Cheap Easy Method Catches Specimen Canal Fish!

Well todays aim was to use a cheap easy method to catch some specimen canal fish. The main target being roach and rudd. This session was more of a guilty pleasure trip than anything. I'd even considered not filming as I really do just enjoy chasing and stalking big roach with simple methods it can be really rewarding. The chosen method for today was surface and slow sinking bread crust. Super cheap and really easy to do. No complicated rigs just a small float for extra indication and a hook for the bread. Real simple, real easy, fun session.
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[@isayoldchap1]

There is something magical about roach and rudd. I would rather catch a one pound roach than a double figure carp any day of the week. Brilliant stuff Chris

[@GIBBO4182]

“Ye Bastard”…all been there with ducks! Pain in the arse! 🤣 Nearly 100K 👍

[@DW14974]

😂 cracked me up that bit

[@x4nd3wx42]

Hello it’s Andrew I saw you earlier on today when you were carp fishing and I took a picture with you with my friend I wish you well on your Carp fishing and hope I’m in your next video lol best of luck 🤞🤞

[@kennyman9065]

Best all round angler on KZbin! Another Top video Chris!🎣🎣🎣

[@geoffsaunderson5766]

This guy has skill, no doubt about that, he certainly exceeds me, his confidence, commitment, eye for detail, passion, all these things make you a better angler. But he is absolutely blessed with the waters he gets to fish!

[@DZ14783]

I agree it's madness, so dense, how you can just walk across and see so many fish in clear dense waters is crazy

[@geoffsaunderson5766]

@@DZ14783 down in Sussex, and even after a month of drought we don’t get that clarity! I think his up north, Shropshire way but just guessing

[@dprid]

Love a big rudd, one of the most beautiful of British fish.

[@jamesrussel1133]

Loving your enthusiasm and the fact you fish for multi species, not just carp. All quality fish should be respected. Hate the way some throw the “wrong” specimens back with disrespect.

[@DrWhosmate]

Always had a real soft spot for the larger Roach and Rudd, the colouring of the Rudd being especially pleasing and the peppy Perch like fighting of the Roach. Used to fish every free min I had until work got hold of me and my tackle got half inched, watching these videos really brings back the hunger for those early mornings and lazy evenings on the bank! Great content!

[@PFCbricks]

This Channel Never Gets Boring.

[@dennisdavidson4865]

Well Chris wonderful days fishing for you and great viewing for us. Some really good fish caught on what we used as kids, (my mum was always moaning about the bread bin being empty again). Down here on the Way Navigation, there's plenty of Roach and Rud to be caught and as you say 8/12oz the best.1 pounders are rare. Was wondering about catching a decent size Dace plenty on the canal and river but getting a large one is elusive..'go on show us how' 🤔. Always eager to catch the latest video. Thanks Ginger.

[@karlpearson8032]

Brilliant footage and commentary Chris. Excellent net of your intended species. Cheap and simple way to catch fish. All you have to do is put the time in to find them, which isn’t as easy as people think. I do a lot of sight fishing in NZ and when you hook a fish doing this method you really can’t describe the awesome feeling you get. Hopefully other anglers will try this after watching this video.

[@mikelooker3649]

I grew up roach fishing on the lee navigation canal in the 70's and caught decent fish to about 1lb 12oz on hemp. You'd be lucky to catch a 8oz one now the stretch having been poached of virtually everything. I'm now based in cardiff and would love to be able to have a day like that. I catch loads of carp on freelined bread plus occasional bream and the odd roach but there is nowhere where that sort of sport is available. You are so lucky! plus you're a very able fisherman! great vid

[@lewispeat9886]

How do you fish with hemp I want to give it a try but clueless on how to fish it

[@johnwhite2112]

Great video, some great Bream, Rudd and Roach. Really enjoyed. 🐟👍

[@normanreinecke9200]

It's funny to see that british anglers hates ducks too like us in germany 🤣🤣

[@leftmono1016]

Where I fish there are pheasants which hide in long grass until you get really close. Then they burst out which usually scares the sh1t out of me 😂

[@r333wall]

Banging session . Pleasure to watch. Thank you..

[@arronfrost2872]

I love the smell of landing net in the morning

[@The_ginger_fisherman]

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[@trevorcornes1056]

Nice one Chris ,catching something different . Love a Good Roach , they put up a good fight too .

[@stonefly514]

Thanks again for yet another quality fishing video! Cheers!

[@donhaynes989]

Superb session. Thanks for sharing. The quality of the fish is stunning

[@cns180784]

Beautiful Roach there and that Rudd, nice slabs too. That's an awesome stretch of canal and great fishing👍

[@twindridge8682]

oh bruv can't believe how clear your canal is i take it no boats come through ours is a dark green and when the boats come through all the mud kicks up and it's constant never gets chance to settle,every time i go local canal it's always murky and nothing is feeding....i mostly go to local pool for the carp or the river severn which is 2 mile away and i'm always catching chubb on your trotting garlic luncheon meat down river not got a barbell yet but that method is killing it many thanks for your tips and vids love them

[@lf1176]

Beats my local rivers.. full up of trolleys and doors and cones because of the brain dead teenagers

[@leafysfishing]

My locals like that

[@foylad4862]

I go on the Leeds Liverpool, it's crystal clear at the moment. I think the weeds and plants that grow, through spring and summer filter the water. Usually in autumn and winter it's like chocolate milk, think this is due to the amount of rain in those seasons, washing mud in from fields at the side.

[@anthonyhowrard526]

@@foylad4862 where about? I am from Chorley

[@foylad4862]

@@anthonyhowrard526 Blackburn brotha, i fish towards Chorley sometimes 👍

[@knowthyself5647]

I have watched all your Videos and enjoyed and learnt from all of them. I really enjoy this one because like you, I have accidently caught some big Roach and Rudd. This Vid has inspired me to go out and roam/ target these species on a particular water where I know big Rudd live 🙂 Love the way you bait with bread. Simple and effective 🙂

[@jamesatkinsfishing]

very well done Chris, lovely roach and rudd, Thank you, 👍👍

[@tadhghayden8440]

There u are... cracking the big roach...n rudd..great way to fish for em...

[@mrskint55]

Well done ,fishing looks great where you are. Better than where I live that’s for sure . Tight lines.

[@Simon-cb7ty]

What a great session!😀 It's lovely to see you enjoying catching so many good quality Roach, with the number of Pike in your canal I'm surprised they weren't all injured in some way! I'm not surprised you started catching the Rudd when it was getting darker; I remember my sister and I catching our first Rudd from a lake when it was getting quite late🌛 on exactly the same method you used today - Floating Bread🍞!! We'd only ever caught Carp on that before so it was a great way to end the evening! Thanks for sharing your fishing adventures with us!😄

[@The_ginger_fisherman]

Thanks buddy! There's literally millions of small roach and rudd in the local canal. There must be like 100,000 roach to every pike 😂 Probably a bit of an over exaggeration, but you get the gist, so you very rarely get silvers with battle scars.

[@ScottMason-ss8ww]

I tell you what kid, you must have the best stretch of cut in the country! I live on a boat on the staffs Worcester, and although it's decent, it's not got those lovely tench and the rest of the big fish you catch. We got some big carp, pike and perch though. Not like they were in the 70s,if I had half a dozen roach that would be a good day!

[@paularthur9930]

Love the channel mate! Great videos in general💪🏻

[@markjoyce1720]

absolutely brilliant mate some great watercraft there pal.What a fantastic looking place to wet a line as well.thanks for the upload just keep doing what your doing and ill keep watching.Well done

[@albiewilliams6830]

Some cracking fish there and what a way to catch them and a lovely place and another great vlog

[@raygrange7312]

Great stuff. The water photography was amazing.

[@paulembleton3087]

Another great video thank you for talking the time to share Hope you catch plenty more on you're next visit to the canal

[@cliveeariss880]

I really do love Roach, great fish nice one.mate, great channel 👍

[@cjshake]

I love this video brilliant mate it’s great to have a change!

[@steveguest8028]

Love those roach n rudd Chris fair play 👍

[@petercalthorpe7966]

G'day Chris, awesome video and awesome Roach and Bream . All the best form down under mate 👍🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@j2d4oi]

Awesome day, love those ones

[@kevinlawrence7541]

Great video as usual nice to see some decent roach..it must be such an advantage fishing where you live being able to see the fish you are after as opposed to fishing blind in coloured water....as you know the fish are in your swim rather than hoping they are there...tight lines

[@markryan8478]

Roach fishing one of the best fish, great vid mate.........

[@richardbawcombe8036]

That was great! Quality roach are awesome

[@dt1607]

Amazing, yet again 😁👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@pieduckman]

This really fun to watch defo makes me want to hit the banks.

[@needham831]

Excellent sesh Chris. Great to see you catching some cracking Roach and that Rudd was superb. Just an idea but maybe try an artificial cube of floating bread alongside the real stuff. See if it sorts out any of the better specimens?

[@thejudge-kv2jk]

Big rudd are very underrated! My favourite fish. Great video.

[@crashnburnband]

Great you have inspired me to go floating bread fishing on a secret little pond in the middle of the woods I know.

[@Jerec]

Great vid mate, think I'll try this method next time I'm out.

[@martinshort74]

Brilliant content dude as always. Really cool to see you fishing for 'regular' fish, and you caught some crackers. Good work fella.

[@SuperMile96]

Nice to see this. Just a canal near town. And a loot of nice fish. In Serbia we have a lot of rivers and lakes, but also a loot of people who don`t like to release fish after catching. =(

[@robertclare6137]

Beautiful Species, For me Roach Rudd even Dace are so beautiful. I usually grate 3 or r to 4 slice of Bread and a lot of cheese,All together in a bag,spoonful of tumeric and one of Garlic, mix together and use as a paste...........Can't go wrong

[@caucaromientay]

Hello man, im from vietnam nice too meet you

[@leem25]

Enjoying the videos away from the predators Chris although i appreciate they get you the most views (and i still enjoy them!). Caught my biggest roach on a 15mm pop up fishing for carp yesterday 😆

[@justluvfishinguk]

Awesome roach & bream …

[@vijaysuryaaditya9860]

Just love roach!

[@Boxersboy-um1fd]

Chris - some beautiful Roach there, taken on what many would describe as an 'unusual method'... Big Roach are awesome creatures - back in the early 80's (when I was younger!), we used to fish for Livebait on the Regents Canal with poles over the top of the dying marginal weed - small pinch of flake looking for small roach to go Piking with. On so many occasions, I caught Roach between 1lb - 1lb 8oz - and believe it or not, we HATED these fish as we put them back because they were too big for livebait! Bread has always been deadly for Roach - those days were before the advent of the 'Breadpunch' for us - but when we found it, we slaughtered the Roach, both on pole and waggler - livebaiting had stopped for us - we simply enjoyed bagging up on these lovely fish!

[@The_ginger_fisherman]

Sounds like fantastic sport. About 7 or 8 years ago i ended up having a similar session to what you describe. I was trying to catch live baits for the pike and ended up with 3 roach over 2lb and several over 1lb. never did get any live bait 😂

[@stevenlivingstone916]

have been watching your channel and videos for a long time now you make catching fish look so easy its frightening lol im from glasgow and reguarly fish the forth and clyde canal apart from the odd jack pike and small perch i hae being giving jigging ago but jst cant get to grips with it

[@martincockram6913]

Quality fish them. Great vid 👌🏻

[@robertbabbs9694]

Great video Chris maybe a video on canal carp at some point. Keep it up look forward to seeing your videos

[@barthelemymourgues6566]

Gros video my man cool too see you super spot !!

[@pr0faker]

had that happen once too, when fishing for carp under a bridge, got a bite and it was a bream. Also with the fly you can catch them high in the water, but on floating fies, very hard.

[@nicklegg61]

I literally lived on the grand Union when I was a teenager loved canal fishing.

[@tomreed7405]

Catching bream on serfice is very rare fair play mate , Tight lines!

[@TheEssexSpurs]

Will have to try this out at Heybridge Basin now that the walk on water brigade have probably disappeared!!

[@tariqaslam1853]

Awesome vid thanks.

[@MARCLEEMATCHFISHING]

What a canal streach you have

[@riccosoulman]

The ginger wearwolf strikes again

[@anamtujuh]

Good luck bro 👍👍😁

[@pondgators]

Awesome video! Your channel seems really cool!! Just subbed too!👍

[@tinker5349]

Hi nice fish!

[@nicholaskemp2246]

What is it about roach?!. I've been lucky enough to fish in some fantastic places and caught many specimen fish. However, none give you that thrill of a huge roach. It's just a primal feeling when landing a 2lb + roach. And let's face it, a specimen roach is a thing of utter beauty. P.s. can you get polarising filters for your camera so we can see the fish you're seeing!?. Lol.

[@amandarobinson1073]

They are some quality canal roach

[@geoffreysimpson1745]

I Don't know which canal you're on, I guess a southern one..But some of the canals up here in the the NW are deserted of anglers now . They aren't full of stunted carp but you can get 20-30lb of silvers..It's proper fishing 😊😊

[@esqu1re108]

Nice roach

[@RFT24]

Pukka session ginge 👊🏽

[@terenceross1893]

Nice to see " real fishing " rather than the fixed line heavy weights cast 30 yes to haul in some poor catp that has probably been hooked a 100 times.Returning to fishing after decades I use a 13ft match rod ,with light float tackle,still catch carp ,roach, rudd, decent sized bream on 12/14 hook size , small baits, bread, corn, maggots.The cost of my total kit is probably less than the trolleys the Carp anglers use to cart around their thousands of pounds worth of kit.

[@leeboyphatz]

I occasionally keep live baits in my landing net. Any not used always go bk. Only livebait on venues which allow it.

[@backwheelbandits2.0]

I fish them all the time brought me brother fishing for the first time caught the biggist rudd iv seeing pulled out the canal..

[@edwinb.k1436]

Hi Chris good job mate well done could you mention what time and which canal or rivers you going for fishing?

[@jacktwyman2869]

With you saying bream coming up to surface made me remember a time I was fishing pole with just a 5" hook length on maggit and had a cracking 7lb bream off the surface I couldn't belive it lol edit: do you go canal fishing with the bains too Chris

[@jackofalltradesmasterofnon8069]

Never thought of floating bread on the canal I do at carp places I’ll try sometime

[@jasonkent5910]

You should come to Nottingham n fish Radcliffe weir, me n my friend had a 4 pound breem and there's apparently there's a 5 pounder that jumps out alot too

[@jonathanhoward8987]

Top angling as always Chris 👏 Am I right in thinking you just have a couple of split shot on your line when free lining bread? I always wonder how you manage to cast it so far? If so which size works best? Cheers 👍

[@The_ginger_fisherman]

Thanks buddy! No split shot on the line this time. just using cheap stogy bread that doesn't want to fall off 😂

[@jonathanhoward8987]

@@The_ginger_fisherman Haha, nice one, I'll give it a try 👍

[@barryuk676]

Those fish throw caution to the wind they must be starving, either crayfish are eating everything on the bottom or the fish are trapped in that pound and can't spread out to find food either way never thought that bream would take bread off the top, loved the video by the way!

[@squidstoe1994]

First session i did for canal carp i got done by a bream out competing the carp feeding on top

[@emmabentley7945]

Loving these videos Chris... I must get back into this hobby. Been 20 years since I last fished... How would you rate the Matt Hayes set from Argos ?

[@The_ginger_fisherman]

Yea I'm sure it'll get the job done especially if you're just getting back into it 👍

[@clivedunne6397]

Love the videos, what float did you use with the bread flake?

[@MySynthDungeon]

Me morning go too!!Cheers!!;-)!!

[@dailyallowance3826]

If you got rudd out there you can get them on a feeding frenzy with the smaller fish ,,with maggots a few and often and they will compete for bait when they do the first to the surface food wins...= top feeders rudd and they're the best

[@deanmeat3427]

Duck : eats bread Chris : Ye bastard!

[@dis_bean5409]

What Polarised glasses do you use for your sessions?

[@Riffer19]

Nice. What u got on the line? a float stop? or a small float?

[@hejfjajjan6245]

In sweden in a lake i fish for tench and bream i have caught one 830g roach and a few around 500-700 another lake 10 min away smallest roach i got 510g got a scale with me so weight them

[@maplin007]

You must live near the cleanest canal anywhere, never seen a clear one near us.

[@354sd]

Like minimalist fishing also

[@joshpickard1233]

What canal do you fish. It never disappoints

[@bugattiben5524]

What rod did did you you use?

[@leeboyphatz]

Do you catch many Zander Chris. Im always on lookout for predator venue's. I do also fish for all species but my passion is specimen predators. But I love to target speci's of all species. I carp fish too but who doesn't these days. Lol

[@birocsongor128]

damn duck ate the bread again (:

[@JonJamesCook]

Where abouts do you fish? I have a big stretch of canal near me and I've never been canal fishing before until today, I had a small pike after a lure, but I wasn't able to set, I'd love to make it a frequent thing and catch plenty!

[@amu7499]

I highly recommend trying elderberries this time of year, float or ledgering them. They are free bait and they normally separate the larger roach from the small roach as well

[@themidlandsangler1005]

Some nice lives there 🤣