If you think about it, it makes sense. Just a years worth of lure fishing would mean the lake is completely littered with snagged lures and hooks. This fishery is just trying to preserve the quality, thus making is available to fishing for many years to come.

@@silasestlander So you are saying that you can only get snagged with lures and the hooks are only on lures.. ccc..

@@aripenik Agree here with you here....I'm always dragging up bungs, rigs, dead-baits etc when I'm lure-fishing. If anything, lure-fishing snags cause far less debris than dead-baiting does. There also seems to be a perception that throwing lures is dangerous - my local lake in a park has banned lure fishing because of the potential danger to passers-by.with back-casting.....but allows dead-baiting. You can't make it up!!!!

@@silasestlanderI don't know how it is in the UK, but here in the states I cannot seem to reel in a snagged lure. It's always dozens of feet of line and a few oz of lead weights with a live/dead bait hook. It's probably because lure fishing snags usually mean that your knot breaks since its the weakest point, leaving no line in the water. Pretty much all the decent rigging options for dead and live bait have a weak point with many feet of line after them. Where I DO find artificial lures is in the trees and brush, many times perfectly withing reach. No idea why anyone would leave their gear within reach and just walk away, but its very common and it keeps my 'second hand' tackle box full. None of that comes close to the amount of bobbers and plastic worm cups littering every fishing spot, which really says it all about the average live worm user. Disrespectful urbanite trash who belong in a landfill just like all the plastic they leave.

@@svengalt9546 It seems i've been very lucky! Im from Denmark, not the UK. The rules here for coarse and match fishing are quite strict. I have hooked into and reeled in lots of rusted spinners and crankbaits over the past few years. Will agree though, i see tons, of litter - especially from the packaging tackle comes in. Absolutely abhorrent behavior

I catch a lot of big ones in really clear water when its miday an the sun is out.. but only on spots where there is no pressure.. on other water u need to go out past sunset.. . it can differ a lot.

The lake in this video is bury hill

@@bigfishinlittlebritain9808 We were told it was closing last year as the owner was retiring and selling it off - The 3 smaller lakes staying open on syndicate. Has this changed?

Not sure, but pretty sure this is burry hill right ?, not many lakes in the U.K. that you can Zander fish that have a single hook only rule

Have they been stocked or a result in flooding maybe. Are be surprised if people are stocking them

Yes its a place that takes them rather than killing them. I didn't know they were intoduced into canals back in the day. We've nothing like that in Fife just boring trout fisheries here​@@Onthebank.

@@Onthebank. I thought that, but if they had swam in during the floods, into a carp fishery, I would have thought the owners would have a catch & kill policy - however zander & pike in that lake so maybe they are enlightened!

You catch them better at dawn and dusk

I live in Michigan USA and now some rivers are full of fish that look just like that called walleye there is some new videos out from the Saginaw river if you can find them

Also delicious on the bbq

Hopefully a belt company will sponsor Chris for us 😂

Just use trebles when allowed, almsot never miss or loose Zander on size 10 trebles

The pond has pike to thats probably why he uses trace fluoro is pike proof from 1mm and up .8 .9 wil work but can make you lose one if you have bad luck

My setup is the other way around. 22/00 trace, 35/00. 3gr. Float.

They are not native, but neither are carp! And the ‘decimate all the fish’ thing is all bollocks and has 0 evidence for it, Zander all on every water body in Europe and do no harm with the exact same ecosystems and species present that we have

You cant let it swallow and do catch and release

You have trout and salmon thats a huge plus im from belgium so trout here is really small compared to your ferox 😅 We have asp tho and big wels im guessing ireland doesnt have those but i would rather have trout than asp (my goal this year is catch an asp on the river (caught small ones before but not like 60cm biggest was maybe 40 ) went to lough derg once ireland is really beautifull And calm You have 1/3 of belgiums population and the country is twice the size 😅

You eat them? Sportfisherman rather lose a fish due to hooksetting to soon than losing a fish that died from swallowing the hook