he's one of those people that will be appreciated 10 times more when he's gone... the impact he's had on angling is right up there with anyone

@@ThomasSloan-kz9fu 100%

Agreed but that’s sad. He gets to much hate from jealous people

Absolutely. Done understand why he gets so much hate when all you have to do is watch his podcasts and see how passionate he is about the sport.

I met him at the northern show a few years back, my missus thought we were mates he was asking all about my baby girl asking about my fishing really nice guy. As we walked off my missus said how do you know him ?? She thought he was another punter at the show who knew me. Top man

It is a franchise it's the angling direct of carp fisheries

From personal experience i can only give my point of view. I’ve only ever had good experiences there and seen positive things for fishing. But at the end of the day everyone has their own view mate

I thought that there was a parasite which attacked their swim bladder. I remember reading about a study done which tracked eels as they returned to spawn and found that they were constantly either swimming up to the surface to feed at night, or travelling back down to deeper water to be safer from predators for the daylight hours. The eels with the parasite couldn't control their depth so basically dropped over the continental shelf and basically staved before reaching their spawning grounds in the Sargasso sea. Obviously, over fishing, pollution and predation hasn't helped numbers either, bit of a perfect storm of negative factors all contributing to their decline

@@dispatchteam729I had also heard that

Very interesting

@@dispatchteam729 yes that also it affected the silver eels going back to sea to spawn they could not get down to the depth to mate , it came from imported eels from china for the pie and mash shops , some escaped and caused the problem , but the damage was done by over fishing the elvers , leaving less and less eels to migrate back to the sargasso sea as you point out , and very few elvers coming back.

China doesn't have its own eel stocks to import from

Couldn't agree more; well said!

Nash have some exclusive bookings/day ticket venues (the Church/Copse + Royston). Gary Bayes has Bayswater complex as well.

Don’t loose feed them then!!! 😂 Seriously though, most fake baits if actually swallowed by the fish will just pass through them in the vast majority of cases. The main issue would be a smaller fish with a smaller GI tract being unable to pass a large fake bait through it easily. Carp will ingest far larger items that they don’t fully crush with their phyrangeal teeth & plastic baits won’t swell inside the fish unlike unprepared particle can. What should be of more concern is that plastic baits don’t degrade leaving cracked off rigs ‘live’ still. Way too many people fish under-gunned still nowadays claiming it’s ’to enjoy the fight’ yet will still just attempt to crank the fish in holding the rod low like a match angler.

Give over with it 😂

@@plantyblud Give over what?... From your replies to everyone I can see you're an argumentative 🤡 so jog on muppet!!

@@plantyblud Give over what?... I can see by your replies you're just an argumentative 🤡 so jog on muppet

@@plantyblud 🤡

@@plantyblud And here we have the not so elusive Troll... Jog on muppet 👍🏼

Have a look on the website. A lot of the lists are open again.

@@russellgriffiths660 all the lakes I’m interested in are full waiting lists either fifty or 100 all ready on the list and at a rate of 5/10 new members a year your waiting 5/6 years just to get on the lists

@@garythwilliams8732: Where did you get those figures from ??? You couldn’t be more wrong. I’ve just got on Phil’s …. Waited about 13 months. Get your name on your chosen list, stop moaning and WAIT !!! You’ll never get on decent syndicate unless you put your name…..I think you’ll carry on day ticketing because all you want to do is whinge !!!

All decent syndicates have long waiting lists and bet they don't have people queue jumping like most do.

@@Kingcarparpeggio devils lane 100 on list list closed Gordon’s lake 50 on list list closed Hyde lane 65 on list list closed iris lake denham 92 on list list closed I live in Sussex and not spending 3/4 hours driving up north to go fishing it’s a 90 mile drive just to London for me

If I want to raise sheep and someone decides to reintroduce wolves then I'm going to build fences to keep my investment safe.

@@DjDolHaus86 Stop trying to blame everything on 'introductions' when the majority of otters in UK are from natural born wild animals and not all from re-introduced animals. Regarding the ugly perimeter fencing of a small artificially constructed commercial water on private land, then that is of course up to the owner.

@@Globetrotter-1 The majority of otters are descendants from the licensed reintroduction's in the early 80s by the otter trust and unlicensed operations by individuals and groups through the 80s and into the 90s (I know people who did it across the country during this period so don't tell me they didn't). The issue, as Danny mentions, is not the reintroductions but rather the lack of foresight given to protect fish stocks and businesses as the populations began to flourish. What happens when you reintroduce an apex predator into an environment where they've been all but absent is that their populations swell to take advantage of the available food, they eventually eat everything causing the prey populations to crash before the predator population starves. This swings back and forth until hopefully you achieve equilibrium but there's no telling what casualties will occur along the way, you might gain a stable otter population at the potential loss of a few bird, amphibian, lizard, fish or mammal species which have either been predated upon as the natural food sources dried up or they've been pushed out of the ecological niche that was available in the absence of otters. If a government body has decided to allow the reintroduction of a species then it has a duty of care to ensure the populations are monitored and that those whose property, livestock or business are taken care of if the decision unduly affects them. All it needed was more money being pumped into the EA to maintain river conditions and stocks and a subsidy on the means for lakes to be protected. They released the wolves and thought nothing of the sheep.

@@DjDolHaus86 I completely disagree. I have been studying and tracking natural wild otters 🦦 (and other mammals) for over six decades and they have been present in good numbers during that time period. The widespread and unchecked volume of single-species artificially stocked waters during more recent decades have been one of the main reasons for the increase in sightings of otter activity. Regarding wolves (including lynx, bears etc...) I'm all in favour of their natural increase in numbers across Europe, especially the Alpine regions. The biggest problem in my view is that there are not enough large predators at present in UK/Europe. I'm also in favour of the beaver and other wildlife that all bring a vital factor towards maintaining a healthy biosphere.

​@Globetrotter-1 mate you are making yourself look like a tool here go and get in get coffin like 👍

I think your find anglers are the eyes and ears when it comes to nature and waterways . (Quoted from the late great David Bellamy )

Bollocks mate. I run a fishery and have done for about a decade, we do everything we can to encourage and nurture the natural environment but you've got to be practical. I need to make a profit to keep my business open, my profit is based on the value of the stock held within it, if I don't protect my stock then that little haven for nature becomes essentially valueless and will be turned into a duck shooting pond, a watersports park or simply backfilled to build on.

@@darrenbrown4605 David's death was a sad loss of a brilliant botanist and knowledge of the natural world. He was so right about the fake climate change and corrupt net zero agenda.

@@darrenbrown4605 David was a brilliant botanist and had an outstanding knowledge of the natural world. He was so right about the false agenda of climate.