Stream Giant Almost SNAPPED My Rod In Half! Epic Multi Species Challenge! Lures Only!

Hello guys, and welcome back to the

channel. As you can see, I've got the

waders on. I'm stood in the middle of an

absolutely beautiful, crystal clear

river. Now, this river is probably half

the size of the river I was fishing for

barbel in in my last video. But, what am

I after today? Well, I'm actually lure

fishing with an incredibly light lure

fishing setup. 0.2

to 0.8 g. Absolutely nothing. And that

is because [music] I'm doing another

multi-species lure fishing challenge. I

did one recently on the canal. It went

really, really well. We're going super

today on this little river to try and

catch as many species as we can do in

about 6 hours on artificial lures only.

I'm not 100% [music]

sure on the species that are in here,

but I have caught chub from here before.

I've caught perch from here before. And

I've even caught, I think, one rogue

trout here before, as well. So, fingers

crossed I get a few species today.

[music] You never know what we're going

to get. Let's go.

>> [music]

>> Now, I am really eager to start fishing

today. So, I'm going to very quickly run

you through my setup. As I mentioned,

0.2 to 0.8 g XUL rod. Super, super

sensitive. Got to be careful because I

am terrible with tackle and breaking it.

That is an incredibly sensitive rod tip.

And that is because I'm chucking

absolutely microscopic baits. And I'll

show you exactly, probably the main bait

I'll be using today. If you can see it,

cuz it's so small. It's a tiny, weeny,

little, um, trimmed down bloodworm. I've

got some bloodworm imitation baits. I've

got some little wormy style imitation

baits. Some little tiny mini shads. And

I'll be using them on tiny little hooks

like this. With, of course, tungsten

putty molded around the eye of the hook

to give it some weight. And with that, I

can catch absolutely any species of fish

that lives inside this stream. Whether

they're predatory or non-predatory. Now,

the lines are super, super light.

Obviously, we have to be able to cast

these baits out. So, we have the super

fine, super sensitive rod for helping to

flick these baits out long distances.

Also really light line, so just 4-lb

braid loaded onto this reel.

Ultra light, super thin braid, and then

the leader is just 2-lb. It's a 2-lb

fluorocarbon leader, and that thing

paired up with this setup should be

enough for me to land big chub to little

tiny baby fish like little minnows and

gudgeon and things like that we might be

able to find in here. [music] Right,

let's get cracked on because I really

want to catch some fish and I want to

see how many species of fish I can catch

>> [music]

>> in the next 5 or 6 hours.

>> [music]

>> Woah!

Oh, it looks like a big yeah. Oh, that's

a chub.

It's got to be a big chub.

On the XUL.

That was on a tiny little bait. This

bait is honestly

a tiny little bloodworm imitation.

That's a good size chub.

One of the species we need to tick off

and on a 0.2 g rod.

Oh my god, that feels good.

Oh, please don't come off.

It's a snap grand but he thankfully

didn't come off. It's a little barbless

size 18 hook.

2-lb line. Look at that.

Oh, it's annoying. He's downstream now.

Look [laughter] at the rod.

Come on.

Our rod's bent in two.

Come on.

This is a big chub for the XUL. Oh my

god.

Look at that.

Oh, no.

Almost knocked it off.

Yes.

Oh, that's a good size chub as well.

God, no wonder it took me so long to

land him. Tiny

weedy little bloodworm imitation

on a size 18 hook.

A bit of tungsten putty.

And to say I'm only fishing a barbless

hook, there was no way he was going to

come off.

It's embedded in his little bony bit.

There we go.

That is a good size fish.

Now, the sun is very, very bright in

this area as you can probably tell from

the fact that I've set my camera up

underneath a bridge.

But, this is an absolutely fantastic

fish

for the XL setup.

Look at that.

Absolutely cracking chub, probably about

3 and 1/2 lb on a 0.2 to 0.8 g rod.

That was a fight and a half. And it is

species number one ticked off our list

for the session.

Awesome.

>> [music]

>> Well, this is what I like when it comes

to fishing wild venues.

Just come from the main bit of river.

There's a tree blocking it. There's no

other way around than through here.

Where is it?

>> [music]

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>> Oh, oh, big job, big job.

Oh my god, look at that rubber band.

There we go.

>> [laughter]

>> Oh, Jesus.

It's like I've came into a bobble on

this setup. Look at that. Oh, I can feel

it rubbing against

some sort of snag.

It was really well stuck in the weed.

Oh, look at the size of that.

Get in.

Just 2-lb leader.

Tiny little bait.

Oh, we got him. Got lucky there as well

cuz you see the line was properly

wrapped around his fins.

Look at that. Right in the scissors, so

to speak.

My soft plastic is somewhere up the

line, I think.

Right, what I'm actually going to do is

I'm going to put the chub between my

legs resting in the water

>> [snorts]

>> because I think if I mess around setting

the big camera up, showing them off to

you guys, um and then releasing him back

into the swim, I think he's going to

spook off any other chub that are down

there, but there's still a couple of

chub down there.

All right, big boy.

Um there's still a couple of chub down

there, so what I'm going to do is

re-rig up another little soft plastic.

I'll show you exactly what I just caught

that chub on.

It was on one of these wormy little

baits, but I trimmed it down. So, I

ripped the head off it, so to speak.

Then thread this onto the hook, but not

completely all the way around,

only halfway up the shank, like so, and

then put a blob of tungsten putty

around the eye of the hook.

And we've got ourselves a tiny little

micro jig that can be thrown on a 0.2 g

setup.

Just still

maybe two or three. Just sat on the edge

of that weed

in the main flow.

Oh, that's another big chub. There we

go.

That's what I've been waiting for.

Had a few more casts.

Oh, it's gone through all the weed. This

is going to be a real struggle.

On the 0.2 g setup.

I've got a nice bream shot, which is

nice.

Well, if I land it.

Getting a bit optimistic, aren't I? Not

got it in the net yet.

It's funny cuz there is a couple of

really big ones down there. This isn't

one of them, believe it or not.

This is one of the average size ones,

probably a little bit smaller than the

one I've got in the net.

Oh, nearly.

Yes, [laughter]

we got him.

Oh, at least he gave me a bait back.

Look.

The little pink soft plastic.

Right corner of his mouth just Oh, I

lost one.

Proper nice chub, though. It's hard to

believe that they're two of the the sort

of average size ones in the swim.

There's a couple of real big ones.

Right, we'll take a look at these.

And then we might try looking for some

more species. I don't think we'll get

another one from here.

Oh, would you look at that? These guys

put up one hell of a scrap on the XUL

gear. Two chub, both of them around

about 3 lb. That is absolutely awesome.

They're both sitting still just for this

brief moment because they've been

flapping around this entire time.

Oh, that is awesome.

From the same spot up against the weeds.

But, since I've probably spooked off

those chub now, I have seen lots of

smaller fish. I'm not sure what they

are, but I can scale right down.

Obviously, we're fishing with a 0.2 g

rod. We can scale right down to

microscopic baits and find out what some

of the smaller fish are that are down

there. I'm almost certain I've seen

gudgeon. I've seen minnows.

Maybe even a couple of little roach or

something like that. Maybe even dace.

Okay, we've had a couple of big fish

now. We'll try for some smaller species

and then we'll work our way further up

the river and maybe find ourselves one

or two more chub on the way as well.

Thanks for the fight, guys. That was

wicked.

But, go and tell all your other species

friends to go and meet me.

See you later.

Right, guys. So, this is where I've just

been catching those chub. There's a

great big weed raft. That's where I was

getting the chub against. Obviously,

after I caught our second fish, that

spooked off the rest of the chub that

were down there. We don't need those

anyway cuz we've ticked them off.

Um and what's happened is then a load of

smaller fish have moved in.

Probably from under the weed and come

out into this open and there's all

different species down there. I can't

quite tell exactly. I think mostly

gudgeon, but there could be a couple of

bonus species in there as well.

Once I get the polarized glasses on, I

get a proper good look. I can see them

down there. There might be a couple of

roach, a couple of dace, maybe.

Really, really positive.

Right, I'm going to scale down now. I

was using a relatively large worm style

bait to try and get a big chub or

something. And now we're going to scale

right down to a little microscopic

bloodworm or something maybe even

similar to that. Um to flick over

towards the opposite bank underneath the

weed raft in hopes of getting another

species from this spot before we move

on.

Right, let's get re-rigged up.

Oh, perch.

That was awesome. [music]

Oh, there's even more chasing it. Oh, it

come between me legs.

Well, it's another species.

Exactly what we're after today.

A fish. Oh, we've got a fish. What's

that?

Oh, it's a perch.

Hey. What chased it by a chub?

>> [laughter]

>> That's funny.

That's a good size perch, you know.

>> [cough]

>> I actually cheated and put on a bigger

bait and I was supposed to be fishing

micro baits.

But, I've put on a slightly bigger bait,

which is too heavy for the rod, but uh

What I'm just trying to get some more

species. Oh, god, he's

I've dropped a perch back and I've

dropped my rod back at the same time.

So, I'm going to have to really

carefully cuz obviously I'm stood in the

river all along this sort of tree line

um we've got a multitude of different

species all the way up. Mostly just

here, but they're all the way down.

And as I just mentioned, there's sort of

a bit of everything. I can see gudgeon

definitely, possibly dace,

maybe little roach, and I've definitely

definitely seen one singular tiny baby

barbel, which is awesome.

In fact, it's just there now. I can see

the barbel right in front of me.

It's about this big. It's swimming

amongst the gudgeon.

Um what I'm going to do though is I'm

going to cheat a little bit because

the bit of tungsten putty I'm putting on

the hook is just seems to be ever so

slightly putting them off. I don't

actually have some action

um

on the rig as it has been normally. But

what I've done is I've changed right

down to a proper microscopic

piece of bloodworm um fake bloodworm

obviously with no weight on the hook at

the minute. I might put some weight up

the line to weight it down to make the

presentation look a bit more natural.

But what I'm doing here is I'm actually

sticking my rod tip underneath the water

and dragging the bait down in front of

these fish cuz it's so shallow and I can

see the fish down there.

I might have a chance at catching them

like this.

Oh, gudgeon attacking it.

Got one. We've got one.

Little tiny baby chicken gudgeon.

Well, that's probably the smallest

gudgeon down there. It is absolutely

tiny but he's nailed that

little fake bloodworm.

Absolutely crushed it. Hopefully I can

get a few more bigger ones of these.

I'll stick him in the net because

obviously he's not Oh, well he jumped

out of the net. Fair play to you. I was

going to say um if I can get one or two

then I can have a little shot can't I

with a few gudgeon. But he's jumped out.

But that's another species ticked off

the list. This could be the key to

getting some of these smaller species to

fish like this. It's a little bit cheaty

really isn't it? Sticking my rod tip

under the water, getting my bait to

flutter right down in front of these

fish and just gently twitching it in

front of them.

>> [music]

>> There's another one. Yes.

I'm watching him take it. That's a

slightly better one.

>> [music]

>> I'm getting a little one. Come and grab

it, attack it, [music] shake its head.

There we go again.

Have another one, look.

We're on a roll now. We've hit the

gudgeon honey hole.

Now, I've just caught [music] absolutely

stacks of low core chicken gudgeons,

which is absolutely fantastic. Look,

I've got handfuls of chicken gudgeons.

This one's actually the smallest one I

caught, and it was the very, very first

one. Bless him, I took him straight

back. Let's have a look at the couple of

biggest ones we got, because we did get

a couple of half decent decent size

gudgeons. And I tell you what,

these aren't even close to the biggest

one I saw down there,

which tells you something, don't it?

So, this one may not look huge, but he

was a

Whoop. Oh, I've dropped him back. Well,

that didn't work out, did it? That was

one of the Well, it's the biggest one I

caught, and it's one of the bigger ones

down there, but it wasn't even close to

some of the ones I'd seen. I'd seen one

or two that were like, oh, this long.

They were absolutely massive they were.

And I'm going to release all these

little chicken gudgeons now, and then

we'll get on looking for some more

species.

Might have a couple more casts in this

spot before I move upstream, because I

have seen some dace and like I say, a

little baby barbel, but uh need to get

cracked on. I've only got a couple hours

left before we have [music] to start

heading home.

Come on. Yes, that's a different

species.

That's a different species. Come on.

I've not got my net to hand.

He wrapped himself up.

It's a dace.

Yes.

Look at that. Oh, he's jumped himself

back in, but we could see it. You could

see clearly as day that was a dace.

Yes, getting.

>> [music]

>> Well, guys, we've reached this section

of the river now, which is a really,

really strong current rapidy section,

loads of big slippy boulders. Um and for

those of you guys that have been around

for more than a year since it's been

about a year since I fished this river.

Well, now it's treacherous. I've walked

up there a few times. You can get up

there, but it's big slippy rocks, deep

pools. It can be pretty treacherous. I

know that up there the only species I've

ever caught has been perch and chub, and

I've not seen a great deal else up

there. So, I don't think it's really

going to be worth me risking me life to

go and try and get some multi species.

I've got about an hour left, so what I'm

going to do is I'm going to head back

downstream, try some of the pools we've

already had a go in, and maybe get one

or two more species to end up this

challenge. Let's go.

Perch.

Big perch.

On the way home.

Well, we don't need to take this species

off,

but I'm sure you guys can get an idea of

the size of this fish.

Absolutely gorgeous.

Oh.

Oh, I was about to show him off

properly. And I was going to say in from

this body of water that's probably one

of the biggest perch you'll find in

here.

And now I'm really [music] curious to

see if there's any more.

It's another species.

>> [music]

>> Got it. Oh, it's saw Oh, he's come off.

No. It's a little baby pike. Really

needed that. That would have been

another species.

>> [music]

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>> Perch.

And another perch is chasing it home.

Don't think I've ever caught so many

[music] perch out of this little river

before.

This session.

I've I

fished it for the last [music] sort of

two seasons. I've sort of dabbled on

here. And another perch. I've just never

[music] had so many perch. Usually I'd

expect to get maybe two or three in a

session here. And today it's just been

like non-stop perch [music] action

whenever I put a slightly larger bait

on.

I'm just getting these guys. Absolutely

loads of them.

I do love them though.

>> [music]

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>> So I was just moving downstream.

And I've spotted a bunch of minnows.

Right down in front of me. I don't know

how I'm going to catch them, but these

are the biggest ones I've seen so far I

think.

I'm going to be very carefully step back

to try not to spook them.

Got one. I've got one.

Oh my god, I got one.

I got one. We got a minnow.

It's another species ticked off.

Just to prove it's in the mouth. Oh,

it's a big minnow as well. Look at that.

On the little soft plastic.

Oh, hook just popped out. God, that was

lucky. I reckon he would come off if I'd

left him any longer.

>> [snorts]

>> Another species of fish. Getting

the humble minnow on a lure. Another

species ticked off.

>> [music]

>> Oh. Got a barbel. We got a barbel. We

got a baby barbel.

Oh my god.

Oh my god.

Come on.

Oh. Get in the net. Get in the net, you

little torpedo. Oh my god, we got one.

Oh.

Yes.

Oh. I was barely talking. Oh, this has

popped out.

Now, I will say I have changed my

rigging slightly

to give a bit more of a natural

presentation. So, we are still fishing

with

um artificial lures, as you can see.

Little tiny bloodworm imitation soft

plastic on a size 18. Um the difference

is I put on quite a big shot,

like an SSG split shot right up the

line, so that I could drop it down. And

when the lead hits the bottom,

then the soft plastic just gently drifts

down to the bottom a bit more naturally,

um as opposed to having the lead weight

around the hook, where it was quite an

aggressive action. And I've just caught

the smallest barbel I've had in

absolutely years.

And it's on a soft plastic as well.

That is absolutely stunning.

Well, guys, you couldn't make it up,

could you? I'm currently kneeling down

in in river, so don't worry. This fish

is nice and safe and cold in the water.

And what I will say is I'm actually

heading back home. This is actually sort

of the end of the session now.

Um

and I just thought I'd try it in some of

the swims where I'd had a go already,

cuz I realized with the gudgeon, the

last gudgeons when I was fishing, I was

catching them one after another. And

that was when I changed the rig

slightly. I moved the weight up away

from the hook and had just a little soft

plastic wafting around on the bottom

nice and naturally, and they were

nailing it. And I figured maybe the

barbel would react the same. The barbel

and gudgeon seem to hang around

together. They both feed on the bottom

in the rocks. And hey presto, within 15

to 20 minutes of being back in this

spot, the spot where there was baby

barbel, hey presto, we've gone and got

one. And it's absolutely stunning. It's

one of the few times when I'm happier to

catch a smaller version of the species

than I am a larger one, because it has

been probably 15 years since I've caught

a barbel this big, possibly even longer.

I'm being very, very careful with him. I

don't want to drop him back straight

away, because I do want to get some

shots with him.

Absolutely stunning and on a soft

plastic artificial lure as well. I

cannot complain. Another fish to the

tally. In a minute we're going to go

through and tally up all the species

that we've caught. I have had so much

fun on that tiny little ultra-light

setup today.

>> [music]

>> Well, guys, what a session we've had

today. Not only have I caught plenty of

different species from this very small

body of water on lures only, I've also

had some fantastic size fish on a 0.2 to

0.8 g rod. It was incredibly hard work

landing some of those chub, but it has

been absolutely phenomenal session. And

in total, let's tally them all up,

because I've not counted them up yet.

Let's think. We've had chub, we've had

perch, we've had stacks of chicken

gudgeons,

we've had dace,

we've had minnows,

and we've had barbel.

Six species in total in six hours.

Species an hour, can't complain. Stacks

of perch, stacks of gudgeon.

Probably about four or five big chub.

It doesn't get much better than that,

does it? I hope you guys have enjoyed

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