Micro Dropshot Catches BIG Canal Fish!

[@The_ginger_fisherman]

I don't do much dropshotting, but this was a very enjoyable session. As a disclaimer you will get bitten off by pike on 6lb fluro. Just don't want anyone misinterpreting what i said at the beginning of the video. It just offered slightly more protection than the 2lb i was thinking of using. Tight lines guys!

[@makeorwellfictionagain3553]

To be fair I use seaguar ace hard in 9lb and not suffered a bite off yet. Not saying it doesn’t happen but it’s better than most think.

[@RuachEden]

You can tie heavier weighted fluro to a lighter braid! It's no problem if you know how to use your drag. I often use 6lb braid to a 10lb+ fluoro leader

[@jonnyjegels7183]

Again may I ask where you are fishing

[@dannyboy7386]

@@jonnyjegels7183 just down from Argos, near Patel’s papers

[@joemurphy1626]

@@jonnyjegels7183 the canal 😂

[@Oholisfliesandfishing]

Pleasure to watch. Love genuine emotions you are having as opposed to many others just screaming like crazy. Thanks

[@needham831]

Disclaimer about bite offs certainly understood and recognised here, Chris.☺ That was an excellent session. The canal slab was impressive but that Pike was awesome. What an epic fight and capture! Well done mate!☺ Keep up the great vids.👍🎣

[@tezzabhoy1888]

Brilliant congrats. It just shows everyone that the right time and the right day they'll take it! You don't always have to take your expensive gear to the canal!

[@howardlaton2197]

I would like to thank you, your enthusiasm and catches on micro lure made me invest, having a similar canal here. Fished and not done too great getting used to it. But today you sat on my shoulders several perch and then a PB chub, it was immense as was the fight and getting it into a net far too small. I'd guess over 7lb, so thanks mate!

[@hanzelman1963]

That's what i like about ik fishing, catching big pike on a very light gear, nice video Chris, like it 👍

[@chudy4337]

That was some great fishing, the big pike fight was brilliant, great skills on landing that beast

[@lewiswilko9004]

Really helpful video, I live right near manc city centre and have only just got back into fishing as an adult after stopping when I was a teenager. Cheers!

[@kelvey08]

Thanks for pumping the content 👌If I had one slight critique it would be the music but I think everything you say is useful and interesting so more of that would not hurt at all 😁

[@beautifulfishing]

Some blank with £200 lures and the legend gets them with a 50p jig 😆😆 top fisherman

[@paulnolan4324]

BREAM? ON A LURE? best fishing video I've seen this year!

[@user-kd4mf2fo6h]

It’s actually quite common

[@janhaanstra2245]

A friend of mine caught a bream of about 45 cm on a tandem spinner, meant for pike, in a polder canal in Holland. Big surprise😄

[@paulnolan4324]

@@janhaanstra2245 he had to of snagged it.... what was running through that fishes head hahaha

[@james.chester.3568]

Nice upload , nothing better than a pike that puts up a fight on light gear , nice bream too for a canal

[@angelwhite376]

That was a nice run with the pike. That's what I go for the run... Tight lines

[@ryanair5255]

Fishing for perch with a small ultralight combo is so cool over how crazy perch go for

[@mechanical-adventrues]

I remeber when I had a 15lb 7oz pike out the canal on one of those what a day that was keep up the good videos and some very nice fish

[@TeapotDaz]

Thank you yet zgain for a fantastic video. Very informative and enjoyable.👍👍 Tight lines. 👍

[@pgruszewski]

Chris, you need an antiseptic fish spray for wounds like that. Just spray before releasing. Decent size bream and pike, but no decent size perch 😁

[@MartinZeme]

Pike and perch are incredibly tough with stuff like this. I mean you can do it but they heal really well on their own.

[@craighall4675]

Awesome video. Nothing better than a big fish on light gear 👍

[@pjlogan386]

Great stuff Chris, your getting into drop shooting,cheers .

[@matejsafarik1162]

Perfect all Your videos. 👍🏻 greeting from Slovakia

[@robbieallan6522]

You earned my subscription today man , very cool I've often thought of trying that method with a couple of nymphs for trout in my local river and after seeing this video I can't see any reason a hungry wild brown wouldn't take a fly presented that way.

[@davidriley7997]

Well done, Cracking bream👌

[@carlherbert6542]

Top class you make it look so easy.

[@jonnyBravos]

Great vid, saw the mallard chicks with their mum and thought... Match the hatch..

[@user-hs9br8zd1i]

we used to dropshot for chub on our local small rivers 20+ years ago with fat lobby's! Great fun way to fish.

[@petercalthorpe7966]

Fantastic session Chris , the bream was a beauty. Then the Pike at the end was awesome on light gear . Welldone mate 👍. Take care mate all the best from Downunder 👍

[@aldomcgowan6561]

What a guy what a video brilliant keep it up cracking pike mate been through the wars that one

[@gez1972]

You need to be so careful when using micro sized lures as anything will take them, I was jigging on the grand union canal and had a 20lb carp on one!!! Took me an hour to get it to the net on ultra light perch gear.

[@jurepetek9034]

Happened the same thing to me! I was ultralight spinning for perch with 1-5g rod. I was using 4.5cm shad and a 24.5 lb carp ate it. It took me more than 45 minutes to get it out!

[@fish-qg4nu]

That’s amazing 😮

[@Set.outside]

Carp eat almost everything. It makes sense if they gulped the lure down. Gotta be careful w them😂

[@ExPatinUK]

Stop showing off. 😂😂

[@Vissenbijdewaterkant]

Great video and nice to see you catch a Bream on a softbait welldone!

[@reeferfrank]

My bets where on the last pike breaking the line, awesome save

[@jonkennard8272]

What a session quality 👌

[@wiryn77]

HI from France Very nice video you've done here !

[@chrispigott6913]

You need a landing net with a longer handle to make things easier.. Geat video. I must try this micro dropshot technique !

[@benraley4004]

Great footage and some nice fish on light gear! Did you know that they make nets with handles of all lengths? You can even buy em yourself!!!

[@nicholaskraus822]

What a great session nice slab of a bream and bus of a pike on that light tackle bra

[@juancolon4503]

That was the most polite hookset I’ve ever witnessed on that first perch

[@adrianzakrzewski7127]

5:37 this bream wasn't a good fighter. Nice video, cheers from Poland🇵🇱👌

[@jonnyBravos]

Bream always seem to lay sideways and come in easy, imo

[@spawn8641]

Nice to see someone using gear how it should be that drag is set perfect more or less stops hook pulls im a matchman and I always love to learn and dam have you given me ideas. keep up this epic work. God Bless

[@skylar7939]

Love your videos! Would you ever consider heading out to the coast to do a saltwater session?

[@davetaylor8858]

Watched a Guy drop shotting years ago and when I asked about his set up he had two AA's on a 16" tail which he said served two purposes as he could slide them up or down to alter the depth the lure was off the bottom and they would simply slide off if he got snagged.

[@rmf574]

Hate bream with a passion but i bet it must be a nice suprise when youre fishing for smaller fish. Nice video.

[@minikyle7441]

Great vid! liked it a lot, might have to use a bigger net next time haha!

[@BostinAngling]

I need to get me a dropshot setup, but there nothing like walking into a shop and having a good old proper look at the gear so I've been holding out. I hope Nath from BostinAngling can get a headcam soon, so we can film some mixed fishing vids. Thumbs Up!

[@andrewwarburton3943]

Wow, stonking Bream and on a lure. 😎

[@mraoe]

Great video, thinking of fishing similar myself tomorrow with the ballzy worm lures

[@ArmandsSprogis]

I have never done dropshots. I have seen the setup, but when you fish on dropshot, do you wait then to sink to bottom and bob it along the bottom or you can start jigging when its just little under water. I am planning to try this for still water trout.

[@Lunatix246]

Bream aren't usually associated with taking lures or moving baits, but I've caught one on a bare hook before as I was plumbing with a float. It took a shiny size 16 hook on the retrieve.

[@brixtonbilly]

I had a small skimmer bream on a gold mepps spinner no.1 size when looking for perch on the Norfolk Broads last year.

[@squeesmyth9025]

Territorial, happens when fly fishing , caught rudd and bream on ace of spades or dogknobblers

[@ilan1236]

Could you do a video with the cane pole at the river like you did on the canal a month ago?

[@miguelbinha]

Absolutely brilliant

[@johnny2hats330]

Great stuff. It's almost the time of year for daddy long legs (the cranefly sort). You should make a video on fishing them with a bubble float. You use a fine, small hook and they thrash about dramatically on the surface. Very exciting way to catch trout and roach and other species that will feed from the surface.

[@ganjawizard4547]

Nice fish as always bro👊🧙‍♂️

[@deanroberts6335]

Iv just ordered some drop shot rigs on eBay to save me the hastle of making them up. Just bought a ligh rod. The fox rage 2-8g paired up with the Shimano sienna 2000... Iv got loads of micro softies. Can't wait to get out. Gone for heavier brade incase of big pike. 👌👌

[@tiptoptuckacka3357]

Yeah awesome fish mate. A 3lb bream and a couple of small Jack's 🙄

[@FishyBusiness]

Very cool .Love targeting fish on micro tackle

[@pmay222]

great vid... i will try a micro lure meself.... firstly i cant believe that bream...ive spent years in matches fishing light gear for finicky bites etc...and you go plop and get a decent slab.... secondly... i think that pike was grabbed by a huge pike when you first hooked it..thats where wound came from.... you need better landing net handle as well. .. .

[@kieranviner9496]

Great video mate! 😁

[@richardjones2811]

Great video buddy, could you please tell me how you tie the hook like that? It would come in handy for fishing the rocks. Rich

[@JOBAHT]

How satisfied are you with the Abu Superior reel, if you still use it?

[@samuelpenn7956]

1 like for each time he said "micro jig" 😂

[@donaldferris1638]

I have always wondered what’s in those canals

[@abdullahergun9902]

Selam usta rast gele bu videoda kullandığınız slikonun renk kadu ne dir acaba saygılar

[@mtfwebster]

You can see that first bream in the water take the bait, come off and return again if you look closely!

[@aldos9553]

You got lineaffe brand in the uk? lol i thought it was just here in Italy

[@markgreen4946]

How do u tie the some of the spinners and micro jigs,

[@fishingnatureadventure2565]

Great job!!! Thanks for sharing.

[@nigelhumphreysfsuk2833]

Great fishing I think you need longer arms if using that little net though 😅👍

[@squeesmyth9025]

What's with the game net?

[@loris9604]

i try to catch pearch with lures near bathampton at the kennet avon canal does someone know what to do ?

[@robbieallan6522]

I'm impressed that light lb line what was it 2lb tippet landed those pike. My mistake 8lb impressive nonetheless.

[@FanicaBucur-cr5uf]

Hapy new year!

[@TrackTrawler]

Great video as usual 😎👊

[@dantecarp]

Enjoy your vids chap

[@Denofu]

What temperature is the water there? Perch aren't really active here where I live, water is 6.5 degrees celsius here

[@lukasfredholm4635]

Too cold for Perch

[@Denofu]

@@lukasfredholm4635 I know now the water is boiling over here over 20 celsius

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Looks like a giant pike wanted to bite him in half. Here in Australia there's many toothy ocean fish. Tailor (Bluefish , America) are especially common especially if you throw a little burley around.

[@TheMasteryoda87]

Great vid as always

[@newyoupersonaldevelopment3497]

Do you not tend to catch a few bream in the same area as they are shoal fish?

[@visualculture6617]

is it not closed season ?

[@alexp3519]

No the canal is classed as still water so you can fish them all year. But yes you're right in that it is closed season on the rivers till June the 16th

[@sawomirw3636]

Super film.pozdrawiam z Polski

[@elliottchilds3996]

Can you please do more micro lure fishing on the canal please. I am a big fan I of your channel and I really enjoy watching your videos 👍👍

[@lurekayaklrf]

Great video but that net coupled with the elastic is so painful to watch. Just get an extending bank stick with a flip latch and a regular net head so you can quickly make it longer if needed. That net is designed for people wading or sat in kayaks and as this video illustrates is very inconvenient for bank fishing.

[@markellis7357]

I see you use the lmab 1-7g, which model do you use please, the parabolic action or the tip action version?

[@paulgc9447]

I dont use braid when fishing for perch on the drop shot.

[@shamski888]

Thanks for this video my friend, very nice pikes. Do you remember the colour of the rubber lure?

[@pauledmonds3249]

Chris, can you show us or tell us how you connect the leader to the braid please?

[@BeardedBastardTV]

Hey Paul! I know im Not Chris haha, but What i always use to connect Lines (whatever they May be) i use the “uni to uni” knot, works like a charm and doesnt take up a ton of space 😁 tight lines

[@BlokeOnAMotorbike]

yeah for rigs this light the double uni works fine, for heavier stuff the FG is the one to use - because for distance casting you're using a longer leader, the join has to go through the guides. Works better if it isn't skipping through the rings, abrading the knot and possibly damaging the guides.

[@Delboy666]

Where were you fishing mate?

[@jasonlopez4855]

Drop shot came from how it looks like a brop of water 💧 with lead the center drill out for brass wire is in the center. Too put the bait suspend in the water. My grandfather told me to do for trout fishing 🎣 in lake's from the bank or shore line however you say it. For just bait like doe balls, worm 🪱 and cut baits. Like the drop 💧 shot the best and there's many copies because of how good it is. Ho made it 🤔💬 don't know.

[@White_Tiger93]

looks like 1000size spinning reel, or maybe 2000size reel you are using in this video?

[@minashi4261]

which the rod is it？

[@фишмашина]

Small pond-big fish! Amazing!!😲 It is UK?

[@balklarnfatihi9085]

Dostum çok iyisin 👍👍 Türkiye'den selamlar 🇹🇷🇹🇷✋✋👏👏

[@danielyeadon5422]

Will you do a short video of how to properly hold pike for us. Cheers

[@rowleykustoms449]

Hi buddy notice you do a lot of wandering around on streams and canals how do you find out about permissions. I live in ollerton near mansfield and trying to find some good spots for me and my lad

[@bambuu6676]

Is that dinamo sticker on ur pole?

[@captaincsp9701]

Where can i buy that rod? Looks awesome

[@simonoswald3217]

Still so mint fishing 🎣What colour are them lures and what's the name of them also we're can I get them thanks 🐟

[@ku1977ba]

What is the name of the bait you are fishing on

[@charlieholland1620]

Thanks for going over the tackle you’re using, really helpful. Is it the same rod and reel you used for the trout?

[@UKFishCam]

wouldn't have expected some of these fish to go for such a tiny bait

[@UKFishCam]

@Ronnie Kray 😂

[@chrisgale4094]

Would it work on a snake head fish in Thailand ?

[@jasmijnariel]

Try it🤷‍♀️

[@iggie1439]

Where where you??