Canal fishing Tips - The Totally Awesome Fishing Show

Tips on How to Fish a Canal are always popular with beginners and experienced alike, as you might need only one small piece of information to get you a fish. Britain's top all-round angler Graeme Pullen is at it again, but it's time the odds are stacked against him. He not only has the problem of finding where the fish are on a canal, but it seems the world of boats, swans and canoes have conspired against him to make fishing all but impossible. Is he ever going to overcome such Totally Awesome odds? In this episode he comes up against the waterway problems that many anglers will be familiar with - but at the end he comes up with his own idea on how to get a peaceful, undisturbed days fishing!
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[@elliottking3357]

Been living on a terrace house with a canal out my front door. Finally dug out all my old kit from 16 years ago and am loving it, lots of big perch and some lovely Bream. Thanks for a helpful video

[@simkraf]

LOL :) Middle of video and boat turning saga :) Swans,... Ducks... Dogs... Humans... Car Traffic... Air strike... and a 50 foot coffin churning up the carefully prepared and clear swim ! It all starts with a old rake and just gets better... Never seen a funnier KZbin video :) Thanks for cheering me up in the closed season, I thought i might go canal fishing too! LOL :)

[@Eric_492]

lol boats messing with the fish.... call in an airstrike!!! I needed that laugh.

[@ParadiseReptiles1]

the ending had me laughing to tears. graeme, you can be such a kid sometimes and i love it! keep it up!

[@kilburncounty]

After a truly horrible week at work you've had me doubled over laughing - thanks Graham!

[@johnwallace636]

i fish canals regulary last few months pre baiting seems pointless now

[@darrendynamite]

haha love your style! its good to see a no nonsence fishing video!

[@bellasanderson2934]

Woah you commented this 5 years ago 😂 I was in kindergarten 🐸👀 👅

[@henrybennett6432]

Good to see you not having crayfish problems as I have in those swims in the past. Greywell is nice but I have always found the big roach and rudd VERY picky, even with minimal traffic.

[@Soilwar]

The one tip I derived from this -> don't fish canals. At least not if you're already stressed. :D

[@danielhaddon1453]

GRAEME ! SINCE JOHN WILSON HAS SEMI RETIED ? YOU ARE WITHOUT DOUT THE BEST NORMAL "NOT SOMEONE WHOS SPONSORED BY 50 BAIT AND TACKLE COMPANYS (IT WUD TOTALLY RUIN IT IF THAT CHANGED) GUY OUT THERE ! YOUR PASSION SHINES THROUGH ! YOUR BAIT,TACKLE AND THE NATURAL FUN WAY YOU TALK TO THE VIEWER IS GENIUS !!! YOU REMIND ME OF MY GRANDAD ! (IN A GREAT WAY) LIKE YOUVE NEVER GROWN UP ! LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT ! ALL THE BEST TO YOU AND YOUR BOY !!!!! AND KEEP FILMING GRA ! YOUR THE BEST : ) : ) : )

[@stuartmcgill6800]

Thanks. Just started canal fishing. This is very helpful and informative. Fun video too. 👍

[@boldersa]

Lovely video again, I've shared your pain as regards baiting, boats and wildlife on many an occasion. I only bait up very early or very late for the same reasons. Tight lines.

[@danieliddon6729]

Another totally awesome video. Very funny at the end. 150 years

[@vmaxzile]

Great vid!! a breath of fresh air :) Yes my first fish was a perch on a canal in the west Midlands about 35 years ago :) Keep these videos coming great entertainment thank you!!

[@ciaranflanagan6693]

Cor bate a Midlands cut

[@phonyphoner265]

you guys really make an interesting show. nice to watch it every time since i need to learn still a lot :) greetings from germany :D

[@petetaylor6379]

Loved this vid, very informative 👍 Bruce Forsyths brother is funny 😂😂😂 " dogs after my tikka masala and eating my sweet corn" ...quality!!

[@EnormousBUCKS]

Thanks Graham. Good show and some good times. Keep them coiming.

[@discuss2130]

So funny! Nice one Graeme. Great entertainment as well as good tips.

[@cliveeariss880]

I have poached another swim and never would, years ago I used to fish a grvel pit, and prebait 3 dusk evenings, on the friday some anglers said we wont touch your swim. The next morning guess what, they stayed in there own swim left mine, I said any luck guys, no not a thing, they wished me luck and off I went, almost instantly, bam first bream, and could not belive it, club record 8lb, followed by more bream and Tench, they were gutted, but took the photos and said well done mate, good for you, love fishing, love this channel.

[@liamclarke2993]

Really needed a video like this thinking of fishing my local canal soon thanks

[@paulcave6513]

😂👍🏻 call in an air strike 🎣🤣🤣 that made me laugh, I have the same boat problems on my local canal to! Great video guys 👍🏻🎣🎣

[@paulmacca21]

Great Video, loved it!

[@HiSuue]

winter was so slow at my local canal caught 1 perch in 10 sessions, ordered new licence looking forward to new season!

[@shabbadangles]

love the videos make me laugh and some good tips,keep em coming

[@RichieRah88]

Love this channel, so informative! Class angler too, you can't not enjoy it.

[@mickmueller1700]

Learned many things on the vid. Got some good laughs on a day when I thought nothing could make me do so. Thanks

[@bonusjones8347]

Love this guy.

[@darrencox9880]

😂😂 you a.ways make your videos, so fun to watch as well as being brilliant. You need to be on TV. keep em coming.

[@danielhaddon1453]

Lol Can't believe that fella even whacked the engine up right over where you were firing Maggots in !!!! Really Enjoyed that Video ! Class ! M8 Awesome !!! : )

[@oPeXps3]

If only there was totally awesome fishing Uncut so i could see Graemes actual reaction hahaha

[@johncooper9275]

loved it! Reminds me of why I don't bother trying to fish the Oxford canal during the summer months (unless I get there about 4AM....) Like most rural canals, it is a brilliant fishery but tends to be so easily ruined by the boat traffic... Best wishes all.

[@thedrifterr]

very challenging , funny as heck tho , been in this position so many times, great vid.

[@stewartrobertson2337]

totally magic, cheers, Stu..

[@Mudwiggler]

Hi Graham, Just a Kiwi, Tip, old car sparkplugs make awesome fishing sinkers, just bend over the wee tab, a good tap on somthing solid. i have a twenty litre bucket full, Love your Vids keep em coming.

[@rchy4]

Absolutely awesome fishing 😂, I like your style. I think you and canal boat have something 😂

[@Ayresy_83]

Should have called that air strike in when that flip mobile came out lol, great vid again mate

[@lesblack4501]

Looks like the Basingstoke Canal. I actually fished that exact spot last weekend. Must confess I was also staying on a canal boat. That turning point was full of Pike.

[@japenjosh]

Graeme thanks for totally awesome tips/tricks I LOVE U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@user-jk2lu1ib1q]

Love all your video

[@darylmiller4347]

"15 minutes sitting down"....and taking deep breaths ;) Your a fella Greame lol

[@madmullet1990]

Good job TA . Shout out from australia

[@james3442]

100% the best fisherman alive so funny just grate !!!

[@mygoditsASH]

This looks very similar to a little river spot I fish in Maidstone, Kent. Even the sound of the train in the background (believe it was a train) is exactly the same lol :o Awesome show yet again Mr.Pullen! :)

[@TheDarlingRiver]

Graeme your a totally awesome Character Enjoy your Tips & Tricks Cheers from the aussie outback

[@callumwelsby6119]

love your videos and enthusiasm guys i request more canal videos tho ha

[@alexbowell7]

Nice video!

[@shaunmay1257]

Ha ha i feel your pain regarding those pesky boats. Keep up the great work that you guys do. You truely show the fun side of fishing. I look forward to the next show, hopefully another course iver video. I shall be requesting a TAF T-Shirt for Xmas off of the bread knife :)

[@kenneth7308]

beauty looking stretch of canal...mine(leeds & liverpool) looks like a cesspit compared to that....you ever thought of going on the stage as a new career....you funny...tight lines

[@Doco1973]

LOL the comedic Victor Meldrew of this Fishing world. Great Video's pal :)

[@MrChrissy1r]

I love fishing, my favourite fish is Tench,, just love them to bits, really don't like bream, I have had Big bream that other anglers have really admired,, but personally I really would rather not catch them,and that slime is dreadful if you don't wash your equipment well after a session, the slime stinks to high heaven. Yet I am not in the least bothered by tench slime. I always wash and disinfect my nets and mats etc, after a decent catching day anyway to avoid cross contamination, but with a bream catch I do it immediately I get home. Thanks for the vid,, no airs and graces , no tackle tart blogging,, loved it.

[@kieranperry1546]

Looks like North Warnborough basin next to greywell tunnel. Good spot

[@luigichamp5656]

the airstrike :D :D :D brilliant this is one for your highlihg treel

[@carphunterbavaria834]

Great video !!!! :-)

[@PS3CallOfDutyGamer91]

Ending is so good hahahahaha

[@bf5560]

So good

[@neilmurphy1927]

Hi graham love the channel joint best on KZbin with by the waters edge, that's why I don't fish cannels all that work an 2 mins your swims wrecked😂😂

[@ianjohno7219]

great man great show lol

[@DomFishingUK]

i fish the canal alot and to me when a boat comes through it makes the fishing better

[@mrmat2007]

Cracked me up :-D

[@nottsjunioranglingbc]

totally awesome video mate can you please do a small river video please either trotting with a stick float or just with a aaa shot on and a hook with a feeder rod . or either just abit of river fishing for as many species as you can get thankyou connor

[@richardmerrett3934]

I fish a canal in south wales and the amount of bouts that go past can be stupid. I would say later the better In the evening and when I have pre baited I have done so much better. Used your ground bait with the bran and soaked dog food and put it in frozen to try and keep it from moving about too much. Big fan of the show, keep it up more on canals please.

[@bobchorba1]

It's kind of appropriate that there's no sea in canal fishing. Good show!

[@stephen88hox]

theres a good bit about raking swims in go fishing for tench :)

[@totalfishinguk4897]

great end

[@G0NMY]

Excellent video I feel your pain, that is why I stopped fishing canals. I know Boats have a right to use them but i just get so wound up by them that I stopped going float fishing, I just go mobile now chucking lures about for pike. Thanks for the video

[@Steven.Cartwright]

The End part made me laugh lol Mr President lol

[@Karateman0304]

Totally awesome video. Could you do a rock fishing video ?

[@danielhaddon1453]

YOU NEED AN R.P.G ! ROCKET PROPELLED GRENADE ! FOR THAT BOAT LOL !!!!! WELL DONE GRA FOR CALLING IN THE AIR STRIKE !!!! CLASS !!! : ) : )

[@calluma10]

Total awesome you should visit berry hill in surrey superb place to fish with good sized carp and bream and beautiful location

[@danielhaddon1453]

Belting Bream Gra ! : ) : )

[@kieranperry9685]

Basingstoke canal in odiham this is where I live.

[@TheLewisstag2000]

I fished there the other week and got bream carp and pike

[@dellboy177]

Well that's the first time I've seen a canal boat do a U-turn haha. Real life trolling.

[@simonhopkins3867]

I see a fisherman and a pool player I like you even more ;-)

[@WhiskyLeather]

I feel like a light metal chain would be good for this, hold both ends, Chuck the middle bit in, and pull back in, a bit like a casting net

[@joedodd8219]

I like ur old vids

[@withinmeful]

Bream slime, off the line, every time :-)

[@mikewilliams68]

Gutted for you. All that hard work too. Have you got any piano wire? Haha The pitfalls of canal fishing eh?

[@M9JayJayy]

I Feel Your Pain Graham With Those Boats 🚣‍♀️ Nightmare !!!! That’s Why I Invested in A Black Widow SlingShot 😂 😂 😂

[@A5h13yK]

if im not mistaken thats a ledger rod which had a screw top for a quiver tip attachment

[@ecolwel]

Ace show

[@TAFishing]

Sun 13th Oct 7pm

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Any chance you'll be doing some croc filming soon?

[@kitclark6660]

i wonder what greame would say to the rake i built by hand. makes more of a splash.

[@Centralminimize]

Are we on the telly, no on the camera haha!

[@neilolly]

Have you got a choice of live or dead maggot. , what's the advantage ,of on canal wednesday

[@goffy39]

I am a novice angler BUT when i go fishing i find it very unusual for a perch to swallow my size 18s hook. All i do is bend the hook to the left or right just a tad and if the fish spit the hook out it also makes it easy to get a bite..

[@BeanieBroShow]

During this time of year when its close to winter, what is the best bait to use in lakes? I use sweetcorn,maggots and worms but is there anything else I could use?

[@Pentode3000]

Funny Episode...you should team up with John Cleese next time ;)

[@abzplayz4011]

If you dont mind me asking what rod and reel are you using in this video

[@justluvfishinguk]

Awesome buddy F16s lol

[@whizzkidd4243]

hi Graham great show by the way. I'm thinking of getting a new suitcase for my rod wat brand shall I get ?

[@TAFishing]

Have no idea on brands.If its a dropshot or LRF rod then Nomura have a small case out,quite new and sort of rigid plastic.

[@whizzkidd4243]

Cheers Graham

[@snappers798]

you the bomb Ta

[@simonclark29041978]

Its annoying when these boats turns around but as you said we have to share the water

[@jakemudway2991]

I still always catch perch 24/7

[@davidhayter7651]

God i love this guy...PMSL

[@arturmalachowski8949]

What is that bass music that sounds like Tool? ;)

[@markdarby3814]

This guy's funny I went to the canal for the first time in 30 years barges and cannoos non stop only caught two perch and lost a 2 lb bream at the last second because I forgot to buy a landing net.

[@Ramsayoutdoors]

Hi Sir what's best to use for canal fishing bate or lure

[@TAFishing]

Lures (small) for Perch or Pike, and worms or maggots for Bream,Roach etc. That would be my choice.

[@jo99ipro]

I catch around 30 decent roach on the canal with a pole and a float line in seconds

[@kellydavies7992]

I spend a few hours a week fishing up the canal. Boats drive me nuts!!

[@adamh3212]

They don't seem to bother the fish at all, I often get bites within a minute or so of boats passing