Fishing a Tiny Stream in an Abandoned Garden

We explored a tiny river full of small fish and did some micro fishing. Sometimes you don't need big fish to have a good day's fishing. We caught perch chub and a surprise trout!
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[@Longsox]

These little river videos are awesome. Childhood memories galore!

[@fishingtutorials]

I love it so much. Will always be my ‘home fishing’ the stuff which makes me feel comfortable and happy every time! :)

[@frankhunnybun3251]

merry Christmas to the best fishing account on the internet!!

[@upthecelts2k18]

I’m more of a Carl and Alex fan tbh 😐😆

[@piconangelingproducts1294]

Both accounts are amazing!

[@uk_fishkeeping4437]

Yessir

[@EricPollarrd]

No way bro there’s a much better channel called Carl and Alex have u not heard of it ????

[@ladislavkasko5631]

Haldorádó horgász portál is the best

[@mikeye1992]

Takes me back to my childhood days cycling with basic tackle and some sandwiches and a bottle of pop to catch Perch, Roach and Gudgeon from a local beck. Great memories.

[@fishingtutorials]

Love it! ❤️

[@buckrichard7690]

There’s no finer looking fish than a wild brown trout for my money. Oh, and that gudgeon was a fine specimen.

[@ianj1828]

Omi is the cutest and best part of this channel.

[@user-ce8bx7jp2m]

נהנה כול פעם מחדש מין הסירטונים שלך.ולומד מהם אמון עדייג יאלוף ותמשיך כך ...👍🤗👍👑👏👏👏🐟🎣🐟🎣🐟🎣

[@jonatherton]

Small streams aren't just trainer streams. I find myself going back to them for their intimacy and simplicity. The famous American writer and painter Russell Chatham once wrote that fishing small streams for smaller fish can be a more enjoyable and perhaps purer type of fishing because one becomes less preoccupied with battling large fish, and more tuned into the river and just fishing. I think this was the best film you've made all year. Merry Christmas. And get well soon.

[@happydace6991]

Agree with you entirely Jon . And what can be better than catching a truly wild fish in such beautiful natural surroundings ? Beats day ticket garden ponds any day ! .

[@BarbecueLivid]

i disagree there is no fish at all in rivers in uk so ur wrong

[@robs715]

@@BarbecueLivid 😂 what?

[@BarbecueLivid]

@@robs715 people think the is fish in uk rivers wen there is not one fish in them

[@robs715]

@@BarbecueLivid of course there is 😂

[@alexpearson4074]

More fishing with Omi , its great to see you both out there enjoying the fresh air and the nature , it is beautiful after all.

[@fishingtutorials]

Cheers Alex :) it certainly is. More to come!

[@AboutMMA_]

its really cool to see how far Omi's fishing has come!

[@tmkfishing]

I love this fishing in small stream like that ! Nice video :)

[@trevorcornes1056]

Lovely looking place to fish. Amazing what you can catch from a tiny stream. Nice one

[@davchow8124]

Blessing to you and your love one. Thanks for the fishing lessons throughout the year.

[@paula.the.wannabe.hauler]

We’ve just bought a little house with a burn in the garden, this has massively lit my fire to catch my first little brownie from our garden. Lovely little vid mate.

[@fishingtutorials]

Thank you! Sounds amazing :) hope you get one!

[@kazihossain1370]

All the scenery in this video was gorgeous, thank you for sharing!

[@fishingtutorials]

Thank you for watching!!

[@wh8326]

That stream looks very beautiful. That would be a dream fishing spot for me.🎣🐟🐠

[@baldvale5418]

Merry Christmas Karl & Alex Thank you for making the Angling world a whole lot better place & your amazing contributions throughout the years

[@vinnyvtec8722]

I'm with you on the gudgeon. They are the cutest little fish we have and in the right light surprisingly colourful. Also, in my opinion, they are one of the best perch livebaits you can use, which might explain why most of the fish you caught were perch and gudgeon. In fact, a technique I used to use was to use a float set up with a size 8 hook and then whip a size 18 to the bend of the size 8. Then Id use a single red maggot on the 18 and in shallow water, twitch it back in slowly. You'd usually end up with a minnow or a gudgeon on the size 18, reel in, put the size 8 in its mouth and instant livebait, then cast to a deeper slack area beside the flow and the float would 9 times out of 10 literally disappear within a second or 2 of hitting the water. This is how I caught my pb perch of 2lb 12oz. Hope you guys had a lovely Christmas all the best for the new year and thanks again for another good video.

[@tiestofen94]

It's been almost 2 years since I started watching C&A videos and at this point I have watched all of them and never felt bored. Quit the opposite - they inspired me to come back again to fishing and help me relax after a busy week in the office. Continue with the good work, guys! Greetings from Bulgaria! Ivaylo PS: It's so disappointing not having the possibility to buy from your merchandise any more, but at least I get the 2021 calendar, which is still hanging on the wall! 😅

[@welshknight1456]

Two people with perfectly matched calm personality's, combined with relaxing music makes this video a pleasure to watch,

[@fishingtutorials]

Thank you so much :) glad you enjoyed it.

[@popogast]

6:24 Nice small brown trout with beautiful colours.

[@fishingtutorials]

Love them :)

[@waynelkduarte45]

Well hope You and Omi enjoy your day fishing

[@fishingtutorials]

Thanks Wayne! Was a lovely day! 👍

[@robinw_o_a1348]

wow I wish we had creeks like those where I live! The scenery is amazing and catching a chub or a handfull of perch would be nice, great video

[@dirkjordy9point714]

As an occasional angler with my son, lucky to have a small stream like these, with all species and chub that size, 5 min walk from my house, and I'm the only person I have seen ever fish it. It's all I need!

[@fishingtutorials]

That's great to hear :) sound so nice.

[@rossi6113]

Loving those small rivers.

[@fishingtutorials]

They're mega!

[@alvinhang8721]

another wonderful video. England has so much wonderful green nature scenery.

[@fishingtutorials]

Cheers Alvin! Yes it can be quite magical :)

[@fishingfamilyuk]

Love this, need to do more of this ourselves

[@sturoe7361]

Merry Christmas Carl & Alex, thanks for the videos this year, have a great time.

[@ernestgtipping3313]

Gudgeon the very fist fish I caught in Colderstone lake about 80yrs ago they were a beautiful little fish & we thought we were the Bees, I wonder if there are still any in the lake Knees. Cheers Tippo.

[@trevorcornes1056]

What a lovely little place to fish .amazing what you can catch in such small streams 👍

[@V503K]

What a cute couple😍kids fishing tutorials when?

[@robshaw3655]

nice one guys. reminds me of my first few years fishing 50 odd years ago when my tackle box was a Golden Virginia tobacco tin. Fished a local stream that only had sticklebacks and some country park lakes where a day ticket was 5pence

[@themidlandsangler1005]

These are my absolute favourite type of video micro fishing there’s just something about it fishing tiny streams and things where you would otherwise think there’s no life in there

[@fishingtutorials]

Agreed! :)

[@liamburnes845]

Great work all year with content hopefully plenty more to come next year..👍👍

[@life910]

IT'Sverybeautiful!!😆

[@bdkoi1]

Awesome boys. Loved it. Great video.

[@thegreygrappler6280]

Your fishing channel is the best

[@fishingtutorials]

Thank you! Glad you enjoy it

[@FishingwithEthan]

These are some of my favourite videos 👍

[@lejardon6625]

Best Christmas gift so far! Have a great Christmas you guys

[@Bearskimethod]

“Chubb is in..” it’s iconic my friend 💪🏻🌎❤️

[@marcust5014]

Nice vid on small stream fishing 🎄⛄🎅👍👍

[@darwindarwin141]

Omi is delightful ! Please do more tiny stream videos together

[@fishingtutorials]

She is :) Omi atually really wants to fish some more small streams!

[@jamesspiby7782]

Hey guys back to watching your videos once again been without a phone for a while but nice to get back to watching your videos and catching up on your progress ☺️🙏stay blessed stay safe

[@fishingtutorials]

Thank you James :) you too.

[@stevieltiktokshop]

Merry Christmas 🎅 lovely Chub at the end mate 100% hope you boys have a good one and tight lines for the new year!

[@thetippingpoint2832]

Merry Christmas carl&alex to all your family look forward to another year with u

[@lukeslade7201]

Merry Christmas lads and everyone watching. May 2022 be another exciting year of fishing for all us Anglers. Hope you all smash your PB’s. 🤙🏻

[@StephanGanoff]

Merry Xmas! Chubs are such sporty fishes and they are everywhere, well normally haha very relaxing video 💙

[@Bulldog2108]

Merry Christmas. I enjoy that one. Less polished than the usual, but in a good way. Thanks

[@kendall6030]

I think Naomi learned well from that book she illustrated! Good seeing you all and hope Alex gets healed up soon.

[@hunter111uk]

I enjoyed watching that, thank you. A trip down Memory Lane remembering how many of my Generation began Angling. Back in the day a Fishing Trip didn't involve spending hours dozing in a bed-chair waiting for an alarm to tell you when to reel in. Even now if there's little activity it's quite normal for me to move 2 or 3 times a session.

[@fishingtutorials]

Yes I much agree, I'm not into static fishing so much, unless I'm targeting something specific. It's not my favourite. I much prefer being able to carry everything I need! and feel able to move about freely from spot to spot :)

[@hunter111uk]

@@fishingtutorials Glad to hear it. I fish some Waters with very wet banks so I carry all my gear in two Gorilla Plastic Garden Buckets, easy to move to another Swim and no Furniture Removal Van required. Please continue the Fishing Tutorials if you can, I particularly like the laid-back style, it's like chatting with someone down the Pub!🤣

[@paulembleton3087]

Thank you for sharing Happy New year to you and your family

[@fishingtutorials]

Thanks :) Happy new year to you too

[@bugele8277]

Awesome video yet again! Happy Christmas guys

[@simoore560]

I really need to find some local little rivers I can fish on... Another cracking video and always good to see the simpler side of things. Just like a lot of recently-returning anglers, the arms-race with tackle is hard to resist. Have a happy new year guys. :)

[@fishingtutorials]

Cheers Si! Same to you! Totally agree - sometimes little unlikely waters can hold a lot of surpises. Hope you find a good little river to fish.

[@hellgrammite3602]

Christmas day Carl and Alex video :). Instant click reguardless of content. Thank you sirs.

[@ZachRussell.W]

Loved this vid I’ve been doing a lot of small stream fishing this fall / winter using worms and maggots , I use one of my 6.6 / 7 ft ultra light / light action perch/tout rods with a size 500 reel and 6 lb braid and I find it works real well for using 2.4-3.6 gram floats , keep it up and hope you had a good Christmas guys!

[@276tracey]

Nice back to basics video...merry Christmas to you Omi and Alex ...best YT channel x

[@RalfyCustoms]

Merry Christmas guys, big love to you

[@williamwoodman6146]

Love these videos

[@dougseivwright]

Merry Christmas to you all! Really enjoyed the video thank you 😊

[@darryltaylor9614]

Merry Christmas you legends keep up the hard work 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@fishingtutorials]

Thank you !! Have a good one!

[@aquaticcolledgefishing]

Great video Carl and Snow Carp girl. I hope you are all having a great Christmas! Get well soon Alex

[@cliffdixon6422]

Merry Christmas guys! Love small stream fishing, we have one near me that is far from it's height in the 80's and 90's (When 3oz Gudgeon were fairly common and there were huge shoals of Roach and Dace) but it still throws up some beauties on simple rigs and light tackle, including a 3lb Perch on the maggot 6 weeks ago

[@hefty_highy9274]

Wow its a Christmas day special well true say it's always Christmas when seeing you're videos

[@tomfisher2103]

Nice job out there! That Brown Trout was a beauty. Always amazed in the differences in your fish species there across the pond from here in the states.

[@fishingtutorials]

Cheers Tom!!

[@mishabutko5299]

позитивное видео.

[@williamchalk6009]

Sick video love the small streams

[@terryfletcher6465]

Best wishes for the new year. Wow, what beautiful eyes! Thanks, you made my day.

[@Rhodietoo]

I use a telescopic rod for small streams, we have a tiny stream past the house with old mill ponds which make good habitat for the wild trout and bullheads which are the only species, the telescopic has also been good for some light tackle fishing inside Minehead harbour.

[@topgrafter2007]

Great video, my first time watching you and will definitely be back, looks like an old water management system, possibly for a mill or factory probably long gone.

[@fishingtutorials]

Cheers Russ! It was made in the 1920s I but now is barely managed anymore so has been left wild and nature has reclaimed it :)

[@blankonbank]

Hey I love videos like that. Thanks and have a great new year. 👍🏻🤙🏻🥳

[@fishingtutorials]

Thanks so much! Glad to hear it :) you too!

[@manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069]

Brilliant, love it 👍

[@fishingtutorials]

Glad you enjoyed it!!

[@manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069]

@@fishingtutorials I did mate ,,new sub👍

[@jasmijnariel]

My favo kind of fishing. And what a lovely woman she is! She reminds me of my ex... Always suprised by the little beautiful things in the world🥰

[@connorhewitt6868]

Spot on once again Carl! I need to try and get my mrs into fishing 😂

[@ShweatyFishy]

Merry Christmas

[@leonrobinson3867]

Great video lads have a good Christmas

[@jamesshamley6577]

Cool!

[@paulfranciosi5970]

Had some lovely little chub and a trout from a small burn last week my M8 had chub trout and dace they were in proper pristine condition nice few hours out.

[@pescaadvisor]

Stunning location and video editing, really nice. Compliments and best regards from Italy 🇮🇹❤️

[@fishingtutorials]

Thank you! Glad to hear you enjoyed it :)

[@hopingowen]

Nice location. Good film. Great to see Omi x🎅🎅🎅🎅

[@cheshiresmileclinic]

Super! Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas all the best for 2022 :p

[@jamesatkinsfishing]

nice little video there chaps, happy Christmas and a tight lines new year🎄,

[@donaldburge8392]

Reminds me of my childhood fishing on the river Windrush when it was clean and offered a great variety of corse fish

[@fischkopf56]

What a sweet video.

[@fishingtutorials]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@dave3897]

Its funny. In the state of Maryland, United States we have two bodies of water known as The Wye and Severn River. Makes sense based on history. Nice video by the way. I would love to go back to the UK again and actually do some micro fishing there.

[@fishingtutorials]

Cheers Dave! It's a pure and simple joy isn't it. I hope you get to do that :)

[@Sam-ut6tg]

I just got your book for Christmas

[@fullenglish3371]

Great video, thanks for the content. Merry Christmas 🎄

[@fishingtutorials]

Same to you! Take care!

[@miketube6662]

Quality great chubbb

[@laurencedavies6680]

Merry Christmas carl alex and omi sorry if I spelt that wrong. rilly enjoy the vids helpful and inspiring 🥳👍🦃🐟🐠🐡. An update on the fish tank and koi would be epic.

[@daveslaughter8290]

This was great. I learned to fly fish on small ponds and creeks. My gear was a spinning rod with an old bait casting reel loaded with “fly line” (twine covered with line dressing), a length of monofilament for a leader and some panfish popping bugs. I learned to cast with this and the bluegills, pumpkinseeds and other sunfish didn’t care a bit. What fun. A year later I got a proper fly rod for Christmas. I still love the small creeks but now it’s for trout in Montana.

[@fishingtutorials]

Nice one! That sounds super fun :) good luck for the trout!

[@carrolserrano5032]

I love your videos i wanna start fishing 🎣 but dont have any equipment but i still love watching your videos

[@fishingtutorials]

Thanks Carrol. Glad you like them! Hopefully you get to one day.

[@FRATIVI]

Thanks good job 👍

[@fishingtutorials]

Cheers!

[@brycelessfishing]

Absolutely awesome video man! Merry Christmas and tight lines! 🎅🏻🎄🎣 -Bryce

[@saintsfan5379]

Hope you have a great Christmas boys. Stay safe out there

[@petekeightley2973]

Merry Christmas Carl, Alex, and Naomi! Thank you for another good year of videos and all the effort you guys put in for us to enjoy.

[@sptmbrkid5962]

Lovely vid, mate! And hoping you have a lovely christmas also.

[@joerutzer2704]

Merry christmas mates! Awesome location

[@CaravanCarpers]

Great video! takes you back to being young again!

[@fishingtutorials]

It really does!

[@antnewbon2673]

That's one of my favorite rigs.

[@popogast]

Happy new year! Eternal love! Be healthy and happy! Good fishing! (The least important)

[@fishingtutorials]

You too! :)

[@peternufc1981]

All the best lads 👍

[@fishingtutorials]

Same to you Peter!