I always said your content has been gold from the first day i started fishing really like this combination of video and explanation please do more of these. And once again thanks for taking the time to make this content.

Great fishing

I always come to the kit room as I love the valuable info you give. And with the putting it into practice fishing, Perfect mate. Can't wait for the next one.

What a session what a lake wicked video Loved your analysis at the end bang on

Hello Thom, I found your content via the KZfaqr "Hungry Fish". Your videos are quite informative, thanks to your tips I've already been able to adjust and improve the way I use soft lures. I want to thank you for your knowledge about "going slow" to catch hesitant zander. At one of my regular spots I could see zander during the afternoon coming to the very edge of the river but they didn't show any interest in a traditional shad with jighead. Because I'd spotted a crayfish the night before, I decided to rig a creaturebait onto a ned rig and follow your advice to leave the bait on the bottom for 5-6 second intervals. I forced myself to count before making it hop again. My patience was rewarded by two 60cm zander. When a friend arrived, he used the same method and also caught 2 zander. Hope to see more videos in the future. Perhaps you could make a video about "reading" locations (features on the bank, obstacles, currents, depth differences) such as rivers for pike.

Western crayfish next lure for pike if they don't have one great vid with great tips thanks tom😊🎣

Just back from a short session before work , put a deadbait out and a pig shad on the lure rod, which got a shy bite but no hookup. Changed over to a westin jerkster in perch pattern, first cast and landed a nice little 8lber. I can see what you mean about the water heating up and fish bunching up in bays as the jerkbait was a suspending presentation, plus added a steel ball to keep it in that zone. Great video 👍

I know this upload was a year ago but I’m not a beginner at lure fishing but id still like to know what tackle you might use for different fishing , ie braid strength, trace or floro etc etc and great videos one off the top ones really easy to watch and very very informative thanks as you never stop learning 👍

Brilliant video Thom, thanks for the time and effort you’ve put into making it. I personally really like the “kit room” videos, I’ve watched every one, many a few times. I like the information, the thought process, the ideas, the learning 🧠. I’ve personally never been a fan of any KZfaq videos on the bank when it’s just a video of people fishing, overlayed with music…. 😴 Not even as much as a description of gear, method or lure choices. It’s great that you’ve managed to get the best of both worlds, some great fishing footage with top tips and tricks mixed in and narrated. I like the format! Great video, thanks again.

Would love to see more videos on catching big perch... I can't edit but this was fine .. love the videos either way. I think your channel would go even further if you could edit more fishing vids like this 👍 thanks for the content.. love it. More of this type of stuff 👍

loved that - new subby from us here in JErsey :D

Definitely a better format, the purely instructional videos from the kit room are good, but mixed with live fishing and analysis. Much much better 👍🏻.

Really enjoyed that Thom, some great tips in there, they certainly loved the hard baits

Brilliant video Thom, great content, very informative and lots and lots of Pike. 👌 👍

Great video! I liked and subscribed. I love the blend of educational and on-the-water footage. Keep up the great work.

Great video and some good fun ! :) Keep recording I think I changed my view on fishing thanks to Your videos. Thanks

I am dead excited for more on the water content! Thanks for such high quality information as always

Really enjoyed this - you turn it into a bit more of a science instead of the random cast and hope for the best that many fishermen do. I use to be like this in the beginning, and had some very long days on the bank😂 Its nice to have someone show you different things/methods to try when nothing seems to be biting.

First time watching and subscribed. They were some gorgeous pike, well done guys!!!

Good work as always sir…thank you for taking the time to make the vid

Great format! Thanks for putting so much effort into this video! Just to fit in your educational content I would like to see more information about the conditions you are facing (water clarity, water temperature and so on) and the gear you are using. Really envy you for that healthy body of water you have around. I go fishing for pike a lot and so far I never had a blast like you had that day!

Great content Thom as always 👌🏻

Working my way through your videos. Fantastic content, thanks for putting the effort in. Would love to see some more on the bank video's. Maybe boat fishing one of the Big reservoirs. 👍

Nice fishing Tom. Great video too!

Excellent video entertaining and informative would like to see something similar for perch

Great content, very enjoyable viewing.

Your sir really know what you're doing! There's a lot to learn from your videos! What a session, as I was watching I thought, Man There's no chance in my lifetime I could catch about 15+ Pike in one session here in the North West😂 specially with average being really good size fish. It was fun to watch. 3 or 4 double hook ups in one session😮 My hat is definitely off to you sir. Hopefully you can post more videos out on the bank like this in the future, I would enjoy watching them. Keep them coming 🤜🏼🤛🏼

Some epic fish in this footage dude, just getting back into the Predator fishing and loving the content 👌

A year late for this , just getting into more lure fishing with my boy and great information and fishing , what I will say is that the leach will be attaching to the pike mostly up in the water, just the same as carp etc when there resting up in the water to maintain temperature and drop to feed/hunt, fly anglers have great days imitating leaches normally after bright days leaches will leave cover to swim up and find a host, leaches can swim quiet well surprisingly, that’s not to say they don’t attach when fish are lower down but just an observation as from what I could see them pike where shallow to.

i absolutely love this video, so please make more of these. this crayfish thing was a shocker to me. so much i learned again. i noticed the same on soft plastics on my lake. they collected the leaves and weed but fast retrieve doesnt work in cold water so i went to a diving crankbait that goes down to 5m. i know it sounds crazy but i could pull it down close to the bottom and stop it immediatelly when i felt something. little twitches and pulls and it kinda stayed close to the bottom and the retrieve was slow. that way i managed to catch a couple. im yet to do this with swim/glide baits, but tomorrow might be the day! You had a hell of a good day, congrats :) please make more videos like this, with the analysis in the end it is amazing. love that tigerfish poster on your wall :)

finally you are back!!!! im heading to Llandegfedd in the morning, wish me luck :)

Cracking video Thom! Would love to see one for perch 👀🤞👍

Great video Thom, some great pike . I seem to be struggling on my local canal at the moment just catching micro pike 🤣 better than nothing I guess .

What a cracking video. Love watching your videos and getting some tips and just a case of me getting some fishing done to put some of that knowledge you have shared into practice. Any chance you could maybe do a perch fishing video along the same lines as what you have just done? 😀😀😁😁🎣🎣👍🏽👍🏽

Great video! I usually dont fish snot rockets very much....or I mean Pike haha. But I want to get into it more this year. Got some real nice ones! Great job!!

Minor suggestion -- If you are going to be making more of these videos (because i really hope you do!) Please consider getting a Polarizing filter for your gopro as I cant see what is going on with your lure or the fish you catch till you have it up on the surface with all that glare from the light reflecting off the water. Otherwise. Loving your videos and i've been learning a lot of tips and tricks for pike and perch that i didnt know before!

Hi Tom, I must confess... you are a true content creator, lots of information in one video, thank you.P.S. I "discovered" your channel thanks to Hundry Fish, the one from Luretopia

Awesome video and very educational video Thom. Kitrrom videos with the theory and mixing in some videos from the bank were you showcase the praxis adds another layer to it. Love it. Why don't you do a few casts in the shallows before you step into the water?

So damn lucky to have an Infested pike pond/lake.

Really enjoyed that, learnt alot from the way you retrieve, the only thing i can suggest is when you doing the pieces to camera, which i assume is on your phone, if you hold it the other way, landscape mode, it will fill the screen more. I personally would like to see a video about texas rigging with non floating baits on a canal, cause i can not see in my head how that works.

This’ll get me a quarter of the way through my journey haha

Oh and yea I always revert back to whatever lures iv caught most on 🤣 kept sticking my fox replicant on altho it was a new lmab 7cm kofi roach that caught for me yesterday 👍gonna try the westin shadeez I believe it is.. what size jig head suits them? The ones around 7cm size? Thanks.

Would love to see an analysis like this for perch on a stillwater from the bank

Good to see you back Thom . Always educational . I got an idea for a video for you . I know your very techincal and its like a science to you . Could you do a video on mainlines and leaders . Materials and diameters . How they affect casting and presentation . Also weights and lure profiles . Example . I know when i fish super ultra light with say a 2lb fluorcarbon mainline straight through for wasping . I can fish the same lure and with a slightly larger diameter fluorocarbon and the lure will need a slightly heavier jighead to get the maximum amount of bites . I know its more often what works on the day but i cant help but realise , what seems to me , to get the perfect maximum action with each soft plastic that line diameter and material plus weight of jighead play apart . On the same day I can use a 1.5-2g jighead with a fluoro diameter of say 0.12 and get maximum bites . But I find if i step it up to 3g with the same diameter line i still get bites but not as many . If i step up the mailine to 0.16 diameter , im then having to step up the weight of the jighead to 3g with the exact same soft plastic to hit the maximum bites . If i use the same 2g jighead on the heavier 0.16 diameter line i still get bites but not the maximum if that makes sense . Profile of lure also has an effect on jighead weight to line and leader material to line and leader diameter to me . Then you have flow if your fishing a river . Is it to do with where the lure sits in the water colume straight when working the lure thats the reason ? If so , why do i notice it when im bouncing along the bottom slowly to ? Didnt mean for it to be so long but i hope you get the idea and can put it into a video . Or maybe im just over analysing it and going crazy . Braid floats , fluorocarbon sinks , wind drag , floating vs sinking soft plastic materials . Mainline composition to diameter to jighead weight for maximum bite ratio !!! Does it even exist ??? Arghhhhhhhhhhh . Lol . I look foward to your next video . Thumbs up from me . Hahahahaha .

Great Vid Mate keep em coming 👍👍, was that the 240 W8 Powerstrike 30-80g ?

Top drawer Thom

great

I really enjoyed watching this Thom . Out of curiosity what leader material are you using with the braid?

What a great vid again Thom! What was the setup on your gear, that rod looks wicked.

Enjoyed the video excellent content. Question, which was the most successful lure on the day?

Great video Thom, i notice with the swims you don't really jerk and twitch them, most straight retrieves with pauses. Is that just due to the fish wanting it faster? I only jerk my swim, maybe i'm missing a trick not straight retrieving?

A very enjoyable and informative vid Thom. One question: you said it was January and the water very cold. One swim had a very deep drop-off, yet you seemed to be keeping the lure very shallow, retrieving straight away and not letting it sink a good bit. The fish were feeding deep (crayfish) and covered with leeches, yet you were hooking-up like it was early summer!?!? Is it because you know that particular water so well or am I not getting it? Great stuff👍 Hahaha!! I should have watched the end of the vid first!!

hi been looking all over word someone using the w10 im thinking of getting the 20-60g baitcaster hows the action on yours? are they worth the money?

One question Thom : Did You try to use spinnerbait or it was just not the type of lure for the day ?

Thom. If you didn’t fish competitively would you still use treble hooks on lures? Are they not something we should be moving away from?

Just out of interest, what clips are you using to attach your lures to your trace?

Whats the reel & braid strength btw?