Trapping MONSTER Aquarium Fish in ABANDONED MUD POND!

Bass fishing Productions
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In today’s video, I use my MONSTER 16 foot fish trap to catch rare aquarium fish living in an abandoned mud pond! This time at the abandoned ponds i fished a pond iv never fished before! I ended up netting blue crawfish, angel fish, mollys and pladys, gouramis, AND MORE! After finding monster plecos in underground holes,
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There's fish freaking everywhere.
Wow.
There's a giant angel fish, you guys.
Oh, she's pregnant.
I think look how fat she is.
It's literally half black, half blue.
Do you see that?
That is an electric blue car.
Okay.
We got a lot of fish in here.
What is up?
You're back to another awesome video guys today.
We're back at the abandoned ponds, but today we are fishing one.
I've never fished before, so we could literally catch anything today, guys.
It's going to be a really fun adventure.
I cannot wait to fish this guys.
As you know, the abandoned ponds, there's four on this property that
are filled with aquarium fish.
And this one I have never fished at somehow.
I've fished every single one of them, but not this one.
My friend Rob has, and he has caught a lot of fish out of here.
I know that for a fact, but me, I've never dipped my toes in here yet.
And that's what we're doing today, guys.
I'm very excited.
It's not a big pond, so it's very condensed, but we know for a fact,
there's a lot of fish in here.
So what we have today, guys, we have our net, then we got a special guest.
My 16 foot fish trap.
Wow.
Look at this, dude.
This is a fish trap.
We're going to throw this in the pond and it's basically going
to cover the entire pond.
And we're probably going to catch a lot of fish, you guys.
We've only used this trap one time before and it worked really, really well.
You guys killed that video.
You wanted to see more.
We had a problem with it.
It was very hard to get the fish out when we did catch them, but we fixed that.
All we got to do is cut this zip tie and then all this falls out
and then we could get all the fish that we catch straight out right away.
Yeah, guys, how this works is this fish trap is just one big trap.
Each little compartment here has its own hole that the fish can go in throw.
And yeah, it's really like all one piece.
So we're going to beat it up with bread and leave it there all day long, baby.
And we're going to see what we can pull out of here.
Just to name a few fish that I know Rob has caught.
He's got angel fish here, quarry cats, small colorful fish like platties, mollies.
So let's get this thing dated up and then in the water.
And as this thing is marinating, guys, we are going to be netting around
to see what we can pull out with the dip nets.
And you already know the deal, guys.
We're going to be saving as many fish in here as possible.
Bring them back to my house and hopefully we get lucky and get some crazy.
So let's bait up this trap and get her in the water.
This is all the bread that I have.
All right. This is it right here.
I'm using all of it, baby.
We're going to spread it out a little bit just to, you know,
get some here and there. We'll put some here.
Look at all that bread, dude.
These fish are going to go to town on it.
So now the question is, how do we get this giant fish trap
into the middle of the pond?
Now I have an idea. We're going to see if it'll work.
OK, I'm just going to throw it. Ready?
This might take a few tries.
Wow. Wow.
That was actually really good.
That's literally perfect, you guys. Wow.
It's sinking right there. There it goes.
Look at all the bread, too. Wow.
I am so excited right now.
I've never been more excited to have a fish trap in the water than right now.
Guys, look at that. You can't even see it.
The water is very dark, but I do see fish.
There's fish freaking everywhere.
Now, with all the rain we've been having, the water is actually very high.
Usually there's like plants and vegetation that we can net in.
All of that is underwater right now.
So we're going to get our net
and I might have to get in the water a little bit,
but we're going to see what we can catch.
There's already so many fish by the trap.
I just saw a big one swim right over it, dude.
I had no idea what that was, but that was big.
All right, I'm going to fill up the bucket preemptively here
and I'm going to get to get to netting, baby.
It probably would be beneficial for you to know last time this year
I did see like a 20 inch fish.
I don't know what it was, though. 20 inch fish.
Oh, yeah, there's a lot of fish right here.
Oh, yeah. What is that?
Oh, it's a bluegill. Oh, that's cool.
We're going to save this guy, actually, because as you guys know,
the ponds are being filled in soon.
So we're going to get as many fish out as possible and save them.
Hopefully there's no gator in here.
Yeah, because if there is a gator, he would be right here.
Oh, what is that?
Might be something sitting under whatever that is.
Let's go. Let's see.
Oh, what the heck is that?
Oh, my God, dude.
Oh, right away, dude.
Why have I never fished here before?
Are you kidding me?
Oh, dude, there's a giant angel fish, you guys.
Oh, wow.
Sitting right under that piece of like, you know, plant or whatever that is.
That could mean they were breeding there.
That might have been another
because when they breed, they lay their eggs on something.
And I saw him, dude, I saw him under.
I was like, what is that?
All right, let's get him in the bucket.
I'm going to net right under there again and see if I can get the other one
because there has to be two under there, dude.
They got to be breeding.
All right, let's get this in the bucket.
Dude, that's so cool.
What a cool fish.
Freaking angel fish, dude.
That might be.
Is it the first angel fish I've caught in the wild?
I think so, guys.
This isn't like the wild, but it looks it kind of is.
This is what I'm talking about.
These ponds are so fun to fish
because you literally never know what you can get.
Snake attack!
Oh, oh, dude.
Oh, look at that, dude.
Is it gourami?
It's like a little.
What is that called?
I forgot what these are called.
Uh, I have no idea.
That's some sort of gourami, though, guys.
That's a really pretty fish.
Look at the orange on them.
Never been here before.
So most of the fish we're catching right now, I've never caught out of here.
That's some sort of gourami.
Let's get them in the bucket and then keep going.
Dude, this is we're off to an insane start.
And you got a little guy with the angel fish and the bluegill.
Oh, this is so scary.
It's actually really deep.
Oh, God. Yeah.
The water's up like four.
Look at this.
What the hell is a dead fish right here?
Oh, my God.
Come here.
Oh, my God.
Dude, it's so pretty.
That is really pretty.
Oh, my God.
Could you imagine if we caught that when it was alive, dude?
That's really sad, guys.
That's a dead African cichlid.
Really pretty, too.
Oh, right here.
Oh, what the heck?
Crawfish.
Look at that. Yeah.
Little baby.
Oh, nice.
Hey, bud.
What are you doing?
We'll save you.
We're going to save you.
That's a little baby.
All right, sweet.
Let's get them in the bucket.
Our trap is loaded with fish right now.
I can literally see him swarming it as we speak, dude.
I don't know if you guys can see at home because the water is very dark,
but there's so many fish down there.
I am so excited to see what they are.
Oh, there we go.
Another native species, guys.
Oh, wow. He's pretty.
Yeah, for sure.
Blue, purple.
We're collecting all the native fish as well as the cool exotics.
The native guys, we're just going to put in a random pond,
but the cool ones we're taking back to our house.
Oh, oh, there's something back there.
Oh, my God. Did you hear that?
There's something in the bushes, dude.
I still hear him.
Back it up. Get away.
The pond's like haunted.
Isn't there like a grave or something or a shrine?
Yeah, there is.
Now, this one's very creepy, guys.
Let's actually show you.
There's like some sort of shrine.
I'm a little scared.
So comment down below what you guys make of this.
It looks like some sort of shrine.
I mean, there's a candle right there and there's like a gravestone over here.
This is so creepy.
Look at that, guys.
That's like a gravestone.
Very creepy, guys.
Comment down below what you think of this.
It's like a hole.
Yeah, there's like a hole back there.
Oh, oh, dude.
Oh, oh, help.
Help. Help.
I got I got a quick hold your hand.
I can't get him out.
Oh, my God, dude.
Look at the size of that thing.
That thing is like it was in the hole.
Oh, she's pregnant, I think.
Look how fat she is.
Oh, that's a wide load right there.
Yeah, that's a big girl, dude.
She was laying eggs.
There was like a hole, guys.
They dig holes in the sides of these ponds.
Relax. Stop it.
I'm literally not moving. She's doing it.
But yeah, she was in there probably laying her eggs or something.
There might be another one.
We're going to have to throw her back, though, because we legally cannot move her
anywhere. Very invasive fish, you guys, sadly.
But now she can go lay her eggs.
Sorry, mama.
Yeah. Oh, you're going the wrong way.
Guys, we just caught the pond monster, baby.
Oh, right there.
Oh, oh, I dig you.
What is that?
What? Oh, it's a jewel.
Really pretty jewel.
Look at that.
That's beautiful.
That's a really nice jewel, actually.
Nice.
I'm just going to keep her.
Yeah. Save it for later.
Nice. Right here.
Ah, gotcha.
Oh, this one is gorgeous, dude.
Oh, my God.
Oh, dude, that is a nice one right there.
OK, we're keeping her.
Got a nice little haul going. Check it out.
We got an angel fish.
We got a gourami.
We have we have some jewel cichlids, some warmouts, some bluegills.
We're going to see what else we can pull out.
We also are going to check out the other ponds,
specifically the one that flooded over and fish were trapped in there.
We're going to see if we can save any more today.
But yeah, we're going to see what else we can pull out of here for now.
Oh, my God.
Dude, look at the orange.
Oh, oh, yeah, I see that one.
Look at that. That's like a molly, a platy, maybe.
Hey, buddy, we see you.
You can't hide from us.
Got him. And a crawfish.
Look at the baby crawfish.
And then this gorgeous.
That's a molly right there.
Beautiful orange molly.
That's a really nice one, though.
We're going to keep her for sure.
He's cute. All right, let's get him in the bucket.
Now, the cool thing about this, guys, us fishing this pond right now,
we're catching fish that we've never caught in the other ones.
Like we've never caught mollies in the other ponds, but they're in here.
Oh, yeah. Lots of grass here.
Oh, what have you caught blue crawfish?
I caught orange ones.
Oh, my God. Wow.
It's half half black, half blue.
Dude, it's it's literally half black, half blue.
Do you see that?
It's literally like black and blue.
It's really cool.
So that's definitely some sort of mixed breed between a black one and a blue one.
That means there's blue crawfish in here somehow.
Oh, my God. Let me get some of them, dude.
Well, we're on the right track.
We got ourselves a little mixed one here.
I think that's a little female.
You can tell by the tiny little claws.
But look at the colors on that.
Wow. All right.
In the buggy you go.
Oh, that's a nice scoop right there, dude.
We got ourselves some weeds.
Oh, yeah. Bluegill.
Little native species action right there, baby bluegill.
Oh, I'm getting wet today, dude.
Oh, another one.
Look at that. Another bluegill.
Oh, God. That's the one, baby.
Oh, we got a lot of stuff in there.
Lots of muck.
Ew.
Look, we started at the bottom and all the fish came out to play, dude.
We're going to have to net there after.
But check this out, guys.
We got a lot of mud to go through.
Ew, that's so bad.
Oh, my God.
Dude, look at the face on that.
Is that a kori?
That's a freaking giant kori.
These have been caught here before, but that's a giant.
Oh, my God. Look at the green on them.
That's a little emerald one.
That is huge, you guys.
Wow. Kori catfish, very cool fish.
And first time catching them here for me, guys.
That is awesome.
Well, guys, our haul is growing super fast right now.
We got so many fish in there.
But what we're going to do, guys, we're going to check out the other ponds
right now, especially the one where it floated over, like I said.
And then we're going to come back in a long time, guys.
We're going to let this trap sit here for a long freaking time, all day long.
And we're going to see at the end of the day what we can catch out of it.
But now, guys, we're going to get these loaded up in the truck
and check out the other ponds.
All right, you guys, we've made it to the first pond here
at the abandoned property with all the abandoned ponds.
Now, this one actually floated over and created a mud pit where fish got trapped.
Guys made a video here recently rescuing a lot of fish out of here.
But now, as you can tell, the water is still really high.
It hasn't dropped at all.
Actually, it might have even came up a little bit, maybe more rain.
But we're waiting for all the water drop to where we can catch out
every single fish here.
But it looks like it's not doing that right now.
So we're going to net around here and see if we can save out any more fish
while we wait for our fish trap to marinate.
And we know there's cichlids in here.
There was that albino Oscar I caught and then lost right here.
I'm going to start netting.
Oh, oh, here we go.
Oh, ew. Right off the bat, Rob.
No, I'm not even kidding.
Already got a fish that was like the second scoop.
Where'd it go? Look like a normal little bluegill.
There you go. He's covered in mud.
Nice little mudfish.
Check that out, guys.
Bluegill right there. He is alive.
We're going to save him.
We're going to get him in the bucket and keep going.
Oh, so much mud, dude.
Let's go do this.
Oh, my God.
What was that?
Did you see that?
Dude, that's like straight mud.
Dude, look at the fish.
He's so covered in mud right now.
OK, we're going to do a little reveal here, guys, and clean them off and see what it is.
Oh, wow. Jack Dempsey.
Yo, it's a freaking Jack Dempsey, dude.
That is so freaking sick.
Oh, my God. Yes.
I love Jack Dempsey's, dude. One of my favorite fish.
That's so pretty.
Yeah, that's a really nice one.
All right, sweet.
We're going to get him in the bucket, dude.
I had no idea what it was.
It was covered in mud.
Before you escape, we're going to get you in the bucket.
Dude, that is really cool.
OK, there's a big molly right here.
Oh, I got him.
Nice. That's cool.
Sweet, guys. They are filled in here.
Oh, what was that?
Oh, my God.
What? Oh, my God.
Whoa, dude.
Oh, my God.
That is actually insane.
Holy crap, dude. Wow.
What? What? Wow.
I'm holding on for dear life, dude.
Are you kidding me right now, Rob?
That's insane.
I've never seen one that big.
I'm going to pass out.
That is an electric blue car.
Biggest one. No, I'm just going to get him in the bucket.
I'm going to do it.
What the heck?
That is insane.
That's the biggest one I've ever seen, you guys.
We've caught him a few times before, but literally never that big.
That's that's like up there with the coolest things we've ever caught out here.
We're going to get them loaded into a cooler and we're going to keep going.
But that's like insane right there, you guys.
There is some insane fish in here and we just have to wait for it to drop
and then we can load up on all of them and make sure we save everyone.
There's bones in the net.
Oh, those look like fish bones.
That was a good scoop.
Oh, there we go.
What is that? Another Jack Dempsey, dude.
You got to be kidding me.
Look at all that one's gorgeous.
Wow. That is such a nice one.
That's a nice one right there, you guys.
Beautiful Jack Dempsey. Beautiful.
Wow. I love me some Jack Dempsey's.
Sweet.
We're going to give it a few more hours and then head back to the other pond.
Check our fish trap.
We're off to an insane start, guys.
We've caught so many fish already and it can only get better from here.
16 foot fish trap incoming, guys.
We'll see you then.
You guys, it is later in the day.
We have a bucket right here.
We're back at the pond to check our 16 foot fish trap, guys.
Second time ever using it.
I'm very excited to see how we did here at the abandoned pond.
Check it out.
I see the bread.
Oh, dude, I see a huge red fish in it already.
No, oh my God, it's moving.
Oh, dude, check it, check it, check it.
What could that be? It's huge.
I don't know.
Look at that red blob in there.
That's not I thought that was bread at first.
It's moving.
OK, we're going to pull it up right now, guys.
We see a massive fish in there.
That is a very good sign, guys.
OK, I think how we're going to do this, we're going to pull it up here
and leave half of it kind of like in the water so they don't, you know, suffocate.
God, I'm so excited.
What is that?
Dude, I'm scared.
That's it's always coming towards us.
Look, there's a white molly in there.
Oh, there's so many fish in it.
Oh my God.
Is that an osprey?
Or something big in the back.
Dude. OK, we got a lot of fish in here.
Look at this rat moving. It's moving.
What the heck is that?
What is that? What is that?
It's like polka dotted.
Oh, that looks insane.
I can't. I'm shaking right now.
This is insane.
We have so many fish in here.
I'm just going to grab this one. What is this?
What is that? Oh, it's a big fish right here.
I don't even know where to start.
Look at that. That's a baby gar. Wow.
Oh my God.
This is the only bad thing about the trackers.
It's so hard to get all the fish out.
This is really pretty, dude.
That's a gorgeous. That's really like I'm trying to go as fast as possible.
All right, here we go.
The fish I saw is bigger than him, but it didn't really have much color.
Wow, dude, this is insane.
Bluegill, that's the prettiest Oscar.
OK, Bruce, I'm sorry.
That's the prettiest Oscar I've ever seen. Holy moly.
That is really nice.
That's a big old Oscar, dude.
Oh my God. That's pretty.
That's like a super red right there.
Look at this guy.
Wow. Nice little platy.
Look at this, dude. Nice.
OK, whoa.
There's some bluegills here.
Oh, gourami. Oh, nice.
They're all platy.
Now, guys, like I said, all the trap is in the water still.
So these fish can still breathe.
That's another white molly.
Beautiful, beautiful.
Oh, that's a nice gourami.
Whoever made this trap did not think about someone catching as many fish
as I just did right now, because that is insane.
We're going to shimmy him out of the trap.
Come on, bud. Beautiful.
Look at that bucket so far, dude.
All right, let's move the trap down a little bit and see what else we can find.
There's a bluegill right here.
Come on, buddy. Let's go.
I got to make sure. Oh my God. Wow.
I don't know what that is. I've never seen this before.
Wow. Wow. That's got to be so rare.
Look at that. He's stuck in the net, dude.
I don't even know how to get him out.
Oh my God, dude.
That's the coolest thing we pull out.
Look at the spines on him.
That thing is really sick.
Look at the spines. Careful, dude. Wow.
That's not even that's not even real.
It looks like someone just like made that up.
That's insane. The spines on that guy.
And these are sharp, too.
I mean, you don't want to get anywhere near that.
That is so yeah.
Comment down below. We need your help.
Comment what that fish is. I have no clue.
I don't even know if we should put him in here.
He's going to spine the rest of the fish.
Yeah. Wow. That's like a super play go.
Oh, is that a bluegill?
Yeah, I think so. Bluegill.
I think everything is right here. Oh yeah.
Oh my God. Is that another one? What is this?
What is going on, dude?
Another giant. Ow.
Oh, he got me good. He spined me bad.
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
How do I get him out? Oh, there's so many fish, dude.
OK, we're going to start with these guys and we'll get to that one.
Look at that big warm mouth. Big warm mouth.
Yeah, there is a quarry right there.
That's another. Nice. Another giant quarry?
Oh. Rob, no way.
No way. Wow. Oh my God.
Look how black that is. That is insane.
That's like those clown night fish we catch all the time, but all black.
This next fish we're about to pull out of here, guys, is one crazy.
It looks like a huge Cinnadontis Catfish.
yeah I think I got him yep there we go wow I don't know what that is are you
literally no clue that's like a freaking alien oh my god see this is what happens
when you fish brand new ponds dude I've never been here before and man do I
regret it cuz look at the haul that we just pulled out of here baby gar we have
this giant beautiful super red Oscar but honestly that's just insane oh he's
hey what'd you say he said please like and subscribe you're gonna get these
guys in the cooler and then we're gonna go through this trap make sure we didn't
miss anything 16 foot fish set guys that is how you do it right there let's get
these guys in the cooler oh my god Wow look at that Oscar dude oh we got to put
him somewhere special that's like a super red Oscar I think you're right I
have one of these dude it is a sinodontus but it's just huge all the
fish in here are massive and I'm guessing that's because they're in a
pond right now you know when they're in ponds they grow a lot bigger they get
bigger that is it for the 16 footer guys we caught so many fish today looks like
we gotta come back to this spot because it is clearly loaded with some insane
fish guys we're gonna head back to my house and get all the fish that we did
catch into the ponds and tanks and yeah guys I'm very excited to come back here
and fish again we'll see you guys at my house alright you guys we have made it
back to my house we have the bucket full of the big fish we're actually gonna be
adding to the newly renovated mini predator fish pond guys this is perfect
these fish are gonna do great in here check out this Oscar we're gonna be
adding dude this thing is beautiful wow that is so cool all right here he goes
Bruce look you got a friend yeah you got a friend don't you touch my Bruce or you
will be soon regretting it wow he looks good in there this guy is also gonna
look amazing this Akara Wow I mean imagine the colors during the
daytime but we're gonna add him to the pond now look at the blue that's
gorgeous dude Wow there we go we got so sick look at what yeah it sounded like a
clown noise there he goes Wow you could barely he blends in with the rocks ow
god those spines are sharp I'm gonna be gentle with him just gotta tell him it's
okay and there you go look at the belly too this is what I saw at first look how
cool that is that is so sick that's what I saw when he was in the trap at first I
was like what is that we're gonna add him in there he goes sweet guys well now
we have a bunch of smaller fish we're gonna add to the other pond now guys
we're here at the minion pound we got some fish from today we're gonna be
adding mainly this giant angelfish we caught right off the bat we've been
putting them in here and they're doing great golden black molly platinum mollies
and yeah we're gonna add them all in there they go sweet now one of my
favorite things we caught today is that black and blue crawfish we're gonna add
them to the crawfish jungle gym mainly because if we put them with our breeding
colony of blues he will mess up the gene pool but check this out guys we've got
some amazing crawfish in here right now look at this guy nice bright orange we
got orange we got white we got a million guppies I love that that is sick too
it's really cool dude all right in you go go have some fun now we have some
really cool fish guys we've got the little mini gar we got the ghost knife
fish right here the quarry cats we're gonna add to the Tiki Hut tank we've
made it to the Tiki Hut tank now look how amazing it looks dude we got some of these
little guys a little squigglies we've been catching at the Walmart sewers
first up is these guys he's quarry catfish oh and I guess the knife fish
and in they go three two one oh look at the knife wow that is a really cool fish
dude look at the white on him looks very similar to the ones we catch at the
Walmart sewers but this one's like jet black and now guys final fish we're
gonna be adding to our collection is this guy nice little baby gar three two
one there he goes that is gonna do it for today's video if you want to see a
part two at that new pond at the abandoned ponds go down there leave a
like subscribe down below if you haven't already I'll see you guys the next one
peace out
