Catch BIGGER Canal Fish With This Simple Method!

A bit of a change of pace with all the light lure fishing i've been doing recently. This session i decided to stalk and snipe the bream shoals that patrol up and down the canal. Using the simplest method. Just a hook, a single split shot and bread flakes! In a short 3 hour session i managed a good haul and even managed to get some fish feeding on the surface.
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[@PHARRAOH]

how cool to live in one of the houses right there! wake up and go fishing all you want.

[@The_ginger_fisherman]

and in all the years those houses have been there i've never seen a single person fishing from that bank

[@mattthecasualgamer]

I catch many big bream on the Grand Union Canal here in Milton Keynes, around this time onwards when things warm up I will head off on my electric scooter taking a 9ft Okuma insert quiver rod, I use 3lb straight through normally Maxima Chameleon line, a running 10g flat Guru pear lead and a size 12 hook tied directly to the mainline. Bait is normally mashed bread as feed, and on the hook worm tail with a small bit of corn on a short Hair rig, or a dendro topped with a red maggot on the hook. I target areas of rushes on bends, as when boats turn the wash from the prop hollows out a slightly deeper area on the bend where the bream like to shoal. Average normally is 3lb, but I've had many 5 - 6lb bream out and biggest was 8lb 5oz last summer.

[@kingstaff4]

Much respect on how you handle the fish with care, and not just throw them back like it’s a rock. Good job

[@johncollins2037]

After dragging them 20/30 yards, to get get to his landing net. (respect)?

[@DBCooper2]

Bloody fish magnet that you are Chris. I have never heard of anyone catching bream like this. and now over 60k subs well deserved 👍

[@lenraby5920]

Nice Bream and did you notice the spawning tubercules present. I’m old fashioned and still follow the old close season as I think fish need a break from us to go about their breeding rituals unhindered.

[@Visseman2]

In the netherlands we still have closed seasons for fish. I'm 15 and i won't fish on species when they are spawning. I sometimes catch bream or perch accidentally when fishing on roach. If i catch a fish when they are spawning i quickly make a photo and put them back. :)

[@MrGeri95]

@@Visseman2 I'm also from NL now, you take the fish which you catch? Good to eat?

[@Visseman2]

@@MrGeri95 Zeebaars, schol, tong en baars. Maar alleen baars van grote rivieren, van grachten en stadswater zijn ze echt smerig.

[@scalifoo]

😎 treating the fish with care is a pleasure to watch,, the birds happy in the background too😊,,canals are a besutiful and surprising place, be it to fish,or just sitting enjoying nature,,plus they produce some nice surprises, chubb,big roach,carp etc and all put up a lovely fight.

[@peterking8632]

Best fishing videos I’ve found by far. Great job👌

[@needham831]

Really good vid, Chris. Impressive how far you could cast that bread with just a number 6 weight on the line. That's a nice float rod. Keep em' coming man!

[@The_ginger_fisherman]

Cheers buddy

[@niksutherland4280]

Man..I love these videos. It's not like this here in America; whole different world seeing how the water is over by you. Great vids

[@petegribs804]

Hi pal lovely fish - I'm a carp angler generally but when I catch bream it's right to treat them gently, as with all fish. I decided I was gonna give it a go and when there was a heeeoowge s/w wind, I dusted off my old tipping rod, put about 6 big balls of this krill grounbait laced with chopped worms, casters,etc out then used a feeder with grounbait and a worm from the pile of grass cuttings from my mams garden, topped it with a pinkie and omg I caught 33 clonkers about 4lb+ until I ran out of bait. It was ace sport. Mad. I foulhooked one in the head and I I didn't even see it for ten minutes - I thought it was a carp! Unreal! Your fish care and the kindness you show is exemplary, mate. Well done . . . . We need to show kids that bream are beautiful too (despite the slime and stink until you wash your net at home lol) Well done pal, excellent example. Soz for yappin - omg! Thanks again, pete.

[@petegribs804]

@Ronnie Kray Ronnie, mate, you got to enlighten me - what's flat fishing? Shows how I keep up with the times! Thanks pal!!

[@The_ginger_fisherman]

Sounds like great sport!

[@BostinAngling]

Very few that big dotted around our network, but they am there. Bostin catches them, thumbs up!

[@tinker5349]

Hi, very nice Bream and a lot of them too looks like you had a great day.

[@DrCrunkMusic]

Decent bit of fun on the off season bud looks like a nice place to fish.

[@tatbuzz55]

Love your content mate ..top fisherman

[@fishingwithaodhancallaghan3637]

Well in, mate your filming has got so good keep it up

[@petercalthorpe7966]

Great video Chris , the bream were awesome welldone mate . All the best from Downunder 👍.

[@hanzelman1963]

Hey Chris, these bream are very big mate, the water overthere is very clean isn't it 👍 nice video, i enjoy it, tomorrow is the closed period for pike etc over, am glad too! Thanks for uploading and till the next buddy, best regards.

[@justluvfishinguk]

Awesome bream .. good vid buddy . Cheers Chris & Sam

[@chrisgale4094]

Wow some nice fish .great video 👍

[@leemyatt2951]

Great content might try that with my braid long fluro carbon leader for a bit of fun. I'm new to lure fishing with my son. Great fun on my local canal first perch 30cm long. I'm just trying different lure methods at the moment. Keep it up 🙂

[@brendanmorley4341]

What a session👌👌

[@darrenrodd.]

Great session

[@benhornby3308]

Great video as usual!

[@TrackTrawler]

Nice dustbin lids. Impressive 😎

[@daveoneill8235]

Nice video I fished a pool near where I live. Used to catch large bream on pedigree chum mixer fished on the surface . Used to catch them while filming for carp 😉

[@georgehealy8350]

That rod has a great action

[@fishingwithrohan7865]

Well done mate keep up the vids

[@jasonridyardhome]

That was a real eye opener Chris, I can't believe how easy you made that look and how many big bream you caught Definitely going to have a walk down my local canal to see what is about. Thanks for sharing 🖒🖒🖒

[@Polishdamian]

Same hope you catch and if you do let’s no

[@The_ginger_fisherman]

thanks buddy. Good luck!

[@casinodelonge]

Hmm, stalking gudgeon on the Trent and Mersey which was the colour of tea all year round!

[@carassiuscarassius140]

So sad we don't have canals round here. I'd really enjoy that kind of fishing.

[@danielmcguire2789]

I honestly thought u had more subs BC u deserve it alot

[@willstewart9669]

Great video,nice one dude....

[@snuokybaki7810]

Nice video chris very nice video 🖤👌

[@TheMrpiggyboy]

You are doing a great job of catch and reliese. It would be very interesting if you taged what you have caught, to so where it is caught again.

[@Mr.A.-]

Congrats on hitting 60K subs! You deserve 10x more than that! Love the content.

[@petegribs804]

True that. Great films and great fish care too. Fantastic tutoring.

[@The_ginger_fisherman]

Thanks buddy!

[@Lunatix246]

How many times have you been asked if you're catching your supper? Haha! I get that all the time when I'm on the canal.

[@kendimizekadarbalk]

Good job👍👍

[@kevincurrington1331]

Well done 👏 m8 great 👍video

[@davidduffy3021]

Nice one 👍

[@caymancostas4045]

Cracking video as always 👌 comon the bream 🤣👍

[@floriantodoras759]

nice fishing areas !

[@chriscarr9171]

Caught some big slabs from the Erewash Canal on prawns! Was fishing for perch!

[@nickthomson6717]

Another enjoyable vid, where abouts is the canal..

[@crvnmrhd]

You have lots of success on basically featureless water. Makes me want to see what's in the canal close to me. Any tips on best types of cover to fish?

[@jacksrc2670]

nice vid

[@casinodelonge]

"Sympathising with the Bream" - One of the Rolling Stones less well known tracks...

[@Cheez-Itz_Christ]

“Don’t tell your buddy’s about this, just tell’em you had a good time” 😂

[@gadlupmancing3425]

Gooddd jobbbb

[@MrDManuel]

Just what I needed mate been struggling on my local cut lately I'm gunna go stalking with some bread lightweight nice one! Also what bag is it you have I'm after a new one for stalking that looks ideal 🧐

[@abc-yl9ft]

The ginger covid kid 😂

[@fatfish6763]

Dom likes breams thanks for the vid

[@MrAnderson321]

Love the simplicity of your fishing with the no bullshit high end tackle. Nice one.👍 You and the KZbin ’Fighting Fisherman’ should get together.

[@2ojosh08]

The fighting noddy you mean 😂😂😂😂

[@gadlupmancing3425]

👍

[@danielmcguire2789]

Mone the hoops alright Chris

[@richardrichardw9520]

Great video as always Chris lovely bag of fish where you fish on the canal is it free or do you have to pay ?

[@miketube6662]

I remember 20 years ago on the canal near kellogs trafford park We use to pull dustbin lids size bream out and big pike Nothing now Shame

[@Boxersboy-um1fd]

A good vid and some lovely slabs there...........however...... You seem to fish where you 'know'? (Canals, Rivers, streams, lakes etc.) - not knowing where you are, I haven't really seen you go 'off point' as many other anglers on KZbin seem to do (although you do attempt the strangest things, granted!) Spend a day down the Regents Canal in Central London utilising those tactics - what the boat traffic / building work / cormorants etc. haven't destroyed, is there for the taking for you - start at Victoria Park and make a video of that! I would say you'd probably need to book a week down there to get a few minutes of footage.......

[@UncalBertExcretes]

I have pair of mitchell advocate bait runners im guessing your reel is a fixed spool version. Just be kind to it, the gearboxes are wank on them both of mine stripped out from small carp didnt even have the drag set that tight, I opened one up after 2 identical fails to find plastic gears, the crank gear is metal and it stripped out the first plastic gear its meshed to... Maybe yours will be better, but mitchell are not who they used to be.

[@julianhowe8607]

When I use bread flake I don’t wrap it round the hook anymore as I pinch it and hair rig it using a bait stop so the hook isn’t masked by the bread

[@The_ginger_fisherman]

When im feeder fishing on the canal with bread i hair rig it with a pellet band that always worked well

[@romanmathez9259]

Toilet Covers .....🤭🤭🤭🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣a realy special session .... 👍🏻👍🏻😃

[@derekirelandsirsmokepotalo1152]

Chris can you answer me this do you wrap the bread around the Shaft and eye but just leave the hook exposed.

[@rmf574]

Yes exactly, leave about half of the bend in the hook exposed along with the point.

[@MARTIN-ez2xh]

👍👍👍😍🥇😍👍👍👍

[@steventizzard5754]

I'm a Nottingham angler and you sound local so can you tell me were is that canal you're fishing ..... I fish mainly at Colwick Park Nottingham??

[@joem2202]

any other nice spots in notts mate?

[@MrBURGER1982]

You just watching the line or feeling for the bites mate?? I live by Shropshire union canal which is a real greeny colour at the moment. So hard to spot fish

[@makeorwellfictionagain3553]

What part of the shroppie are you near pal?

[@MrBURGER1982]

@@makeorwellfictionagain3553 chester mate

[@garypotter6258]

I wish my local canal had Bream that size and not old mopeds and shopping trolley's

[@geoffcropper1410]

Lancaster canal like liquid mud when boats are moving.

[@oliversmith8691]

Are you using a float or is the bread just on the surface

[@JohnJonelis]

Where do you buy that awesome net?

[@multipreach2674]

It's a Shakespeare sigma.

[@petrupatraucean7253]

Silly questions: if you put the fish back, actually surprising is the fish are alive in the canals around big cities

[@seanocallaghan1017]

What size hook did you use mate

[@The_ginger_fisherman]

Size 10 buddy

[@tadhghayden8440]

Exactly the way to target em....I was doing the same thing with big roach today...one day maybe u will come across a carp that you will persuade to accept your presentation...then you will be sharply reminded of the difference between the species....you were getting bream to take off the top...how unusual!

[@johncrowther9506]

Hi mate is this Lancaster canal ??

[@azlanrahem2999]

We dont have that kind of fish in our canal. Lol

[@hertzer2000]

Avocet...

[@linfordcook104]

Wheres your unhooking mat

[@The_ginger_fisherman]

on the ground

[@pmay222]

after watching this i really think they should enforce the CLOSED SEASON again to let the fish spawn in peace... you obviously fishing the spot where they shoal up and spawn.. i recently had a day on my local mixed fishery, june 2nd ..i had 2 bream that were obviously spawning and that was it... not a touch on maggot, and it is a venue where maggot you get instant roach bite or gudgeon/perch etc..we use other baits because maggot is day long bites ..but" nothing "they are obviously busy... i always used to moan and think it unfair that we had to stop fishing just as the weather turned warm.... but now i KNOW it was a sensible idea.....

[@Burnersforvanlife]

BUSY BUSY

[@joshuaclarke3763]

Its orate when you haven't canals 20 ft deep lmao

[@chrispigott6913]

I find bream don't fight much, they seem to just give up when hooked compared to carp.

[@jasmijnariel]

The submissive species.... i hate bream... they dont fight , look ugly and are slimie as crap

[@samgarrod4781]

I don't like carp.

[@antonysheldon7365]

Wat canal mate

[@joncowley8961]

7

[@RoadLifePursuits]

Do you ever eat any of the fish you catch?

[@ianbourne9970]

🙄🎣

[@jabbatofabba6833]

Ret

[@Jokster1]

No clickbait titles please

[@derekirelandsirsmokepotalo1152]

How do you know they are males. What is the signs of a male compared to the females anyone can help be much appreciated.

[@DG-T]

No1 wants to catch more bream 🤣🤣

[@paulhouse284]

Love your channel, watched loads and subscribed but what's wrong with sympathising with a bream when it was minding it's own business then dragged out of it's home by a hook through the mouth? Has my sympathy. The person who came by did sound llike a potential curtain-twitcher/busy-body though. One other thing - stop losing your net and bring your bloody scales along.

[@mattandsharks]

Do you ever blank?! I realise that would make a boring video, but do you ever?

[@pgruszewski]

Why is their skin looking so strange on the forehead and hunch?

[@ryanoakes6470]

Bream are the fish equivalent of a fat girl you take them if you can't get the fit one(carp)

[@thegreatest3559]

Worst fish to catch

[@purecountryman]

Catching spawning fish of any species is not good but each to there own , shame as i thought you had better respect than this for fish even bream .

[@potsaygf]

Karen

[@seanocallaghan1017]

They’re not spawning yet

[@The_ginger_fisherman]

Deffinetly not spawning yet buddy. I never have and never will target spawning fish

[@purecountryman]

@@seanocallaghan1017 they are local to me and im in the north west , carp was sparning at a local fisherie last week and i choose to leave with out fishing .

[@purecountryman]

@@The_ginger_fisherman good to hear but there very close to it as you can see and should be left to it imho

[@mattandsharks]

Do you ever blank?! I realise that would make a boring video, but do you ever?

[@The_ginger_fisherman]

yup this winter just gone. The worst winter i've even had. Probably blanked 5 sessions in a row at one point

[@mattandsharks]

@@The_ginger_fisherman Oh good! 😁 Hahaha! That makes me feel better.