Paul Johnson Two Novice Anglers
Two Novice Anglers are Paul and Jackie. We have been fly fishing for trout (and more recently carp) in Northern England since 2020. We are self taught and make loads of mistakes. Hopefully, with constructive criticism of our videos we can learn and so can other novices watching. We are not teaching you how to do it! There are plenty of great videos by international anglers and others who will teach you how to cast or tie flies. However, we can highlight the difficulties we have found and how we found the right people to help us. We don't have expensive gear and we haven't (yet) been to exotic locations. We pick a local fishery and try to fish it, usually asking the bailiff, the owner and locals for help. Some venues have great facilities and we try to mention and promote these. In addition, we like to be in the countryside and have fun. There is a genuine warmth and humour in our videos as well as fierce rivalry between us. We net one another's fish deliberately for the camera.
Halloween 2025
Seedlings from tomato scraps
Aronia and apple jam
Plums part 2. A year later. With this years plums we are making crumble.
Tribute to Hannah who would have been 36 today
Two Novice Picklers pickle beetroot
Two Novice Gardeners try to grow an Apple Orchard
Two Novice Gardeners have Bolting spinach
Growing Sweet Peppers part 2
Two Novice Gardeners make a cheap Fruit Cage
Pepper seeds to flowering
Two Novice Nuts become peanut farmers.
Two novice gardeners ask "Have they irradiated our supermarket Blueberries?
Don't buy Supermarket herbs and try to grow them on.
Two Novice Cooks make Cranberry sauce
Two Novice Gardeners Grow Spring Onions. In the Blue Peter Christmas Special style. Part 1.
Autumn garden colours in County Durham UK
A use for an old bed?
Our first plum trees. Are department store plum trees any good? Part1
What a failure. Rooting Ivy cuttings in water. Featuring Sunny the Labrador dog.
Rooting Ivy cuttings in soil parts 1 & 2 over 3 months
Catching Salmon on The River Derwent County Durham 2023.
Sweethope. The Cormorants ruin the fishing
Passion Flower cuttings update.Part 2.
Sweethope. Sorry Peter Appleby
Batman at Sweethope
Part 2 Are taking Japanese Maple/Acer cuttings as difficult as they are supposed to be? 28 days on.
Passion Flower cuttings. Will they take in just tap water? Part1
Renovating an old Railway Carriage Day 4 "Going nuts ...and bolts"
Renovation of an old Railway Carriage Day 3 "Rotten wood can't be carved".