 Hi everyone, it's been a while since I've done a fishing vlog and in my last trip I went to Wimbledore Lake to fly fish for trout and I'm off to Hawkeridge to meet my mate Steve who's just got into fly fishing and see if we can catch some trout. They keep hijacking my videos. I better get out of here for running, it gets broken. Rain, blue, gold. I still saw the difference. I slot just well. And if you've got a ranger on site all the time. Most of the time there's someone around if they're not one of the largest normally out on the land. An all-important coffee machine. I did have a look on YouTube to see what I could find out about the place. There's a more recent one that I've done with Nick Browne last year. I'm going to use a floating line with a single dropper with a buzzer on and a fly on the point with a bit of foam. Fighting Hawkeridge trout. Red holographic dial back. One down, four to go. They're not close to the bank so you can't call it easy for Shanks to be challenging. Water's gin clear so it's a really good stalking opportunity here. It's nice to be out on the lint as well. After seeing that fish top well out into the middle, it made sense to stick with the buzzer and fish it static so it was presented to the fish for as long as possible before being dragged in towards the bank. It actually took several minutes to bring the fish in because I was using very light gear. That's one of the lovely things about catching cured fish like this is that you don't have to get them in really quickly so you can then return and you can play them out nicely on fine gear. The point fly, a barbless F fly with a foam head. Look at the rudder on that. Brilliant condition. A nice eating size as well. This is the buzzer I caught those two fish on. Nice. Did you tie that yourself? No, sadly not. Where's your fish in the van? Yeah, both considerably bigger than yours. A friend of mine Graham, who is a keen fisherman up in Preston, I left my priest on the beach and what I lost it, so I phoned him up and said, what can you do for me? Two days later, this arrived through the post. Good old weighty deer antler filled with something. Does he poach deer then? Does he have a feel? Right mate, regroup, back to the van. And you're up for going on the boat. It's got to be done, isn't it? So we're going to be fishing these static then, Charlie, yeah? That sort of thing. That will sit really right on the surface with it. Yeah, give me a shout out to the camera. Give me, give me, give me. Yeah, nice and small. Are you upgrading from my flight to that one, are you? Yeah, your crappy one's going back into on. I'm going to have to catch on that crappy one now, aren't I? Just chuck it in the head. Make you eat humble pie. Okay, I'll cut his antenna off just to push you off then. We're asking about the storm. We're only drifting probably about less than one mile per hour. It's fine. That's fine. It's a nice speed actually, which is against the rules. There's a brilliant way of catching fish though. What do you make of welded loops on fly lines? Yeah, the fly line itself, that's all coated fly line, there's a loop at the end of it, which seals it effectively and stops any water from going into the core of the floating line, causing the end to sink. I'd always been cut off them because of the bulkiness of them. I thought that caused poor presentation, but they've got narrower and narrow and more reliable. So next fly line up, oh, there you go. Hey, hey, hey. Speaking of weak connections, the leader that I've got on here is connected with a needle knot. I've actually threaded the monofilament through the fly line, sandpapered the butt section of the tapered leader, and super glued it so there's no actual knot. Come on, sort it out then. That's better. It's gone. Oh, well done. Steve is in. Oh, he's out. In, then out. I'm privileged. I've got to get out of there before we run into here. I'm going to have to move. No, no, no, no. You've got to pay the time. You're all right. You're in a video. Do you know who I am? Yeah. One's your neck in. One's my neck in. It's a very summer-set expression isn't it? One's your neck in. Hey, get on. Yeah, yeah. Oh, well done. Good day, Rick. Good. You have any yet? Charlie's had three. I've had two. I just came on the boat. We're on the bank this morning, so... You're not feeling it from the boat? Yeah, I'm loving it. Absolutely loving it. I'm just thinking what I might do is put a slightly more lairy fly on the point as an attractor to get me good. I'm going to get this here. Do you? Yeah. I'm going to catch one now, see? That was a pull. Was it? Yeah. He's come back to the second set. He did come back to the second set. Oh, he's gone. He's gone again. He's off. He's off. Oh, I haven't had a pull. He's coming up again. There's two pulls in two cars. Not my boat. Sorry. I've got a bad wave. I've got a bad wave, man. You see it? Yeah. So is that bad? Yeah, I come. Fishy, fishy. Oh, sorry, Tony. Give me a slack a minute, mate. Can't reach my slack here. Very naughty boy. The camera running for a good hour. It's a three, isn't it? Always getting flat-rodded. Go on, mate. Get him, Tony. You're funny. I lose it now. I was turning the net. I was turning the camera. I won't get on camera. You haven't played it that long, have you? Beautiful fish. What happened? I'm off. Has he pulled the fly off your line? Yeah, flies and knots come under. Apologies for my part in that. Oh, not so. I'm more interested in his knowledge. Get the camera right. Anything as the camera's on me, baby. That's just a six-turn blood knot. Is that what you usually use? No, I always tap my blood knots these days. At the very least. Do you see that? That was on your fly, wasn't it? He's in a game, look at that. There he's gone. No! Now what? I've gone three or four. Four? That's my fourth one. I've never caught one of these before. We were just slightly above the first year. And that was a nice, sporty way of fishing, wasn't it? We had done this from the off. We weren't looking for fish, no. We were like, well, I've got to go home now. They take them out of the water to unhook them. They handle them with warm hands, often dry hands. They play them in the water for too long. The fish are definitely a little bit further down. We're very late in realising that, but it's nice because it means we've got the rest of the evening to fish. We don't have to leave the water. What's the most frustrating thing been when getting into fly fishing? Me? Yeah, what have you found to be most annoying? I think just lightly and overwhelmed by all the different sort of techniques and there's so much to know. And tangles. Oh, there we go. Another fighting-fit rainbow. There's the cormorant. I can relax now. How have you got your fire fish? It's so childish, isn't it? I love it. I do. I'll do it exactly the same. Oh, God. I do a YouTube vlog. Are you? Yeah. Just for a laugh. The thing is, once you catch your fish, you've got to do something, haven't you? I love plums there. Plums are lovely, aren't they? Five different types of plums. Wow. Anyway, all good stuff. Yeah. I'll let that chat you later. Yeah, all the best. Yeah, cheers. Tight lines. Thank you. Quite keen to make a move fairly soon, if that's okay. No, seriously. I've dropped you off. Have you always put on some fish? Did you watch Panorama this week? Water companies discharging sewage into others. Did you say it all goes out to sea? There we go. Well played. It's gone. No. That's better, mate. That was a good effort to throw the hook like that, wasn't it? Mmm. I'm lucky. Started that in camera again. Then you jink. That's it. And then wait for that sea to roll past you and now roll. We'll take a tight, we'll take a little moment, to do two for the... That's it. No, that's great. It's because you've got a weighted fly on it. It wasn't going to come up straight away, so... That's good. There's a flylight. Look, just hovering across. The dreaded camera. Guaranteed. You think that's what's been cursing you? No. It's amazing, isn't it? You brought it to the spot. First cast. So you've got to be on the fish, haven't you? Yeah, you do have to be on the fish. And then run. This is where you caught yours. This is where we had our last two-quarters, wasn't it, out here? Yeah. Look, I've got both of yours. I probably would have done that. I know you said that. Yeah. They're definitely feeding on something down there, aren't they? Well, probably, um... What's it called? Danzles. Danzles. So strong. Yes! Well done. Well persevered. Thank you. Yeah, well done. I'm going to stop recording now. I bet that's cheered you right up, isn't it? Was it me or did you play that one a little bit more gingerly? Is it possible that the ones that you've lost, you're bullying a little bit too much? No, I just think you jinxed it with your stupid camera lens. Yeah. I really want you to take some footage, don't you know? Well, those are footage. No, we can't omni-frame. Just take a few pictures. Okay, as long as you promise to subscribe and share in our fish, fill in our forms. Last cast, I've heard that before. £3 one of them. Here's Steve. Thanks for a great day. Nine fish. That's great. Very good. And you managed to spread them out over the course of the day as well. That's always been my one reservation about coming to this place. You catch fish and then have to go home again. Well, actually, you can just set the challenge however you want to do it. That's the same thing I'm wondering. Yeah. Two takes there. Did you? Same fish, two casts. Really? What, on the cat's whisker? Yeah, yeah. Well, that's why they close it. Yeah. You know, sometimes it's not about how many fish you catch. It is about where you're fishing and who you're fishing with. And yeah, so what? You can't do catch and release. But why do you have to catch ten rainbow trout in a day's fishing? Five fish, spread out, stopping for lunch, stopping for a coffee, stopping for a chat, stopping just to look around, really watch the woodpeckers, soak it all in. Spot on, that was. Hope you enjoyed it. And tight lines. See you next time.