HOW TO CATCH A CATFISH?! - THE BEST BAIT AND RIGS | Specimen Fishing

HOW TO CATCH A CATFISH?! - THE BEST BAIT AND RIGS | Specimen Fishing | Brookside Fishery Warrington

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HOW TO CATCH A CATFISH?! - THE BEST BAIT AND RIGS | Specimen Fishing | Brookside fishery
Over the last few years I have developed a passion for fishing for catfish in the uk! Great fun, hard fighting fish. However I found out there wasn’t much information out there on how to target them and what you need to fish for them. After this watching this video you will hopefully have an insight into how to catch a uk catfish or catch more catfish in general.
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@robsta6332 5 ай бұрын

Great video given me loads of confidence in the kit I’m using over weekend well explained going for a week in uk loads of cats shame it’s a bit cold maybe for them it’s my first time 👍👍👍🎣

@felgate11 11 ай бұрын

I agree with your choice of coffee - best I've ever had & been using it for a few years. ☕

@SEAFISHINGwithCJ 11 күн бұрын

Hey mate. I know nothing about Carp and Cats, but I'm heading into France with Tony Kirrage at the end of the week. So this video has been a revelation. Thank you.

@WestysAngling 10 күн бұрын

Since this video I have learned more about cats. If you want to target them try really sharp hooks and free lining large chunks of spam, really loose bait runner , no bobbin 💪🏻 or the rig in this vid

@SEAFISHINGwithCJ 10 күн бұрын

Great I will give that a try. Ordered the bait boat you were using, hopefully it will turn up before we go 🤞

@ryanshackleton2174 6 ай бұрын

Just subscribed love the simplicity of your fishing I only fish for the cats and caught many of them good to see a different approach to what I do

@WestysAngling 6 ай бұрын

I try to keep my fishing as simple as possible ! It can definitely be over complicated 😂 tight lines buddy 💪🏻

@stegrundy4014 2 жыл бұрын

Great vid n some top tips. Cheers 👍

@WestysAngling 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ste, you are welcome 👌🏻

@tysrgroup6977 2 жыл бұрын

27:00 hahah... "You joking!!"

@BlackCountryPiker 2 ай бұрын

Great watch with loads of helpful info. There’s loads of videos with the catch and the bait but not the full set up, really helpful 👍 I’m gearing up to go for catfish and sturgeon, would you think 20 or 25lb mono would suffice? The pools I’ll probably fish are not huge and mostly snag free

@WestysAngling 2 ай бұрын

20lb will be fine buddy 💪🏻

@BlackCountryPiker 2 ай бұрын

@@WestysAngling nice one, cheers

@aclaudiu1906 Жыл бұрын

hello,thx for video!

@WestysAngling Жыл бұрын

You are welcome ! 👌🏻👍🏻

@ashsanglingadventures Жыл бұрын

The peg your dad was fishing if you fish about 3 rod lengths of the far bank there’s a cat hole if you put the deeper over there it will drop of to about 6-7ft cats hold in there I’ve had a 27lb from it aim for the biggest tree to the left 🎣

@WestysAngling Жыл бұрын

Great advice! Thank you 🎣

@ashsanglingadventures Жыл бұрын

@@WestysAngling your welcome

@kunaiwithchain5278 9 ай бұрын

Kind of a late response, but here in the US we like to use circle hooks and cut or live bait for cats. do you guys not do that often (I know you’re also going for carp but still)

@ninjascoob 6 ай бұрын

Hi mate. Yes we also live and dead bait for cats here in the uk. Live baits are very popular

@tripod69er94 Жыл бұрын

Going for cats on Sunday will definitely be trying this combination

@WestysAngling Жыл бұрын

Do you have much success catching them so early in the year ? I don’t normally start targeting cats until early March !

@tripod69er94 Жыл бұрын

@WestysAngling first time trying this time of year but like u said normally around march time normally I catch on spam or prawns

@WestysAngling Жыл бұрын

@@tripod69er94 good luck mate let me know if you manage to get one! Can’t go wrong with the movement on worms 🪱

@ryansfishingblog Жыл бұрын

mate i learnt loads from this as im going brookside soon (i live near brookside) wondering though whats stopping the perch and silvers from smashing the worm as i did the same and thats what happened last night on cudmore fishery

@WestysAngling Жыл бұрын

They have hardly any silvers in, I had the same issue on Cudmore ! 😂 loaded with them for the stocked pike 👌🏻

@ryansfishingblog Жыл бұрын

@@WestysAngling mate i went cudmore 3 days ago on avoca and tried worm , man they smashed the worm off so i went to halibut pellet and still blanked through the night and day

@user-be8zy9jd9s Ай бұрын

When fishing worms do you need to check your rig often to see if the worms are still on?

@WestysAngling Ай бұрын

Depends how many nuisance fish are in the fishery but I’d say every few hours 👍🏻🎣

@leightonjones8092 Жыл бұрын

I fish the same peg on the grass bank side with big halibut pellets with pva bags of mixed pellets and try and get a rod in the bay to your left last tune out had 11 cats 3 carp on 24hr session lost 3 aswell

@WestysAngling Жыл бұрын

I have done well on halibuts here too, what size do you normally go for as a hookbait ? I usually use a string of 2/3 20mm for the kats 👌🏻🎣

@leightonjones8092 Жыл бұрын

@@WestysAngling yer 20mm single with a pva bag of mixed tiny halibut and mainline pellets cat fish was my target fish this year and I smashed that on my first session now iam on to the grass carp

@WestysAngling Жыл бұрын

Grass carp are tough ! I feel like it’s luck with them. I think a super sharp hook and popped up tigernuts would be the way forward 🎣 good luck buddy !

@leightonjones8092 Жыл бұрын

Iam going back this Saturday for a 24hr session

@leafysfishing 2 жыл бұрын

Gonna use that rig or somat similar for the big perch I'm targeting atm

@WestysAngling 2 жыл бұрын

Great idea using it for peach Kev !!! Popped up like that! I’m at cudmore this week I wonder if pike would take a worm rig, I believe they have decent pike in there.

@leafysfishing 2 жыл бұрын

@@WestysAngling I'm off to try it now on local canal spot I kno holds big perch .. iv got them sticky baits krill pop ups so gonna cut one down and use it on hair to pop them up 👍 me and my missus are thinking of trying cudmore when we get chance so will keep eyes out for ya vid if you make one.. pike will take big worms too 👍

@pappadonsfishingtrips2709 9 ай бұрын

What size hooks you using please Say hello to Dad for me I about the same age 😂 Really enjoy your programs !!

@WestysAngling 9 ай бұрын

I use size 6-4 for cats ! Dad was catching his on size 6 slip D rigs 👌🏻

@pappadonsfishingtrips2709 9 ай бұрын

@@WestysAngling thank you keep up the fishing !

@Davies-MTB Жыл бұрын

We’re fishing here Thursday night, rig wise would you have it fishing 4inch or so off the deck?

@WestysAngling Жыл бұрын

3/4 inch ! Did you manage anything ? I imagine it’s tough through winter ❄️

@Davies-MTB Жыл бұрын

@@WestysAngling going this Thursday mate, looking forward to it 😎 knocking a few rigs up now for it

@WestysAngling Жыл бұрын

@@Davies-MTB Try and get on the right hand banking, about mid way out to the island there is a structure the fish hold to 👍🏻 good luck let me know how you get on !

@shanestanton7796 Жыл бұрын

How did you find them reels you used thanks 🎣

@WestysAngling Жыл бұрын

Upgraded to Penn Affinity for the cats ! But they where fine for cats up to 40lb

@jayfromthelane Жыл бұрын

Is it a far walk from the car park to the pegs? I have no barrow and would like to do a night

@WestysAngling Жыл бұрын

There are pegs behind the car park Jay! But not the ones we fished 👌🏻🎣

@Kd_mcr Жыл бұрын

Hi what rod and reel do u use?

@WestysAngling Жыл бұрын

In this video, sonik rods and wychwood exorcist reels 👌🏻🎣🎣

@leegray8950 Жыл бұрын

Good evening. While l was watching your video on catfishing, I noticed you were using a carp cradle as the unhooking, is a cradle b8g enough?

@WestysAngling Жыл бұрын

It’s an XL predator cradle ! No, a normal carp cradle definitely wouldn’t be big enough ! 👍🏻🎣

@leegray8950 Жыл бұрын

I have the Tracker Santuary XL cradle, would that be big enough? The standard Tracker Santuary cradle is for the uk. The xl version I have is for Europe.

@WestysAngling Жыл бұрын

I don’t see why not Lee ! Just keep it in the net for a little extra containment 👍🏻 depends how big a cat you get 😂 not many cradles on the market that can contain a 70lb cat haha !

@leegray8950 Жыл бұрын

The cats in the lake I fish go upto 40lb.

@WestysAngling Жыл бұрын

You will be fine 👌🏻👍🏻