Its was time for an adventure back out to the forgotten ponds! This time I brought the chest waders and a lighter setup. This allowed me to navigate more of this flooded woodland in search of pike. I brought the lighter setup to allow me to fish small weedless baits right into the weeds optimizing how many fish I could cast to. It was an action packed session with a real surprising catch.
/ the_ginger_fisherman
Fishing an estate lake for tench I saw a big bright Pike float in the reeds, too far to reach with the landing net. So I put a tiny spinner on the 13' match rod and cast to try and snag the line below the float... well free float and all that..... the float moved so I knew the spinner had made contact I reeled slowly and then all hell broke loose, the drag on the match reel screamed and the rod arched. I obviously expected the float to come loose and reappear elsewhere. No I had a fight on my hands. I wasn't sure if the now hooked fish was on the spinner or if I had managed to get a good snag on the pike line. After a good long and careful fight I netted a 16lb 2 oz Pike. Amazingly when I had a good look I saw that one of the hooks of my spinner had actually gone through the hole on the swivel of the dead bait set up. Best Pike to date too a PB and I'm claiming it... 😉😂
You should claim it that was 1 hell of a cast and you also saved that pikes life 👍👍👍
These are the best places to fish. Catching wild fish that have probably not been caught before is a special feeling
Nice. Always enjoy your videos. My 3yr old just learned to say pike watching this with me lol. 👊
Had a few bizarre things happen in 45 years of fishing. Caught a double figure pike from the River Thames whilst feeder fishing. The pike grabbed my feeder on the retrieve and didn't let go! Managed to land it. Also caught a 6lb carp at Hayfield on the pole whilst I was plumbing up on the pole. The fish grabbed the plummet and didn't let go!
My dad's PB tench came while plumbing up with an SSG after raking the back of his boat. Madness
I had a nice 8lb pike on a boilie - was bemused!
Love these pond episodes,any benefit of side hooking when using fishing weedless or just personal preference Chris ?
@@russellgarrett8505 with the zander Pro lures the thin profile makes it damn near impossible to fish them weedless the normal way you'd fish them unless you fish it sideways weedless like Chris has Slightly different action which is always good on wise fish hope that helps mate
Carp on oily deadbait
Chris...you are the master! Your fish handling skills and pure fishing ability are second to none....
Ahhhhhhhh just what I needed,after a 13k run a hot bath whilst watching the ginger fisherman at the forgotten ponds 🙌🙌🙌perfect 👌
13000 miles?
No 13 klmtrs pal.@@adjusted-bunny
love you're videos, you get the energy of the adventure fisherman and deliver it through the camara, makes it a joy watching you, thanks man and keep doin what you're doing.
Over 50 years ago, we’d camp out at weekends at Keston Ponds. Over the lane behind (and over a fence!) was a private pond chock full of jack pike. We’d spin for them and inevitably get broken off. Usually had to leg it before we were spotted, but what fun. Chris takes it to a new level though.
So therapeutic to watch those pike smashing the lures. 🎣 👍🏼
That's was crazy the way he rolled into quick snap not even foul hook just fluke. Top videos..
Absolutely fantastic again Chris as always 👍 very bizarre catch but well done 🎣 tight lines 🎣🎣👌
Wow what a true professional, landing a pike through a briar bush. Once while fishing, I found a goose down feather and decided to add it to my weedless rig by clamping it in the hookweight I use. After a few casts I hooked into a 1lb bass and after unhooking and releasing the fish, I realized my feather was still attached but not the way I attached it. It fell off the hookweight and got pinned into the snap(very similar to your quick twist). I left it there and caught another larger bass later. I also landed my only longnose gar(long snout with hundreds of needle teeth almost like an alligator) by having my 12# braid get tangled in its teeth and somehow not get cut.
Chris, you DO make a fantastic video👌
Always excited to see your next adventure tight lines Chris 🎣👍👍
Another banger Fella ⭐️Top Notch Content😃👌👍
Had a perch suck in the little bait I was using so violently it popped out the back of its mouth through the gill and then he went for it AGAIN so the fish was hooked but the line went through the gill plate (not harming the gills thankfully) and back around to its mouth 😂 took a minute for me to realise what I was looking at
Heh-heh! I never realised they were so fierce/greedy; I've had a few small Wasps that absolutely INHALED the lures! But never the same fish taking the same lure twice like you did...
That sounds like something a bluegill would try to do
Amazing how things happened. Great bit of fishing Chris,you get your fish in some well hard places 👍 .
Great video mate Never,Never had anything like that happen but did catch a pike while retreiving my ronnie rig in while Carp fishing a jack smashed it, I blood shxt myself 😂
That pond environment must be healthy to sustain that many pike and smaller fish.
Great winter fishing and a bonus fish in unusual circumstances. The first ever pike I caught was fishing maggot along the local canal. It was tiny lol
Yes Master Chriss 🤗You would caught a fish eden if there would be no lure on the end of line hehehehe Great we loved it 😂❤️🎣👊🏼Big Respect Master Chriss. 🏆🏆🏆🔥
Great video cant remember the last time I went lure fishing for pike as I’m always out fly fishing for trout 🐟🎣😂
Wow what a session Chris. Here It Is like a lake still, every time the water starts to reseed, It starts to Rain again. I have never caught like that, But I have had a 20lb+ one just keep grip on to the Bait. And a ten pound one on Maggots. Keep 'Em Coming. Just for those who can't get out yet.
Yes guys just watching this video and the rod flew off just landed a beautiful 19lb pike great stuff great video thanks ginger fisherman 🎣🐟
That was one crazy catch, never seen anything like it catching on the link !! fair play pal thou that's some fishing skills.
I can't fish my local river until may 1st and the weather has been horrible or the tides not been right on the couple reasonable day's we have had, i can't handle the cold for long so roll on spring, glad to see you can still get out even on miserable days..
I’ve just up loaded the video of the 19lb pike I had earlier while watching this video 👍🏻🐟👍🏻thanks for the ginger fisherman’s luck 🍀🎣🐟👍🏻tight lines 🎣
It’s my sons birthday on the 17th and they watch all your videos. He’d love it if you could fish where he goes.
Smashed it again Chris, luvvin yer work.
Another superb video! Great stuff!
Unbelievable filming that strike well done 😊
Here in Florida tannic(dark) water can cause fish to take on counter shading which is when they take a dark shade from above and a lighter belly shade to hide from predators and stay out of sight to their prey. The dark top blends in with the tannic water from above and the lighter belly blends into the sunlight from above. Can make some species look very different
I once had a small jack take a slamo hornet and get the lure wedged in its mouth, with the lip of the lure against the top and the back of the lure on bottom, no hook hold at all 😂
Always nice video's. Greetings from Holland
Great video as usual! Perhaps take some sprats or sardines with you to chuck in and give those skinny pike something to eat 👍🏻
Chris, you are one hell of an angle, you make it look so easy. And it is not. Love your videos very entertaining. David B Chichester -
I've had loads of pike up to 14lb on lobworms they seem to love them don't know if it's the movement of the worm underwater that gets them or the natural juices of the worm or both
Brilliant mate👍
Great one,always like your videos here in my state in USA we got ice on lakes
I once had a regular run, struck the fish and saw the pike thrash about 20 yards in front of me which I thought was strange as I had cast my dead bait around 60 yards out. I landed the fish which had my 30 pound mono round both of its gill plates, the line then broke as I was unhooking. I then hand lined in my untouched dead bait which was still 40 yards out in loch. I’m presuming the pike swam into my line then started spinning and the gill plates started cutting through my line just before I landed it.
That is a crazy catch 😂...my mate once caught a personal best carp at 35lb by hooking his hook through the loop on someone else's leadcore leader with the rig still in the carps mouth...crazy...try telling him the fish don't count 😂
Awesome video mate. Maybe the Pike identifies as a lure 😂🤣
I'd say that the subject of this video would become another "fisherman's tale"...but you have video!
I was fishing for trout with my brothers and my Dad. We were using "mini marshmallows" as bait. The rods were all cast out...and prop-ed on "Y-sticks". Anyway, eventually, a trout took the bait on the rod of the youngest...who was chasing butterflies or something. The trout pulled the whole rod in! My Dad could see the rod (cork handle)...and popped on a Daredevil lure... snagged the line.... reeled in the rod... my brother then reeled in the trout!
love these vids mate🔥🔥
Love the content! Keep it up
Maaassive ginger beard!!! "Men Only" beard fertilizer I assume?
Love your vids man wish my lure game was as good as yours but keep the great work up :)
I had something similar happen while fly fishing for pike from the kayak . I had 3 low dbls in 4 casts and the last one was actually hooked on the snap clip very lucky catch
Did catch it but had a pike attack my deadbait float twitching it back 😂
That's insane, the chances of that lol
Absolutely mad that you'd managed to get that one in. I've had better hooked fish pop the hook with much less thrashing. Great video, love these ponds
I've caught a 33" brown trout that had a lure stuck in he's mouth and my hook went thru the eyelet of the lure hook!!!! Crazy!!!! And another time, while fishing with a buddy on both sides of the creek, we both caught the same rainbow at the same time!!!! lol
Awesome video.
Great place
Caught a 9lb pike this year while fishing dead baits, it wasn't till I'd landed the pike after a good scrap that I realised it wasn't even hooked. Put on the unhooking mat and it spat the sardine out with the trebles still in the sardine 😂
just a quick tip i think you get a better hook set if you wait for just a quick sec before setting the hook when fishing weedless
I caught once a mackerel on the weight clip really surprised 😅
Had that happen a few times on the fly rod mate. Even had landed one that wasn't hooked, it inhaled the fly so hard it went through its gills qnd somehow came back on itself and went through a different gill raker, the hook wasnt in the fish i had to unclip it to feed the leader back through 😂
NICE1 BRO.
I was using a Heddon Meadow Mouse surface lure several summers ago. I had had and missed several takes when I had another really good take which I hit and played in to land it, and was very surprised to realise that the pike was not hooked, but the trace had managed to get caught by one of the trebles on the lure and had effectively lassooed the pike. It was only around 2 pounds. My other unusual catch was on a different venue, I was float paternostering a livebait on one rod and legering a smelt deadbait on another rod. I had a run on the legered bait and was playing what was clearly a good fish, when I had a take on the livebait, clearly I could only play one fish, so I continued playing the original fish, when I landed it I could see that it had also taken my livebait. The baits had been around 20 yards apart, and although being played the pike took the livebait. It weighed in at 15 - 12.
I have had this happen before, I saw my lure fly off out of the fish’s mouth as it struck it and managed to bring it in with the open clip being stuck on the pike scissors much like yours.
Another great session. Awesome skill in a challenging environment . Brilliant fishing.
If we had fished in these places from a small PVC boat, the result would have been more interesting. There are few approaches to the water.
great video
There must be a monster in there some where
Love these pond episodes,any benefit from side hooking when fishing weedless or just personal preference Chris .
When your lucks in catching on the pigtail . Sometimes you make your own luck just by being there 🎉
Morning brother
I was fly fishing for trout in the middle of a river. I hooked a trout behind me when I flicked my line back behind me to cast.
not caught a fish but snagged a lure in a hawthorne tree, when i walked round the canal to retrieve it i found one of the thorns had gone through the eye of my trace swivel
I’ve never had that happen, but I did catch a carp swimming around a brand new fishing pole hooked to her. Must’ve been pulled in the water the night before
I once caught a roach, it was stuck in the Feeder basket!
Strange thing I was fishing a match nobody was getting a bite rock hard after a couple hrs my keep net slowly fell flat I put rod at the side and grabbed it and a 5lb bream had swam into a collapse keep net ,,😅😅,
Had an eel on a wet fly once, trout fishing. A friend of mine caught a dead perch, hooked it in the mouth on a trout fly. It looked like it had been dead for a few days, faded colours and manky. Bizarre!
That has never happened to me, but i caught a pike on bread recently 😅
I bet that was a shock!! I’ve caught one on maggots, but bread is next level! 🍞 🎣
My first Pike was on bread n all. Fishing for carp Bread on the top but the roach are hammering the hookbait, pike zooms in and nails the flake instead of the roach pmsl
@@martinflavell3172 haha quality
More interesting fishing in your local everglages . You had a dam !!! bit of a lost a good fish ...what exactly happened? moment ,early in vid. Catching a fish on the clip...well my dad used to say ..if a thing can happen...it eventually will....
My Guess is Welsh Catfish , my weirdest was a eel on Corn .
Hi Chris 👋 what net are you using and great video buddy 👍
This area « forgotten ponds » the drone shots to me , looks like a place where peat has been dug in the past, and I guess that’s why they are colored like that.
First time I've seen a fish foul looped.
I was hoping the one on a million would have been a new species ! I was fishing in a tournament and a fish in a river was so big that it just stripped my entire spoil. Couldn’t do anything to stop it. My suspicion was that it was a huge catfish. We all have strange things happen while fishing! I had 30 lb test and a steel leader. Made no difference.
I once caught a chub on a crayfish which got wedged sideways in its mouth
Mad😂
Only a really professional fishing man can catch a fish on just the clip alone💪.oh by the way that 1 didn't count hook wasn't set😂
Coot a pike on my float was dead baiting so put hock on float and got a 8 pound pike con from Ireland 🇮🇪
You call them jack pike we call them hammer handles one of my local lakes is full of them have caught lots of them but only a few that were of any size have seen them and had them take jigs on the ultra light
Good 😊
Nice
Nice camera work.
Chris could you show a tuttorail on how to fish theses or jig theses soft bait plz ?
got a question why do you change hands to use the landng net ive seen matt hayes do same,obviously a reason for it but icant see it , cheers, p.s i once caught a tench without my hook penetrating the fishes mouth it went thru an hook eye left by a previous angler strange but true
I was course fishing a feeder rig last summer with groundbait whilst washing my hands in the river a Jack of around 3lb decided to eat my hand I pulled my hands out in shock an it just wouldnt let go was great fun but ended up me needing to pack up and seek medical attention as the bleeding just wouldnt stop unfortunately I cant add a pic as a few months later when pike fishing I lost my phone in the river sick 😢
I always fish light. I don't get any enjoyment from fishing when the fish has no chance and it's like pulling in a dead weight.
Been fishing for 40 years never caught I One on the clip lol😅
I’ve had a few bizarre moments but was fishing with a mate he didn’t have a rod and we was just catching little perch so I gave him a go , he catches 1 first cast then out of nowhere a 20lb pike still his pb now smashed the perch and my mate somehow landed it
Hia bud do you know any good free /cheap places to fish for pike and perch around Chester ?
Happened to me on a loch we released a pike 3 hours later it swam into my braid and I landed it again
How do you do it? You say that you're "fishing 20 pound braided line...with a 5 to 21 G rod" Ah!!!! :D
The clearer the water the darker the fish. That’s why carp from muddy water are really light in colour and a carp/ fish from clear water are darker
Not true at all
@@2smokeeeeyreally when with nearly 40 yrs of fishing and lots of examples of this on various English/ foreign waters (freshwater)
@@user-kf3nd9qd9g the clay pits by me are crystal clear and the pike are dark brown almost black