I Had a One in a Million Catch From the Forgotten Pond!

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  • Опубліковано 27 січ 2024
  • 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
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  • @MrAlphafang
    @MrAlphafang 4 місяці тому +16

    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... 😉😂

    • @scottandrewjohnmiddleton8676
      @scottandrewjohnmiddleton8676 4 місяці тому +1

      You should claim it that was 1 hell of a cast and you also saved that pikes life 👍👍👍

  • @ffsFonix
    @ffsFonix 4 місяці тому +6

    These are the best places to fish. Catching wild fish that have probably not been caught before is a special feeling

  • @alvleicesterlife5510
    @alvleicesterlife5510 4 місяці тому +2

    Ahhhhhhhh just what I needed,after a 13k run a hot bath whilst watching the ginger fisherman at the forgotten ponds 🙌🙌🙌perfect 👌

  • @arthurraymond6239
    @arthurraymond6239 4 місяці тому

    Another banger Fella ⭐️Top Notch Content😃👌👍

  • @nathanredfearn3081
    @nathanredfearn3081 4 місяці тому +29

    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!

    • @Lezduit88
      @Lezduit88 4 місяці тому +2

      My dad's PB tench came while plumbing up with an SSG after raking the back of his boat. Madness

    • @jamesfernley7225
      @jamesfernley7225 4 місяці тому +2

      I had a nice 8lb pike on a boilie - was bemused!

    • @russellgarrett8505
      @russellgarrett8505 4 місяці тому +1

      Love these pond episodes,any benefit of side hooking when using fishing weedless or just personal preference Chris ?

    • @2smokeeeey
      @2smokeeeey 4 місяці тому

      ​@@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

    • @Ian-dj2nj
      @Ian-dj2nj 4 місяці тому

      Carp on oily deadbait

  • @heavyvoodoo
    @heavyvoodoo 4 місяці тому +7

    Nice. Always enjoy your videos. My 3yr old just learned to say pike watching this with me lol. 👊

  • @davemellor4697
    @davemellor4697 4 місяці тому +5

    Chris...you are the master! Your fish handling skills and pure fishing ability are second to none....

  • @chasecarlson4900
    @chasecarlson4900 2 місяці тому

    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

  • @svengalt9546
    @svengalt9546 4 місяці тому

    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.

  • @liamwalton5249
    @liamwalton5249 4 місяці тому

    Absolutely fantastic again Chris as always 👍 very bizarre catch but well done 🎣 tight lines 🎣🎣👌

  • @darrenanthonyshortt9157
    @darrenanthonyshortt9157 4 місяці тому

    That's was crazy the way he rolled into quick snap not even foul hook just fluke. Top videos..

  • @grahamkirkbride5720
    @grahamkirkbride5720 4 місяці тому +1

    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 😂

  • @meltdownman8911
    @meltdownman8911 4 місяці тому

    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.

  • @user-lm2dz8jp9n
    @user-lm2dz8jp9n 2 місяці тому

    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.

  • @a.r.t.4611
    @a.r.t.4611 4 місяці тому

    That pond environment must be healthy to sustain that many pike and smaller fish.

  • @imraduin
    @imraduin 4 місяці тому +4

    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

    • @NobleKorhedron
      @NobleKorhedron 4 місяці тому

      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...

    • @KermRiv
      @KermRiv 3 місяці тому

      That sounds like something a bluegill would try to do

  • @reneg.7215
    @reneg.7215 4 місяці тому

    Always nice video's. Greetings from Holland

  • @Load-of-old-carp
    @Load-of-old-carp 4 місяці тому

    That was one crazy catch, never seen anything like it catching on the link !! fair play pal thou that's some fishing skills.

  • @lastminutejoe
    @lastminutejoe 4 місяці тому

    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.

  • @chlopski
    @chlopski 4 місяці тому

    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. 🏆🏆🏆🔥

  • @lawrencemacd63
    @lawrencemacd63 4 місяці тому

    Great video cant remember the last time I went lure fishing for pike as I’m always out fly fishing for trout 🐟🎣😂

  • @darrenknight6553
    @darrenknight6553 4 місяці тому

    Great video as usual! Perhaps take some sprats or sardines with you to chuck in and give those skinny pike something to eat 👍🏻

  • @jamesdoyle3885
    @jamesdoyle3885 4 місяці тому

    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

  • @I-Smelt-Pike
    @I-Smelt-Pike 4 місяці тому

    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 🎣

  • @jimkeats891
    @jimkeats891 4 місяці тому

    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!

  • @Smiffy830
    @Smiffy830 4 місяці тому

    Smashed it again Chris, luvvin yer work.

  • @robbieallan6522
    @robbieallan6522 4 місяці тому +1

    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..

  • @jimkeats891
    @jimkeats891 4 місяці тому

    I'd say that the subject of this video would become another "fisherman's tale"...but you have video!

  • @rovingrods
    @rovingrods 4 місяці тому +2

    Chris, you DO make a fantastic video👌

  • @stevendouglas3633
    @stevendouglas3633 4 місяці тому +1

    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.

  • @rysrys5213
    @rysrys5213 4 місяці тому

    Great place

  • @I-Smelt-Pike
    @I-Smelt-Pike 4 місяці тому

    Yes guys just watching this video and the rod flew off just landed a beautiful 19lb pike great stuff great video thanks ginger fisherman 🎣🐟

  • @Marcofergo
    @Marcofergo 4 місяці тому

    Awesome video mate. Maybe the Pike identifies as a lure 😂🤣

  • @gmachetti118
    @gmachetti118 4 місяці тому +1

    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 😂

  • @iaincurrie9706
    @iaincurrie9706 4 місяці тому

    Another superb video! Great stuff!

  • @TheBudgie29
    @TheBudgie29 4 місяці тому

    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.

  • @ernestcoffman1870
    @ernestcoffman1870 3 місяці тому

    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

  • @adjusted-bunny
    @adjusted-bunny 4 місяці тому +1

    Maaassive ginger beard!!! "Men Only" beard fertilizer I assume?

  • @davidbamber6795
    @davidbamber6795 4 місяці тому

    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
    -

  • @scott-bz6eb
    @scott-bz6eb 4 місяці тому +2

    Did catch it but had a pike attack my deadbait float twitching it back 😂

  • @bretsubotnik1777
    @bretsubotnik1777 4 місяці тому

    Great one,always like your videos here in my state in USA we got ice on lakes

  • @chriswarby1001
    @chriswarby1001 4 місяці тому

    Always excited to see your next adventure tight lines Chris 🎣👍👍

  • @gavincorbett1272
    @gavincorbett1272 4 місяці тому

    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 😂

  • @trevorcornes1056
    @trevorcornes1056 4 місяці тому +1

    Amazing how things happened. Great bit of fishing Chris,you get your fish in some well hard places 👍 .

  • @madaboutcarp
    @madaboutcarp 4 місяці тому +1

    That's insane, the chances of that lol

  • @LiberaNosAMalo
    @LiberaNosAMalo 4 місяці тому

    So therapeutic to watch those pike smashing the lures. 🎣 👍🏼

  • @cpfcgavman1977
    @cpfcgavman1977 4 місяці тому +1

    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

  • @markward8216
    @markward8216 4 місяці тому +1

    Unbelievable filming that strike well done 😊

  • @tibormozes1826
    @tibormozes1826 4 місяці тому

    Brilliant mate👍

  • @danielfletcher7796
    @danielfletcher7796 4 місяці тому

    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 😂

  • @LG_Fishing
    @LG_Fishing 4 місяці тому

    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

  • @andyreed6883
    @andyreed6883 4 місяці тому

    Awesome video.

  • @adrianfaunt8407
    @adrianfaunt8407 4 місяці тому

    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

  • @gurra9671
    @gurra9671 4 місяці тому

    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

  • @user-cl5md7mg1r
    @user-cl5md7mg1r 4 місяці тому

    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.

  • @matthijsiets8391
    @matthijsiets8391 4 місяці тому

    love these vids mate🔥🔥

  • @WhoIsAret
    @WhoIsAret 4 місяці тому

    Love the content! Keep it up

  • @2009numan
    @2009numan 4 місяці тому

    great video

  • @tariqaslam1853
    @tariqaslam1853 4 місяці тому

    NICE1 BRO.

  • @andrewwoolford3048
    @andrewwoolford3048 4 місяці тому

    Love your vids man wish my lure game was as good as yours but keep the great work up :)

  • @nickmeekins7643
    @nickmeekins7643 4 місяці тому

    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.

  • @mscustomlures
    @mscustomlures 4 місяці тому

    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 😂

  • @Flow_State1991
    @Flow_State1991 4 місяці тому +1

    Morning brother

  • @russellgarrett8505
    @russellgarrett8505 4 місяці тому

    Love these pond episodes,any benefit from side hooking when fishing weedless or just personal preference Chris .

  • @J5islive85
    @J5islive85 4 місяці тому

    There must be a monster in there some where

  • @djjudgev
    @djjudgev 4 місяці тому

    Another great session. Awesome skill in a challenging environment . Brilliant fishing.

  • @Relaxingfishing
    @Relaxingfishing 4 місяці тому

    Good 😊

  • @joechappell368
    @joechappell368 4 місяці тому

    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

  • @Zane3388
    @Zane3388 3 місяці тому

    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

  • @egidijusmontvilas9532
    @egidijusmontvilas9532 4 місяці тому

    I caught once a mackerel on the weight clip really surprised 😅

  • @user-xh7mb3rc5o
    @user-xh7mb3rc5o 4 місяці тому

    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.

  • @johnhufton5787
    @johnhufton5787 4 місяці тому

    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!

  • @shauncorless8965
    @shauncorless8965 4 місяці тому +1

    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 ,,😅😅,

  • @jasonpataua9002
    @jasonpataua9002 4 місяці тому

    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.

  • @keithleivers4061
    @keithleivers4061 4 місяці тому

    When your lucks in catching on the pigtail . Sometimes you make your own luck just by being there 🎉

  • @Fidzo938
    @Fidzo938 4 місяці тому

    Nice

  • @vladblures6397
    @vladblures6397 4 місяці тому

    Nice man..regards from Serbia..

  • @Luis_simon
    @Luis_simon 4 місяці тому

    I once caught a roach, it was stuck in the Feeder basket!

  • @foylad4862
    @foylad4862 4 місяці тому +2

    That has never happened to me, but i caught a pike on bread recently 😅

    • @GIBBO4182
      @GIBBO4182 4 місяці тому

      I bet that was a shock!! I’ve caught one on maggots, but bread is next level! 🍞 🎣

    • @martinflavell3172
      @martinflavell3172 4 місяці тому +1

      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

    • @foylad4862
      @foylad4862 4 місяці тому

      @@martinflavell3172 haha quality

  • @adammaher5538
    @adammaher5538 4 місяці тому

    Hi Chris 👋 what net are you using and great video buddy 👍

  • @tonyross7376
    @tonyross7376 4 місяці тому

    Mad😂

  • @terencemeinrath7733
    @terencemeinrath7733 4 місяці тому

    Nice camera work.

  • @ceesvanderschoot9799
    @ceesvanderschoot9799 4 місяці тому

    My Guess is Welsh Catfish , my weirdest was a eel on Corn .

  • @wilfwilliams
    @wilfwilliams 4 місяці тому

    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.

  • @richnfamous59
    @richnfamous59 4 місяці тому

    I once caught a chub on a crayfish which got wedged sideways in its mouth

  • @tadhghayden7601
    @tadhghayden7601 4 місяці тому

    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....

  • @Buildingenjoyment
    @Buildingenjoyment 3 місяці тому

    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.

  • @markkirby2282
    @markkirby2282 4 місяці тому

    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

  • @user-zn2ri9ge6l
    @user-zn2ri9ge6l 4 місяці тому

    Chris could you show a tuttorail on how to fish theses or jig theses soft bait plz ?

  • @thetattooedangler
    @thetattooedangler 4 місяці тому

    First time I've seen a fish foul looped.

  • @danharbun483
    @danharbun483 4 місяці тому

    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😂

  • @robertduffy202
    @robertduffy202 4 місяці тому

    Hia bud do you know any good free /cheap places to fish for pike and perch around Chester ?

  • @condelaneycd
    @condelaneycd 4 місяці тому

    Coot a pike on my float was dead baiting so put hock on float and got a 8 pound pike con from Ireland 🇮🇪

  • @kurtgreen1040
    @kurtgreen1040 4 місяці тому

    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

  • @alanarmer8069
    @alanarmer8069 4 місяці тому

    👍👍🎣🎣👍👍

  • @jimkeats891
    @jimkeats891 4 місяці тому

    How do you do it?
    You say that you're "fishing 20 pound braided line...with a 5 to 21 G rod"
    Ah!!!! :D

  • @josephscott4997
    @josephscott4997 4 місяці тому

    ☺️

  • @thedaftyorkshireman2186
    @thedaftyorkshireman2186 4 місяці тому

    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 😢

  • @scottlewis2218
    @scottlewis2218 4 місяці тому

    Been fishing for 40 years never caught I
    One on the clip lol😅

  • @matthewbolam4506
    @matthewbolam4506 4 місяці тому

    Happened to me on a loch we released a pike 3 hours later it swam into my braid and I landed it again