I grew up watching john wilson on tv and although he was a legend and i never got bored of watching his programmes i must admit you are so much more entertaining than anyone else so thank you very much Graham

@VALIS538

7 ай бұрын

Same here mate

Sir, I love your videos because they show raw fishing. No fancy pansy equipment, just experience, and skills. The first part, the hornet nest part is totally awesome! Sir Attenborough is proud of you.

Don’t need shouting when ya on the bank… but also I bet you rocking up an catching first cast also made them a little aggy 😂😂 all the gear an no idea springs to mind well done mr P ✔️😎

You really dont need people like that around when you are trying to spend an evening of relaxed fishing

@TAFishing

9 ай бұрын

I thought they were getting close to a full-on scrap...funny thing was they were supposed to be fishing together...One just wouldn't leave it alone...

@jamescoughlan8193

9 ай бұрын

@@TAFishing different times Graham , the word consideration isn't in their vocabulary. All the fish you were catching , in the old days young lads would come and try to learn something from you , you certainly wouldn't want those two near you more chance of getting mugged by them.

@neilvee451

9 ай бұрын

Idiots but no match for Mr p 🥊🥊🥋❤ great session.. wow we seen it here 1st again 😅😁🙏 hornet grubs 👍🏻😍

@davidhull1546

9 ай бұрын

Idiots like that really p*** me off. I go fishing for some peace and quiet but too often it is ruined by these morons. @@jamescoughlan8193

@paulfreer1302

9 ай бұрын

We used to put the wasp comb in the oven for a couple of minutes. This killed the grubs and toughened them up

Match men in the 70s fishing on the Gloucester Canal used to grow their own maggots for bream fishing .The size , and more importantly the softness of the maggots were supposed to be far superior to shop bought maggots.

@liampople4309

9 ай бұрын

😂so bloody funny,mate you never fail to entertain me and the missis

Used leather jackets a lot as a kid. The larvae / grub of craneflies found mostly in the soil or under grass roots. Used to always get a few when digging up worms.

Not just the BIGGEST fishing show on KZread but the one with the most variety of fishing also. Graeme, thanks for going to the lengths you go to.

Hi Graham, the reason the carp didn't take the hornets off the top is because they can sting the fish and kill the fish!! Just Googled it. Love your videos GP!! 🎣🎣🎣🎣

The white stuff in the nest Graham is cotton fibers. To make the Grubs firmer you could pour salt over them to draw some of the moisture out!

Totally awesome as always and thanks for the laughs Graham 😂

Can i just say me and my girlfriend love watching uncle grahams videos, he really helped me het her onboard with fishing and now she complains when its time to pack up! We love you uncle graham

GRaham super video mate brought back some memories. Mate of mine used to work at pest control and would often bring me wasp grubs .i remember having my best bag of chub ever on the grubs and cake on the river wye .was and still is a magic bait if you can get ya hands on them .of course they were banned on river contests in my day as its such a lethal bait in the right hands .chub just cant resist .i have had barbel take them too..tight lines

Good and educational as always. Love the fishing techniques.Keep it up Graham, brilliant stuff. I found a couple of old fishing books the other day in my loft and I do believe one of them is one you produced. (Freshwater bites,)brings back old memories..🎣

Hahahaha "mrs comes out does her drying in there.......IVE GOT BOILIES DRYING IN THERE" 😅😄😃😂😁😀😊☺

well this channel definitely lives up to it name 'cos that was TOTALLY AWESOME i did a bit of digging around and it is thought that either the yellow and black is a warning (for animals that see colour) or the contrast between the two colours (for colour blind animals) are a warning too, it was in a "pond life" online forum someone asked if wasps can kill fish with their sting, but either way the carp loved them grubs and didn't fancy a gob full of hornet, keep up the great work Graeme

What a cracking video Graeme. I was enthralled right through. Thank you so much. Such a funny guy!

Absolutely brilliant. So funny watching you tackle the nest, I would be scared too. We accidentally disturbed a hornets nest at a lake once and had to flee the swim as they were very angry, my daughter who was about 8 at the time still mentions it ,20yrs later,still traumatised😂 Great idea using the grubs though and the fish obviously find them delicious. Wait for the big bait manufacturers to start producing hornet glug!!

Graham vs Hornets! this had me in stitches.... grubs are a fantastic free bait for alot of species... I remembering reading a John Wilson book of Baits years ago and trying it myself for Chub and Carp, they was wasp grubs. this babies are huge and ripe... works a treat.. the fish love them!

You can get a sting of a dead Hornet . I used to be a pestie and got tagged several times 0:04 kneeling on dead wasps in attics! You should be wary of using insecticide around fish too as it can be toxic. Brilliant video, love the old school feel. Keep up the good work Graham.

@TAFishing

9 ай бұрын

I washed the baits in freshwater before using them for that very reason. But I will be wary about kneeling on dead wasps when up in lofts checking header tanks and the like,so thanks for the tip.

@ryanlynch248

9 ай бұрын

@@TAFishing Thought you had given them a wash. I sometimes forget the stuff I could get my hands on was much more toxic that stuff you buy in garden centres! My wife has asked if you can do more videos of Colin,She's a big fan.

TIP for you Graeme from a qualified pest control technician... if you ever have a wasps nest inside your house, generally your loft, then leave it. when the wasps die out in september, the queen leaves and searches for a new place to build her nest. They NEVER populate an abandoned nest so you will only ever get wasps in 1 specific space, once. unless of course you remove all remnants of a current nest, then there is a chance you will have a nest built in its space in future.

@TAFishing

9 ай бұрын

Worth knowing...I wonder why they never use a nest the second year after all that building work ??

@TheMattchooo

9 ай бұрын

thats a good question. i believe due to parasites and potential diseases being present when the new colony is established. it prevents the egg, larval and pupa stages from becoming affected by parasites mainly.@@TAFishing

Those are the European hornets, not Asian, and it's only the females that sting. You are quite safe handling the males. Yes and back in the day, anglers used to kill off wasp nests with cyanide powder at the entrance to their nest. Break up the cake and mix with crumb for groundbait and use the grubs as bait. They can't sting so you're safe handling them. They still work as you found out. 😁 Happy days.

You are a much braver man than I am Gunga Din!!! I imagine that there was considerable poison left on the actual wasps...perhaps that is what turned the fish off? In any case, while I might be willing to use the grubs, the fact that they WILL eventually turn into the Hornets turns me off of the idea of using them. Thanks for the wonderful and amazing videos!

Very entertaining and enjoyable video. You did well not to get stung when you attacked the nest.

Graham so retro this. 50 years ago, in a small Yorkshire village I served my apprenticeship at a village green garage. We were the go to place for any villager with a wasp issue. My boss had this enormous tin of a cyanide based product which with a 6 ft bamboo pole and teaspoon on the end we provided a free wasp nest solution for the village. The grubs our quarry. We had a very isolated venue on a river that no-one knew of. After work we journeyed there and simply free lined the grubs and had so many memorable chubby nights.

@TAFishing

9 ай бұрын

Good retro story,thanks for commenting. Chub fishing is certainly not what it used to be.

As a pest controller that was hillarious, I'd have lent you my bee suit if I knew. It is paper, they chew on wood, sometimes the nests are multi-coloured from chewing fences. The danger of procuring them from pest controller is putting pyrethrins or bendiocarb into the waters and that's really bad, in the old daysground nests wasps were sought and they were killed with carbon tetrachloride. Apparently the chub go ballistic for the honey combe as well......But its the lifecycle, the symbiosis between adult wasps n hornets, the adults feed the grubs things they foraged and in resturn get fed sweet sticky honey dew so that's what probably attracts them.....The insecticide you used to kill the hornets would probably be detected by the fish, the grubs are in semi sealed cases.

Graham, they used to bake wasp grubs in the oven to toughen them up. Don't think your good lady would be too keen on that idea though! You could always give them a quick blast in one of your bush camping ovens!

@TAFishing

9 ай бұрын

Must make them sort of crispy ?..I would be worried they might stretch and explode !. Mind you I should drop a few Hornets down my mole hills,someone said they can still sting when they are dead ..

@gregrot

9 ай бұрын

We used to boil the nest in a muslin bag. Then pick out the grubs. Getting the nest taught us how to run like buggery.

What a brilliant discovery G, totally awesome nest removal 😂. Appreciate your efforts mate👍🏼

That was a lot fun to watch! Not many would tackle an Hornets nest! We get quite a few in our garden, we have caugth some close on 2" long! It is not untill you put one side by side with a wasp that you appreciate just how big they are. I measured the sting on one at 8mm long!! about the same as the whole yellow body length on a regular wasp. These are European Hornets, the Asian ones would dwarf these!

Howdi Graeme, hornests build their nests from wood pulp, old fence panels are a favourite of theirs. Great video again buddy. 👍

Hello Graham.. I have only just found and started watching your videos, . Now i know just by memory i recognise that bit of river i used to fish back as s teen the river wey that runs though the town of Farnham, that is even Gostrey Meadows in the back ground.. Oh the joy.. Thank you so much for bringing back found memories of my youth... Tight lines.. 🎣...

@TAFishing

9 ай бұрын

Its nothing like it was 30 years ago. More water flow then ,loads of decent Chub,like so many rivers its a shadow of its former self.

Would love to see more videos of you fishing tiny streams and creeks like this! The fish were small but looked absolutely stunning! Would be interesting to see if there were any bigger creek chub there.

@paulfranciosi7236

9 ай бұрын

We have chub over here but not creek chub like the ones in the USA.

Hi graham you ok pal, holy moly thats crazy. Made me laugh your brain was on overdrive about using them for bait hahaha. All the best graham from GRIMSBY.

Brilliant video Graham. I think birds naturally avoid black and yellow insects so perhaps fish might too. Those grubs certainly took fish. Thanks for sharing

Great video mate, you showed them how its done, and so funny, you always deliver.

Oh mate reminds me of a wasp nest in my broken down shed, well down, and glad your safe, always thinking man, great video, was going to fish today, but some diy had to be done, will go after work tomorrow, no matter what, great video, be safe out there.

Hornets are the most passive of all our vespids. You could have happily come and gone and they wouldn't have bothered you. I've sat under a hornet's nest and fished a day out and not died even a little bit. The nest is made from wood - mostly bark - and green plant material. It's chewed up and mixed with saliva. It's incredibly intricate and really quite beautiful. Your colony was our own European Hornet, Vespa crabro. There is a slight misconception over the invasive species. In the UK, it is the Asian Hornet, Vespa velutina. This is actually slightly smaller than our own. Where the confusion comes is there's a separate species called the Asian Giant Hornet, Vespa mandarinia. That one is huge and is invasive in the US, where it's known as the murder hornet, but it's never been recorded here. A few idiot red-top newspapers didn't check their facts - hard to believe, I know! - and the two were reported as being one and the same.

@TAFishing

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for your in-depth comment. Nobody has actually covered why in fact the Hornet even has a sting ? Does it use the sting to kill its prey ? or does it just clamp on them with the front fangs ? Or is the sting purely defensive ?

@chrisjpainter

9 ай бұрын

@@TAFishing The sting is purely defensive. When they catch prey, it's done with the jaws. A sting in the tail's mostly quite an awkward thing for use as a predation tool. It's well away from anything that can hold a prey item still (legs, mouth) and it's difficult to get it into position without the potential meal moving off. But as a defensive tool, if you're fleeing something, your most dangerous tool is right where your enemy is coming from, so it's in prime position to get a first strike in! There are exceptions. parasitic wasps use their stings as offensive weaponry. But they're preying on large things like spiders, so getting the sting in a useful position is easier. It's also used only to disable the prey, not to kill it. They then lay eggs inside the live spider, then the larvae hatch out and gradually munch their way through the (still living) host. Some eat their way through the host in a specific order to keep it alive as long as possible. Charming creatures...

Absolutely loved this video cheers grezza ✌🏾

Lovely, it reminds me of the lake I found full with fishes

Many many years ago when i was around 15. I watched a old guy catch about 50 chub on bees honeycomb filled with honey. He just cut a small piece off and hooked ot on a size 2 hook link ledgering. The chub were mental for the stuff. Never heard or, sean anyone else ever use it. He said it was chub bait no1 par excellentce.

😂😂 pwaa sod off, bloody blue bottle. This had me in stitches

I just wanna see the look on the guys face in the tackle shop when I ask him for a pint of Hornets' larvae

you have mastered the art of free bait !!! legend.

Hi Graeme. I've been watching your channel for years now and I'm a big fan. I think you should put a disclaimer on this video to make sure that nobody tries this if they find a hornet's nest. You've been very lucky with this nest as they are massively aggressive and very territorial too. A good friend of mine was very seriously injured as a kid after curiosity got the better of him with a hornet's nest and a big but no big enough stick!. He spent a few days in hospital and still has a back covered with scars!🐝

i would love to bet that some of them grubs on a hook with maggots in a feeder would be a good days fishing on the river. Future video perhaps? All the best keep fishing !

Yellow and black stripes are natures warning colours which is probably why they aren't taking the hornets. Years ago, my Uncle used to collect wasp grubs for fishing bait when my Father and I were visiting. They never failed to catch.

@dalemallory7524

9 ай бұрын

I agree. That is my understanding as well. Yellow in nature is a warning of danger or simply a defence. However,.. I have caught many trout on a bumblebee fly.

@squirrel7t7

9 ай бұрын

I caught plenty on black and yellow zigs so not sure it's down to colour to be honest. I think its the shape or scent.. Like they've been stung before.

Was them gunshots at the end putting an end to that argument on the far bank 😅 Great video really enjoyed the whole smashing the nest and the fly killer 😂

Loved this video good job as usual. I think these are the European hornets.

I remember using wasp \ hornet grubs for bait on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal and local lodge when I was a kid👍

Great video

When we were kids we dig up a wasps nest for the grubs to catch chub, five of us all gat stung at least once, you live and learn.

when i was a kid me & dad used to dig out wasp grubs,excellent bait for Chub.

The Queen, the King , the Knight,, who runs that joint,, very likely some slimy politician.

I remember when I was a kid people would knock my dad's door when they found a wasp nest. He would remove the nests for the wasp grubs for his fishing. His preferred method of nest removal was to use his gas gun which he used for warming floor tiles that was his day time job. It was all over very quickly. ;)

Hello Graeme. If ever you come to Milton Keynes please have a look at the river Ouzel. The MKAA stretch starts at the Leighton Buzzard by pass and goes all the way through MK to the M1. The section I try to fish is no wider and no deeper that this river you are fishing in, but we have weeds, weeds and weeds on top of weeds. Please let me know if it’s me doing it wrong or the water because I blank every time. The canal and Lakes are ok. The river Ouzel last year was very good.

Rice fried hornet grub dinner mmmm delicious! .. delicious....but will those bream be tempted??? Interesting the black and yellow venom warning stripes instinctively apply to carp species as well...maybe a large chub...nice scaled carp..those Are all lavas types of maggots..and vice versa...now there's a thought..

Ive watched a few wasps one day cutting little strips of wood from the side of our shed tiny little lines appear on the surface of the wood then they fly away to create the hive. Its also quite amazing at how straight the lines were too.

I find beetle grubs from the compost heap work well, and are tougher than most other maggot type baits.

I remember my dad telling me of his misadventures digging up wasp nests for the grubs when he was a kid

Fairplay to you Graham , I'd hate to be stung by them , free bait mate 👍

My boy loves watching you if your near Westbury Wiltshire and you fancy fishing the cement works one day he would love it keep up the good work thanks

another entertaining one Graeme interesting too

now thats a damn good use of that nest :D giving them fish some quality baits too :D

Has anyone told Graeme about the Hornet King on KZread? Lots of information. 🤔👍

I feed beetle grubs to my reptiles as a treat and when I have some left over I take them fishing.they are about an inch and a half long. Absolutely amazing bait on rivers for multispecies. I've even had a 7lb Jack pike take one.

The queen's will bunker down ready to hibernate towards the end of summer, beginning of autumn, after mating with male hornets. As the temperature rises in the spring or early summer they'll wake up and look to find somewhere to start a nest. They do this on their own at first, running backwards and forwards looking for decaying timber which they'll chew with their mandibles, which mixes with saliva to create the "paper" to form their nest which is basically a covering of the comb. It is used for protection and to maintain a temperature on the fast developing comb. She will lay a few eggs to begin with, which will hatch out workers which she'll feed herself. The grubs eat insects etc as for their diet, and the hornets actually eat the grubs secretion so one can't survive without the other. When enough workers have hatched, they will look after expanding the nest and feeding the grubs whilst the Queen concentrates purely on egg laying. Towards the end of the season she'll stop laying eggs to produce workers, and start laying both Queen eggs and Male eggs which will eventually start the whole process over again!

@TAFishing

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment..There was a mess of gunk on the floor under the nest,I guess " number 2's" from the worker Hornets ??

@LKHNET

9 ай бұрын

​@@TAFishingyep! 💩

You are an absolute madman.

Monster chub bait love your videos

To get the bigger Chub hook some of the cake with grubs still in, Dynamite.

your viudoes are fantastic and they cheer my day up and i love it ur humor is amzing keep it up

@TAFishing

8 ай бұрын

Glad they helped cheer you up..more to come,I might double upload again next week. Depends on "real" workload.

With the bait be so dangerous to get you would expect they would attract the tougher fish, pike at the least, but a great white would be appropriate 😂

I see your boat is back 😂🎣

Good fishing

Many years ago, my mates and me came across a hornets nest in woods near our home and decided to jab at it. One mate got hammered stung several times. His granny covered him in the go-to treatment in the 70's for stings blue bag. If I remember correctly, it was a washing aid for keeping net curtains white.

@colinbox9074

9 ай бұрын

I trod in a wasps nest In the late fifties. My granny also recommened the blue-bag treatment, but even in those days most people were using modern washing powders and blue-bags were becoming obsolete.

Amazing

Did you try using the nest material on the hook? I've used wasp nest as a hook bait for chub. It works - if you can get it to stay on! I've never tried it for carp though. I used to add wasp nest material into groundbait too. Not sure if it attracted the fish but it boosted my confidence! Where was the lake that you fished?

As a kid used to use wasp grubs one of the best baits going

loving your vlogs

The colour is intended as a warning to anything coming into contact with such a beast. It seems universal, even though they probably have never seen a hornet before. I used to catch grayling on dead wasps in the autumn though.

Job done indeed. Well done.

Nice one G Man. Now, in a survival situation, at what point do you start eating the grubs? 😂 Great film as usual thank you

Right lads, I,ve got an idea lets take a Hornet, freeze it and see if a carp will take it off the surface! Absolute legend!

It’s made of chewed wood and my grandfather has used wasp grubs for trout fishing for years and years

Excellent as always Graeme. Never try fishing with live hornets given the aggravation comatose/dead ones give you. Wasp grubs used to be an excellent bait and probably still would be though some of the chemicals used to subdue them would probably be banned nowadays!

@TAFishing

9 ай бұрын

I washed the bait first.

The nests are made of tree bark, where they mix their saliva with the bark to join them together. There can be anywhere between 30,000 to 50,000 in a nest depending upon the size of the nest. They can be quite nasty when they are angry from being disturbed.

Your absolutely crazy mr P tackling a hornet nest 😳 lucky enough there didn’t seem to be many in there 😅

Shed needs a revamp, Mr. G 😂

@TAFishing

9 ай бұрын

I have to re-felt the roof at some stage. I bought the shed for £2 when I was about 20,secondhand then,came from a house clearance in Arborfield,I remember it well. Still going strong...well maybe not strong,but its standing.

Used to back in the early 90's order wasp larvae through the mail from over there somewhere, I believe they called them euro-larva or something like that. I think it was through a place called Krafty Katcher where i got them from. Come to think of it, I remember ordering some tackle and other things from them that I never did receive, and I had sent them a money order and never got that back either. Oh well, live and learn i reckon.

A bit off topic here but my dad used to fish with rush grubs, they burrow inside the stems of bullrushes, by seeing holes on the foilage then stripping the leaves back would reveal the large white grubs, great for perch fishing.

@TAFishing

9 ай бұрын

Never heard of those,I shall start looking at rush stems in a whole different light now.

Remember this very old saying {I made it up two minutes ago } 'EVERY CHUB LIKES THEIR GRUB'!🤫

Nothing worse than listening to idiots on the bank, when you want peace and quiet. Well done graeham

@TAFishing

9 ай бұрын

I had them the night before last on a Carp overnighter. In the lake behind me. Even at 1am they never found the "off" button. Its not like they talked quietly. Must have been a nightmare for the other anglers fishing that lake.

@Paulforsilvers

9 ай бұрын

@@TAFishing a lot of us have been in same situation mate. Dont let it get to you. Ive had to leave fisherie before cos of selfish idiots.

Wasp grub was once a popular bait.

here in Thailand we get coconut beetle larvae, they are as big as ones thumb and the lake i fish the Amazon red tails love em.

I reckon that the fish instinctively know danger signs of seeing the black and yellow stripes of a hornet. Like a horse will react fearfully when it sees an adder. They just know what's not good for them. Check out the fly patterns you use for trout and see if there's a hornet or wasp, or even a bee among them. I think that's why the carp won't take them. I had some rubber hornet grubs once, and couldn't get a bite!! They were a freebee, so I had to give them a go. The stings are still active. Not that being stung by a dead hornet is a choice by the animal ,but more like the reaction of a nettle, the needle can penetrate skin, and venom can flow though it. So you did right handling them with care even when they were dead. The material used for making the nest is wood. No doubt you've seen wasps chewing fence posts, well they take the chewed wood and use it to make that paper like substance and glue it together with spit. Clever stuff, but I still prefer bricks and mortar. Very interesting video. Seen stiff here not seen before in this context. Did Barny Rubble and Fred Flintstone sort out their issues in the end? ... LOL Take care Graeme. TTFN

@DjDolHaus86

9 ай бұрын

I've seen carp take bees and wasps off the surface, I've also caught on black and yellow foam imitation bumble bees. It should be noted that from the fishes point of view (underneath looking up) everything is more or less black when it's silhouetted against the surface

Scary stuff 🐝🐝 some people keep the old nests intact and hang them up in the garden. Apparently deters other hornets/wasps setting up a new nest in the garden. Had to get rid of a nest last yr underneath my rose beds. Called someone out though.....not as brave as you

@xszl

9 ай бұрын

a brown paper bag will do that trick too. I always have one in the garage and under the appletree..

Madness 😂😂

Graeme, you could catch a chub out of a damp doormat….best wishes!

How come you never noticed this huge nest before it got that big? Probably because you are not around, fishing too much!!! 😂🤣

Haven’t even finished watching yet 😂😂,you should have titled it Maniac Attacks 😂😂. Do I remember reading somewhere that they used the nest as ground bait too 🐟🎣🦈

@TAFishing

9 ай бұрын

Yes I think so,wasp grubs and the nest was called "cake" I believe. Successful when Chub fishing.

@kevinbuckler1085

9 ай бұрын

That’s it 👍🐟🎣

Looks like good bait, i wonder if wax worms would work the same.

Wow that's crazy and very interesting well we know the fish don't like a hornet but do like a hornet grub