Do Monster Pike Still Lurk in the Forgotten Lake?

Fishing at a very old lake which once held giant pike... Good luck with your pike fishing this year!
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[SnaggedBro]

Carl has caught more pike in this video, than we have in 6 years 🤦

[robertfoskett]

Brilliant Carl. Thanks for making an old man's day. I wish we had this in Australia. Reminds of my childhood fishing in England. First fish i ever caught at five years old was a small pike on the river loddon.

[Yosser]

I agree with the points about the decline of big pike but I think there’s another reason. The amount of lakes that have been netter to remove small fish, to allow carp to grow quicker has to play its part. Same goes for commercial match fishing venues, they don’t want pike eating their stock.

[silasestlander]

GREAT video! Hope to see some more of this style in the coming months

[FisherH]

The second I saw a notification for one of your videos, I got super excited and rushed to get to it. Another amazing video. Keep up the amazing work! Looking forward to another one of your videos coming out!

[ryangaskell]

Really agree with your comments around the current state of the UK, but its not like the Gov invest much into keeping them safe and healthy, more focused on rinsing every penny out of us! Love the channel bro!

[Andysfishing]

Loads of action and fun fishing, nice one Carl. I miss the Pike fishing.

[StephanGanoff]

Pike fishing is my favorite by far. Thanks for the video experience!

[fishn]

Pike fishing here in the states is awesome. The St Lawrence River in the Fall is magical.
Great video. We'll done!

[petekeightley]

Excellent film again, Carl. Hopefully, you'll catch the crocodile of the lake in the future. Thank you for all your time and effort in making these videos for us to watch.

[aden]

Carl when I was younger I was told the world record pike was in the lake where we used to camp / have a caravan. I always laughed thinking people always tell that story.

We took a little boat on the lake and sat next to our boat was the biggest pike I’ve ever seen in my life. I’m 36 now and still never seen one so big. It looked like a crocodile below the water.

This video brings back so many memories.

I used to float fish that lake and was absolutely terrified I would catch / hook the monster.

[TheBennett]

Hahaha I lived here when my dad worked there . He built the barn on the thumbnail. Many memories and photos there when I was little but I never caught a fish, I did try but I was only 4 or 5. Great to see it still being fished and the barn still standing

[obscurazone]

We used to catch ginormous pike when we were kids fishing in our local river (the Wharfe in Tadcaster). They would feed on the chub and perch and were monsters! One pulled my pal off the bank and into the river once and (whilst being hilarious) it was actually terrifying, teeth like knives! But yes, over the years the pollution pumped in has killed everything off. There was an abundance of fish in that river, competitions along it all the time. Now you're lucky if you see a couple of anglers a year. Too depressing.

[matthewtaylor]

I'd love to see a Mortimer and Whitehouse fish with Carl cross over at some point

[trevorcornes]

Great bit of fishing Carl, lovely video to watch. Chilling 👍 loads of pike

[lukeframpton]

So glad you brought up the pollution problem it's getting out of control and we need to do more to stop these big companies getting away with it

[needham]

Spectacular video Carl. You have got to make a couple more visits to that lake. I smell a Winter Pike campaign coming.😉☺

[RalphBellairs]

It doesn't count if there isn't an old bloke on the bank who says "You should have been here last week!" 😂

[kubotwostringz]

I wanna share a story from my childhood. It was many years ago, my father's friend brought a pike he'd caught in a local "lake" to our house to show us "the beasht". It was around 10 kilos, maybe a bit bigger.. It was longer than my leg, biggest one I've ever seen back then. He brought it in a plastic tub, filled with water..
He was in a small boat, lure fishing, had no strikes for hours, and then he caught a snag. He pulled the rod left and right, trying to unsnag the lure, when the snag suddenly started pulling him and the boat 🙂He was an experienced angler, and I still remember the look on his face while explaining how scared he was, because he didn't know what he'd caught, since there were "monsters" living in that water, huge pike and catfish... I don't remember how long it took him to bring the pike to the boat, as I said it was a long time ago. But that story I don't think I'll ever forget. When you're a kid, these kind of things leave a deep impression in your psyche.
My biggest pike was around 4 kilos maybe, I had a few of those. Never bigger than that.
Thank you for a fun video, packed with action, and reminding me of this story 🙂 👍
Cheers

[thebbros]

What a great video Carl. Your style of filmmaking is my favorite on YouTube. As someone from Alberta, Canada, I only fish for pike, and would love to go in the UK someday.