I’ve been hunting river carp for over 10 years and during that time I’ve learned quite a lot about these incredible creatures. Pound for pound, river carp fight much harder than lake carp and for me it’s the absolute pinnacle of the sport. River carping is not easy. It doesn’t always go to plan and I can go for weeks at a time without catching one. Every capture is special and every carp is different. You simply never know what you are going to hook next and the buzz is off the scale! I hope that you enjoy the video and that it inspires you to get out and have your own adventure.

Hello Matthew I'm from South of Brazil I fish only river carp. So i learned that persistence is a better chance of getting a big wild carp River carp have routes for searching food, we have baiting a few days, weeks, moths in same spot to add of the "food routes" Thanks for yours videos, I learned a lot from you!

the best carp channel on yt - thanks matt

Enjoyable watch,once again.perfect for a Sunday morning.😊👍🏻

Man i can not wait to watch this video! Thanks Matthew for bringing the river content!

smashing it matt!!! love your vids buddy

Fantastic video , great skills 🎣🎣

Great film and advice . I’m booked on the boat for September looking forward to putting your tips into practice on the Mayenne .

I agree river fishing requires another dimension of finesse that movement, flow and the unpredictability of everything, different every time and you are never fully in control. Shame there are basically no rivers with carp in near me, so if i want carp it has to be lakes. Thanks for the video Matt, keep them coming....

Hi Matt, Ukraine is here 👋 It’s pleasure to watch your videos and learn something new about carping 👍🏻

Love it! I definitely need to find a good river to fish here in the UK. I would love a wild 20lber!! Also, I caught 2 fish this week from my local lake with your mono hair rig :D

my dream , one day . away from everyone hopefully. been carping for 30 years a lot of the top syndicates but give me this any day . thanks matt.

Great stuff..would like to see some more river fishing,i love the river... We do kayaking weekends in the summer just fishing all weekend long,its indescribeable fun!!!!😋😋😋😋😋

Cant wait till im at the river again..

Thank you for your for your video

Great watch never river fished can imagine it being a challenge

That’s proper carp fishing at its finest I must admit the river Trent beat me I wish I had the motivation to to go back but my health isn’t great at the minute Hopefully I’ll get back myself back on track

Thanks for this video Matt. I'm targeting the Carp on my local river again. Location the hardest part. I'm prebaiting a spot with boilies and pellet. Nice strong simple running rigs. Lot of Bream so maybe just introduce boilies. Or a hemp and Tiger Nut approach?

Good work Matty. Once the planets align, we'll have to do another one!

Wow 😮

Do the French understand "it's all gone a bit Pete Tong"... LOL.. Great video, looks like a beautiful place...

Hi Matt, your river sessions are just wonderful to watch. They remind me of a time, when I was fishing in a syndicate lake in my hometown. (Yes, I know, this video is about rivers) Cyclists, dogs, joggers etc. just everywhere. On the other hand it was (and still it is) a wonderful lake with almost unexplored big carp. Unfortunately I had to quit the syndicate, since I just couldn’t stand all the noise and pollution caused by the “young people” who had regular barbecues and were heavily drinking at the bank. I feel still kind of sorry that I had to quit but I just couldn’t bear it anymore. What a pity! Being well organized is a must in such areas, as you correctly underline. You have a quite limited space for your gear and you need to use it wisely. River carp are told to be fighting much harder, compared to carps of similar size from lakes, or is it just a myth? I’m afraid, it will be difficult for me to prove it. I live in a crowded area with hundreds of quarry lakes (a lot of gravel is explored here, since I am located near the river Rhine) and slow rivers are just the ones which are crowded the most. Fishing for carp in Rhine, will be surely possible but I believe that I simply do not even have the time to find the right swims in this extra-large industrial river. It is really good to see that there are areas in France (I think we have similar things in Germany but I would have to drive hundreds of kilometres…) where you would face certain difficulties but on the other hand side you are still catching nice fish. (Let’s forget all the usual blanking that is not shown in all the fishing videos 😉) Some years ago, I have been in close contact with some people, who use vintage split cane rods (restored by British specialists) and pin reels for river carp fishing. This is something that seemed to be lot of fun, denying the “tackle madness” and just fishing using this minimal gear. Of course this is a totally different kind of carp fishing but it was interesting to see that they succeeded even regularly. I know that this does not necessarily belong here, since I has almost nothing to do with the contents of the video but it just came to my mind. Sorry. Cheers, Alex

Where I live all carp are wild the were planted in the 1880s. The usually mainly stay in the lake which is 95000 acres, 25x16 miles. In the past only a few would swim up the tributaries but this year hundreds migrated upstream. I sight fished for them using a quarter ounce lead jid with a plastic tube jig. They were strong enough in the current they would straighten a size 1 stout hook on jig. Otherwise it is just paclbait fishing. No chumming.

Great Motivation for myself. Haf 110m to the River Mosel in Germany. unfortunately hard to get some Fish on the Mat. Nest week trying again with my Son. Fingers crossed Greetz from Germany

Did your friend weigh the cyclist 😂 Great video Matt. I must try river carping.

Informative and inspiring video thanks Matt. IMO rivers and canals are now the only places in the U.K. you can experience that pioneering feeling with most stillwaters now either overpressured or expensively syndicated with waiting lists longer than my life expectancy! So thanks I’ll be applying your tips to my local waters and hopefully across the channel sometime. One question, do you think the 1oz plus back leads could move the fishing lead when sliding on? Experiments I have conducted in the garden suggest they can, but water is of course a different medium, and would say a 4oz gripper stay well put in a slow flow?

Is that the Mayenne river Matt? If so I've fished it myself a few times just downstream of the town of Mayenne. Snaggy, but hard fighting fish indeed. Nice video.

I fish a small river now and then Only 8 meters wide..the strenth the carp have on such a small stretch amazing.. And whats weird is that once hooked ALL the carp swim in one direction,down stream to the left... Another river n fish ALL the hooked carp run upstream to the left...it boggles me.. Cheers 😊😊

WOW mat this is so mouth watering how dare you tease us with such content😂 Love all your videos but this one really appeals mate👊 are u allowed to disclose the name of this river?? Thank you Dan

Hi Matt hope your well just a quick question are you using braid or not on your fishing reels?

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I've been fishing the same lake for 5 season's now,winter is good the bigger fish do show.but summer is Very hit and miss, even after spawning.the fish are there it just goes dead sometimes for weeks . wouldn't say it gets to heavily fished any suggestions thanks

Been river carping the last 7 years solid . Cut my teeth on the river when I was 14 years old when I first started carp fishing 30 years I'll never go back to fishing a lake now in the uk because of how busy they are . What ounce lead are you using to gauge the depth because obviously a heavier lead will fall through the water quicker and vice versa with a lighter lead ?

I have caught 4 from the river thames your right they fight 10x harder than lake carp

" Hooked a Cyclist " i bet that was a screamer of a Run lol

This was wonderful!! Just listening while at work. Question for my fellow anglers. Has anyone ever tried running a Helicopter method feeder? Where I live in the US it's illegal to do any form of chumming. To get around this we use pack bait and obviously stuff the hook. My question is would this work mechanically? In my mind the feeder would break up slightly on contact with the water and obviously the choddy setup would help me over some of the weeds. My point of interest is figuring out a good feeder style for safe ejections on this unconventional setup-Yea I know I'll be dumping 5$feeders haha

Used a throwing stick recently - massively inaccurate 😂 but man do they go absolutely miles when u wanna hoy some at ur mate 300 yards up the path home 😂😂

I'm like you sir I like to get as far away from people as I can when I'm fishing

Hi would you giveaway the name of the river 😊

River fishing, 4.5kgs of pre baiting beforehand then boilies on top,thats 70=80 quid mate,i dont think so,wow your charging your customers over the odds at your fishery to be able to afford those kind of prices,for a bite when its and n miss on a river,as much as i like your vlogs,i find your self to be so condradictory,you have lost me,now your long gone