#054 - The LIVE Fishing Gurus Podcast 2025 Christmas Special

Been an absolutely mental year in fishing.

So much going on and loads of different variations of fishing internationally, in the UK, commercial fishing, loads of big finals.

And on stage here, we've got a nice mix of anglers, people who are involved in the industry who do so much in the fishing world.

And one thing I'd really like to ask you boys, and we can have a little natter about is what is the biggest thing you reckon you've learned in the last 12 months? Because at the minute, there's so much going on and it's so difficult to pick up new things in a busy world of angling.

I'll go to you first, Steve.

2025, what's the biggest thing you reckon you've learned, mate?

You learn loads.

Fishing's about learning.

And I think you learn every time you go out.

Even a bad day, you can still learn.

I think the biggest thing for me, it's the little things that make a difference.

I always think anglers look...

When someone's watching you, they look for like miracles as in like something massive that's going to change your fishing.

But it's the little tiny things, the attention to detail that makes a difference.

So for me, the one thing that stood out more than any other and I found most interesting was in Belgium.

It was the European Feeder Cup, which I won't.

Don't want to talk about it, obviously.

And it was really deep water.

So like 15, 20 foot of water, roach fishing using a cage window.

And how you loaded your feeder.

If you loaded your feeder, what I'd call in a conventional manner, you caught literally nothing.

If you just touch your bait into the feeder, which seemed completely wrong in that depth of water, got some casters, got some hemp, some ground bait, just scooping through ones.

You had to have it.

So basically, as your feeder hit the water, you thought you'd lost all your bait, which to me makes no sense in 20 foot of water, but it was massive.

Literally, when we were practicing, I could alternate between the two.