererhabenebauervomsonnena9952]

Great video. For me, this is what fishing is all about... realy nice! What rod do you use? Hope to see more videos from you...

[@stevenhugh1785]

Wow! Interesting crayfish are a food source

[@bobchurch9748]

wow..just wow

[@lenwessel7995]

What are your 3 favorite nature baits for perch?

[@mattiemclean9882]

minnow, gudgeon and roach

[@jaczekdertuerke]

perch, perch and perch

[@Bart5800]

Perch fishing in you’re stone island jumper, what a lad haha

[@mattiemclean9882]

haha. i saw some old pictures of me carping in the late 80s with Pierre Cardin sweater's and Fred Perry's! Not so practical, but before Realtree made everybody look like a bunch of wankers!

[@illuminousbrown333]

Cool video

[@150rents]

nice vid well done

[@soulofalionhs]

Whats the bait? I use live bleak, got 41cm 1020g perch this summer with this kind of method, super fun

[@hdehaas78]

Whats the main bait you use for perch

[@MickJaggerr1]

Can’t you lip then when handling them? Or is this the correct handling?

[@simplyangling9140]

Should never lip them. Never ever ever

[@mattiemclean9882]

esp gonna do a clothing line with stone island huh?

[@mjkoorn74]

What is the rod Choice? Drennan....?

[@mynameisnotcory]

Nice!!

[@borderlands6606]

Unlike most species you can catch specimen perch in a massive reservoir or a dew pond. As long as there's a steady supply of prey, the fish can be massive. Also, if you catch one big perch chances are there'll be more about.

[@justinsteel6360]

What hookbait you using alf

[@phatmanc7078]

my biggest is 3lb 2oz top fight on light tackle.

[@gregorycole538]

Pukka fish great video

[@mfl5080]

Which country r u fishing in?

[@calcrappie8507]

They just don't get that big in USA. A 2 pounder is pretty big here. A 3# comes in only rarely.

[@dantecarp]

Cool stuff kiddo

[@lasseskyum2573]

👍🏼

[@antonyfield2040]

👍👍👍

[@carper1325]

great film pity there wasnt just more angling

[@popeye-pi7ci]

CMON DRENNAN DONT LET THIS KID GO LIKE "NASH" N KICK HIM TO THE DIRT, THIS KID HAS NATURAL TALENT, look at all the other kids of his age, out pushing god knows what........love his vlogs, let the kid shine.............

[@popeye-pi7ci]

p.s im no kid im 45 & i like watching the kid fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@FISHERYIN]

Wow first comment

[@hold1n103]

quality

[@nathanielbest6610]

👌

[@chopperhehehe]

I would deffo give you 4lb on that last fish pearch are awsome to catch 👍👍👍😜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦄🎣😁✌️ Ps ofcourse iv subscribed lol

[@horrorfreaklondon3037]

Is it me or are big perch getting 'trendy???

[@Listermintsluesh]

Maybe they few n far between, don't forget pollution droughts pressure on our riverways etc etc, has put them in decline along with other fish.

[@meunmich]

I have

[@fin4889]

Man goes fishing in a stone island shirt, bruh