In the video below, I fly fish for brown and rainbow trout at a fantastic stillwater trout fishery called Pochard in North Bucks. I fished two days but the main video was shot on day two catching both brown and rainbow trout and the last fish of the day was a really nice brown trout.
A variety of flies were used, lures, nymphs, and buzzers. The fishery is in a stunning location surrounded by colourful autumn forest and a pleasure to fish with great facilities and some great fishing available.
With the Cornish squid fishing season well underway and following a recent squid fishing video I did a couple of weeks ago I talk about the vertical squid fishing rig I use from the kayak (video below) along with my most successful squid jigs the Yo-Zuri Crystal Aurora and the Yo-Zuri Ultra Bait Aurora along with my most successful squid jig colours.
These jigs are unweighted jigs well suited to vertical squid fishing. In addition, I talk about and show weighted squid jigs and squid prongs for using with bait. The rig, squid jigs, and squid jig colours have given me a lot of success over several years of squid fishing in Cornwall.
Pleased to say out kayak fishing (video below) targeting Squid and Mackerel and anything else I could catch. It was a great day with great weather and plenty of action.
After a slow start some good sized Mackerel turned up, some mixed species, and Squid. All of the fishing is lure fishing on the drift with Squid jigs, sabikis, jigs, and homemade Mackerel lures. It was a great day with a nice bag for the table with some of our favourite seafood to eat.
In the video below, I am out again starting lure Bass fishing in the dark well before sunrise and when daylight broke it was a misty foggy morning. The sea was flat calm but starting in the dark combined with the foggy morning helped to produce some Bass.
In the video below, Linda and I take advantage of some fantastic warm sunny Cornish autumn weather and spend the afternoon fishing off the rocks. The plan was to see what we could catch and if succesful, cook the fresh fish on the rocks with a portable barbeque.
We do some spinning and float fishing and have a great fun fishing afternoon with some fresh seafood to eat and enjoy. Fishing and cooking fun in the sun.
Night-time and night into dawn can be a great time to go lure fishing for Bass. In the video below, I start fishing well before dawn in the dark over shallow rough groung using a shallow working lure the 26g Westin Salty and the fish catching action was pretty quick.
UK shore fishing is tough at the best of times and from my experience there is some truth in the saying when the winds in the east the fish bite the least although it does not mean you cannot catch anything.
In the video below, I am back on the rocks in the hope of at least catching something, Mackerel, Bass, or Pollack. The wind had been in the east all week with high pressure and sunny weather, which had been great but not so great for shore fishing. My best hope of success was to start fishing before dawn in very low light conditions and that proved to be the case.
In the video below, I do some rock fishing spinning for Bass and Mackerel starting before dawn. Dawn is a great time to be out fishing and can make the difference between catching and not catching.
Spinning for or jigging for Mackerel from the shore is a great fun way to target them catching them one at a time.
In the video below, I fish a rock mark in Cornwall jigging for Mackerel using a single jig and show for beginners the sink and draw method, which can be a very effective way and an alternative to spinning.
Back at the Innis Fly Fishery Cornwall for some spring stillwater fly fishing for Trout. Shown in the video below, it was a great day with plenty of action and a first for me hooking two Trout at once.
Hooking two Trout at once is one thing but landing them is another. Fish were caught experimenting with different flies such as lure flies, nymphs, and buzzers. In addition to the fishing, I had a chat with the owner of Innis Fly Fishery Dave Johns. Once again it was a very enjoyable day with some fish to take home to the fish smoker.
Recreational shore and kayak Crab and Lobster fishing using pots is great fun and an enjoyable change from fishing for fish.
In the video below, I look at the pro style very good quality pots I use that can be managed from a kayak or managed from the shore. I talk about how the pots work and how they are deployed both from the shore and the kayak. These pots will catch Spider Crab (Cornish King Crab), Brown Crab (Edible Crab), and Lobsters.
Shore crab fishing in the video below putting out a Crab/Lobster pot for the first time this year with the most likely catch being Spider Crab now rebranded in Cornwall as Cornish King Crab in the hope the name will help to make the tasty crab more appealing to would e diners than the name Spider Crab. Hopefully, it will help to sell the crab to the domestic UK market for the benefit of the local fisherman.
Kayak fishing in the video below. March is a great time of the year in the UK to target Plaice by drift fishing over the sand dragging the baits on the bottom.
It was a great day apart from the onset of sea sickness very early in the session. It happens occasionally! Fortunately, a bit of first aid from the pills saved the day and stopped the sickly feeling so I was able to carry on and catch some tasty Plaice. In addition to the fishing, I talk about the simple Plaice rig I am using and the baits used such as Lugworm, Launce Fillet, and Mussel.
The windy weather dictated that I could not get out kayak fishing so decided to spend the Christmas Eve daytime winter fly fishing for Trout to see if I could catch a Trout to eat over the Christmas holiday period. Shown in the video below, I headed to the Innis Fly Fishery in Cornwall for the first time. Innis is a Stillwater Trout fishery with three lakes. Despite the cold, windy, rainy weather I had a fantastic day with some great sport.
In addition to the fishing, I talk about the fly fishing tackle and the flies I had with me with one fly the Pitsford Pea proving to be very successful.