How To Find Fish On Lakes and Rivers – a simple guide to watercraft

How To Find Fish On Lakes and Rivers – a simple guide to watercraft

Finding the fish is the biggest step towards catching them. This guide to watercraft covers lakes and rivers and will help you choose where to fish on your next session.

Learn how to find the depth with a marker float: https://youtu.be/o32H-CDp8YI?t=585

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50 Comments

  1. @TrueSimp on June 10, 2025 at 11:13 am

    I love playing World of Watercraft.

  2. @shalomtaylor5696 on June 10, 2025 at 11:14 am

    Thank king!! Great info.

  3. @rikcharter8436 on June 10, 2025 at 11:16 am

    Really good vid. Essential for the less experienced anglers. Well done guys keep it up.

    When you getting a tv deal ?

  4. @zombietidedave4578 on June 10, 2025 at 11:17 am

    Highly useful information. Thanks boys. Been following you for some time. If you ever make it back over to the states. Feel free to look me up. I’m in South Carolina. Untouched carp here. I fish the Santee Cooper system mostly but do get around. I’ve got 170,000 square acres to break down. This video definitely helps.

  5. @thebulldog8770 on June 10, 2025 at 11:17 am

    Hey thank you for helping the fishing community! You are doing great work, greetings from across the pond in the US may you always have tight lines!

  6. @josephquinn7356 on June 10, 2025 at 11:18 am

    Great video! QQ, can you tell me how to differentiate between carp feeding bubbles and those from big turtles on the bottom? Also, do the turtles go away in the Winter? Thanks – Joe
    *I’m getting inundated by turtles in my local swim and it’s driving me bonkers😫😫😫

  7. @francolinobasco on June 10, 2025 at 11:21 am

    Regarding chub and barbel requiring or indeed having preferance to faster water, that is quite a sweeping generalization and one overly used in angling for these species. I have taken many barbel over the years from areas of rivers and sections which would be considered torpid and some might think not ideal for said species, generally I have taken the larger specimens from such areas and have also done so this season fishing areas of rivers that have fast or walking pace sections that do produce barbel, but instead I have actively opted on many occasions for slower areas, knowing full well that large fish in general don’t wish to expend energy unduly if they don’t have to and the same rings true for large barbel and chub. Ergo there is no "one size fits all" .

  8. @danielshaw4065 on June 10, 2025 at 11:22 am

    Great video lads! Best watercraft video Iv seen so far

  9. @robertmansell3667 on June 10, 2025 at 11:22 am

    Great videos,clear precise presentation👏👏👏you are wise beyond your years sir,so many older anglers don’t like to give up information feeling they’ve worked hard for it and so should everyone else.

  10. @millwallfan06 on June 10, 2025 at 11:27 am

    Hi Carl which brand of polarised glasses would you recommend please?
    Thanks again

  11. @knowthyself5647 on June 10, 2025 at 11:28 am

    Absolutely fantastic! Thank you for sharing.

  12. @mufc20timesbitches36 on June 10, 2025 at 11:29 am

    Very informative, easily understood. Well done. Carp fished since the eighties, but still learning all the time. Thank you

  13. @grownupgaming on June 10, 2025 at 11:30 am

    11:58 lol thought that was AI generated

  14. @bobsanderson8792 on June 10, 2025 at 11:31 am

    61 years old and still learning. Thanks guys.

  15. @zebclark9288 on June 10, 2025 at 11:31 am

    Here in the Southern US bubbles could be snapping turtles or a gator.

  16. @fishingtutorials on June 10, 2025 at 11:32 am

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  17. @Christiansrising on June 10, 2025 at 11:33 am

    I just bought my first rod hoping to learn good techniques

  18. @وسامالجبوري-خ3س on June 10, 2025 at 11:33 am

    هل تستطيع إضافة الترجمة بالعربية لان المشاهدة تكون بدون ترجمة اشبه بالصورة المعتمة
    اضف الترجمة وستكون المشاهدات بعدد اكبر من ذلك لان أكثر مستخدمين تطبيق اليوتيوب من الجنسيات العربية

  19. @kaurfuks8460 on June 10, 2025 at 11:33 am

    it sucks when u like fishing at young age cuz u cant go enywhere whenever u want u always need ur dad to drive u to a place espesially when u dont have any water bodies near by and it takes a long time to drive then u just cant fish Btw Carl and Alex did u have the same problem?

  20. @EricRobillard-b4j on June 10, 2025 at 11:35 am

    in a small river system where the water is always runing, is the deeper spots are colder? i mean the water is always moving in one way. i guess the deep spots are almost the same temperature? i wonder because now that the water warms up the fish are gone but i know a place where is really deep, i imagine all the big ones are stacked there but if the water gets replaced by the current, maybe its hot down there. any idea?

  21. @vinodxxx on June 10, 2025 at 11:38 am

    Very informative. Maybe I will fish someday.

  22. @alanmarriott9216 on June 10, 2025 at 11:38 am

    Another excellent video. Could you explain the effect high and low pressure have on the fish also please??

  23. @CarpCraftUK on June 10, 2025 at 11:39 am

    Great video guys, very informative 👍🏻

  24. @cameron1893 on June 10, 2025 at 11:40 am

    Can anyone tell me what lake this is

  25. @Valetic6 on June 10, 2025 at 11:43 am

    Great video, but who the hell is fishing for carp? 😅

  26. @jotherman8113 on June 10, 2025 at 11:45 am

    Fantastic thank you so much, however you didn’t talk about bass

  27. @AleksandarAlexMesicki on June 10, 2025 at 11:46 am

    Great video!

  28. @dennisthemenace533 on June 10, 2025 at 11:47 am

    Thanks for your time, lovely video. Great guy

  29. @stephencrabtree3161 on June 10, 2025 at 11:51 am

    Carl getting down to the basics of watercraft with Alex keeping the camera steady… love it ❤

  30. @karplon2072 on June 10, 2025 at 11:51 am

    So good

  31. @kyledibben3096 on June 10, 2025 at 11:51 am

    Those methane seeps, especially in swamps, are the origins of foxfire legends

  32. @RalfyCustoms on June 10, 2025 at 11:52 am

    Wonderful as always guys, informative and entertaining 👏 👍 thanks for sharing

  33. @stu12ish on June 10, 2025 at 11:52 am

    Another very informative, well-presented video. Thank you guys, please keep them coming!

  34. @carl6131 on June 10, 2025 at 11:53 am

    thank you for the video

  35. @Marastife on June 10, 2025 at 11:56 am

    Just trying to get into fishing cause I never appreciated it as much as I should have when my gramps took me. I feel like it’ll help me get close to him, even though he has passed. Also fish is expensive, so I kinda want to get free food.

  36. @rwd1968 on June 10, 2025 at 11:56 am

    Brilliant, thanks

  37. @RaceGuy on June 10, 2025 at 11:58 am

    What is good weather to fish?

  38. @99fishingirl65 on June 10, 2025 at 11:58 am

    Great info as always, love from Amsterdam!

  39. @PanOutdoors on June 10, 2025 at 12:00 pm

    Thanks bud. Learned a lot. Keep making this kind of videos.

  40. @Leejbaker on June 10, 2025 at 12:01 pm

    Cracking informative video! Nice one 👍🏻

  41. @mattandsharks on June 10, 2025 at 12:02 pm

    Another cracking video. Really helpful.

  42. @bepisman208 on June 10, 2025 at 12:03 pm

    Fish crashing tf out

  43. @brandoncopping4870 on June 10, 2025 at 12:03 pm

    Nothing better than chilling on the bank and having these 2 talk away and give advice

  44. @homecinema1484 on June 10, 2025 at 12:04 pm

    Nice chanel which camera are u using?

  45. @terryblush on June 10, 2025 at 12:04 pm

    Awesome video and a lot of useful info. 👍

  46. @danielcantillon9208 on June 10, 2025 at 12:05 pm

    What i need is to know how you find the land owner to get permission to fish

  47. @EricRobillard-b4j on June 10, 2025 at 12:06 pm

    fresh wota

  48. @franzmordhiem670 on June 10, 2025 at 12:07 pm

    lovely well presented video explaining the often overlooked clues that help us mere mortals catch fish. especially enjoyed the explanation of "undertow" something that can have many new (or even older)anglers scratching their heads…thanks lads

  49. @phil3038 on June 10, 2025 at 12:08 pm

    Great video, this is what we all need to spend the most time learning.
    Instead of the latest rigs or tackle 😎

  50. @susankelly3136 on June 10, 2025 at 12:08 pm

    Love your videos very informative 👌👌👌👌

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