Nothing better than chilling by your pond and hand feeding your fish and then watching them cruise round, whilst you sip your cold beer. I'm with Chip, the fish you raised from tiny to huge builds such a bond. My biggest and oldest was 1.5 inches when I bought her and over 38 years later, she's pretty much 3 feet long, is very tame and so much a part of my life. So much has happened in my life, but she's been with me since my teens...!

Going on one of your first points about how tame carp can be and how you can train them and they recognise you. You'd be surprised how you can do the same with pike. A few years back I filmed a pike taking deadbaits (hookless) under water. A couple days later I found the same fish and did the same again. Then again a day later and the day after that.... I skipped a couple of days and went back to the swim and and looked all over the pike was no where to be seen. I started wading took maybe 3 or 4 steps and look down and the pike was literally sat at my feet. The moment I dropped a bait in it instantly smashed it on the surface. The fish obviously recognized me for free food by this point. Much in the same way a carp would do it in a garden pond... probably wouldnt put my fingers in its mouth though

This guy you visited was such a nice bloke, and what a wonderful garden/pond he has. Done a very good job of it with a great setup. The fish on the other hand are absolutely phenomenal..they are massive and look stunning. He does a very good job keeping them healthy. Really good fishumentary lads. Looking forward to seeing your own pond installation updates in future videos.

Chips a cool guy thanks for sharing his channel

Biggest lesson I learned from keeping Koi - When you think your pond/filtration is going to big enough, double it!!

this dude is so humble and inspiring

Love these Koi videos lads 👌👌 bought a house this year that came with a small pond and some goldfish, having a new pond built in November with a few small koi carp bought ready to move in 🙌

Loved this guys. Chip's a funny chilled out guy, top bloke👍

First off guys that was a treat. Very nice video. Your friend Chip is a star and a real gentleman. Second thing is do a bit of research into Oscar ciclids. Believe me they learn who is who and respond like dogs to you entering the room but they don't play nice with smaller fish (they tend to eat them). To answer a question someone asked in the comments earlier. The reason the plecs survive is because Chip heats his pond as you can see at the 8min 18 sec point in the video. I have to reiterate great vid. Cheers.

Hahahah “the thing you do is send your wife to America, and work like there is no tomorrow and there you go you’ve got a beautiful pond” wow that is a brilliant strategy! Carl and Alex your videos just keep getting better!! I never knew I wanted a koi or go looking for mushrooms so much until I watched your hobbies videos! Keep them coming✌🏽

My dad started selling tropical fish in 1948...yes before they were imported specialising in siamese fighters. We grew up surrounded by fish. He loved Koi and had a similar pond himself. He said that what made them different from every other fish he had kept was the fact you never knew what they would do next. He spent hours trying to figure it but never did.

Absolutely stunning collection so peacefull and relaxing koi are so messy and can make you work for a clean pond

14 dis likes...haters will hate keep up the good work 💪💪

Chips pond is absolutely beautiful and has given me a big idea to have my own piece of inner zen definitely looking forward to starting the new chapter of my garden. Keep these videos coming lads love watching you and have done for years 🎣😎👍

Great video really interesting and inspiring for people who are not into koi as much

I love how cinematic your videos are. They have an artistic quality to them that not many "KZfaqrs" have. Your videos are like mini films or mini documentaries and are just elegantly done. They're beautiful. Well done.

I once visited a school mate that had a large koi pond dug into the garden. The fish were so calm and nice. If you stuck your hand in the water they would all come to you. They would let you pet them and kind of rub against you like a cat almost. Of course they loved to be fed.

Seeing those beautiful fish in a pond and fishing others is relaxing, nice video as always.

This is by far one of my favorite videos. Beautiful fish and good bantering and sense of humor. Fun to watch, thanks!

Hi Carl and Alex I would love to go fishing with you one day I have a local carp pool with over 25lbs! It is called Walnut Fisheries 😁

Awesome film. Chip's awesome. So is Charlie the chag.

Good bit of Mrs advice, 7:38. Awesome video! 🤌🏽

I wasn’t a big fan at first but grown to love your channels, worked out which one is which and love the friendly banter. The tutorials are super good, helped me with chods and changed a few things I do. Id love to see you do a few urban approaches like Alan Blair does with park lakes etc. The likes of syndicate waters etc are boring, waters anyone can fish are good, makes you seem less “southern posh kids” 😝😝😝 thanks for the content boys.

Your production was excellent, I really enjoyed it. Well done chaps.

Brilliant video, and brilliant quest on the show. Keep it up. Amazing pond

Awesome video. I would love a koi pond like this in the future. Chip was such a nice guy and his setup is amazing. For now we’ll have to stick with our tropical fish tank

Stunning captures into the hobby of Koi keeping

Awesome video .Chip is an absolute legend 🤟

Great video, that's an amazing pond. Looking forward to more videos of you guys' plans for a new pond :)

Amazing pond and koi. Chips so passionate about his life, i mean hobbies 😂 A very genuine funny man. It would be great to see a progressition video of his pond in 12 months

Great to see another fellow from the caribbean representing this beautiful hobby :) Big up Chip!

Brilliant video guys I love all of them cant wait for more fishing trips

I have a mini pond 150 with 2 closest thing to a koi, shubunkins and 3 fantails. It's still such a nice calming sensation watching them swim. When I move out I would love some koi. I prefer plants in a pond to add a freshness with it.

Just found your channel and love it! Your pond is great! This has been so interesting and beautiful to watch!!

HAHA THE WAY HE JUST CHUCKS IT INTO HIS MOUTH BECAUSE HES CURIOUS HOW IT TASTES LIKE OMG

I hope to have a pond like this someday and I can’t wait to see your guys new pond

i agree with you two, yes thay do, and thay are very therapeutic and relaxing, you can stand and watch them for hours, very good filming again, i must try harder at my filming, thank you loved it 👍

This guy is hilarious! I loved it!

Perfect day and video. Have to agree Koi are the best!

I could see Carl & Alex on Countryfile. A natural crossover.

Great film guys Chips collection is something else 👌👌

If you ever wanna do a resovouir series somewhere in Dorset (bournemouth) it's not as big as the other resovouirs you've fished but it's 20acre lake called longham resovouir with a 40lb carp in it!

I agree with what so many have already commented about in regards to "Chip." He seems very much like a wonderful fellow.

Been watching for years and have loved every video 🤙

I like Chip, he’s seems like a cool guy and his insistence to give his fish the best of everything confirms it 👍👍 P.S the rabbit is beautiful 😁

Wow this was amazing 👏, Chip seems like a hilarious person to hang out with, peace✌ and love from Chicago.

Great video like always 👌 I work on trout farm and they scared of you when you on the bank but once I'm in pond they swimming around me and allows me to touch them and pet them weird 😂😂

Another great Vid! I had a Fluval Roma 125L tank and I had a Pleco which was around 2 inches when I bought it. It dead 😭 at 8years old and was honestly not far off the size of the one in your friends Pond! Was gutted. Really look forward to the Vids, keep up the great work

Totally Amazing too watch and very interesting. But I will leave it too you and other people to enjoy keeping fish . I can always watch other people’s fish 😄👍 Nice one again Carl

I can't wait to see the kpi pond build!

Great video. I really enjoyed it.

I love your vids👍👍

Your vids make my day keep it up boys

Awesome you’re going to build a new koi pond!🙌🏼

Keeping Koi is keeping water. Once you start in this wonderful hobby, there is absolutely no end. Great video guys!

You are just amazing I have never none better anglers i go fishing with my grandad and I can completly see wy you do it you are just amazing

Great vid, koi are so beautiful, wish I could have a modern pond like that in my garden, maybe later in life, hows the fishing going?????

Amazing video Carl and Alex keep it up 👍

good as always

Loving the vids

Buetifull garden and I love the koi as well!

Keep the vids up guys!!

Great video really makes me want my own koi

Awesome video boys you guys make me laugh always keep it up

Now that's a dream pond! I'll make do with my mini pond and my sleeper pond for now but maybe one day.... I can dream!

Stunning pond

His pond set up amazing

Great show Boyz, fish for pets is sooo relaxing and pays for its self in joy. Keep up the awesome content.~ML&Aloha Your Boy Kekoa&Ohana.🤙🏾🤎💪🏾🏜🌵

Beautiful fish. The tancho koi is my favorite. 🇯🇵

Very nice pond and Koi👍

What a top top fella 🙌🙌

Chip seems such a nice guy :)

Light hearted, but great video that’s sure to attract more people from the carp community to the Koi hobby! 😎

That big kahaku is awsome

Wow,can i ask? Where did u guys buy all the item to make the koi pond?

Amazing vid guys 💪👍

Wow nice beautiful Koi Fishes.

Hello love your videos

Honestly koi are great fish and I've kept some before and still have one... But the problem is they move the substrate looking for food which in turn makes the water cloudy and murky and algae blooms start... So you need a good filtration and if ur looking forward to keep them, do a bare bottom pond or aquarium.... But if it's a Natural koi pond then its fine...

Chip is a proper geeza!

Coi just look so good

Hi i would like to get some advice where to perch and zander like to live in water cause i've never caught a zander and it would be nice:)

How do you stop your line from taking the shape of your reel?

wonderful koi filtering system

What brand of fishing rods do you you for pike

dude is a funny man. great kois and setup as well

Finally new videoooooo!

New vid lets gooo!

Really cool video again guys, what are you feeding the koi? I have koi too and I am wondering what is is.

Hi carl and alex some point could we go fishing sometime there are loads of pike perch carp breem and roach

Love koi....

when were kids in the 80's, we would fish all the local lakes within a few hour bike ride and catch bluegill, crappie, catfish, bullhead and channel, carp, and bring some of the best looking home from the various ponds in 5 gallon buckets with a battery operated pump to keep them alive. We figured the best of the best from each pond, then feed them the best foods, live crickets, meal worms dough, red worms, night crawlers, minnows etc along with tropical fish foods and vitamins. grow them big and strong, then stock out favorite pond with them and start again. In our minds, we were breeding the best of the best. We called them van dam fish :-) We had a blast. fed them 1" soft shell crayfish also. got them from a local creek.

I can see why koi are so expensive loved the vid guys welcome

love ur videos keep it up

Would a generic fish tank plec grow to this size in a tank like this or you would need to get a specific large plec for this. 13:15

Fabulous! You’ve done your homework mate; great job!

what a great koi keeper! you should start a KZfaq series "Koi and BBQ"

鯉を愛してくれて、ありがとうございます。日本から🇯🇵

Yessss!!!! New vid!

The blue and orange one is so beatyfull