River Fishing -Tough Trips! Chub Bream - Otters & Mink! (Video 233)

You join me during two tough late summer trips on the Kennet, one of which I decided to sit behind two rods in one swim, never a favourite of mine and I much prefer roaming around or fishing with a single rod if honest! My previous trip had a few too many Mink and an eager otter ready to get on the bank with me lol!
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Tactics - Ledgering 2 rods on one trip and a preferable single rod on another.
Tackle trip 1
Shimano oceanic reels - Pelzer Parabolic Rods
Tackle trip 2
Shimano Baitrunner DL FB 2500 - Advanta RVS River ambush rod 1.75tc
Baits used
Mainline 50/50 baits and paste rolled to my choice of ingredients of yeasts and liquid food/spices.
Groundbait
Steamed Bird seed mixed with Mainline Margin mix groundbait.
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[@rhyssearle2772]

Nice one mate hope you have some chub this winter

[@francolinobasco]

Cheers mate and oh yes certainly will be :D

[@marknorth8607]

Another great video keep them coming mark

[@francolinobasco]

Thanks, will do!

[@esppaul644]

Welldone mark good angling

[@kevincurrington367]

Well done Mark when you fish you definitely don't do things by halves, as for the minx I've had some really bad experiences with the little devil's great video 👍

[@francolinobasco]

Thanks kev! and yes they are a menace!

[@tinker5349]

Young mink and perhaps otters are called Kits I used to have working ferrets when I was younger. happy christmas

[@francolinobasco]

Ah kits thanks :D pups lol!

[@neilwheater458]

Brilliant me and the misses always like your videos what about some winter pike ones

[@francolinobasco]

Glad you like them!

[@andyobrien5696]

Nice one Mark, good vid 👍🏾

[@francolinobasco]

Thanks 👍

[@honeyfras1]

Great video mark the diet looks like its working looks like you have lost a lot of weight keep it up and keep the videos coming tight lines

[@francolinobasco]

Thank you, I will!

[@Keefiopia]

thanks Mark

[@francolinobasco]

Very welcome

[@johnh57]

Nice looking bit of river Mark and hard won fish too. Looking forward to your next video.

[@stephenisom6089]

well done mark nice chub and a fantastic river bream .not many bream like that out of rivers these days so well done ,its interesting the mink Latin name sodious.. painious in the arreous and mink Latin name nastiuos.. visious.. bastardious,...,hate each other both pest and both eating their way though what little wild life and fish we have left. i just hope that covid mutates in liking otter and mink.well mark smashing video keep um coming it helps us get through the cold winter evenings .tight lines mark till you next adventure down by the water .cheers

[@paulAnthony7236]

Mink otters seal on the river wear in Sunderland through to Durham.A seal goes upto 15 miles to Durham city, the wear is terrible I don't know how the EA says that it's the second best river in the UK for seatrout.

[@davidtaylor2978]

Hi Mark, in sixty + years of fishing, I have never used cheese paste but I'm going to give it a try before the end of this season and was wondering if you have ever made cheese paste boilies, if so how did it go and how did you make them? Keep up with your videos they really are vey good.

[@Slashthedinosaur]

Lovely bream that one mate 👍

[@matthewcadle7200]

Its the time of year for our four legged friends..... will see more and more dead half eaten stuff on the bank , over winter now. (not good) Good video mate.

[@eric41140]

Hello Mark, very good spot and nice approach for this beautiful fish!! cool see you soon!!

[@francolinobasco]

Thanks 👍

[@stephenhollinrake916]

Lovely fish 👍

[@_-Spoons-_]

Cracking video as ever mate 👍🏻 but that bream?! It was a beautiful colour 👍🏻👍🏻

[@TheAnglerFiles]

I get a lot of mink in my spots as well. Rarely do they impact the fishing though. The Beavers and Mink tend to be welcome entertainment. lol

[@francolinobasco]

yeh on my smaller rivers they tend to spook the fish argh :(

[@mattnapalm]

lovely bream fella

[@jamesreade887]

What a beautiful bream. Looks like it’s just been cast in bronze in some craftsman’s forge!

[@nigelmiddleton2727]

Hi Mark mink are becoming a real problem, we were fishing a club match last Tuesday on a commercial fishery and could not believe what we witnessed, a mink dragged a 6lb carp out of the margins, luckily Frank in the next peg chased it off with his landing net and put the carp back into the lake, unbelievable to see. I know it's nature but where do we draw the line when these predators are devastating our fish stocks especially on our rivers?

[@dailyallowance3826]

Bring back wild cats 🐈

[@captainfrank01]

Haha Mark, I'd fancy the roast too! Even when it is tough going, you still manage to pull some quality fish - well done! Glad you have had some rain finally, we are just about to have a flood emergency in South Australia, the Murray River is running at a 70 year high.

[@francolinobasco]

haha Frank! i cannot get my head round how much rain you guys have had over there either, it looks dreadful :(

[@61barrackroad]

Tell you what Mark y9u don't half catch sone clonling fish don't you? Well done you 😎👍

[@francolinobasco]

Cheers mate

[@61barrackroad]

@@francolinobasco meant to say clonking.😆😆😆

[@kevt7931]

What strengh line would you use on rivers for using a drennan ultralight mini feeder rod, I see in past videos you use one, any advice would be appreciated.

[@francolinobasco]

Kev i would not go above 6lb breaking strain with it if targeting chub in snaggy swims etc.

[@dailyallowance3826]

I'm gonna buy a bigger landing net ,,that 1 pounder turned into a 4 pounder on closer inspection 🤔 😀

[@francolinobasco]

Sounds like you had a good one!

[@rhyssearle2772]

Nice one mate hope you have some chub this winter