England's most HAUNTED fishing lake!

This month I visit Hook Lake in Hertfordshire, said to be the most haunted fishing lake in England. This stunning old estate lake is home to 'The Boy', a white spirit which frequents the banks and nearby woods during the hours of darkness. It has been run as an exclusive syndicate for many years, fished by the likes of Dave Lane & Ian Chilcott, holding English strain carp to 36lb-plus. In 2024, it is opening up to the public for a set amount of lake-exclusive bookings. To find out more information, visit www.hooklake.co.uk
#AvidCarp #DNABaits #carp #karpfen #karpfenfischen #carpfishing
/ carpmancrow
/ carpmancrow

[@danielgreen4621]

Good old hook lake. It still holds a place close to my heart. The first syndicate I ever joined. Must be nearly 25 years since I've walked it's banks.

[@SimonCrow]

Still a lovely place mate

[@thezanzibarbarian5729]

I used to fish the River Ouse in Sussex some 45 odd years ago. One night, I was fishing with a couple mates. _Now to set the scene to this story._ Where we fished, the road was upstream and some 200 yards to our right. To our left, the river divided into two with one way, the far one, going to a weir and the other, our side, to a sluice gate with a drop off on the other side of about six foot. A further 100 yards after the sluice, if that, was a small but significant stream which you'd need to see what to do, to jump across to carry on downstream with a high hedge on it's opposite bank. And if you went along the river, the next bridge was some 2 to 2 1/2 miles downstream. *Now for the story.* Just before midnight, one of my mates said, _"Someone's coming."_ We all looked to our right and on the path that was a couple foot higher than we were, was a hooded, caped person. Small in stature so we assumed they were female. She had no torch or anything. Just walking along. _Though as I recall, I can't remember her legs. Just a hooded person with a long cape. As she walked behind us, we were asking _"Is OK? Do you need any help."_ Just trying to be helpful. But she didn't stop. Just kept walking towards where the sluice was. We then chatted for about 30 seconds wondering who and more importantly, why they were walking along the riverbank at night without a torch. So my two mates, with torches in hand and on, decided to jog along and catch her up. So off they went. Some 15 to 20 minutes later, they returned. They saw no one. Nothing. They had searched the fields below us after they had reached the aforementioned stream. Just incase she had gone into the fields. They had even jogged to a small pond that was in a field just incase she had managed to walk in that direction. I recall seeing their torchlights flashing as they had searched. *So...* Did we see a ghost? I'm still not sure. But if it wasn't, then who was she and where did she go? 🤔🤷‍♂ My two mates jogged after her so they'd have caught up before she'd even gotten to the sluice. _However, and is something none of us knew beforehand._ That Monday at darts, we were recalling that night to one of our darts team and he said, _"You know that big old house that's way across the fields and about 1/2 mile away from the main road? That used to be a convent!"_ EDIT - Great story. 👍

[@SimonCrow]

Great story, thanks for sharing 👍

[@EsoxMan-xz6hr]

I used to fish there almost 40 years ago. It was slightly smaller at 1 1/2 acres and reed lined at the shallow end. All the carp were 10lb+ as apart from a little 8lb common, the best was a 29 I think. It was really tough, blank days and weeks were the norm. It was owned by Fourways Fisheries as I recall. Im not sure how many tickets they sold, but it was often really packed, too many for such a small lake, but a bit quieter in the week days. When it got dark, boy was it dark, being tree lined and no lights anywhere. It definitely had a real "lost in time" atmosphere like nowhere else I fished before or since...

[@stephenlivesley1267]

Nice to see these little British gems mate.... It's not all about pounds and ounces... We have history!

[@SimonCrow]

Some mega venues in England mate, loads of history 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@user-jl4mt9bs1z]

Lol made me jump at 10.12 with the ghost storie 😂

[@SimonCrow]

🤣🤣👻👻

[@alexfernandez4408]

I told my sons about this lake and the noises that used to come from the woods at night! 😂

[@donlow9714]

This was my last syndicate before I left the Uk. Loved the place. Never saw a ghost. The carp were always well up for a floater.

[@SimonCrow]

Beautiful lake mate

[@darwindavies6979]

Qaulity watch as always simon onto the adventure tightlines look forward to the next vid tightlines 🎣👊

[@SimonCrow]

Cheers mate 👍

[@F00TB4LLG0D1995]

Class watch! I’m itching to get the rods out but have to sit on my hands this weekend 😂 such a beautiful venue & the fish look even better! I’d love to add one or two to my album for sure. Top angling Simon, awesome fish!

[@SimonCrow]

Cheers mate, get booked on before it gets fully booked 👍

[@F00TB4LLG0D1995]

Definitely going to try, already looked on the website & their gallery. The Little Lin and Lego would be my targets for the album but they all looked stunning!

[@MartynsAnglingAdventures]

Nice work Simon!

[@SimonCrow]

Many thanks!

[@trevcornwall8160]

Oh wow two of my favourite things! The paranormal and fishing! Right up my street! And a stunning old English estate lake to boot! I'd much rather see an apportion of a boy than some bloke screaming at me haha now I just need to find 5 other anglers to tolerate me for a few days 👻👻👻

[@SimonCrow]

Mega old lake Trev, you’d love it on there mate 👍

[@trevcornwall8160]

@@SimonCrow I think so too! That early morning mist drifting across the lake.. pangs of Redmire indeed! 🙂

[@davefreercarpangler]

Loved that vid top quality as alwaye Simon 👌

[@SimonCrow]

Thanks mate

[@BaddMuzic]

Absolutely fantastic...

[@SimonCrow]

Cheers 👍

[@Harryscarp]

Great video more people should take notes from this !!

[@SimonCrow]

Glad you think so!

[@TheJamesjames1]

Great video and an amazing lake

[@SimonCrow]

Proper carp lake mate

[@jasonsellick3474]

Fished here with my dad in the late seventies it is well spooky dad used to take me there before school lol he got dementia know I still take him carping.

[@imspartacustherealspartacus288]

Beechmere in Devon of confessions of a Carp Fisher by B.B fame, is the most eerie haunted lake I have ever been too.

[@imspartacustherealspartacus288]

@@petra2885 If nobody has ever actually been to the old copper mine, they really cannot get a sense of just how the atmosphere is creepy during daylight hours, after dark it becomes a whole other level of dark and eerie. As if the woods become alive with spirits and the ghosts who wonder that woodland. No other place I have been comes close to that place. It is a whole other level of creepy. It will test anyone's resolve staying overnight at the old flooded copper mine. What a place. This lake looks like a picnic site in comparison.

[@terryselectricalservices8234]

Surprised you stayed Simon after hearing about you in South Africa with the animals 😉

[@SimonCrow]

🤣 That story was France, not South Africa. Jackanory read by Briggs & Hughes 😎

[@marckendall3005]

1st conment. Another brill video mate.

[@SimonCrow]

Cheers pal 👍

[@bluenose7984]

I think the guy who told the story about the lake in Oswestry was relaying Robs story and didn't realise he was telling it to the person that started the story.

[@waspey88]

Wasn’t expecting that at 10:12

[@SimonCrow]

🤣🤣🤣

[@borderlands6606]

I used to fish a small lake, more of a pond really, in a hollow in the hills. The only access was through woodland, so there was no quick escape route. In all the times I fished it I only ever saw one other angler, and him only on two occasions. It was the quietest place I ever fished, too, you could hear a twig break on the opposite side. It was a genuinely unnerving experience being there, but it had decent carp and some huge roach. I once took relatives for a walk round it, and without me saying anything they all wanted to leave immediately. I subsequently found out it had a reputation for being haunted, which didn't surprise me in the least!

[@borderlands6606]

@whatdidusay99 Sorry it contained sentences and lacked emojis. In future I'll LOL my anecdotes for the simple minded.

[@boybull4836]

@whatdidusay99 nobody forced you to read it you div

[@Niiiiiiiiiii]

10:12 😂😂😂 I shit myself !😂😂😂

[@SimonCrow]

🤣🤣👻👻

[@VinylFrontier81]

never seen any ghosts while fishing but i did have sleep paralysis whilst fishing in a peg that an old boy had died in years before, he was an old tench angler that hated carp anglers. i woke up in the early hours and could not move, i was sweating and the air was thick and had a sickly feeling to it but nothing was there, it lasted probs no longer than 30 seconds but that was enough for me, i packed up in the dark and left, i never fished that side of the lake again. f that.

[@paulAnthony7236]

Bang a night vision camera on ,at night you might catch something,I'm a carp angler paranormal researcher investigator there's plenty over the years I've seen in the day and night.

[@SimonCrow]

Plenty of strange sightings on carp lakes mate 🤔

[@user-sq5wi3ux5b]

You need to call ghost busters, don't call me because I'm shit scared having experienced this sort of thing before myself

[@vincent9371]

😱😱😱😱 vous avez aussi de beaux plans d'eau en Angleterre 👍

[@SimonCrow]

Oui, beaucoup beaux lacs en Angleterre 👍

[@robgood719]

Come to Marlows club lakes it cheap with waters you love spooky estate lake too 🤣🤣👏🏻👍🏻✌🏻I need more blogs buddy too 😂😂😂

[@SimonCrow]

One day mate. Loads of places I want to visit 👍

[@elroy2410]

Spooky 👻 but lovely looking lake. Great editing 😅 Im in my bivy and it's raining in Germany 🌧 full moon and all. Had to turn my volume up to max to hear it. So yeah at 10:13 you did get me 😅 Great one mate 😄👌

[@SimonCrow]

🤣👻 Hope you caught one mate

[@elroy2410]

@SimonCrow 3 nights in only 2 small ones of around 8 kg. Still 7 nights to go and it's lovely anyways specially this time of the year🍂 being on the bank . So 🤞for a 🐳

[@jasonsellick3474]

Booton in Norfolk I know people that won’t fish it ever again it’s shit them up so much

[@itssomuchfun8223]

Made me Jump LOL.....

[@mariobirkic3012]

Very intensive atmosphere🎥 Good story. Top angling 👍 I have noticed Avid landing net, it looks rock solid when netting. Is this breach landing net, or you are testing some prototype landing net? Looking forward for next upload👍

[@SimonCrow]

That’s the Safeguard landing net mate, great piece of kit 👍

[@mariobirkic3012]

Thanks for info mate👍

[@jakebutterworth1902]

do they have alot of ghost carp there

[@VeteranOutdoorsUk]

Is this a lake members only? Or can I turn up and done 48hr I need to tick this lake off the list of scary places Iv fished!!

[@nickdeakin8281]

The lake I fish in Shropshire is supposed to be haunted, and has stories about King Arthur etc think you know the one 😉

[@SimonCrow]

Lots of ‘haunted’ lakes in Shropshire, lovely place to fish 👍

[@rolandblackwell1096]

Must be full of ghost carp

[@alfiecat5671]

Sounds creepy as fuck with the birds sod that at night

[@FixDylann]

Imagine waking during the night and someones standing outside ya bivvy also nearly shit my self lmao

[@SimonCrow]

Happened a few times to me mate, some weird folk about that like to shit anglers up

[@leearmstrong38]

Mate you not been on top thorny on the prince Albert 😮 scearey

[@SimonCrow]

Not yet mate, maybe one day

[@GMT439]

Don't worry Simon, Ghosts are not real.

[@barrydonovan1737]

wats the name of this lake or Cindycut name plz

[@SimonCrow]

Hook Lake

[@F4Insight-uq6nt]

So you believe in Ghosts then Simon? 😆😅🤣😂G-hosts

[@SimonCrow]

🤣 I’ve never seen one so I’m probably more of a cynic than a believer 🤫

[@wozzaladers3244]

Nah Birth pool is the most Haunted!

[@andrewmorris4101]

Trouble with these waters only available for the select few , lots of waters I fished when I was a young man I cannot fish because of the extortionate prices 🤬syndicated just like your lake 🤡