WOW! How big are the fish in this river? + Cookup

How big are the fish in this river? Graeme crams in the work so he can grab a couple of hours fishing at the lake. Using a red and white lure that has been very successful for him this past winter he gets in as many casts as he can trying to get a strike. Then, it’s off to a secret river that he finds loaded with giant Grayling, many over 3lbs, and some he reckons might have been getting towards 4lbs. He shows what a good quality river should look like and there are plenty of fish to be seen underwater, together with some lush green streamer weed. It doesn't end there, as he gets bored and suddenly decides to pick up the paint roller..but it’s a truly big job..he wants to paint the whole house! Finally he gets hold of some baby frozen Squid and hopes to use them for boat and shore fishing bait, but they are also top quality food, so it’s back to the kitchen for a nice cookup...Enjoy.
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[@Smugginz]

It was bananas seeing your boat go but I have to say its really great for me as a younger guy to see the grace that comes with change. Thank you for any and all videos.

[@TAFishing]

No problem,more films to come.

[@mikegillett8946]

I’ve got thing to do can’t stop watching your programs I use to fish freshwater ,gone back to beach shore & pier ,can’t get get about like I use to OLD AGE ,HEALTH PROBLEMS, still can get about ,LOVE ALL YOUR ALL-SOME PROGRAMS totally addictive 😊

[@alf9638]

Graeme mate you always give so many chuckles lol and the editing is appreciated too. Totally awesome as always.

[@ironix1]

Great footage taken Graeme. I have spent so much time, by many of the finest chalk streams, over the last forty years. They are wonderful in so many ways. The contain so much life.

[@paulscrace1001]

What a beautiful River Graham sadly you don’t see many like that today love it , love your channel gave up Fishing years ago and would like to thank you for re kindling my interest in Fishing again 😊

[@nigel5755]

Great fishing video with some tempura squid at the end! 😃

[@barryallen6905]

You never disappoint Graeme, always totally Awsome

[@ryanmilliner2551]

Imagine owning that house you got a river litrally on your backstep fishermans dream❤

[@hammer_town]

Until it flooded your house and you don't have insurance because insurance companies won't insure property so close to water!

[@ryanmilliner2551]

@@hammer_town i know still a dream🤣

[@pollyparrot8759]

I know this house and stretch of river. The house doesn't flood because of the way it's built with the river running underneath it, in addition the river is well managed by sluices also preventing flooding.

[@dazk6592]

Awesome Graeme, now I’m hungry!👍😊

[@lukejoslin3617]

I fish that stretch of the blackwater frequently, it's a long stretch of free fishing. Good for chub, roach and even the occasional barbel and carp. Lovely stretch of the river. Thanks for the videos. It was your river fishing videos that got me into fishing the blackwater. I have caught so many fish trotting a float using the techniques that you teach. Still yet to find a barbel on the float though!

[@Sean017]

Graeme, fantastic video as always. legend!

[@mickhardstaff6605]

Beautiful video again Graeme and it was wonderful to hear Mrs Pullen is on her feet again , it can only get better for her now with summer on its way . Will I ever see Colin ? Still waiting patiently 😭 .

[@TAFishing]

You are right and I apologise I know I said I would put the highly graphic nature-at-its-finest clip up. But I keep getting sidetracked. I have two,one is Colin plus the Kestrel,the other is the most insane mole removal method ever tried..They will be shown..

[@lynnebaker9672]

Love all your video's they are so entertaining thank you keep them coming GP.

[@TAFishing]

I might try a double upload next week,all depends on work messing things up.

[@raygrange7312]

Excellent Graeme.

[@wildrose7546]

Thanks for managing to get a video out this week. That chalk stream was just beautiful.

[@TAFishing]

Its been a manic week what with spending the day helping the boat to be sorted and towed away plus I had a long film scheduled so I knew there was just no way I could edit in time. I don't finish editing until 10pm but its not enough time after a full day's work. Easy if you have nothing to do but edit films,but I don't have that luxury. I caught the stream just right for filming so was lucky.

[@greystash1750]

Great footage underwater, love seeing clips like that

[@torpoint100]

good one Graeme varied and interesting

[@tapple6866]

Nice to see you to see you nice! Love the videos Bruce

[@Fuego1000a]

TA Graeme!! Great video!!

[@danielwilkinson9939]

Otters that Graham, taking the swan muscels out and eating them.

[@drgjenkins4361]

Just come across your channel and it is fantastic. I am in the midlands myself, and live in an old Hall. We have a lake out the back (open for day fishing) that, apparently, is recorded in the doomsday book (so has been there since 1086!!!!). Is covered in Lilys. Has been stocked with carp, but I believe it has some 'wild' carp alongside them. Also, apparently, a catfish or two.... is a beautiful surrounding. Hall was built in 1677 and backs onto the lake. Always here if you want a poke around!

[@user-wv5fq8di2m]

Excellent video - Thanks!

[@cameroncameron2826]

Thanks Professor !!

[@stephenwilkinson4214]

Really enjoyed the filming of the Chalk stream amazing how clear it was and the quality of fish Oh my God ... Cheers Graeme 👍🎣🎣

[@TAFishing]

I used to have pictures(stills) of other rivers that were like that when I was a youngster,I must have a look and see what I can find.

[@stephenwilkinson4214]

@@TAFishing yes they would be nice to see. I live in Northern Ireland and like you like to mix my fishing up a bit but have never came across anything as clear and as healthy as that stream, beautiful ... Cheers Graeme take care 👍🎣🎣

[@redvalley9]

I think of you as the modern day Jack Hargreaves. Keep ‘em coming!

[@TAFishing]

But without the pipe and horse....I don't know why they don't make that type of film today ,nothing wrong with a bit of nostalgia,they were good times back then.

[@redvalley9]

@TAFishing was the only way to catch a bit of fishing on tv

[@alexwong8513]

Love watching these videos. My children are started to get interested in fishing because of these. Im a beginner and thank you as these are interesting and offer a lot of help

[@TAFishing]

pleased the films help and good luck with the fishing.

[@ArielleViking]

What a beautiful stream. 👍

[@robertcotton9091]

Awesome !!!

[@keaganhenderson3518]

Keep up the great content🎉

[@paulAnthony7236]

Good underwater shots👍.

[@ianphilp7423]

Can't wait to see what you come up with next

[@TAFishing]

It could be something salty ? You never know with an all-round Fishing Show...

[@alantee1]

Thankyou.

[@lloydrobson]

I Know all these places, Blackwater, Yateley, The river at Alresford and obviously Emsworth. I lived in Basingstoke, so grew up knowing them 👍🏻🎣

[@ianrobinson986]

Excellent underwater footage especially of "the lady of the stream". Thank you, your uploads are always interesting & informative.

[@TAFishing]

I try to mix it up as that is exactly what I have done all my life...all-round fishing.

[@malcolmtoyer8950]

Lovely shots of the secret river-I walked along there on a guided birdwatching day fairly recently, it is so picturesque! Our guide was telling us that they have had to unfortunately fence off the river in large sections to stop dogs entering the water. Apparently the flea and tick medications were getting in the water and of course it's dangerous for wildlife.

[@TAFishing]

I did see the wiring but I thought it was to keep people from crumbling the banks down. It would never occur to me that dog medication would get into the water..something else I have learned .

[@geoffsaunderson5766]

More like otters, but you can’t say that

[@glyn829]

Very enjoyable 👌 but of frost got in the brickwork there and blown it though.. good film that 👌 regards Glyn

[@AndreasGassner]

It's always interesting

[@sam.horgan35horgan33]

Amazing

[@Rose.Of.Hizaki]

2:34 - those scratch marks are either from birds rooting around for food or squirrels searching for nuts they might have buried. We get a lot of small patchy holes like that around my local fishery. Plenty of birds and squirrels up in the trees!

[@charlestipton9709]

love the videos

[@clivedavies3]

Still interesting Graham though great coverage of the river brilliant camera work.

[@chriselson7413]

Man alive that was good 😂

[@poLaczekCebularz]

Hi Greame, love you❤

[@janedurston8939]

Thank you K/C mr D

[@chriswilson7350]

Great video Graham . Don’t forget your landing net time though !

[@TAFishing]

The large landing net was right behind me but for smaller fish I often hand lift them to stop them spinning,twisting in the net which means they are out of the water longer.

[@davidprocter3578]

I really enjoyed the footage of the chalk stream took me back to my youth when most small rivers and streams ran clear, it is possible to find the odd one these days that still does even without the benefit of chalk. There is a small stream in Bedford runs through an industrial estate on the outskirts of town it has been cut and worked over the years by various bodies but still runs clear unless in spate. narrow enough to jump and about 15 inches deep on average it is often possible to find good sized fish swimming up stream on the hunt, this water has all the appearance of a man made ditch yet still it clings on to life full of vegetation and with a good current it refuses to submit its life force to the hand of man, a lesson to us all.

[@TAFishing]

I think I might get the chance to fish a tiny stream for wild Brownies on the fly,just waiting for the weather to sort itself out and the Mayfly to come off. It won't be anytime soon looking at the current weather chart.

[@bobarty]

I know Emsworth quite well was stationed near by at Thorney Island when it was RAF for three months back in the 1970,s

[@newsmonger77]

Frost damage to bricks can be prevented by painting the bricks with a clear water sealer like Thompsons water seal. Also works on terracotta pots.

[@TAFishing]

I wonder if diluted PVA might do the same and preserve them a bit longer. I know its only a brick,but with the price they are now it might be worth preserving them a bit longer.

[@allanriches9381]

That squid looks 😎😎

[@TAFishing]

I hope the fish find it to their liking as well when I come to put it on the hook.

[@ThomasDoubting5]

Jimmy hill looking well 😂

[@tadhghayden8440]

Enchanting

[@fiskrond9212]

I live in South wales valleys.. no sooner had the rivers recovered from the industrial pollution than they built over the hillsides near the source, all the land water now going into sewers.. many are now silted up and devoid of fish due to either lack of water or flooding. Ecosystem destroyed.

[@TAFishing]

Will probably never come back. Unless they suck all the silt out and increase flow.

[@harleyp580]

I used to watch ur videos all the time then I lost it 😢😢😢 but I finally found it again

[@TAFishing]

Every Friday-7pm,and sometimes midweeks as well.

[@hunter111uk]

It looks like the Fulling Mill on the River Alre at Alresford to me, I used to walk there with my girlfriend!

[@grahamspencer9344]

You're right it is. I walk it quite often.

[@pollyparrot8759]

I was trying to avoid saying where it was as too many visitors will destroy this quiet spot .... so please potential visitors consider the enviroment before walking here. Thanks.

[@hookedonbass2640]

Not sure but seen a shit load of the same shells on a local river on the Somerset levels, what are they and what’s eating them?

[@dueteriumcake]

Please please please get a new (smaller) boat GP! Love your videos where your in Beer or of the coast in Ireland in a small boat.

[@TAFishing]

Beer film on the way.

[@catfish4729]

Mix pollyfiller powder or any filler as long as its powder and external mix that in with the paint and that will fill the cracks same as internal if you try and put paint in the cracks it will look like they have been filled but when it drys the cracks will open up again

[@michaelbaines2383]

Those shells were from Smith having a cook up before you got there 😂 sandtex is brilliant stuff......I did all the slate courses in black under my bay windows last week in between the rain

[@TAFishing]

Seems my whole outside year has been just that..."In between the rain"..getting fed up with it. Almost getting into Tench time and its still cold.

[@michaelbaines2383]

Lost track of how many times rain has stopped play when I'm out there working my way through the wifes job list 😡

[@johnhanson8442]

I used to fish the river Wey back in the mid late 60s it was brilliant with high flow and many clear spots now it’s terrible cloudy and no weed it’s been destroyed

[@TAFishing]

This river is not the Wey but I know what you mean,I have seen the Upper Wey deteriorate in as short as the last 3 years.

[@johnhanson8442]

@@TAFishing that river looked more like the Test I fished it yet again back in the 60s and 70s I’m glad it’s not been to badly sffected

[@dantanfield7664]

Great footage in the stream 👌 is this local GP?

[@catfish4729]

Ps go to Bosham thats a nice walk i used to live there

[@chrispickering1814]

Good Morning. I believe that your squid🦑 is the same as ours here in Greece. This is what we do 1) Hold by the tentacles and hit it 100 times against a rock to tenderize it 2) Pull out the head and tentacles guts and quill (the plastic looking bit) 4) Cut the body into rings and dip them and the head and tentacles into batter and deep fry. 5) Serve with a wedge of lemon. If you soak it in milk it becomes tough and rubbery. Please try and let me know how you got on. Regards Chris.

[@TAFishing]

I saw online it said to soak in milk to prevent it going rubbery ?..and I have to find a rock as well. I have cooked larger squid I have caught and cut them into squid ringsa,but I have never cooked the Baby squid.

[@gymbruh1824]

Yayyy

[@terrykeane2502]

I'd also be interested where you were lure fishing for pike.

[@TAFishing]

Check the film from the previous week,you must have missed it.

[@Mcintechmobilemechanic]

Beautiful fish grayem vidio footage is perfect what camera do you use i would love to get fotage like that

[@TAFishing]

Just an old secondhand GoPro my son gave me.

[@chrispickering1814]

Here in Greece we coat squid in batter and deep fry in olive oil. We call it calarmi.

[@TAFishing]

I did read that Calamari are a totally different squid to our normal variety,apparently the best eating squid..I also saw it said for our squid to soak the meat overnight in milk which helps soften it. I have not tried that yet.

[@bsa5650]

Would love you to do fly fishing for pike!

[@TAFishing]

I think I have a film up on the playlist ? If not I must search a place to try it. I know I have written several magazine articles on it years ago .

[@bsa5650]

@@TAFishingThanks for the msg. I think I have watched all your films I don't remember it maybe I missed one! I have always wanted you to fish for more species on the fly. I will keep an optimistic eye out. I wish your good lady a good and speedy recovery. Steve

[@Codeagles1]

From the intro I thought painted the house caught a grayling cooked it went back for main course which was duck 🤔 🤣🤣🤣

[@A_New_Yorker_Lost_In_Florida]

do u folks have cranes? here in florida the sandhill cranes eat the freash water mussels and leave messes everywhere

[@TAFishing]

We may have some sort of Cranes that pass on migration. I have a feeling it might be Mink or Otters and I am going to ask the owner if I can put a trailcam up somewhere.

[@A_New_Yorker_Lost_In_Florida]

@@TAFishing the otters down here are voracious sea-foodies lol... a trailcam would be really cool - i hope you are doing well, nice to see u always

[@A_New_Yorker_Lost_In_Florida]

@@TAFishing by the way the opener for this episode is really brilliant... i enjoyed the cuts from the bubbling and the flow of the aquatic plants ... always enjoyed your editing style!!! and yes the clouds are c nimbus

[@kingrafa3938]

👍👍👍

[@martynbenstead]

Hi do you live in that spectacular cottage

[@cjn3593]

What was the first lake Graeme fished at? Can’t quite work out the name of it from the video.

[@TAFishing]

Look it the film list,I put one up a couple of films ago.And in the "Show More" at the top of the vid it tells you where to make contact.

[@cjn3593]

@@TAFishing thank you!

[@vindivergilio3482]

Great video. How goes life without The Drifter? Good I hope. Again..I ask 'WHY'???

[@TAFishing]

I was getting less and less opportunities to use it. More work + less weather windows = no fishing.

[@stephenasbridge878]

There are ten million more people in the UK now than there were when I was a kid learning to fish.

[@A10WUK]

Graeme you need to do an episode with Paul Whitehouse........

[@TAFishing]

No, I just stick to solo work thanks.

[@dahutful]

Use the squid heads for carp and perch

[@TAFishing]

I think the Perch might like them.

[@philp2088]

Im recently retired might take up fishing again. Thanks for the video Graeme.

[@F4Insight-uq6nt]

I predict that the river flow will increase later this year.. On the Thames it will be Around Halloween time.

[@raider1822]

New boat? 😳

[@TAFishing]

Not at the moment. Doubtful. Maybe a smaller one.

[@raider1822]

@TAFishing Step on one in a Marina... Come on G, sell some of that pallet wood you horde.

[@hensleyshobbies-doug7761]

All those empty shells, oysters, mussels, whatever, but you would think you'd have coons ( raccoons) over there, or something similar to a coon. But I don't think they would pack them up on the trail, they'd eat them right by the river side, lake side, and there would be a pile of shells on the bank. Now, you watch Graeme, you will have 8 or 10 other people answering for you, some of them think you can't read & write, I suppose.. anywho, yes indeedy Graeme buddy, keep on keeping on 🤘 and tight lines to ya, when you can!!

[@TAFishing]

.....We don't get those "Raccoons" here but I aim to put up a trailcam if the owner allows and see if we can find the culprit.

[@hensleyshobbies-doug7761]

@@TAFishing - oh yeah, there you go. I kinda figured you all didn't have raccoons over there but something that is "similar", I guess?

[@GMT439]

Ref Title: I suspect that they are various sizes.

[@johnhanson8442]

I never blank I just run out of time

[@kevinbuckler1085]

Some great information there Graeme,but don’t get me started on the state of so many rivers these days. Makes me laugh that there’s such a contradictory amount of fuss about beavers being introduced etc, and then the authorities pump all that 💩 into them 🤬🐟🎣

[@SkiSummer]

Flour, egg, breadcrumbs, deep fry, add lemon and garlic

[@eddy_lee_9115]

Brick has 50 cycles... meaning 50 freez and unfreeze times before it starts crumbling...

[@mikeybrant6305]

I fish, and I eat most of what I catch, freshwater fish where I live is just trout and char

[@geoffsaunderson5766]

So what your saying is, you sold everything and bought a house in the Cotswolds? I couldn’t understand the first bit?? Anyone?

[@TAFishing]

No,I sold my boat that's all. I wouldn't want to live in the Cotswolds myself, I am a Hampshire man .

[@geoffsaunderson5766]

@@TAFishing fare play, still some lovely looking waters that way, I’m from sussex, sounds good but we are not blessed with the finest rivers or indeed sea fish in UK, we have bits and pieces, but no Hampshire avons ect 🙂

[@brian1204]

No need for apologies! Even these vids are a cut above most other channels!

[@plummerboy170]

Didn’t I give you them lures mate , Richard

[@TAFishing]

Yes,don't worry I will be mentioning it in an upcoming film..I can't remember where you said you got them from though but I think you said they were really cheap. I've done well with them this past winter,I think about 18 Pike hooked up though one I can't use as the tail shredded. The other one is ok though. I've had them in the box about 2 years but red/white has always been a good colour with Rapalas as well. Hope the plaster business is going well.

[@malcolmtaylor1556]

Good job you didn't need a boat

[@drfloxy2779]

The cost of a rod licence you would think all rivers looked that way by now?

[@TAFishing]

You would rather hope so. I have seen rivers so overgrown they look like a backwater of the Amazon..and they were clear banks when I was a youngster..I have no idea why its not cleared..all it does is snag up more rubbish which then blocks floodwater,pushes the current to the bank edge which erodes it,thus making the river shallower and thereby slower..all it takes is some manual work,ropes and a couple of chainsaws of the long Silky saw that Mike uses on T.A.Outdoors.

[@drfloxy2779]

@@TAFishing bit less time "in the van" more time "in the water" totally agree

[@joelmontgomery4496]

Nice 1 G

[@stevechantry9963]

yes to another boat but put it on a mooring

[@fisherman5517]

there fresh water muscles not ousters .

[@simonw8tube]

The scratch marks are probably badgers

[@TAFishing]

I may put a trailcam out just to see what is about.

[@craiggough3272]

The shell,s are from otters

[@craiggough3272]

Otters eat the muscles a lake I used to fish shell where everywhere

[@arronfrost2872]

Can you come and make me a bacon sandwich please Mr P.

[@TAFishing]

How would you like it cooked sir ?..Well done ? Slightly well done, carbonated( my signature dish) or just the ash on bread version....

[@chrispickering1814]

All the squid caught here are1-2kg The baby squid are not caught. Maybe it's the bait we use.

[@BrokenBlade55]

Not a good one? I disagree with you. I enjoyed it very much

[@davidsparrow1176]

You don't see a river keeper anymore.