WINTER CONGER CAMPAIGN RIVER TAMAR

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Here we are guys and welcome back to the channel it’s me basman hello and great to be out with you the wingman hello guys hello mate thanks for thanks for turning up late again yeah mate we are here beautiful sunset you know it just puts me to shame

In front of it I don’t know which is brighter no it’s got cold again tonight and we were going to go to uh Devil’s point tonight yes Devils but I I’ve said to PR no it’s northwest wind would be like that be moaning after an hour it’s cold is it so

We’ve come up here for some Conger so yes but wingman’s just arrived I’ve just logged the mackel out and we’re fishing out over I’m going to fish out over the reef and I’m going to fish one in quite close cuz it’s really colored the water and they could Anything Could Happen

Yeah but it’s a really small tide so that’s not brilliant but hey we’ve got some really nice bait today from the from the market didn’t I mate yes mate came up trun fresh cutle fresh mackerel oh yes here we go baby are you ready son watch this space are you ready viewers

Let’s go fishing guys what’s in the bag what’s in the bag fresh cuttlefish woohoo fresh mackerel at the Tea Bar waiting for the Wingman I I Captain Hook got the big gear out tonight on the Tamar yes here we are 3 hours before low the water’s like chocolate but um I’m still going to catch a Conor real I reckon yes come around here northwest wind we was thinking about going over the other Side see what happens here tonight lovely welcome along here we go is my uh nice off spring there macali I’ll just cut the tail off just to stop it spinning yes beautiful as usual guys everybody knows the score knit one do one now I do mine a

Little bit different to Pauls Paul likes going across the did you say knit one do one one I think that’s knit one pearl one son right don’t tell everybody to do one right carry on sorry right so pull one like pull lights going across the back I like coming in and going

Along the side so so in the side down the other side most important thing though going for the G or and it’s straight out through that head all right hell yeah as we can see there you go get it out there get it out there I re I safe gloves accidentally from the

Garage right got some nice small cutle there from the market today me and nice there’s me rotten bottom link for a minute when that goes on and uh yeah the Hook’s a bit Rusty it’s been used but it’s still very very sharp so that’s all that matters with

The hook I don’t care if it’s Rusty if it’s sharp and Rusty I’ll use it so yes they’re quite small aren’t they yes mate they’re nice size oh that’s nice that one all right so in here you got the cutle so you actually got the it’s not a

Bone it’s um calcium isn’t it yeah and sometimes you get a little heart shape in there he almost did that but that is you know 100% biodegradable so that goes in the tide yeah so I always go in through the top and out the bottom first all right

Cuz I want to work on this side not this side um but you can actually bury the hook in there but the problem is look You’ve Lost Your Lo secure in point yeah when you if you want to do that up it’s never going to be tight in that Gap you know

It just it just doesn’t work for me but this does right so in and out and the ink the ink sacks back here as well so nine times out of 10 you might hit that it doesn’t matter right so then I always aim to gra the little breathing the blow

Pipe which is here so I go in like that and then just oh just missed did I get it kind of yeah so confidently in and out and then I just get my uh I’ll take the tentacles off cuz they a pain in the ass and then I’ll just wrap them up

Quickly right I literally put a few turns on look at that coming out of there mate right now see that right I want this up around the head so what I do now is look I’ll Bunch that up so it kind of disguises the hook like that so

It’s a bit more disgu guys yeah and then I’ll just wrap the rest up and squeeze it really tight there you go just work on that eye there and I don’t want to leave too much of this big string out there so that’s about it for me and then I’ll just go

Around and that’s a nice bait isn’t it yes mate that is a really nice bait that I’m quite excited about that actually and and then where’s the tentacle so what I took off earlier not very dextrous with these gloves on but I just don’t like cuttle

Ink so I’ll just push that on there just to disguise that so then when Mr eill comes along he’ll go oh yeah that’s nice I love that and by the time he knows it I have struck yes there you go one second see cut offish baits yes that sun wait look oh my

Goodness yes come on in mate cast red sky at night bass man’s Delight oh hang on well was I’ve got to do one thing first put the weight on I got to tie it on to me Rod right just um tying this on this is big of eight knot okay so I’ve gone

Through the line there’s my 20 swivel and I’ve just got that pinched and all you have to do is go around the go around the main line pinch go around again I’m keeping this big I don’t usually do it this big and then all you do is go through those two two circles

There and here this bit here flips over to make the eight turn it around and there you’ve got the eight see it right figure of eight figure of eight knot and that’s what I use on a lot of my rigs and it’s also a very low profile knot

This is 40b main line so it’s a very small KN so a question to ask so at what point would you stop tying that knot with what strength line 15 15 10 15 it gets a bit dicey then do it yeah and also braid no no right let’s get this

Out hope I’m not TI oh what a back drop man see mate I wasn’t late I arrived at the perfect time yeah all right I’m going to go for a action shot as far as I could get that really is that 40 50 yards yeah oh don’t shut the bail

On so yes it’s quite deep it’s still going down that’s it no it’s still going down that’s it yeah it’s very deep there well here we are guys and girls what a night look at that just whole the water’s lit up pink and blue and actually looks quite um abstract very

Nice dockyards and warships dockyard and warships fully loaded my light mate rolling hat oh my God Brett what’s that on mate cutle he’s engulfed that there you go look will I get it over the reof I think he’s on mate yeah yeah he’s on no ain’t very big if it is’s off

Mate oh what a shame that was a good start oh never mind so mate that was the uh results of your bite there is it yeah look fra should line slightly and that’s how it came back so he’s had a right chump on that and he’s had giving you a right s he’s

Had the head he’s had a result getting off that a he yeah he’s lucky boy there yeah damn it damn it I thought that was a nice easy start there was a nice slow bite as well wasn’t it yeah mate right well then we’ve only just started so you know

Positive mental attitude surely we can’t be done for the third time no mate no we a’t having a blank tonight round two all right here we go let’s get my bright light on a minute here we go right so just had a bite there on the right hand rod slow pull

Over let just check it’s still tight right so I just had a bit of a bite there and it just stopped and Brett’s just had a bite on the right hand Rod which one’s going to go first yeah you look at my and I look at yours yeah all

Right very very Cy oh yeah it looked like it was on didn’t it H they’ve been a bit fussy aren’t they we’re getting the bites and then nothing comes of it h it mate was pulling over as well was it yeah I always go for the softest part which is the

Head BR was unlucky there so have you seen guys like my bait came back in and he just taken the head so we using the power of pity back I’ll put a smaller cutle on and the point is just there right so uh yes we shall see right here we are bike number

63 feels like it doesn’t it yeah we’ve had so many chances as well we’ve had about half a dozen chances Hugo hug hello Hugo you’re a lovely boy aren’t you oh you scared of me scared of the bass man hello boy yeah not many people know they got black

Tongue have you got a black tongue have you got black tongue have you got black tongue even R AR they you got black tongue yeah there’s a good boy I saw there was a lady around sulum the other day walking one black Tong like a teddy bear I was trying to

Explain to my young son that uh he had a a you lovely eh black tongue right here we go we finally got straight on it pump and wine mate come on son I think he’s off oh not again didn’t get the point mold let’s have a look oh my yeah that that

Tells you that was what that was a strap let’s have a look yes the bait of Shame here we go Brett strap ECT toy Tiny Tim I think Tiny Tim look I think that’s as much as he can pull the rod over yes nice fillet nice fillet could it be

So many chances it’s starting to get a bit ridiculous isn’t it yeah but only a couple of decent you know chances bigger fish I think come on just take it right hand rod they are really messing about with it tonight mom needs to tell them stop

Playing around with your food no but the bad news is if there’s small eels out there there’s not much chance of anything no not good is it in he the wingman first deal of the night steron steron I think he’s done me on the a yeah he swallowed the bait swallowed the

Bait right down little bter never even told me it was on there just wound in and it was on it yeah it’s one of those nights tonight where we just don’t know what’s going on oh well good luck with that yeah unfortunately we’ve got a bit

Of uh music in the background right up the end there so I’m hope you can’t hear that strike strike away son jammed in so there you go that’s what 15t up the line Brett was over some sort of structure there and it went pop yeah Pop Goes the

Weasel oh nice bait as well turn the hook in I bet done a number yeah was the hook right there yeah unlucky mate that was unlucky turned you in like a good and honey uh naughty naughty sir I just broke my own rule there and I was

Texting the misses which I don’t usually do and then I looked up and what do we what do we have here sir a bite well it was anything for a bite sir camera shy there we go there you go oh yeah massive let him have the oak

Son swimming away with it though is he yeah probably just went into his hiding place there yeah he’s probably done me there quite a bit of slack line there wasn’t there so he picked it up and swam towards me back into his hole the devil y yep something there

Who it’s better what’s this mate what’s this on yeah he’s on there look go on come on he stopped you there didn’t he he stopped me in my tracks mate I wasn’t having none of that I’m not going to go and see the bass man mate look that’s a nice

H look at that one yeah he’s on a load of weed that’s why he’s not liking it mate do you want me to anline this just come off a that was a nice heel mate you see it yeah what was that got it on camera hey he was 12 13 maybe 14

Yeah oh my God guys and that why he come off mate that is it that that is it that was did you see it on the water did you yeah yeah mate it never gets any easier no cuz that fish was properly up wasn’t he and see his te he’s probably

Gotten that weed and he’s gone backwards and forwards and te- himself off and look mate sharp as sharp as a whistle you can’t get any sharper than that look you could catch my nail with that it’s that sharp look yeah right so there you go it’s just it’s just I haven’t had any

Luck lately just ill fishing for you mate yeah and it’s always I don’t know we just seem to lose out you know it was right there wasn’t it yeah like that yeah the one chance of the night well there we are guys that’s it from uh that’s about it from us tonight that’s

That’s the last straw for me I think what do I have to do to get a decent eel actually Land one you know like so close man yeah you always makes a shame he’s on the surface like he’d stopped me twice in the fight you know

That’s a 15 ear all day long isn’t it yeah you know I don’t care what you say that speaks volumes to me I know when I got a decent fish on but anyway that’s that’s fishing that’s healing they come off the hook was the sharpest hook ever ever created forged in the in

Mordor in the great fires of Mordor that hooked you know what I mean there’s nothing wrong with my gear uh yeah it’s just unlucky just that’s why it’s called fishing isn’t it yes mate not catching that old [ __ ] saying whoever whoever thought of that yes so yes we have come down here

Tonight and hope you’ve enjoyed the show uh We’ve enjoyed making it Haven we yes mate it’s been a bit uh it’s been a bit tame tonight uh it is a Monday night you know so it’s a school night yeah it’s a school night so we are a bit subdued

Tonight but yes that was a cracking eel there guys so I hope you appreciate that the um the effort that went in yes so we’ll be back he’ll be back I’m determined to get a video from the Tamar now that’s it gloves gloves are off mate that is it does that mean you

Get rid of the petrol station gloves no but that’s it now that is game on man I am that I’m pissed off now I’m actually pissed off now because you know that that makes the video that that double figural however big it was is the difference between you

Know a good screenshot you know holding up a big fish and it makes people want to go and click you know and lately my videos have just been Rod shots around the pier yeah we’ve caught Congers but they haven’t been that big you know they’ve been like quite small so yes

Thanks very much for tuning in guys and please share the love hit the like you know put a comment in even though we haven’t actually landed much tonight we’ certainly tried our best haven’t we yes mate and it was all about the Cuttlefish tonight not one stinking bite odly on

The ma was it no was I was putting piled on it and everything so yeah figure that out fresh mackerel and they want the Cuttlefish so there you go the Cuttlefish is the best Bay and I don’t care what anybody says so yes I’m going to wind in this other weed ridden Rod

Now and we are going to make our way back home and I’m going to edit this video to the best of my ability and sulk and sulk yes and I might have a beer actually cuz I’m that pissed off so yes this is pissed off bass man I’m signing off I’m

I’m smiling on the outside but on the inside I’m like [ __ ] yes so yes see you soon guys and tight lines tight lines everybody

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14 Comments

  1. Bit rude of wingman to not go in for you with the gaff…He could of easily stripped off and gone wading in lol 😆 😂 😉.
    Especially after his near record pouting from last time …

  2. Enjoyed the vlog Paul, this vlog goes to show the real side to conger eel fishing, Bret had the strap so at least you had one for the camera no monster but still an eel,I look forward to your next vlog and maybe you will have your eel, take care and tight lines 👊🎣.

  3. Cracking sunset and some action off some good eels. Always enjoy your conger vids, looking forward to round 2 with that beast that escaped to the depths. Yes the leviathons 💪

  4. Great video awesome sunset, cute teddy bear out for a walk.
    You have made a great effort and those eels are making you work fish or no fish just shows the real side of fishing 👍

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