If anyone wants to check out the bike here's a link. If you purchase with this link you get a discount too! uk.himiwaybike.com/TheGingerFisherman I'm planning a couple forgotten pond adventures over the coming weeks. Possibly carp and eel session. What do you reckon?
Eels would be cool. I've fished on the river lea in Hertfordshire on and off for roughly 30 years and various lakes around Herts, beds and essex and only ever caught 2 eels, both from the river Lea.
@The_ginger_Fisherman how do you carry your gear ? Im on the canal with the bike fishing a good 3 times a week and constantly changing how i connect the rods to my bike or bag...
Always worth looking on Bing Maps too. The aerial view is often better quality and you can also switch to Ordnance Survey view to see if there are any footpaths or bridleways etc.
Sweet video! I use an e-bike to get around the massive dam where I live. So easy and so much faster than walking! I can basically do from where one river enters the dam all the way into the little village, about 24kms one way, and find where the fish are! The e-bike is a godsend especially for my tired old bones! 🤣
Noticed a few of them E-bikes popping up on RUclips. Glad it’s made it easier for you to explore more water. And giving us great videos. Nice one Chris 👍🏻
Riding along with that lure swinging around made me cringe an shudder. Hook snags your trousers as you're peddling down and ouch those hooks are deep. I had to skip it forward lol. I know youve been hooked before but it reminded me of when i was a kid biting shots on to line near the hook and the rod slipped off the rest and pulled the hook into my bottom lip. I've not bitten a shot on to line since. I accept the roasting 😂.
We all do silly things from time to time. I nearly castrated myself pulling a spinner out of a tree once. Got it snagged in a tree on an island and walked backwards trying to get it out. It shot out like a bullet with a crack and thankfully I was wearing baggy trousers because it actually got hooked in the loose material and missed everything important. Now I turn around when I get snagged and am trying to pull it free lol.
Absolute Awsone footage on the drone mate defiantly worth having one, I use to do this one the outskirts of London and found some gems of waters to fish, only thing i didn't have was the drone, pukka vid as always mate keep em coming 😎💯🎣🎣🎣🎣👍😊
Great to see you getting out and exploring new venues. Please get yourself a helmet though-you’ve only got one skull and it’d be a real shame if you stopped posting videos because of a major and completely avoidable head injury🙂
I have the waterway wanderers permit and live about 20mins walk from the local canal - The river is also here but a stupidly large 10+ mile stretch is rented out by a club which means no-one else can fish there and Ive only ever seen a handful of people fishing there. Like you I wanted to ride a bike down the canal so I can get to places that are allowed by the waterway wanderers permit. But the likelihood of me getting pushed off it and stolen or it being stolen when I lay it down to start fishing is very very obscenely high. I can hike 6-8miles to where i need to go but even if I lighten up my pack and only take what i need. hiking 6-8miles with food, water and fishing gear for a few hours of fishing is hardly going to be fun. especially If I also need to walk back the same way afterwards. I hate it but such is life.
How do you know if you're allowed to fish these waters? Always wanted to do something like this but I wouldn't know if the waters in question would be club owned or have specific byelaws etc
If there are no signs anywhere I just fish there. If someone comes and say it's private or no fishing just be polite and apologise and leave. All you can do really.
@@sparky36199 thats about it. We have a zillion ponds where I live in the SE US, but nearly all are private property. And unlike in the UK, you cant *legally" just go ramming about on a bike over peoples property to get to them. You can search out some sort of public access, like a road, but you're at the mercy of the property owner should you get caught on his property without permission...and trespass laws have stiffened in recent years. Thanks in no small part, I imagine, to vids like this one haha.
@@dahutful I had a pond on my N.C property, and as you mentioned, people are not allowed to just trespass, though there is a 2 acre swamp between the pond and the road, so people often fished the swamp from the road culvert Lol.
I couldn't see your rod close enough to tell if you have your lure hooked into the eye of your rod or not? Just something I learned earlier this year on fish locker and he said you should always hook your lure or hook onto the scaffolding of the rod eyes 👀 because if you hook onto a rod eye 👁 during travel the hooks can chip your rod eyes as they are made of porcelain and that can cause all sorts of problems, anyway it's a tip I've passed on to a few people as it's one of those things personally I never knew about nor did my fishing buddies.
I ride my electric bike (an old E Shopper) nowhere near as fast as you, but how on earth do you keep your rod away from bushes and trees. On a canal towpath I wobble like hell trying to watch my rod and stay out of the water.
@@waltgrisly509 - same with most clubs, but they normally have an agreement regarding access with the landowner. If the water doesn’t belong to a club you’re most likely on private land. Which usually doesn’t go down well. On the other hand, trying these places and meeting the landowner or farmer is probably the only way of asking permission to fish. Sod’s law = I’d meet the angry farmer with a shotgun 😔
It's only illegal if you get caught. Trespass is also a civil matter so the land owner would have to be willing to take you to court to take matters further, the police will only show up if you're suspected of theft or vandalism
Exactly. This is why id drive my car at 5mph. Just in case my brakes fail. It annoys the tractors behind me who find it very difficult to pass but safety innit....
@@leerobinson8709oooh you risk taker! I just sit in my car and make Brum Brum noises, I haven't had the guts to move up to 5mph yet. Also when I'm walking, I take a step, look around, take another step and repeat. It's slow going but at least I'm completely safe. I also roll myself in bubble wrap just in case, you can never be too careful lol.
That first pike wasn't much bigger than the lure it took, that's the sort of size I'd use in a deep water mark for cod n Pollack n bass etc, pike are really greedy from what I've seen, we don't have pike on the isle of man we do have perch in an old abandoned lime stone quarry it also was stocked with brown and rainbow trout by the farmer who owned the land and he actually did it for us kids who only caught eels and unfortunately some idiot spoiled it by putting a tangle net along the edge which probably wiped out 80% of the trout and after the farmer found out he never stocked it again as he was just trying to do something nice and as usual one bad seed ruined it for the rest of us, such a shame cuz it was great fun for all my friends on the estate I lived and we were there almost every day and night until the netting and after that the fish were few and far between and that was 30 years ago so I imagine their are no trout in there with it being a limestone quarry it's probably to alkaline for them to breed, theirs still perch in there.
You don't explain how you find out who owns the fishing rights so that you can get permission to fish the water. Even if there isn't a club involved there's always a riparian owner. When I had my farm I regularly got people who poached on my land and and were often very abusive towards me. Anyone who asked first I always let fish.
I never know wether to just fish random secret ponds and rivers but round my area they’re all owned by fly fishing clubs that are snobby and ridiculously expensive, part of me wants to fish them and just see if anyone says anything (the bits in between where it’s hard to tell if it’s club owned or not)
@@brockfordjunktion pain in the arse club owned at like £800 a year for fly fishing and they absolutely despise you if you mention bait casters and swimbaits
@@barnzYT Fly fishermen are very opposed to using bait. Despite its reputation for being snobby, fly fishers tend to be very helpful. It's common practice to be told where the trout are active and be given the fly that's been enticing the trout. I doubt many carp anglers would be that helpful. Fly fishing is well worth exploring. You don't need much in the way of equipment and there are waters which don't charge very much for a day ticket. Reservoirs are a good place to start.
@@geoffpoole483 oh yeah mate no disrespect to fly fishermen it’s actually something I’ve always been interested in trying and it looks like quite a skill to master to be fair. But where I live in Derbyshire it is very snobby in general, not saying ALL fly fishermen are, just my local experience. And It’s more frustration about them being against lure fishing as I know there’s got to be some huge pike in these local club owned rivers just waiting to be caught!
Mate don't want to sound like your Dad but get a helmet you out on your own miles from help .I used to Greenlane I had a slow speed off on a track. The bike catapulted me into a stump I had a good helmet probably saved me from a brain injury 🤪I guess you ride on road too and we all know how dangerous that can be for bikes and cyclist !! Great content though 👌
Maggots are actually harmful for the birds, so try not to feed them with maggots. I only learned about this recently but i'm definetly not giving them any maggots from now on . Great video , cheers mate 😊
I'm same mate, having a bike is way better , if not u end up spending more time walking than fishing, hate those fisherman who always ask what spots are good to fish, just go out and find them lol, some folk are thik
If anyone wants to check out the bike here's a link. If you purchase with this link you get a discount too! uk.himiwaybike.com/TheGingerFisherman
I'm planning a couple forgotten pond adventures over the coming weeks. Possibly carp and eel session. What do you reckon?
eels pls that would be classs
@@JohnnyWright-ft5zrI second that. Eels are brill. Only caught one myself in freshwater but hundreds in brackish
chub on float would be grand
Eels would be cool. I've fished on the river lea in Hertfordshire on and off for roughly 30 years and various lakes around Herts, beds and essex and only ever caught 2 eels, both from the river Lea.
@The_ginger_Fisherman how do you carry your gear ? Im on the canal with the bike fishing a good 3 times a week and constantly changing how i connect the rods to my bike or bag...
I think those baby birds were Robins. What a find. This is why I love your channel. Appreciation for all nature. Cheers Chris.
Always worth looking on Bing Maps too. The aerial view is often better quality and you can also switch to Ordnance Survey view to see if there are any footpaths or bridleways etc.
Sweet video! I use an e-bike to get around the massive dam where I live. So easy and so much faster than walking! I can basically do from where one river enters the dam all the way into the little village, about 24kms one way, and find where the fish are! The e-bike is a godsend especially for my tired old bones! 🤣
Love these forgotten pond videos, keep up the great work Chris!
Hi Chris, looks like skylarks too me. Very cool find.
That drone footage of the carp was really nice!
Noticed a few of them E-bikes popping up on RUclips. Glad it’s made it easier for you to explore more water. And giving us great videos. Nice one Chris 👍🏻
Wow what a find, some lovely looking carp there , cracking video as always 🎣
Superb as ever. Look forward to your next adventure
Riding along with that lure swinging around made me cringe an shudder. Hook snags your trousers as you're peddling down and ouch those hooks are deep. I had to skip it forward lol. I know youve been hooked before but it reminded me of when i was a kid biting shots on to line near the hook and the rod slipped off the rest and pulled the hook into my bottom lip. I've not bitten a shot on to line since.
I accept the roasting 😂.
We all do silly things from time to time. I nearly castrated myself pulling a spinner out of a tree once. Got it snagged in a tree on an island and walked backwards trying to get it out. It shot out like a bullet with a crack and thankfully I was wearing baggy trousers because it actually got hooked in the loose material and missed everything important. Now I turn around when I get snagged and am trying to pull it free lol.
@@vinnyvtec8722 😱😂
lol good ad for the bike hope u got to keep it!
Good to see you getting a bit of sponsorship
Love your videos, thanks. How do you get access/permissions day tickets etc etc?
My e bike has served me well so glad i built it, its not legal but it blends in well
Absolute Awsone footage on the drone mate defiantly worth having one, I use to do this one the outskirts of London and found some gems of waters to fish, only thing i didn't have was the drone, pukka vid as always mate keep em coming 😎💯🎣🎣🎣🎣👍😊
Excellent video as always chris❤
Can't stop and look at the beauty of natural 25mph
Great vid as always. Been watching for couple of years now. Loved seeing the progress of your channel.
Cool well done spotting that next...
Absolutely love your videos m8👊❤️
Love seeing new vids from you keep It up
What happened to showing how to unlock the limit on the bike
All good stuff Chris and your bike looks well good too. Will look it up 👍
Great to see you getting out and exploring new venues. Please get yourself a helmet though-you’ve only got one skull and it’d be a real shame if you stopped posting videos because of a major and completely avoidable head injury🙂
It’s required by law in Ontario Canada when on a bicycle because of what you just said.
You should try and Tie some fishing line to your drone and catch little fish. Trouble is you would probably end up catching a big pike
I have the waterway wanderers permit and live about 20mins walk from the local canal - The river is also here but a stupidly large 10+ mile stretch is rented out by a club which means no-one else can fish there and Ive only ever seen a handful of people fishing there.
Like you I wanted to ride a bike down the canal so I can get to places that are allowed by the waterway wanderers permit. But the likelihood of me getting pushed off it and stolen or it being stolen when I lay it down to start fishing is very very obscenely high. I can hike 6-8miles to where i need to go but even if I lighten up my pack and only take what i need. hiking 6-8miles with food, water and fishing gear for a few hours of fishing is hardly going to be fun. especially If I also need to walk back the same way afterwards.
I hate it but such is life.
those baby birds are probably Dunnocks
That’s a big old Tench amoungst them carp
Nice wheels mate, only way you can operate I guess… cover a lot of ground 🎣👍🏼
i love your videos i have seen all of them keep goin
How do you know if you're allowed to fish these waters? Always wanted to do something like this but I wouldn't know if the waters in question would be club owned or have specific byelaws etc
that’s what i was wondering as well ?
EPIC,I’ll be doing some videos just like these very soon 😏
Finding hidden waters is one step, but how do we find out if the waters are open to fishing, or if they are private or club fisheries?
If there are no signs anywhere I just fish there.
If someone comes and say it's private or no fishing just be polite and apologise and leave.
All you can do really.
@@sparky36199 thats about it. We have a zillion ponds where I live in the SE US, but nearly all are private property. And unlike in the UK, you cant *legally" just go ramming about on a bike over peoples property to get to them. You can search out some sort of public access, like a road, but you're at the mercy of the property owner should you get caught on his property without permission...and trespass laws have stiffened in recent years. Thanks in no small part, I imagine, to vids like this one haha.
@@sparky36199 I will give it a try, I presume they cannot prosecute if the water is not signposted.
@@dahutful I had a pond on my N.C property, and as you mentioned, people are not allowed to just trespass, though there is a 2 acre swamp between the pond and the road, so people often fished the swamp from the road culvert Lol.
@@Rhodietoo I wouldnt presume as much, but there is one way to find out.
Love this mate epic 😮
I would hook myself every time riding like that with gear XD
Keep up the work! Just wondered what drone you use?
Looks like a reed bunting nest to me .
No they don't nest on the ground.
I couldn't see your rod close enough to tell if you have your lure hooked into the eye of your rod or not? Just something I learned earlier this year on fish locker and he said you should always hook your lure or hook onto the scaffolding of the rod eyes 👀 because if you hook onto a rod eye 👁 during travel the hooks can chip your rod eyes as they are made of porcelain and that can cause all sorts of problems, anyway it's a tip I've passed on to a few people as it's one of those things personally I never knew about nor did my fishing buddies.
I ride up and down the trent on my pure air pro long range lol 😂
Can you go back and do some videos of the forgotten ponds and do carp fishing please
Where do you get all your day permits from?
Nice con from Ireland
You didn't show how to de restrict the speed?
Have you got a link to the last year video on the carp lake
These baby birds are eagles. Or flamingos.
You could be right but then on closer inspection, i think it is an Albatross nest.
I ride my electric bike (an old E Shopper) nowhere near as fast as you, but how on earth do you keep your rod away from bushes and trees. On a canal towpath I wobble like hell trying to watch my rod and stay out of the water.
How do you know if you're actually allowed to fish a random stream or a pond you find on google maps?
You don't know, unless there are signs. If there isn't a fishing club that controls the water, you're probably on private land anyway.
@@leftmono1016 my club pretty much only controls rivers on private land, farms and stuff.
@@waltgrisly509 - same with most clubs, but they normally have an agreement regarding access with the landowner.
If the water doesn’t belong to a club you’re most likely on private land. Which usually doesn’t go down well.
On the other hand, trying these places and meeting the landowner or farmer is probably the only way of asking permission to fish.
Sod’s law = I’d meet the angry farmer with a shotgun 😔
It's only illegal if you get caught. Trespass is also a civil matter so the land owner would have to be willing to take you to court to take matters further, the police will only show up if you're suspected of theft or vandalism
Great video. How do you get permission for these waters.
Was that Giant Hogweed by the nesting chicks?
Hate to say it but Nick from 618 Fishing has a bigger bike ;-) See ya later buddy!
Thats when you know you've made it as a CC when companies give you free shit.
I would use my emtb to fish local waters if there wasn’t a high chance of being mugged for it.
What kinda size were those Carp !! They looked huge
They didn't look big, low doubles maybe. No real width to the backs or shoulders which is generally the giveaway of a biggun
imagine coming off at speed into nettles brambles hawthorne or god forbid hogweed...id stay at 4mpg sod 15mpg just incase break failed
Exactly. This is why id drive my car at 5mph. Just in case my brakes fail. It annoys the tractors behind me who find it very difficult to pass but safety innit....
@@leerobinson8709oooh you risk taker! I just sit in my car and make Brum Brum noises, I haven't had the guts to move up to 5mph yet. Also when I'm walking, I take a step, look around, take another step and repeat. It's slow going but at least I'm completely safe. I also roll myself in bubble wrap just in case, you can never be too careful lol.
Bro I beg you catch those carp
That first pike wasn't much bigger than the lure it took, that's the sort of size I'd use in a deep water mark for cod n Pollack n bass etc, pike are really greedy from what I've seen, we don't have pike on the isle of man we do have perch in an old abandoned lime stone quarry it also was stocked with brown and rainbow trout by the farmer who owned the land and he actually did it for us kids who only caught eels and unfortunately some idiot spoiled it by putting a tangle net along the edge which probably wiped out 80% of the trout and after the farmer found out he never stocked it again as he was just trying to do something nice and as usual one bad seed ruined it for the rest of us, such a shame cuz it was great fun for all my friends on the estate I lived and we were there almost every day and night until the netting and after that the fish were few and far between and that was 30 years ago so I imagine their are no trout in there with it being a limestone quarry it's probably to alkaline for them to breed, theirs still perch in there.
You don't explain how you find out who owns the fishing rights so that you can get permission to fish the water. Even if there isn't a club involved there's always a riparian owner. When I had my farm I regularly got people who poached on my land and and were often very abusive towards me. Anyone who asked first I always let fish.
looked like sparrows
Birds definitely not larks reed buntings sparrows they warbler’s most probably reed warbler. I’m no expert but know for sure no one got it right yet 😇
I never know wether to just fish random secret ponds and rivers but round my area they’re all owned by fly fishing clubs that are snobby and ridiculously expensive, part of me wants to fish them and just see if anyone says anything (the bits in between where it’s hard to tell if it’s club owned or not)
Everything I've spotted locally has been club owned too
@@brockfordjunktion pain in the arse club owned at like £800 a year for fly fishing and they absolutely despise you if you mention bait casters and swimbaits
Everything round here is also members only.
@@barnzYT Fly fishermen are very opposed to using bait. Despite its reputation for being snobby, fly fishers tend to be very helpful. It's common practice to be told where the trout are active and be given the fly that's been enticing the trout. I doubt many carp anglers would be that helpful. Fly fishing is well worth exploring. You don't need much in the way of equipment and there are waters which don't charge very much for a day ticket. Reservoirs are a good place to start.
@@geoffpoole483 oh yeah mate no disrespect to fly fishermen it’s actually something I’ve always been interested in trying and it looks like quite a skill to master to be fair. But where I live in Derbyshire it is very snobby in general, not saying ALL fly fishermen are, just my local experience.
And It’s more frustration about them being against lure fishing as I know there’s got to be some huge pike in these local club owned rivers just waiting to be caught!
Should of god a holder on it
How i find forgotten waters and ponds: Google maps
Mate don't want to sound like your Dad but get a helmet you out on your own miles from help .I used to Greenlane I had a slow speed off on a track. The bike catapulted me into a stump I had a good helmet probably saved me from a brain injury 🤪I guess you ride on road too and we all know how dangerous that can be for bikes and cyclist !!
Great content though 👌
Safety first use a helmet . Youll have someones eye out with your jousting rod 😢
You couldn't be more right I should've mentioned it in the video. And I'll get myself one 😌
I don't get the idea of electric bike to me that's just lazy whole thing of cycling get there and fitness
Ya just made fishing harder 🙈🙄 for ya own gratification 🙄
Didnt realise your channel had now become an advert for a crap Chinese ebike
Maggots are actually harmful for the birds, so try not to feed them with maggots. I only learned about this recently but i'm definetly not giving them any maggots from now on . Great video , cheers mate 😊
That's definitely not the case. Often birds will seek out dead animals to feed on the maggots.
You learned wrong
No they're not. An example of false information.
Bread is bad for birds (in excess) but maggots are more or less nutritionally identical to the worms and caterpillars that they'd typically eat.
I'm same mate, having a bike is way better , if not u end up spending more time walking than fishing, hate those fisherman who always ask what spots are good to fish, just go out and find them lol, some folk are thik
Any man who steals another man’s fishing spot is a prick mate🤣🤣