 Hi everyone, welcome back to lockdown fishing part 3. My quest for roach continues in my local River Choo. I didn't do myself justice, I didn't feel on my last video, so I'm back down here for more torture. Ending over sort of 3 or 4 ounces will be an improvement, so it's an easy mission to accomplish in that sense, but whether there's any big ones in here still or not, I really don't know. There's only one way to find out, I've got about half an hour of light left, I'm hoping as darkness comes these fish are going to switch on. Earlier on I put out a load of hemp, my fanny's about with a centipede reel for a little bit of the float, and had one small dace and one small roach. But if there's one thing I learned from my last week, it was that you can't cover both bases for the roach and the chub and barbell. Scaling down made all the difference, so that's what I'm going to do tonight. I'm going to use a size 10 Kammerson B520 hook on 2 pound hook length, and hope that that finer tackle pays off. Single swan shot as well on the line, no running lead, no running rig, and a bow in the line so there's a little bit of slapping, a little bit of give. I think with all my lure fishing and fly fishing I've forgotten just how much finesse is needed in targeting roach. Really simple set up, fishing just that one piece of shot on six pound line. I can't see nothing, but I can see it on the screen, but not in front of me. If you ever use hook to nylons and you find that when you take them out of a packet they could turn into a knot, just put your fingers in the middle of the loop. Don't just pull your fingers in the middle of the loop, so just ease it apart. It should all come apart nicely. There it is, two pound line, very light. To attach it to the main line all I'm going to do is put one loop through the other, like so, and then drop the hook through, like so, and there's our loop to loop. If you don't use hook to nylons while out fishing I really encourage you to make that switch from tying them straight onto your line. First of all, first and foremost it's better for the fish because for the line breaks all that fish has got to swim around with is a small piece of line that long rather than an all your main line. So do it for fish welfare reasons, but also because it's much better presentation using a thinner line. I'm going to start off just using half a logworm section. That's all I'm going to have on there. It's funny because in my fishing blogs I go all over the place and have some of the best fishing in South West, but I've neglected my fishing on my doorstep. Thanks for the nice feedback from my last video by the way. I really wasn't expecting that. I was expecting no feedback whatsoever. In fact I wasn't expecting it on to watch it because there was no big fish in it. Apart from the salmon that jumped. Really interesting hearing from some of the people who have fished here a lot longer than I have as well. Apparently it used to be a lot more bigger fish about. Fishing tears over hemp. Apparently there's a way to get these big roach. I'm only going to fish an hour in start. The wind tonight, my mental health's not been good recently. Just the stress of lockdown, not being able to work. Fishing's the perfect tonnip for it. I think what I'm going to have to do is switch that light off to negging the air. I don't think I'm going to catch the blast. It's up like a Christmas tree because I'll see no luck on the logworm. But I just have to go on the bread plate. A single BB shot, then I'll cast out straight. The flake itself is only just walking down through the water and it spun all the way round. Just about giving up on it. Thinking that I hadn't put enough shot on to take that flake down. And I had an absolute king bite. And it stands to reason, doesn't it? There's a duck on to my left. What's the natural food for the roach? Well the kids come down and feed the ducks about. Come down and feed the ducks bread every day, don't they? Of course. There's so much leaf it's wrong on the deck at the moment. A nice piece of bread flake walking around just on top. It's nice and visible, quite right. Lost my hook. There's our big old flake. I checked my hook. That's tied on fine. Maybe I've just struck too hard. I can't begin to tell you how pleased I am with that. That's really promising. With a two-roach, I had a feeling they got bigger. He's got to be knocking on for a pound. I won't weigh him. Just trying to get a quick picture. So they are in here. And I had that on a log one. Brilliant. Oh, had I missed that. I had a good chat with a local angler, Christian, and he was saying the increased pressure on this fishery because of the barb, but there's no real bad thing. It means more food is going into the fish. Or lose sufferings. Hopefully that means they'll grow on a bit and it will sustain a bigger fish population. I'm sure as hell needs it having done the river fly monitoring upstream and discovered that the invertebrate population has crashed. That feels like a roach. I'll put the bigger light on. That's a roach. Lovely. Oh, is it chub? That's a roach. Really difficult getting them close in because of the overhead canopy out in the net. Wrong way, mate. Wrong way. Sorry, the fishing is more important than the bid. I'm going to have to dim that light. It's making me out. Nor is that a good dace. Could be. A mahusid dace. Let's find out. That is a mahusid dace. A big picture of this dace. I think I've sussed it. Honestly, that's got to be bigger than the last one. Right, let's weigh it. I think I'll be catching something quite as small as that. Perfection in miniature. It's all about the lighting. All right, let's go in on it and make it back quickly. Fish on. Don't know what it is. It's giving me a good runner up. Oh, it's gone.