00:02Afternoon all, hope you're all ready for another fishing trip, another day netting after the
00:08harem. Hopefully we'll get a few more. This time we're going in my boat again, just going for the
00:16high water. If you could please press subscribe, that doesn't cost you nothing and that makes
00:22the channel do a lot better. If you could please do that would be much appreciated. Thank you very much.
00:31You're just shooting the two-inch nylon decks over the side. They're going away nicely.
00:47There they do. I've got, wait, 10 nylons here.
00:54I'll just shoot this feet first. We're a little bit early, about 20 minutes before the high water,
01:01so we are very early really. I don't know if you can see there, but most of the nets are
01:08sunk nets, but the last couple of surface nets, you can see the flutes on the surface.
01:15They're actually the wrong way round. I like to put the surface nets close to the beach,
01:20but we hauled them the wrong way round last time due to the wind, so you've just got to deal
01:26with it.
01:29I took the other monofilament nets out of the boat. They were two and eight and I've gone back to
01:35two-inch nylons because now the fish are spent. They ain't any size. They were little
01:40old heron and them monos didn't really catch anything, so I stuck another fleet of nylons in now.
01:44They're all sunk, just like the other fleet. Hopefully we'll get a few more with these two-inch nets in.
01:53We're just hanging on the end of the fleet. Hardly any wind, the turbines are barely spinning.
01:59And you can see all the seals on the scrubby, and that red boy is the old shit-can boy
02:06as we know it.
02:07That's where they dump all the sewer from the sewage works a couple of miles inland. It's very fine
02:14sediment they put out there. That's not much. It's not like years ago where they just
02:17dumped everything in the river. That's really fine treated sewage, all chopped up. To be honest,
02:23that do the seed good. That's feed, and it's all feed for shrimps and bits and pieces.
02:29That kickstart the lower part of the food chain. People say sewage is bad, but not always.
02:39If you look at the plot, I have a look at a few fish there. They look like sprats, but
02:44we ain't got no sprats nets. And them marks look like heron. They're sitting about 20 foot deep,
02:51so we might be able to touch them, but we'll see when we haul. They always say finders are lie
03:00boxes,
03:00and most of the time they're generally true.
03:05Well, that's the lovely town of Great Yarmouth. You can see the old Oasis tower,
03:10and then in the distance, see the power station. Kicking out a little bit of steam.
03:16That's based on gas. There used to be an old coal power station there, but they
03:20knocked that down in the early 90s and rebuilt the gas power station. And they run a gas pipeline
03:25all the way to Bacton. That must have cost a fortune, but that's been pumping that juzzy out ever since.
03:32And the gas has got to be obviously a lot cleaner than the old coal.
03:36What we need is a few more power stations in this country.
03:39That's what we seem to be lacking at the minute. Instead of shipping it from abroad,
03:43or buying it from abroad, we've got to be generating that itself, don't we?
03:47Well, we shot a bit early on the tide, and you can see the inside fleet has gone right round
03:53with the tide.
03:55But the outside fleet is a lot better. The inside's gone round a bit, but it's fishing lovely.
04:01So we're going to haul the inside fleet, and then that'll be ready to shoot for the first of the
04:05ebb.
04:07And we'll haul the outside fleet on slack water. That's a plan, isn't it? Well, we've got two choices.
04:21Do you want any so far?
04:22Oh, there's one. That's nice to see.
04:47Well, that's a two-inch nylon hold.
04:52A lot better today. We must have at least a couple of stone there.
04:57Well, I put the nylons in because most of the fish were spent.
05:02And yeah, there's still a lot of spent for them. But today, there's still some nice fish amongst them.
05:08Like, nothing wrong with that one. There's still some a bit better ones amongst them.
05:12But if you use the two and eight for my nose, you're losing all the little ones.
05:15And as you can see from the last time I went from the boat, we had eight heron.
05:20And when we hauled one fleet, we've got a couple of stone.
05:22Well, that's not a huge amount, but for this time of year, you can't ask for too much.
05:27But it's just lovely to be out here.
05:29Look at that.
05:30Flat, calm day, like a mill pond.
05:33There's a few cormons coming through.
05:35There's going to be thousands of cormons at the minute.
05:37I've never seen so many.
05:39Well, we're now going to shoot these nets for the first of the ebb.
05:43I'll put down lights on them, as you can see.
05:45But hopefully, we shall be done and dusted by hauling everything combo dark.
05:51But just in case, it's nice to know where your gear is.
05:55We have got radar to find it, but that's a lot better just seeing it with Mark and I will
05:59save a lot of problems on that.
06:04That's the nets doing most of them again.
06:07Nylons.
06:08Nylons are a lot easier to work because they're soft and supple.
06:12Where monos are springy and bloody horrible.
06:16I love it when we get back to winter fishing and get back on the nylons.
06:20They're so much nicer on the hands, but just generally most of the work most soft and supple.
06:25But the monos are springy, spring everywhere, cutting here, catch and everything.
06:31But they are bloody good fish catches.
06:33All right, but just continue shooting these and go back and haul the other fleet.
06:37We'll show you what we're getting in.
06:40Well, that's the Dan finally over.
06:43And they go and get the other fleet.
06:45It's now slack water, so we'll go and haul the other fleet what we shot a bit further out.
06:48And there you can see them.
06:51That's the inside end, the outside fleet.
06:54And then loads of cormans now migrating them.
06:58I do just about see the other Dan.
07:01They've gone around a little bit with the tide, but they stay pretty straight.
07:04I'm happy with that.
07:05They're fish lovely, they have.
07:07A little bit further off, a little bit more tide on them.
07:11Cool, look at all them cormans.
07:14There's bloody hundreds flying around.
07:17I don't think I've ever seen so many.
07:19Can you look in behind us?
07:22I don't know if you can see very well.
07:26I'm just going to zoom in.
07:27See, look, there's hundreds flying through everywhere.
07:31They must be feeding on the sprats.
07:34I suppose there's better feeding on the sprats than it is.
07:37Poor old roach and freshwater fish.
07:40They had a hammer in the last few years, didn't they?
07:41Poor old things.
07:43There's a hell of a lot of them.
07:44A lot of cormans are eating a lot of our freshwater fish at the minute.
07:48And not some of these fisheries are really suffering.
07:50Especially our natural rivers.
07:53They really are struggling with the amount of cormans.
07:57We're now sitting on the outside end of the outside fleetby shop.
08:02Even though the tide's finished in the beach, there's still a little bit of tide out here.
08:06So we'll set it here for another 10-15 minutes until that tide finish.
08:12And then we'll start hauling these.
08:15Hopefully we'll get a few more fish in these as well.
08:19But it's a cracking night to be out here.
08:21You couldn't ask for any better.
08:22It's like the bloody mill pond.
08:25I wouldn't fancy swimming.
08:26We don't look like we're that far off though, but I wouldn't fancy swimming it.
08:31That boy there, the shit can boy, that's three quarters of a mile off virtually.
08:39It's a long distance if you had to swim it.
08:41But luckily we got a boot, so we didn't.
08:46Well, we just hauled all the nylons off a bit and what a surprise.
08:52We must have 20 stone in them.
08:55That really surprised me for this time of year.
08:57We started cleaning them.
09:00Filled about a box up.
09:01There's two half boxes there.
09:03And we decided if we keep cleaning them, that'll be dark.
09:05So we decided to run them.
09:07And we're glad we did.
09:08We've got about 20 stone.
09:10It's lovely to see.
09:11I never had 20 stone this so early in the year.
09:13Normally don't get out until middle, late February.
09:15But the seasons are changing a lot, ain't they?
09:18Well, let's go and get the other fleet.
09:20Probably have to run them now because we run these and then we'll do them.
09:25Well, we just hauled the other fleet.
09:27There's a few in it, but not very many.
09:30But to be honest, that other fleet was enough what we wanted.
09:33There's probably about 20 stone there.
09:35That's enough for us.
09:36You put too many on the market and the price bit was shit.
09:40At least for 20 stone, you still get okay money for them
09:43unless someone else put a load on there.
09:45But you've got to look at that now.
09:47Look at that.
09:49It's like a sheet for Micah in it.
09:51You couldn't ask for a better night.
09:54Windmills are barely turning.
09:56That's stunning.
09:58Well, I better start motoring home.
10:01Now, just winching the boot on the trailer.
10:04Coming on lovely, sitting on the boys.
10:09Ain't got a fart of goo.
10:12Another six foot, eight foot.
10:15Might be all on the trailer.
10:19What a lovely night.
10:21That is cracking.
10:24I'm glad to be on the fish in the end.
10:26We didn't want to be out there pissing about in the dark really.
10:30It's a lot easier to clean on shore.
10:32Man hand on the boat on the beach in the dark and fanny about.
10:36That's nicer just to do it when we get back.
10:40But, see, the boots are now on the bilges.
10:44The pellets are now going to pop out.
10:46And that'll be jobs again.
10:50Well, we've finally finished cleaning.
10:52We've got five half boxes really.
10:56I haven't weighed them up yet.
10:58And then we've just got about 10 kilo of selected large of the bigger ones.
11:03I might be with that.
11:04That might be getting up for 20 stone.
11:07I'll weigh them in a little while.
11:10You don't want two bigger boxes on the market.
11:13Because the small boys who are looking for their vans,
11:16they don't want too much at a time.
11:18So, well, I'm ever too tough for that.
11:20But we'll weigh them up in a minute.
11:22Just got to run the nets back in the boot.
11:24Because they're still on the floor.
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