Nice video! Mastered tench fishing last year. Here in Russia tench like magic fish, need to be very lucky to catch.

On my local stretch of the Thames (Oxford area) The Tench start biting at dawn, you could set your clock by them lol. Never bigger than 3lb but wild as you like and great fun on light tackle. As the sun rises to daylight they disappear as quickly as they arrived. But after a night of bagging up on the Bream up to 8lb and the odd Carp or Barble they are a welcome end to the session. Same bait as I fish all night sweetcorn tipped with a single maggot or small worms. The arrival of small silvers let's you know that the session is over and it's time to go home for breakfast. 😊🐟🎣 Really enjoyed your video, you sound like I do, always expecting to lose the blighters. 👍😊 Liked and subscribed. Ps stay with the rivers and canals or wild lakes. Commercials just don't do it for me. 👍😊

Brilliant video. Real fishing without a truckload of tackle in a overstocked fishery. Keep up the great work 👏👏👏

I love it when canal tench just bolt unstoppable up stream, all the running from pike make them so strong. Many times I'd be on pole light elastic and off you go running up and down with 9 metre of pole.

Here, in Indiana, a perch that size would be considered a trophy. I had never even heard of tench before this video. Cool looking fish and a great fight too. Great video, as usual.

Great video. Reminds me of my local River for the Bream - had a walk along there yesterday, two and a half foot of water and about 12 between 3-5lb all shoaled up ready to spawn , couldn't miss them. But I will have to wait until 16th June!

I highly recommend watching these videos with chill music of your choice! very relaxing

When we were young, (1960s) we used to catch a lot of pike, by design, on floatfished worm on our local canal... 4lb line and #10. Surprisingly few bit us off ... up to 16lbs too. Nice video. Would love to see some more tench and perch fishing, don’t see many of them where I am now!

Tench are my favourite fish to catch. Beautiful coloured eyes. Wow they fight hard.

I've been subscribed now for about a week and let me tell you, if you dare fish one of those commercial fish In a barrel carp lakes we are over! Lol Stick with the wild fish your lucky to have water like that ,our local canal is now unused and just a shallow Reed bed...thanks for reigniting my passion for fishing 👍 great session again.

Good vid buddy .. nice fish .. cheers Chris & Sam

Always loved stalking tench my PB is 9lb best bait is a big log worm they just love them or strawberry gluged pellet or boillie , split shots always spooks them they love it when the worm just flutters down

I was stalking for tenches with my friend Last week and we got 3 beautiful Tenches. So exciting. Very nice Vid. Abo and Like from me. Greetings from Germany Simon

Makes me sick jealous watching your videos mate, the fish in the waters around you are top notch quality I'd give a finger to catch some of the fish you land! Round me you just couldn't dream of that stamp of fish. Top angling dude.

Not a canal boat in sight 🤦‍♂️you lucky so and so 😁Been watching your videos randomly and i got to admit, even though i thought about it a 1000 times ,is to Get on my bike and travel ultra light and fish for a few hours .But the bloody hill i got to ride back up has put me off over the years ,and i'm not getting any younger 😏Thanks for your effort mate 👍

Beautiful fish, and healthy looking too. The Grand canal here in Dublin is teeming with tench. They really are a kick on ultralight gear.

Caught a 16 LB common carp on the local canal. We'd cast our rods at 00:00 June15/16th. We'd watched this group of 4 carp, a mix of 2 common, mirror and a leather, patrolling most of the blistering hot day. Then about 3 pm my mate took his girlfriend home and bored I thought I'd chance dropping a freelined nugget of maize on their nose as they came by next time (the carp, not my mate and his bird lol). I knew I'd have to be spot on or the maize would sink before they're likely to take it. I hadn't seen them take anything from the surface but that was the most exciting take up to that day

Oh god it’s ripping line, it’s ripping line 😂 . Brilliant bit of fishing mate 👍🎣

Best video I've watched for a bit. Would love to see you try and tease out one of these canal carp, I tried a few years back defo saw fish but couldn't get them to feed was tough going. Always said I'll be back to try again but havnt quite plucked up the courage to do so 😂

Another Beautiful Fishing Video. Congratulations, this place is wonderful and has Big Fish. Hug!!!👍🎣😎

nice video,well done,from a fisherman of 42 years,

Another great video. I caught some lovely tench this evening on sweet corn. I've not tried bread yet but will give it a go later in the week. Keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing your fishing with us 👍🏻🎣

Some nice fish you caught there mate. I would rather see you catch or even try and catch a canal carp than a carp from a commercial fishery.

Enjoyed the video keep it up and speaking of tench i had a couple tench in my pond beautiful fish they are unfortunately had to get rid of them but the biggest one was 18inches

Nice one , as always my friend. My kind of fishing.

Very nice film mate just being able to stork fish like that is great well done

Top Session fishing with Ultra light rod welldone!

Excellent Chris! Stick to wild fishing mate... I like commercial fishing now and again, but you should keep doing what you are doing. Maybe go back for a canal carp and record the footage finding them.

This is quality Ginge. Wish he had canals near me in Wigan as clear and stuffed with perch and slabs like that. That “small” perch you had would be a fish of a life time from my canal 🤣

Brilliant video love sight fishing, river or the sea nothing to beat it :), so good to see light sport being prompted, mackerel on 2 lb line is very good fun :) tight line sir, stay safe

Realy enjoyed this. dont see many fish here on the canal in Milton keynes just dont see any. Thanks.

You're such a great bloke! Best of luck mate !

Great Video, the canals in my area (the grand union & the oxford canal) are soooo coloured, I’m guessing there are no boats travelling through that stretch. Must be awesome to have a clear canal.

Good one Chris. Not to excited eh 👍🐟

Outstanding content . I find this fishing extremely intriguing . I'm from the states and the way you are fishing is similar to creek fishing here . The species you have are very cool ! we have what we call Bream but they are not at all like over there . Your perch could eat our perch for a snack . We have huge carp in small steams that never ever get fished for .... like 25-30 pounds and very common . Keep making content , I'll keep watching

Another great video Chris Keep them coming 👍 PS your a pike magnet 😂😂

Don't catch many Tench. One of my favourite fish. Good watch. Cheers 👍

Love all your content mate best fishing channel on KZfaq by far

That's a big mic!

Super video just restarted fishing after a 24 yr ,especially the lure fishing but this video goes to prove anything can be caught on the this type of tackle,i was a bit sceptical but a pike on lock down day,another one on lock off day and a couple since in very short sessions as little as half hr on my local canal has really inspired me,one question though can recommend the landing net you use as is seems more compact than I’m using at the moment, also like the idea of the bike to cover more likely spots,keep the the vids coming spot on

Come to the North East, fish the River Wear and catch a barbel in double figures, that is not easy! Great stuff again!

fantastic canal fishing.

That looks a great stretch of canal, some varied fish in there, really enjoyed this vid mate! An old guy pointed me to a good Tench spot on a canal near me recently, sweetcorn didn't work there, but will def try bread after seeing this! I've seen them in there, do you think early morning and late evening are when they're feeding? Cheers.

2:59 gotta love it

Proper fishing, I feel lazy going the sticker fish pond tomorrow

Good video, mate!

Great video, I would like to see a carp video. It will mix things up a bit.🎣😎

Great video

Really cool video 😎 more micro lure videos for roach, rudd and perch please 👍🏻

Keep it up fella. Enjoyable watching

Love your vids, even better they are filmed on my local canal on which I have the pleasure to work on (weed boat) I'll keep an eye out and say hello.

Nice vid, "lets try something different" something like catfishing? and i would also love that carp fishing video from you :D

Quality 👍 Tight lines bud 🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣

Great to see fish returned gently with net

Great video. That 2lb braid was certainly tougher than I thought it would be. When you fly fish on the canal again I'd be interested in any tips you have for starting fly fishing this way. There's loads of stuff on KZfaq but it nearly all seems lakes and rivers.

really enjoyed that video. cheers mate

Tench is one of the best best for wels catfish!!! Give it a try

Love the videos but your so luck to have so many waters near you that are gin clear. Our canal is chocolate coloured

Great video,brilliant fishing,🎣

Lake I fish on a carp water there are doubles galore when you waid out the tench bang into your legs eating the dropped bolie. 14lb is my biggest

Good footage mate

Hi pal great vid.👍 I know it’s a different topic than today’s but I wanting to start drop shoring for perch, small pike and chad etc. Can you recommend decent light drop sit rod and reel setup that won’t cost the earth. Cheers 👍

Awesome session Chris. Beautiful Tench. Still my favourite fish.☺ You ever try freelining a few grains of sweetcorn for them too? And no matter where you go, you can seem to escape from the Pike...😆 lol

So much better than those Tame Canal Tench...

Hi , What's Stralking!!!!!! Ha ha.

AWESOME ! beautiful fish 🙌

I'm not using 2lb line with my Livingston lures! shits are £20 a pop! 60lb brade on a baitbaster for dem bass

Great fish..bream was a clonker :)

Brilliant,, get some fly on the go on the river,,,👍👍👍👍

Why is the canal sooooo underrated and that's coming from someone who lives on the London stretches. I rather fish for bloody gudgeon and Tommy ruffs all day. Then fish in one of those carp lakes can't beat it

Been doing the same with a live frog or earthworm, for black bass, it's always a pleasure an you may get unexpected bites.

Awesome fishing! Was the jighead 0,7g or 1g?

And the location , as just love it

Did you ever try to fish with artificial bugs ? Like Illex woodlouse or so ? Would be great to test some of those in a video. Great video this one. 👍

Nice vid bro!!!

Loving the micro fishing do another video on micro perching

Great stuff mate. Go for wild carp. keep doing what you're doing. Don't do that commercial carp trash - not proper fishing that. Love ya work GF.

So nice video bro..I love yours video

Hey buddy love your content do you have any how to videos? My biggest problem is knowing how to retrieve certain lures as I'm only new to lure fishing :) be great to learn about it from a great angler like yourself :)

really good

Fantastic result Chris, something I’ve thought of doing recently after finding a good gear of tench. Problem is they are constantly on the move and heavily over run with weed and Lilly’s. Apart from your tactics here but heavier line, any recommendations

You should do a what’s inside my tackle box video

In Australia we have invasive tench but they are extremely rare

alright. have you tried springwood fishery in derby? i was there june last year and had a lot of carp. had to travel 700 miles .

UK fish are laid back, it's like they can't even be bothered.

Sorry most of that is spelt wrong due to predictive.🙂

At 4.00 minutes, it looks like a bigger fish gets spooked, right next to the pike. Is it just the video looking like that?

Small red worms and cheese - wont go wrong with these two hookbaits

Tench are ace.

Great video does anybody know any good spots around the midlands for zander absolutely none round me and would like to catch my first one

Chris, may I ask which canal you are fishing on? Thx

Awesome tench👍🎣 Congratulations. 👏👏👏 Did you catch all of them with bread?

When a fish is in the weeds hold you rod tip down and keep constant pressure and 90% of the time you can get them out of the reeds

Gonna hit the Worcester Birmingham cannal Alverchurch way

Fried tench filet with garlic and olive oil, delicatessen

Catch a canal carp.....they have their habits.. That's what I would do..that second bream was a fine one..

Where is this canal I need to go there

you could try for a river carp on a centrepin?

Absalootly brilliant!!

Excellent. 👏