***FOX RAGE TV*** PERCH ON MICRO JIGS WITH BEN HUMBER

[Music] [Applause] [Music] so today we come down to my local canal I fish this canal since I was a little kid with my dad and I've got some great fish out of here it can be hard it can be easy it's same as most waters and you catch it with no one there are no off they're off today is it's probably gonna be quite hard because it's blazing sunshine however yesterday it absolutely tipped it down with rain all the way through tonight as well and we've turned up today and it doesn't normally color up that much this canal and it's really really coloured you just got a couple of inches of clarity that may work in our favor because it's bright sunshine and I think of it was normal conditions and it was gin-clear we may actually struggle today so I'm going to stay positive until until it's over and and what we're going to do today is we're going to do one of my favorites and that is we're going to use these little micro fry face charlie venue we're going to use a little two gram jig heads with those maybe one gram jig heads and it's a technique I've done for quite a few years now but I first came across it when I was fishing a canal up country and it was actually in a competition and it was a great big guy and he was fishing up for me and it was really tough as canals can be when competitions happen they just switch off and it's quite often the little perch and things which you can catch and no one was really catching and I watched this guy and you know I could see him just passed in in between the little bushes on the far side and I was fishing what I thought was quite like with kind of spinners and little plugs and things like that back then and next thing is she's one absolutely looped over and I'm he's into a good fish and I watched I watched my four you know competition or not I'm going to go and give him a hand that looks like a huge fish so I go running up and I've got his net and and I'm waiting waiting out of this coloured water and suddenly a little jack pyke like this comes up and in the net it goes and he's got his teeny little learn about the side of its mouth like it's like a little matchstick it's as small and I had a good chat with him after that and in fact he was a Polish angler and he taught me an awful lot in that brief conversation and he told me about ultralight rods in small little jig heads and small little errs and and it just yeah that really kind of ignited my fire on the small fishing and scaling down much like the match fishing of the lure world in a way and and yeah from then on I got home that night in giggled and and looked through everything and bored of myself similar little lures and some one and two clam chick heads and the right floor low and and yeah that was it the next day I was straight down my local canal and I whose vertical jigging along the edges and and get a little plucks off the little waspey perch like this and you know you get one six eight ounces on a little one to eight grand warden I see you it feels like a kid again really and I think that's what it's all about it's all about going out and having fun and getting lots of little pups and pools and and getting bikes really because that's why we go fishing for lots of reasons but ultimately we do go because we like catching fish and getting bites and that's exactly what you get when you when you go like lure fishing and that's what we're hoping for today the plan today is is for me to try and give you a few other tips which work for me they might work not work exactly for you you might tweak them change them but if you've never done it before then it's definitely good foundations to be able to start look like lure fishing and if you have done it before you never know it might be something slightly different from what you're doing or it just might be a new technique which you've never heard of or seen so hopefully with these top tips you put a few more fish on the bank you'll be able to check them out daily on our Fox rage Facebook page so keep checking and and keeping updated on that and I hope that they help put a few more fish on the bank for you so I think a good place to start for the tip is to actually start with the tackle because that's the first thing you're going to maybe purchase or borrow to be able to use I recommend and really a thousand size reel it's it's going to go on a light rod so it's going to keep the ball balanced you're not doing lots of casting at all in fact a lot of it is underneath the wood tip so you don't need a big heavy reel and you're going to hold it all day and light lure fishing is about being liked yourself as well so having all your tackle on you to net on you so you can just walk and you don't feel like you're laden with with with tackle and then we look at the rod here there's lots of different ones out there which will do the job but really you're looking something between one and ten gram that sort of thing 3 to 14 gram that sort of weight board is is a good starting point it's enough to be able to feel the bites and get the sensitivity and and it's also enough to be able to set the hooks as well and if you did get a rogue pike it's enough to be able to cope with that as well braid now that braid is vital you've got to have braids for the qualities of it really so I'm using here ten pound braid between eight and ten pound braid is ideal and this is going straight through to six pound fluorocarbon there and again fluorocarbons really really important when you're purchase wishing if it spike around definitely you need to put a trace on some days to probably on some days they're not so it doesn't necessarily mean there's probably no Venu I've always got to use a trace some days you can just tell when you're purchasing a Jack might come along okay it's time to put a trace on today you just don't know until we start fishing so we'll see how that goes and then obviously we go down to the lure and I've got a two gram jighead on there we have a little micro fry and because it's so colored I mean it's a spiky micro and I've got it in lemon tiger as well so pretty much the brightest one we do so fingers crossed at least I know they're going to see it if it gets close to them and that's really the tackle I use for all of my canal work and and perch work really so that's a good starting point say we've come here it's not a lock it's just a it's just a road bridge which comes over to canal but it's a feature and when your perch fishing and your predator fishing you're looking for features you're trying to think a bit like a perch and and where they're going to be and where they're going to hang out you do capture mid-river and things like that there can be you know it can be underwater features in the canal which you can't see so it's always worth covering open water as well but specifically try and target the features is what works for me when I come up to a feature you can see I'm a rod length back my chips just on the edge because as Anglia's we've got this thing where we think we always need to fish through the far side we always wanted a pass to the far side of the canal and far side of the lake and the river whereas in fact there's no difference from this margin to that far side margin over there so if you think about it why would the fish be over there and not there they're definitely underneath your feet so it's good to start there as a starting point you can fish there after you fished here say and what I would do is I would come over and I would literally I want to see what that fish will start so I would get the lure and I'm just going to lower that down and as it goes down I can see that that's let it go slack once it goes slack you know what at that fish that's quite deep so it's probably about four foot deep so I know but it's four foot deep and what I want to do then is have about a foot spare make sure your drag sets really important if you have it's too tight you can bump fish you can lose fishing and the hooks can pull and you're fishing right under your webs hip so yes you've got a soft rod but just use your drag and I would simply just lift and let it go up and down up and down sometimes little ones keeping it right down on the bottom and then lifting it may be the fool limps and going all the way a lot and I can nearly guarantee that if you do this and work along jetties and the edges of bridges and things like that with these little two ground check editing microphone you will pick up perch without a shadow of a doubt and that's a really really really really good tip and once you've done all the way along you don't feel there's anything there the next one is to actually get it underneath the bridge and that takes a little bit of okay so it's like a swing and a flick and let go underneath feel it down really quickly on a tight line you can't do it a vertical jig in as much but what you can do is you can just bounce it across the bottom taking up the slack and perch and predators absolutely love being underneath bridges they always well it's its cover from above I quite often underneath the bridge and tucked in against the side because then they've got nothing behind him because predators eat predators and then an aching and they can watch out that seems to work really really well I think there's a too great start point of starting points if you've not done vertical jig fishing before is to go find the features fish the inside line vertical jig fish underneath as much as you can by just flick it clasp then underneath and then start casting to the far side crossing every hour of the clock if you like as you go all the way around and cover in that water and once you Fang cast it and your vertical jig that usually perch you know that usually there you're going to get a take pretty quickly and on to the next feature and just keep doing that and doing that and you will pick up more fish as the day goes on so you may think fish in a very small little lure with a little jig head and bouncing it across the bottom you're gonna get snagged all the time if you did it with a bigger a heavier learn you just kept trying to call it across the bottom yes you would get snagged all the time and you'd have to use very heavy tackle to be able to get your lures back but here because we're using light rods and kind of little 1 2 & 3 grams eggheads you do feel the snacks you can feel branches and debris and actually as you're not ripping it back you're quite often skipping and bouncing it back what it does is it actually enables de leur to go around or over the snags so in fact you lose an awful lot less than you think you would and it's just a case of chronic getting the feel for the bottom and if you feel a snag don't just bend into it just gently twitch the water just to twitch it over the top of the snag I mean today I've gone free lots of weed beds and all the other things which gets chucked into canals and it's still the same Jake head still 2 gram in size and I haven't lost one at all yet so it just goes to show you you can actually not lose the tackle you would think you would lose from eating from skipping lures across the bottom however there is the fact sometimes it does snack a little bit on the hook point or you do have to just pull tit to get it off and what's really really important is to when that does happen is not just to carry on fishing is actually to is to bring your lure in and have a look at it and make sure the hook points okay because obviously if you've got a blunt hook you're not going to get a good hook hold you might get a hook pool when you're playing the fish so it's really important what I do I've got a hook sharpener hook sharpener there I just wear my fingers down it first of all each side of it and you can sometimes feel the hook points been turned over it just feel a little scraping feel on your finger and then you just simply get the hook sharp now I'll just put some red tape on it so I can always find it and and just do up the sides of the hook and stay on the front and just make sure that it it's enough to prick you it's it's sharp on your nail sticks on your nail and it's good to go visually take seconds and make such a huge difference from keeping your hook point sharp in every type of fishing not just lure fishing but when you're going to bouncer a you know very fine wire lure across the bottom which is you know needle sharp it has to be needle sharp because perch we've got very bony little mouths and as soon as you hook them they just shake like crazy so that has to go in penetrate in and go in there so to do that it needs to be sharp and that means you need to carry a hook sharpener and keep an eye on your hook points and it's a really good tip which definitely puts more fish on the bank for me so when I'm doing my loofah shim I'm quite robotic with the way I would do where I cast not retrieve because I'm always changing that because on different days they want different things sometimes it's doing what I'm doing now it's just just a cool it leapfrog in across the bottom I much prefer it when they're really on and they want quite a fast steady retrieve with just a few little twitches because they're chasing and then twitches or a trigger point and then they smash the lourve and I just love that that's that's the thing I love about lure fishing is when you can really work those fast and get really hard hits and stuff that's just me as a person that's what I like some people love just switching them across the bottom there's so many different styles everybody works out their own styles but you've got to adapt on the day you have got to change your lure tree so that you can find out how they do want it on the day but when it when I go back to my being a bit rare but it with my casting I'll always I'm always going to cast underarm over on whatever that quickly turn the bay alarm on my hands on there and I'm watching that braid go down so it is a couple of reasons for doing it one is I'm watching that braid go down I can tell give or take a few inches or a half a foot I can tell what depth it is from just watching it go down you can just see that arc and you can tell how deep it is canals are quite uniform normally but on lakes and rivers it's really definitely worth worth watching that braid and just seeing how what you're fishing over and what sort of depths closing the handle really quickly and having my hand on the reel is is very very important because well I'm casting I'm casting quite often to features so there's a predator in there and that predator is always alert it's always ready to be opportunistic and to catch whatever it can which is passing by whether it's a fish or an insect or or whatever so if I cast to a likely-looking place and I've got my barrel arm open I'm just looking round over there and then up there we go and I start reeling in that fish could have literally sucked in that lure Polonia again no resistance or anything to set that little hook in there and and it's gone that's it game over so what I do is I'm casting and in clothes and then away we go so it's straight away watching it go down on the bottom leave it for a couple of seconds works really well and then switching it back if I was to get a fish my handle I'm straightaway on that handle and I'm ready to turn and lift into a fish if I get one and a barrel arms shut so it's really important to do that every single time just get into the habit of doing it with all the lure fishing you do and it can just catch those fish which are just straight on the lure as soon as it goes in so we've just come along here and there's a bridge above us obviously underneath the bridge is good but a really really good place to initially start is depending where the Sun is you're going to get a different shadow cast so at the moment the shadows coming down and there's a line it's nearly a solid line from dark to light it's not as enhanced today because there's so much clarity in the canal but it's still there and as a predator if they hide in the bushes if you like her in the darkness of that shadow they're hidden from their prey they've got a natural advantage they usually got better eyesight than their prey anyway and if they're hiding in the dark water that's another edge for them and they're always trying to gain energy is maybe it's hiding behind rocks and boulders or Reed's or whatever to try and gain an ambush point so that shadow that line is an ambush point so if you can run a lure just along the light line quite often they'll just come poking out and now smash into that lure just it comes along and another good one is when you actually do get your lure into your feet you know it's the same as fly fishing for trout lake either they call it on the hang and when you get the fly next to the boat you just hang in just wait because you get so many follows off trout and you're hanging it there and it can be stationary or slowly going down and what they hit it without anything done to it at all well it's exactly the same when you're in your perch fishing as well so when you do get it in close keep it on the hang as such but what you can do is what I call kind of you'd get together luring close and you'd walk the dog so you get it in close and you lift and you kind of walk walk the lure around the front of you because perch they don't just get other Zelo I'm going to break that one sometimes yeah but quite often they follow and when they follow you need to trigger them to get in to take and to get them to take lift in and vertical jiggin just in front of you it doesn't need to be a feature at your feet but it's just because they've came in you might get a fish to take which followed you in two or three casts ago and you don't realize it's just soaking down there and it's not until you vertical check out in front of your own feet suddenly BAM he hits you again because he came in a couple of casts ago so vertical jigging can be really really good just to walk around us swim yeah boom just like that there you go no perch huh well that just goes to show ya walking the dog around the swim can definitely pick up extra bites you go let's go combine that fishing down that light edge and then wherever you fish just having a little go now and again around in front of you just case there was any following fish sack down there definitely does should put a few more fish on the bank for you so I think another top tip is lure color so everyone knows that lure color can make a lot of difference to your fishing sometimes you might get to a venue at first light and you might want to breitler sometimes they want a dollar quite often I find that the law changes through the day you might fish an area and have a few fish and then change to a different lure color and you'll pick up those other fish just because you've put a different color through that same swim but they weren't hitting that initial so what we've done is we've actually rather than going out and have them get that let the Pat where you've got all the same color we've now got packs where you've got multicolored losing so you can get one pack with four different colors that's great it means you can just one pack in your bag and you can cover all the different light options so we've got it in the ones I've been using today which is the micro spikey we've also got it in the micro fly the micro grub tail and the micro tiddler fast so the whole range of the micro is now available in these really handy color-coded packs okay so it's been a tough day we've managed some fish and actually we've managed to finish in style say I think the final tip I'm going to give you and it has to be one of the best tips for fishing for perch quite often you can catch a perch and and you can catch a nice perch and get excited and get your friend to take a picture maybe you weigh it and before you know it that's it you may even move to the next swim well perch usually shellfish until they get really really big but when they're you know most of their lives they work as a pack so when you've got that one on the other fish don't know really that he's not chasing a real fish or they don't know necessarily he's been hooked and they're a little bit frenzied kind of switched on so if you do get a perch yes get excited of course you know but unhook it put it in the net and straight away cross back out again and do quite a fast erratic retrieve in it and if there's any switch to on fish out there BAM straight away you can get into them and what can happen is actually you can catch quite a lot and you can start taping the shoulder part really really quickly before they actually wise up and know what's going on and that is exactly what has just happened here so one fish in a net straight away straight away and actually we're going to show you now that that tactic definitely works [Applause] okay that absolutely beautiful and that just goes to show how effective like lower fishing can be there we go well couple a lovely perch and plenty more in the net as well two gram jighead little fox micro spikey lemon tiger in what most people probably wouldn't bother fishing because the conditions really do look very poor when you look at that clarity that just goes to show I mean arrestees back in the water now because it's quite sunny and they work like that on their eyes and I think the thing about light lure fishing is you're using such a small little earth people often see it as a wasp in technique and when they say wasp that's it that's all I got a small little perch he's got the stripes on it what's been but that's proof there in the pudding that in fact I was trying to catch little wasps a day the bigger fish wanted it I fish on to Valley Reservoir quite a lot and quite often when we're chucking big replicant lures around a big big crank baits and things you're watching 20 pound plus quite coming up and just though just rolling on on all it all day little larvae and all the insects which are coming up in big balls and and you're watching him do it and you can see them doing it and and then you see how many fly anglers actually catch huge pike out of that venue on little buzzers and and then you watch the pike eating the buzzers and it's the same sort of principle with using very very small little loose it's if you use a big ler for these fish you're closing that window of how many fish you can actually catch because you're shutting that down because of your lure size so okay I'm not saying that you will always catch great perch like this when you use small lures but there's every chance there really really is and and I think that net shows you that it smaller tactics can really really put decent sized fish on the bank and it's not just the wasp in technique [Music]

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Id: a9Pax93T7pA

Length: 24min 37sec (1477 seconds)

Published: Fri May 25 2018