"Specimen Gravel Pit Roach"

In the latest episode of "Angling Adventures" I target big roach on a gravel pit.
This gravel pit has been very kind to me in the past, with many roach landed over the 2lb mark.
In this particular episode I am joined by my friends Stephen Gibbons and Tony Bidwell in pursuit of a 2lb roach.
Hope you enjoy my latest adventure, and thanks for watching.
Tight Lines....

[@Niiiiiiiiiii]

Special fish, well done good video with nice people.

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many thanks, that’s very kind 👍🏼

[@nottsfishingkbtv402]

Awesome Roach and film 🎣👍👏🐟

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many thanks for your positive feedback, really appreciate it 🙏🏼

[@janedurston8939]

So wonderful to see roach of that stamp,well many years ago I fished a gravel pit with a friend and caught monster roach I know that feeling and what its like to catch a fish of ten lifetimes to be quite honest those days are gone but thank you for your huge efforts to bring this to Utube 5 stars kind regards Mr D

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many many thanks 🙏🏼

[@MidlandAngler]

Long time I’ve waited for this 😊👍🏻👍🏻

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many thanks

[@rapsy1699]

Some lovely roach there. Really enjoyed this video, keep em coming!

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many thanks 🙏🏼

[@steveblyth2055]

Another enjoyable video Nathen,some cracking roach caught too 🎣👍

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many thanks Steven, I enjoyed doing that one 🙏🏼👍🏼

[@Stetik_]

Nice Fish 🎣 👍

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many thanks 🙏🏼

[@keithsewell9879]

Excellent video as always, cracking roach.

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many thanks Keith, really appreciate the positive feedback 👍🏼

[@simonbrough2668]

Great video. Keep them coming.

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many thanks 🙏🏼

[@keithscott676]

Bloody superb matey thanks for making the video..

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many thanks 🙏🏼

[@stan.o99]

Great! Must be some monster pike in there with those roaches swiming around 😯

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

I used to pike fish it years ago, not sure there are any monsters I. There at the moment tho 👍🏼

[@liamthain4855]

Iv just seen your the video it's and awesome honest film really enjoyed it

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many thanks Liam, really appreciate the positive feedback 👍🏼

[@stephengibbons9994]

Roach extravaganza 👌👁️👁️🙌

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Enjoyed doing that vid, and many thanks for your contribution Gibbo 🙏🏼🎣

[@stephengibbons9994]

@@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD anytime brother

[@mightymaggot9202]

Nice Nathan some cracking roach there

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many thanks 🙏🏼

[@doctorjeep86]

Great stuff 👏

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many thanks Matthew 🙏🏼

[@jangojango4823]

Some really nice, well deserved, roach there ,thanks for sharing. Sadly , living in my part of Essex it’s pretty much carp, carp more bloody carp and not much else….. I’d love to have some decent mixed fisheries with specimen fish,, reasonably close by.

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many thanks 🙏🏼 I know what you mean. Everything is carp orientated these days.. I don’t mind carp, but not to keen on the whole carp scene..

[@paulgrint1097]

Nicely shot video Nath.. I just need you and your friend to sing some Robson and Jerome songs and I think the tv producers will be signing you up 👍🤣

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Usually do that off camera 🤣🤣🤣

[@paulgrint1097]

@@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD I just thought.. if you start singing Suspicious minds by Elvis as you get a fish on the line that would make my year 🤣were caught in a trap.. there’s no way out..etc .. anyway great videos and nice to see all the lovely scenery to👍

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

🤣🤣🤣

[@fishingtailfilms]

Nice video Nathan cracking Roach, do you think there are many over 3lbs in the pit you are fishing?

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many thanks Russ, I’m guessing that there might be the odd one, but a 3 hasn’t graced my net yet

[@davidhuggins4073]

I tried same tactics but with quiver tips. All I got was a 34.5 common!

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Gatecrasher 😂

[@Yosser70]

Fantastic video mate, and amazing fish, subbed straight away. It’s good to see a specialist angler amongst all the carp stuff on here. I came back to carp fishing a year or so ago, after more than 20 years away and couldn’t believe how much things have changed! Every fish has a name and waters packed with anglers chasing numbers :( I’ve changed my fishing and concentrating on anything but carp, just want to catch decent sized and unknown fish. Look forward to seeing more from you.

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many many thanks for subscribing 🙏🏼🙏🏼 I love fishing for different species and try to achieve new pb’s or specimen sized fish. I love the mystery in targeting certain species on different waters and when the effort is rewarded it makes it all worthwhile.. It’s not been easy with the goings on in the last couple of years, but have enjoyed getting out when I can to try and put some footage together.. One of my friends I fish with on my other videos (Michael Sparkes) had been fishing for carp for years, and he pretty much said the same as you.. He didn’t enjoy it and had a few years off fishing for other sort with myself. However, myself personally had never targeted carp up until a couple of year ago, and was very new to me, and after a lot of persuasion by Michael I decided to have a little go🙈 I must say I found it very different to what I’m used to. Very busy, very clicky, and secretive.. But as it was new to me I did enjoy it to a certain extent, I kept myself to myself and hit the ground running.. It’s not the carp I didn’t like, but the scene, if you get what I mean? I much prefer the multi species if I’m honest.. I’m really glad you liked the video and hopefully in the near future I will be adding some more.. Many thanks Dave 🙏🏼

[@Yosser70]

@@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD I know exactly what you mean, carp are great fish, get big and fight hard but they’ve turned into a commodity, so grown to unnatural sizes and over stocked. That in turn has attracted a certain type of angler, who mostly seem to have never fished for anything else. Saw a video about a guy that had caught 100 fish over 30lbs in a year and they were pretty much all force fed stock fish from commercial waters. That’s just not real fishing! A 30 used to be a fish of dreams locally but now they are common place, so catching one isn’t really much of an achievement. It’s funny, it’s videos like yours and those from a couple of others that made me realise why I’d gone off fishing again recently, it’s not the fishing, it’s the scene surrounding it, and the relative ease carp are to target these days. Those 2lb roach you caught are way more of an achievement than a 30lb carp today! Anyway, enough ranting! lol Looking forward to trying for more species and your videos will be a big help and inspiration 👍🏻

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

I can so relate to your your comments, and it’s feedback like yours that inspire me to do more videos.. You do get the odd bit of negative feedback off some viewers, but luckily I can count them on one hand.. If I can please and inspire one person I feel it’s worth doing.. I have a few ideas for the future, some are realistic and some are not.. But I will continue to put the effort in.. There’s definitely a lot of luck involved, but right place, right venue and right time, you just never know 🤞🏼 Thanks again for your encouraging comments 🙏🏼

[@mightymaggot9510]

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[@carlmarch9591]

another great watch Nathan, have you ever had a go for roach rudd on the bawburgh complex mate maybe a few surprises

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Unfortunately the cormorants hit it pretty hard each winter, few and far between the silvers at bawbs.. Glad you liked the vid 🙏🏼

[@carlmarch9591]

@@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD that's a shame mate well I will be on there the 16th so can't wait, keep up the good work mate hopefully see you on the bank

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Yeah no doubt we will catch up 👍🏼

[@sallyfolkes2650]

Excellent...what bs reel line and hook length do you use.

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

I think the mainline is guru pulse in 6lb or 8lb and the hooklength is drennan fluorocarbon in around 5lb 👍🏼

[@lewiserith3184]

Hi Nathan, enjoyed the video. Would you be able to share where this is, wouldn't mind having a go myself. Cheers

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Hi Lewis, Glad you enjoyed the video, billingford lakes, Norfolk 👍🏼

[@BeautifulGame15]

Excellent video, has inspired me to hit my local gravel pit. On such a big water, what's your best advise on finding the fish or at least improving my chances of catching? Keep up the great work.

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Hi, So glad you liked the video 👍🏼 I think your eyes at first light are your best weapon, looking for fish rolling and topping is where I would start.. The gravel pit I was fishing surface activity was very sparse most of the time, on this particular gravel pit I found afternoons and an hour into dark to be the most productive times, and found the lightly silted areas were the place to put your baits.. No real features where I was which made it easier in a way, just a case of trying to locate a few fish and bait an area and sit on it.. My approach was very simple little heli rig and maggots on the hook done the business.. Fishing all 3 rods reasonably tight. I’d usually put 5 or 6 medium spombs of caster and hemp out, and recast every hour and a half or so.. They didn’t always play ball on this lake, but when they did it was great sport.. I hope you get amongst the roach when you have a go, a really appreciate the positive feedback.. Good luck and tight lines 🤞🏼

[@BeautifulGame15]

@@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD Cheers!

[@kevinpilgrim3801]

Another excellent video Nathan, thanks for sharing. You make it look easy fella ( i know it's not ). Another Tench video this Spring ?

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many thanks Kevin, and yes I do plan on doing a tench vid this spring, restriction permitted.. Hopefully the country is moving in the right direction and we can get back to some sort of normality.. I would love to get a double on camera 🙏🏼🤞🏼

[@mightymaggot9510]

I see you are fishing open water, do you favour open water for big roach, its looks a decent sized pit, out of interest what distance was you fishing at and was it a feature gravel bar etc ?

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Hello mate, thanks for watching the video 👍🏼 It was a fair bit of trial and error.. After a few blanks and not seeing a lot as a rule, I then noticed a few roach rolling at around 50 yards out on a flat calm at last light. My next session I had a lead about to where I see these roach showing the previous evening, and feature wise the weren’t a lot out there at all. I decided to bait this area, probably about the size of a snooker table.. Started off with about half a dozen spombs of maggot, caster and hemp, and sort of sat on it with the occasional recast with the feeder to introduce a little more bait fishing over light silt. The feeding window was usually about an hour before dark up to an hour into dark as a rule when I actually caught. Some sessions resulted in all three rods going at the same time when they were really having it.. Low pressure was usually a good time to fish it. I did have the odd session when the water was coloured due to flooding where I was getting steady bites throughout the day.. Hope this helps, tight lines 👍🏼

[@mightymaggot9510]

@@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD, it's the old location, location, location thing with seeing them roll being the key. Thanks for the detailed reply, definitely confirms effort equals reward 👏

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

@@mightymaggot9510 No worries, good luck 🤞🏼

[@johnfryer3149]

Hi. Is this a day ticket or syndicate water please. Great video, makes sitting out in the cold worthwhile 😃😃👍👍

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Thanks for liking the vid.. Day ticket venue 👍🏼

[@vissenmetharryoosterhof4436]

wat ik wel jammer vindt is er wordt nergens verteld hoe lang hoeveel cm deze voorns zijn mijn peroonlijk record is 43cm maar daar in tegen heb ik bij mijn voorns geen gewichten

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

In het Verenigd Koninkrijk hebben we de neiging om de vis in poinds en ounces te wegen. Helaas heb ik de lengte niet gemeten als deze voorn, maar het kan iets zijn dat ik in de toekomst doe

[@vissenmetharryoosterhof4436]

@@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD dank je wel voor u reactie

[@vissenmetharryoosterhof4436]

en welke hengels gebruikt u zijn dit heavy feeder hengels????

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

1 lb tc 11ft 👍🏼

[@vissenmetharryoosterhof4436]

dank je wel voor u reactie

[@vissenmetharryoosterhof4436]

dank je wel voor u reactie

[@stephengibbons9994]

clive denDONKA

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Donks!!🤣

[@jst1261]

Great video. Keep them coming.

[@ANGLINGADVENTURES-HD]

Many thanks, will be working on more vids in the near future 👍🏼