Early Season Paste Fishing

[@jeremynorman1330]

I enjoyed that. My paste fishing started in 1953 when I was taught to make paste by moulding bread and water in a clean cloth. The harder it was the longer it stayed on the hook and the less i annoyed adults. So better start looking into this ''sloppy'' stuff. Thanks for taking the time to explain it all Jon.

[@JonArthur]

Thanks Jeremy. Sloppier the better!

[@paulhuddlestone8378]

I fished paste for years before I perfected it. I even make my own floats. I've had some incredible weights in just a few hours. A great way in the warmer months for catching those monster carp, that hang around in the margins. 8-13lb one a chuck doesn't take long to build a massive weight in just an hour.

[@JonArthur]

Sounds great! Got a new vid coming this week...

[@paulkendall5047]

Congratulations Jon, well fished, great result. Had the pleasure of standing behind you a few times watching you fish the Evesham August Bank Holiday festival. Top angler pal....👍🎣

[@JonArthur]

Thanks Paul 👍👍

[@geoffreystockton7639]

Fantastic video years ago I got really obsessed with paste fishing every where I went but not done any for ages ,but many give it a go but not let it take over my fishing again.I used to make my paste out of 2mm micros with food dyes for colour

[@karlrichards4125]

I love the line “it’ll be little skimmers playing….bang…..that’s not a skimmer” 😂 really enjoyable and informative video once again. Thanks 👍

[@JonArthur]

I should say ‘that’ll be a skimmer’ more often!! 💪

[@Dr4g0nW00d]

still learning paste fishing and this one really helped a lot if you get the details right you can catch fat and fast carp on paste

[@gavingoldthorp4093]

Enjoyable as ever Jon, and nice to see those big early carp too! I've never quite got my head around paste fishing - it drives me around the bend infact, but there can be no doubting how effective it can be.

[@JonArthur]

Cheers Gavin it’s great when it works

[@davetaylor8858]

Beautiful fish Jon. The tail fin on the second fish was perfect.

[@mauritzferreira5480]

You lost one during the Match, it was a sad moment, but you where blessed by a big one, even not during the match. it was not meant to be. but today it was!! Well done mate!!

[@JonArthur]

Thanks Mauritz

[@mikepattinson3285]

Another Cracking video Jon, just demonstrates what you can catch later in the day and how effective paste can be.

[@clivecottingham2043]

Not fished with paste for a long time but watching you on this vid I’m certainly going to give it a try next time out.Lovely to see how you made the paste and your set up.Thanks so much Jon😄

[@johnlewis-mcginn1016]

Lovely little paste fishing video Jon, hope you will do some more paste fishing in the coming months👍👌

[@brianwelbourne9896]

Must remember to take my paste on the next day out, thought it may be a bit early but you proved it the right time, well done.

[@jonsheard8749]

Great vid Jon. Only dabbled with paste in the past……so will now give it a proper go. Cheers.

[@TJ-ss1up]

Great video again mate, well done getting that mirror in. Am enjoying the regular content, keep it up 👍

[@terrystokley2968]

Cracking film jon really enjoyed it.keep em coming.

[@JonArthur]

Thanks, will do!

[@bigsteve9291]

Hi Jon great review on paste loved the camera position in the margins congrats on landing that carp on the gear you did excellent fishing really enjoy your videos dont allways comment on them because theres only so many times you can tell people how good they are but had to the way you landed a big 15 pounder on your gear on a 14 hook excellent well done

[@scottpardoe6349]

We're nearly there I had a few on big old conquers last Saturday. But mostly on a lump of paste to just cover a 14 hook.

[@JonArthur]

Yep, a few more weeks and it'll be prime paste time!

[@garyhurn6153]

Love paste fishing, thanks John

[@JonArthur]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@davidfarmery4577]

Great past fishing Jon was fishing last Sunday on past had a few any way nice banter and explanation thight lines .

[@chrisgirling1097]

Great video again Jon, Paste is my favorite way of summer margin fishing, seems to sort out the bigger specimens. I usually put 6 grains of sweetcorn in the pot each drop

[@gazellis1961]

Super video as always Jon,love how you explain how you set your stall out to catch and with what paste bait.....brilliant Some real cracker jacks as well.

[@printerfacelimited9129]

Cheers Jon, quality video and as ever, very informative. Can't wait to "give em a pasting" or at least try!

[@scottandrewjohnmiddleton8676]

I absolutely love paste fishing won me many a match another great video Jon and that sonubaits paste looks good

[@owenmcdaid6083]

Quality fishing Jon on a quality bait. Loved the video, keep up the good work mate👍

[@JonArthur]

Thanks 👍

[@jamesatkinsfishing]

nice video Jon and you have spurred me on to go do some paste fishing, i love paste fishing my self thank you, 👍👍

[@JonArthur]

Good to hear

[@trevoror8668]

They are a pretty fish them F1s we have them to well over 6lb on barford water's. Thanks john your always an easy watch mate

[@JonArthur]

Thanks Trevor the f1s always look more impressive when they reach 3lb+

[@Bazzerboy1959]

Great video Jon, excellent advice to fish paste now…, must give this a go next time out..👍

[@michaelbooth2333]

Love paste absolutely brilliant bait I do my own mix I do use it summer and winter tend to get paste this time of year I say why not if you use soft pellets why not paste. But then again I'm a proper paste head. Good stuff mate 👍

[@JonArthur]

Good stuff fellow paste head

[@paulsomersetwolf5970]

Great video Jon not something I do alot of but must give it a go again I usually use the green swim stim but will definitely try this new one looks more tacky around your hook👍

[@rogergeary2893]

Nice helpful info there. Great commentary to your vids. 😊

[@JonArthur]

Much appreciated!

[@raycharm8950]

great informative vid Jon ,never thought you would use usual chianti style floats for your paste fishing ,can you also remind me what that new paste was you were using .

[@JonArthur]

It was the new Sonubaits paste which worked on the day but I still prefer my Sonubaits 50/50 Method & Paste mix I think

[@raycharm8950]

@@JonArthur okay thanks for taking the time to reply Jon 👍

[@1975mycomputer]

Excellent video jon. Love paste fishing. Although i spend too much time on it in a match if its not really on.

[@willyoung5465]

Nice one Jon, cracking short sesh. Love the Brummie accent for the first 15 mins; been visiting relatives recently then? 😀

[@antrog1895]

Which weirdo uploads at midnight? I’m on nights so well done that man 😆 Paste - for those that can’t fish shallow 😆 Cheers daft lad 🍺👍🍌

[@JonArthur]

Morning! 😆

[@davefaker6026]

i just love watchting jon and only 15 min from me is packington 😄

[@dazwatson9080]

I love your videos Jon. I've fished Paste for years in matches but this year I decided to only fish Paste and nothing else for a full season. I did my first KZbin fishing video back in 2013 and so far I've never come across anyone who fishes the Paste the same way as me? I have 1 number 8 stott and 2 number 4 backshot shot which along with the Paste anchor my float in position. I always dot my floats so the body is just under the water and then if I'm fishing close in I slide the number 08 stott down the line so it sits just above the float which then leaves a small amount of bristle showing, now when I pull on the line slightly back towards me the float will go under before the Paste moves so I always know when its come off. I've won loads of matches fishing with just a top kit as I can dot the float to a pimple and fish Paste to hand, I had over 250 Carp in a match fishing less than 3 foot from my box. If I want to fish top 4 or further I slide the stott back up the line and I've then got a good half inch of bristle showing. I can swap to bunches of Maggot or Corn without changing my rig by using the Stott. The first person I showed had never fished the pole before and ended up catching over a tonne without going beyond a top 4. I'm on a festival at Forest Lane this week and I've got the venue favourite on my lake so its going to be a tough 3 days. Daz

[@JonArthur]

Thanks for the tips Gaz and hope you did well at Forest Lane. Sounds like an epic big-weight venue!

[@jeremybenson5305]

Watched this again, dreaming of warmer weather. I found pro paste to be too sticky for me, I couldn't ever get a consistency I liked, but I do like sieved thatchers now...

[@JonArthur]

My favourite has to be sieved 50:50 Method & Paste Green

[@jeremybenson5305]

@@JonArthur That used to be my favourite - in the early days it was nice and fine but then it changed consistency to bigger bits. Maybe I should sieve some...

[@peteunwin9663]

Cheers Jon good luck in the Guru at Whiteacres.

[@azertyy3978]

Nice video Jon! I was wondering when you use a float like the matrix slim carbon and you fish over depth, how do you know when the paste is coming off?

[@JonArthur]

You shouldnt need to wait long enough to know. Fishing with the paste acting on the float just increases the time it comes off. But if the float starts to move sideways that's the cue to rebait.

[@azertyy3978]

@@JonArthur Thank you for tips Jon! :D

[@the72inc73]

Damn that second fish! Like a tank! When are the new landing net handles out?

[@JeffOrtega33]

Great video Jonny thanks for sharing. Any chance sometime of doing a guide on baits per time of year on commercials please. ,🌟🌟

[@terencematthews2249]

Jon great video, thank you!! I have always been a little shy of using paste but after watching your video I’ll certainly give it a try. We’re you fishing at dead depth or laying on slightly?🎣🎣🎣

[@stegrundy4014]

Brilliant vid jon thx 😉

[@jordanmorris4220]

Was it Molands at Packington?

[@steveames8286]

Nice one Jon , what micros were you using , type and size they seem different to what I use cheers.

[@JonArthur]

They're just a standard skrettins variety I believe. That's what they've always had at Packington. The new bags pellets there have returned to having black makers in them, but they were all plain a few months back. If you leave any skrettins pellet an extra day they seem to blow up even more.

[@ihcfn]

Nice Jon, never actually tried paste.

[@thomasboyce4666]

Great content as usual

[@JonArthur]

Much appreciated

[@tom2946]

I love watching this video. I'm determined to fish more positively (as positively as the conditions allow)this year and am fed up of cupping in 4 maggots this past few months. 😂 I know its still very early, but roughly how long untill this way if fishing becomes a legitimate option?

[@JonArthur]

People are catching on paste already but I tend to think its at its best from late spring onwards

[@tom2946]

@@JonArthur Thanks John. No harm in having a bit in the bait bag then.

[@reallytalltom1712]

15lber on the pole! Awesome. My biggest on the pole was 17, and I didn't have a puller kit too! You were so excited! I can empathise! Nothing beats landing a monster on lightish gear! Great entertainment as ever Jon! I'm guessing you are based near Banbury? With your canals and Cherwel videos. Great content as ever

[@Takis214]

Mine was a 6,5 kilos wild carp with my hybrid whip -elastic pole a wild carp in the lake pamvotis Greece.

[@ahzippy]

Bought some paste 2 weeks ago in anticipation of catching some monsters lol 😂

[@jamesweber4938]

Ontario here and we don't want the geese back. They are a plague here all year round. I used to use flour paste as a kid when we couldn't afford maggots. It was good for roach at Roman Lakes in Marple, Cheshire.

[@JonArthur]

Thanks James. Any good goose recipes? :-)

[@jamesweber4938]

@@JonArthur No, they are fowl.

[@chrisdavies7434]

Hi Jon love the videos had ago doing this but lost 4 out of the 7 fish I hooked the carp are 10lb plus never got broke it was if the hooks pulled out was using guru slwg was it a case of the hooks ripping out as the carp fight really hard and would moving upto thicker gauge of hook cure this

[@frankhurley9684]

Hi John, I'm 64 now done a bit of fishing in my earlier years, bit restricted now by poor health. In my day we had never heard of an F1, just commons,mirrors leathers, crucians. Looking at your F1s, to my eyes they look just like commons, could you explain the difference maybe on your next informal leasure trip. Thanks.

[@scottandrewjohnmiddleton8676]

Hi Frank an F1 is a first generation hybrid it's crossed between a common carp and a crucian carp there found in most commercial fisheries now as they feed well all year and don't grow too big so perfect for match fishing but they are more than happy to eat pleasure anglers bait too so good luck catching a few 👍

[@oldbloke135]

Frank, when you've caught enough of them you can tell the difference when they are still in the water, they just look fitter and a nicer shape. When you have hold of them the most obvious difference is that, because they are half crucian, they usually don't have barbules like a carp, although some do have two very small ones.

[@philipharrow5145]

Brilliant video jon as usual keep them coming m8 have you qualified for fish o mania yet

[@neilhalley8897]

Great video.

[@pedrobandino5391]

Nice Video Jon

[@handyoutdoors2938]

Hi mate what pole are you using there please

[@TomsDinosaurOpinion]

How long does it take you to get set up on the peg?

[@mikeoxley6303]

margin munter well done jon awesome fishing

[@stephenwilliams262]

Great video again Jon lad. Funny enough we talking about paste fushing on yesterday's match, whether it's ready to fish. So thanks for push to fish it. Ideal.

[@neilhalley8897]

Cracking fish.

[@bluebois97]

Thanks

[@JonArthur]

Really appreciate the support Justin! So kind of you and makes it all worthwhile. :-)

[@Cjs.bullies]

Wat elastic do u use John

[@lencalver3498]

Would you ever add a touch of flavouring ,or a little flavoured pellet soak !

[@julien1]

To me, for f1's Jonny in this video is way over doing it paste size etc wise. F1 paste fishing for much faster catching - 10-12 hollow .... 0.15 main - 6 inch 0.13 hooklength and a PEA or broad bean size piece of paste (not a brussel sprout) on a 16 hook. I would use a 0.2 or 0.3 dibber 2ft and under. In this video this is how i would fish in the summer for carp and large f1's and just as he is catching. Now the idea that paste doesn't work in the winter/early spring is rubbish as Jonny proves here, if they take a pellet they will take paste BUT make your paste the same size as a 4/6mm expander would be. Just my opinion. Hail the Paste...! If this were a winter match like this, he'd already won the match pretty muich in 3 or 4 put ins lol. On its day paste really is unbeatable, the thing is EVERYDAY is paste day lololol. Great to see JA using his MTX2. Great video. Broad bean - fourteen (hook) Pea mean - sixteen (hook)

[@JonArthur]

There are F1s… then there are a Packington F1s! They average 2-4lb and go up to 12lb in this lake. Yes 12lb F1s! And do you know what the big ones always seem to be caught on? Great big lumps of paste! Agree ‘pea paste’ on a standard little F1 venue, but this specific lake is full of big grizzly fish and hordes of silvers, so fishing something between a little f1 rig and a carp rig is perfect. But agree on the finesse side on a lot of places the way Mr Machin pioneered 👍

[@julien1]

@@JonArthur ty Jon, them f1's are chunks, would love to see you do a live match using paste only..!

[@barrybrown4823]

121 pasta is the best so easy it's a joke