The Creek is almost Dry - But where are the Fish?!

[@kevingoymer2054]

I read his books 30 years ago and still have some of them I would love to bump into him one day on the bank and spend the day talking and learning. The thing I love most about this bloke is he’s happy fishing a puddle or an ocean and still just as passionate about it. Love the videos

[@duke1724]

I love how the poms say it's hot at 25 deg they get sunburnt watching fireworks 😅

[@TAFishing]

Haha...I like that one......And don't forget winter..the country slithers to a stop with 2 inches of snow !!

[@HitTheBricks89]

As ever I leave knowing more than when I arrived . Good stuff Graeme , I was pondering the other day that Totally Awesome is the longest consistent program I've watched in my life and is genuinely up there with a new album or novel in the list of things I like. It isn't hard to feel all a Maudling about the state of our waterways and the decline in quality fish stock but you never fail to raise a smile and revive my appetite for grabbing a rod or just making the most of the natural world we still do have around us. I don't understand with all our smartphones and social media how the fishermen local to rivers don't arrange dredging and swim cutting events . I seem to remember doing it as a boy , a few dozen people would turn up with rakes on ropes, scythes the lot , work a day before much eating of pies and drinking of cider. Seems that so many have all the time for debating and arguing online about the environment but very little for actually getting their hands dirty. Say's he blethering and moaning on in a comment section . Thankyou mate , your effort is always appreciated around my laptop. I Hope you and the family are well, be lucky .

[@jonathanphillips3257]

The levels in our rivers and streams not helped by water abstraction. Then to make things even worse, we have sewage discharges too in the dry.

[@oxyfee6486]

Always a depressing time when they drain our local reservoir for winter, a summer worth of awesome fishing turns into a sandy frozen wasteland. At least I have your videos to keep me busy till spring.👍

[@ryankeene5641]

Classic stick float roving. Lovely days fishing...

[@tytzup5397]

They are pumping water out of the rivers for domestic supply. The rivers are also holding a lot less water generally due to silting. Means they flood in winter and are more prone to evaporation in hot summers.

[@cameroncameron2826]

Nice little session in the end from a challenging stream & its nice to see a few gudgeon about! Perch very much enjoying the situation probably.

[@robertcotton9091]

Very very enjoyable to watch from start to finish! Many thanks Mate!

[@andykjohnsonjohnson7622]

Another excellent video Graeme 👍. As I live in B.C 🇨🇦, my fishing bag weights 15lb more this time of year. As i have to carry MORE self defense ( Bear mass , hand pistol, big machete & 2 to 3 knives. Blk Bears, cougars, wolf's, Coyotes. Good job i have my fishing buddy Mr Toni 🐕 ❤.

[@flamintasty]

The River Stour near me in Dorset isn’t as high as it usually is, a few weeks of rain will cure that though. He’s got some nice airguns in that shop. I’ll take an Air Arms S510 Ultimate Sporter R in .22 please!!

[@hesalovelybuoy5944]

do you think a medium spinning rod (shakespeare beta 20-80g) would be good for brown trout? i would fish a small mepps behind a bubble float with a long 5lb leader

[@TAFishing]

I have absolutely no idea as a lot of my tackle is old so I am clueless what any of the modern products are. You would need to talk to your local tackle shop,or even a fishing club.

[@elsathal7359]

My bird Tripper and I love your tube ! Missed singing of bird in this upload ?!🤔 Thank you for sharing ✌️💞🤟

[@jamesb99]

Never knew there was so many types of air guns. Thanks for an interesting video !

[@TAFishing]

I like to put up something a bit different.

[@jamesb99]

Always very enjoyable, I am a child of the fifties Graeme keep them coming.

[@DavesInHisGarage]

I can see Graham with his cowboy hat an holster on drawing on some unsuspecting squirrel that's been annoying him in the garden lol

[@arronfrost2872]

Nice to see a few "Baby Barbel" Graham.

[@cedhome7945]

That river reminds me of the small stream I trout fish on ... nothing doing until someone upstream chucked bread in for the ducks all of a sudden the river boiled with fish bolting from under the banks to engulf all the soggy mush then disappeared back to safety like it was a Olympic game of hide and seek !

[@feelinsupersonic1606]

Love this channel

[@cliveeariss880]

I know that feeling, its really bad, but thanks for showing.

[@michaelcooper9493]

Water level must be down to extraction. But all credit to you Greame most angler's would have given up and tried another peg.

[@freddyoutdoors]

Really enjoyed watching love the air bb guns look ace

[@newsmonger77]

Not interested in the target guns but loved the gudgeon fishing. First fish I ever caught was a gudgeon over 65 years ago and I still remember the day.

[@sargentalfie9585]

Any idea what swims through left to right at 18:16?

[@brain8484]

An invisible fish

[@johnrickards1908]

Looked like a leaf to me😂

[@chrisprobert6]

An eye floater/bogey😅

[@TAFishing]

A Thomas the Third ??...there should be plenty of those in our waterways !!!!

[@chrisprobert6]

@@TAFishing it's Richard the third . . Dummy....😂

[@finesseddad3969]

Great video bud if your ever in Northamptonshire would love to show you some spots

[@michaelbaines2383]

Makes me sad what's happening around us with our rivers and lakes and environment in general. I've been fishing for a fraction of the time you have (30years) and even when I started at aged 12 after reading my dads Mr Crabtree book I remember rivers teeming with fish and plant growth. My son is just getting into fishing and hoping he gets to experience what I did all those years ago. I'm off for a late evening carp trip on friday at my club water before the weather turns

[@TAFishing]

Good luck with your trip.

[@fisherman5517]

is there a lot of building development going on in the local area or are the farmers draining our depleted water supplys i wonder ,the underground water supply must be nearly depleted by now.

[@christopherhindle1174]

Truly depressing that the wonderful small rivers that used to exist have been allowed to decline to this extent. I realise that there has been a lack of rainfall from time to time, but as Graeme says, the main problem is uncontrolled water abstraction and failure to construct reservoirs to provide storage of abundant winter rains.

[@sakarijukarainen2321]

fly rod?

[@brianbelchuk9612]

Beauuiful

[@F4Insight-uq6nt]

@Graeme : Is that what the locals call it then.. The 'CREEK?'

[@TAFishing]

Yes, its a local term , actually just called "the Creek" or if they have just staggered out of the Hobbit and Bogey pub they might shorten it to the "Crik"..Its a sort of distorted local Hampshire dialect which can be attributed to the Newfoundland area of America where anglers who fished the creeks for Humpback Salmon would hook a fish when suddenly a Bear crashes into the water and grabs their prize Salmon...they then utter the words " Crikey"...which is a similarity to the word "Creek"....I imagine the word was then transported back to the British Isles aboard one of the Turnip carrying Galleons that ran between Nova Scotia and the port of Southampton,the latter town named and pronounced by the World famous Turnip importers in the East End of London as "Saaarfamtun "....so thats how the word "Creek" was applied to a narrow watercourse,flowing Southwards only in the Hampshire countryside..I hope this explanation suffices...Sorry ,but being Saturday night I have had a glass of white wine(or two) and its the best verbal definition I can come up with.

[@kingrafa3938]

They might be found a deep and bigriver, but who knows.

[@HarveyTaylor-s8b]

TTTTTTTTAAAAAA FISHING GUYS !! GOODBYE Mr DEPESSION GREAME'S HERE TO KICK YOUR ASS 🔥🔥🔥

[@TAFishing]

Don't miss the Friday episode..has some shore action.

[@MrBoom246]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@geoffmitchell6515]

What the hell are we doing to our rivers and waterways…….the pollution abstraction…….. just so sad

[@Slikx666]

I can say that when a BB bounces back and hits you, you will have a mark showing the next day. And if you walk about in public in Britain with a BB gun the police won't take any chances, until its in their hands its treated as a real gun. Just be careful with them as they can still injur and kill. 🙂👍

[@darwindarwin141]

Graham , sorry to say that you broke the golden rule of gun handling…..never put your finger on the trigger unless you are about to pull it !

[@TAFishing]

You are late to the party with that one,but undoubtedly correct,even though I knew it was empty. I shall return to the back of the class,never really having left it of course !!....

[@darwindarwin141]

@@TAFishing 😂😂 your still my favourite angling KZbinr!

[@darwindarwin141]

@@TAFishing and I’d love you to do another session or two on tiny streams ! If you could ?

[@Wodanazz]

Many rivers have been invade by the otters they have reintroduced, whilst I'm all for restoring our native wildlife the way they have done it is causing so much more damage than good. The otters kill so many fish just for the fun of it - my local river has seen a complete loss of all large fish in quite a few places thanks to them.. without natural predators the otters have gone out of control.

[@dalestales]

As sad as it is our rivers will never recover so there's no use moaning about it. Enjoy it while you can. And yes I used to report it to the EA and local MP but to absolutely no avail. That's why I just don't fuss anymore.

[@TAFishing]

Sad to say I believe you are right. Just enjoy what little is left. We can never beat the Corporations.

[@crikeychief8582]

Destroying vast amounts of woodlands, and forests, to build housing estates, and warehousing, to cater for the mass population increase madness. And we have to pay for it as well 😞

[@abdulrashidabang5583]

Sir you shouldn't go fishing alone in the creeks and you must have someone to help you there.

[@brain8484]

i can just imagine all the little thugs buying those air pistols . he wouldnt be selling them just to collectors .

[@honeyfras1]

Graham why are you pissing about in that stream

[@joes3920]

Might as well make use of the rivers while we’ve still got them

[@TAFishing]

I just got back an hour ago from 2 days Barbel fishing/filming on the River Wye,but of course that is only a small river compared to the Fraser River in BC where I used to go Salmon fishing...It all has its place.

[@ME-ke7qc]

all the contraptions we are allowed to own as guns in the uk are a joke

[@TheMcmunro]

Can we stop calling streams Creeks?

[@HitTheBricks89]

It would actually be a brook , not being quite big enough to be a stream , although creek and Stream are used for waterways smaller than a river all over the UK . Some definitions state that a river or stream flows toward the ocean but a brook, creek also a burn or race are used for smaller inland examples. The etymology reaches back to a 15th century English word 'Creke' which was used for a narrow inlet in a coastline. Rivers also have branches and inlets , channels and can be estuary's. Then you have a ditches , gully's and finally puddles which are sometime there but sometimes not . All the above words have been , are and will continue to be used as part of the English language referring to waterways in the British Isles . So to answer your question , No we can't stop calling streams brooks because the terms are used interchangeably and their uses have changed over time. Anyway better to know what your talking about before pointing out other peoples mistakes wrongly maybe.

[@unionse7en]

keep yer finger AWAY from the trigger!

[@boomcracker9777]

Really have to stop these “interview” episodes

[@HitTheBricks89]

Why's that then ? Graeme's always included the odd chat with folks and after giving us fifty years service as a writer, journalist and content creator of great fishing content . I think he's earnt the right to include whatever takes his fancy 'on his own channel.

[@newsmonger77]

​@Pavement-Bastard it is a fishing channel though!

[@TAFishing]

It was suggested that I start another whole channel to put the "interesting" material on,but I just cannot be bothered or I'll just be a slave to both the Algorithm and someones "individual" choice of what they want to watch..but I just can't be bothered..I've even got drain rodding sewers, drilling walls to fit damp proof seals,laying carpet and flooring,building a pallet cabin from scrap pallet wood (wow that was another mistake its only done about 50 million views), cycling in the countryside, building a pallet boat etc,the list goes on..so I do believe as we pay for everything and its free to watch that I'll keep enjoying myself by doing what I want..Oh and I have some cracking new material I can't wait to use..brick-crushing steam engines from yesteryear !!!..I joke not...Be prepared.

[@keepgoing1973]

Creek? Why are you using American words?

[@willp5002]

To attract American viewers and further grow the channel… simple