Off-the-Grid Ice Fishing at a Secret New Hampshire NATIVE TROUT POND Bend It Fishing

[@jk4tyseven135]

Watching this again since it was so cool and because it’s 38 and raining in VT. Looking forward to future Brookie vids!

[@BendItFishing]

Thank you! Warm and rainy here too 😭😭

[@603Wild]

That big one was gorgeous!

[@BendItFishing]

It was!!

[@aaronmeyer9431]

What a remote location with special fish to catch! Do you prefer night crawlers to wax worms?

[@BendItFishing]

Night crawlers

[@friendscallmemurph9232]

More wild brook trout hell yah!

[@BendItFishing]

The best kind of brookies!!

[@wyndwalkerranger7421]

NH doesn't manage many ponds for wild trout but some of the remote streams seem to have wild brook trout. One of them is the stream above Ethan Pond which I have caught what I believe were wild brook trout,. There are a number of others but you are looking for places to go ice fishing. Thanks for your videos.

[@BendItFishing]

Lots of streams have wild Brookies all over NH. But you are right, NH only "manages" a few places for wild Brookies but not all of them. There are lots of small beaver ponds or bigger that have a native population or once stocked and is self sustaining that NH allows ice fishing. Just some are a 4 miles plus hike or have no public access

[@jk4tyseven135]

Great quality video. It was exciting to watch! Please keep doing more in this format. Amazing fish!! 😮

[@BendItFishing]

Thank you!!!

[@1razerful]

We have a cabin in benton lots of wild trout u just need to hike to get to them great video love the white mountains.

[@BendItFishing]

Thanks for watching!!

[@iddddaduncan]

Wow, beautiful fish!

[@BendItFishing]

Thank you very much!

[@danielmecom-xe9tc]

I tried to hike to Brook and the 3 Rd pond ... Just too swampy win I normally come thare

[@BendItFishing]

They can live in swampy areas if the water is cold enough all year

[@danielmecom-xe9tc]

I have a friend that is part of the Mathew family that lives in the last 2 cannons... I plan to come up in mid to late February.. to camp.. u have any pointers around this time?

[@BendItFishing]

I'm not sure where the last 2 cannons are.

[@rickrobitille5257]

Awesome. Keep the great videos coming 👍

[@BendItFishing]

Thank you!

[@leifarvidson8067]

What a great video!!

[@BendItFishing]

Glad you liked it!

[@mitchelldexter1901]

There aren't any ponds with wild brook trout south of the lakes region. Right?

[@BendItFishing]

I'm sure there is but I don't know them

[@MountainStateAngler]

Cracks me up to see you guys out east have seasons for trout here in Colorado it's 365 a year it's put and take and we are over populated, should be season but it's a free for all. Kinda like California. :D

[@BendItFishing]

That would be nice! Such a pain to get content because of it

[@MountainStateAngler]

How does that GoPro Hero 10 hold up in the cold. Be honest, I dropped my Hero 7 down a hole after 12 brookies I managed to film getting caught on there and now need a replacement.

[@BendItFishing]

I like the 10 but haven't used it as an underwater camera yet. It's very fast compared to the 9

[@TheNewMediaoftheDawn]

I’m surprised there’s wild lake fish left in NH, besides creeks, Maine yes for sure…. I’m Canadian and of course we have wilds, but our stockers are put in as yearlings, 8-10”, so they grow up eating lake food and are like wild fish, taste good. Stocking big hatchery fish is less appealing IMO. Beauty fish🎉

[@BendItFishing]

We have a few ponds that have wild fish but they have special regulations to protect them. We also have a few ponds that were stocked decades ago that are self supporting. And I agree with stockers they are fun for a bit but that's all

[@vinnycaruso1166]

Whats the difference between maine and new Hampshire?

[@BendItFishing]

The size!

[@TheNewMediaoftheDawn]

Yes Maine is way bigger, way more remote, goes up farther north. Besides tons of small lakes, there’s a huge lake that has 3-8lbers wild, and I’m sure good stocking there too.

[@mitchelldexter1901]

Are there like any native brooktrout anywhere around the manchester area anymore? I doubt it. I know there are tons of little natives in most of the streams from the white mountains up.

[@BendItFishing]

There's native populations in Manchester Bedford and even more south

[@mitchelldexter1901]

@BendItFishing WHAT? Those must be crazy secret does anyone know of them besides u?

[@BendItFishing]

There's some surveys that fish and game has done. There's wild Brookies all the way down to west Virginia I think

[@mitchelldexter1901]

@@BendItFishing are there any sources I can find that will tell me where the brookies are around manchester. Like fish and game's website?

[@BendItFishing]

Just Google search wild brook trout in New Hampshire and dig deep!!

[@WowomgCool]

Sick video

[@BendItFishing]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@WowomgCool]

@@BendItFishing you should do more videos like that, trying to find small ponds in mountains to catch natives. These dirty stockers you caught we're repulsive and nasty. These trout were magnificient.

[@BendItFishing]

I agree! It's very hard where I live to find those

[@dylonwayman4735]

Love the vid, I love catching beautiful native trout. Don’t get to ice fish it here in ny. Might have to find your spot and take a drive. Looks awesome

[@BendItFishing]

This spot was hard to find!!

[@adkbeau]

I’m going crazy there’s jaw jacker but what’s other brand ??? I got money for Christmas and want to buy both is it snappers ???

[@BendItFishing]

yes automatic fisherman snappers

[@mattgauthier7216]

Go wild or go home!

[@BendItFishing]

Yessah!!

[@Bridgeman-bg4jl]

How do you know they are not naturalized stockers? Pretty big for natives.

[@BendItFishing]

I've done a ton of research on the pond and nothing has stated that it's been stocked, I was surprised on how big they were too.

[@Bridgeman-bg4jl]

@@BendItFishing I think the stream was stocked and they migrated in. I’m from coos county and the only place they grow big is umbagog and the rapid river. I could be wrong but the eggs in the female a tell of a fish that had its biological clock altered by lights at the hatchery as a fingerling.

[@BendItFishing]

It's possible, I'm reading a report right now about biologist finding Brookies Spawning in moosehead all the way into January.

[@mitchelldexter1901]

​@Bridgeman-bg4jl those colors only come on natives

[@Bridgeman-bg4jl]

@@mitchelldexter1901 that’s simply not true. After a few months the tank scrubbers revert to natural color.