Watched one video that was suggested and i was hooked mate, give me the motivation to fight my PTSD and take the little one down the canal for some fun on light tackle he even caught two pike at the age of 7! Thank you sir!
Good man get on the bank.. take some maggots to drown for the kids on a float rod. Just incase u blank... We do all the time but there's always greedy perch or 2 about.
Fair play to you. This has to be one of the most entertaining fishing channels ever. I could imagine this being a hit series during the golden days of TV, back in the past. Completely original, and you never seem to run out of new ideas. Brilliant stuff!
Massive shout out to Shaun, top man!! Chris is back with a banging video, we love surface fishing, it's always exciting. Keep the great content coming! 🎣💥💥💥
I don't know why your channel wasn't doing well. I really enjoy it especially when you're fishing small rivers. I don't get too much fishing in these days as my legs are failing and body shop does nothing in my size so your videos take me to the water's edge. Thanks
Every time I watch this channel ,I end up spinning out and about ,keep up the good work ,I introduced two anglers to pike spinning now it's all they do I've created two monsters 😳
I must have missed this when it came out! I can remember fishing a small lake that through the summer was full of frogs and grass snakes which would hunt the frogs alongside the perch, especially in the shallows. It’s easy to see that the pike, at the top of the food chain, wouldn’t turn its snout up at a quick and relatively easy meal. I’ve seen a homemade version of one of these,I’m pretty sure it involved cotton reels, so maybe taken from the Ladybird book of Pike Fishing?
Brilliant that buddy, again proving changing the presentation makes the fish more curious, good to hear there is still good people in this world that was absolute class to help you out with that equipment, agin cracking show , cracking fish and a escape for thirteen minutes bliss ❤️❤️
Hi 👋 This is my first time watching your channel and I like your non pretentious style.. fun session chasing pike with the snake 🐍 lure .. I never imagined you could use this type of lure .. I have hit your bell 🛎.. and now I have a stack of your content to watch back .. thank you for sharing 👍
i grew up watching ur videos with Sam at hallcroft and grove seeing how far u have some really does make me happy and keeps me wanting to fish more. Keep it up mate.
Supercool shots. Never underestimate the hunger of a pike. I caught a lot of 60-70cm pike with 40-50 cm eels inside their mouth. They are insane and i love em. Love from austria buddy
Angling community are full of super guys, keep up the vids mate and when I need some pike tackle for my day out on Rudyard I'll defo check out your guys shop!
Wicked content bro just subbed and hit the notification bell!😊 Seen a few of your vids already just what I luv smashing some pike regardless of the size!👍
Was interested re your comments about striking when using a hard lure. Never thought about it before but makes sense. Thanks another great video .. Dave B, Chichester West Sussex
Wow, I wish the canals in the south east were that clear. I subscribed really early a few years ago now. It’s been a great honour to see you grow. Here’s to another 100k. 👊
I totally agree with you about the hard baits with the exception of the whopper plopper. my hook-up ratio has been good even with smaller pike. Also great video! I was interested in getting one of those snakes but I think I'll pass now.
Yet another very watchable fishing video even the long shots of the canal looked stunning, one thing I noticed was the shot of the malard ducks, they only had one chick, which leads me to suggest a surface duckling lure of sorts may be as deadly, thanks again for such an enjoyable video.
Lovely stuff. Have you ever thought of putting a polarised lense in front of the gopro so we can see what you see when you're wearing your polarised glasses?
Great stuff chris i have been using the Savage Gear snake since it was released there awesome lures not many people know the lure has 2 connecting points one for surface fishing the other makes it swim just below the surface it's deadly nice video chris thanks for posting it,
love me some top water action I even wrote an article about it which featured in pike predator magazine back in the days of print lol I have used the snake successfully a couple of occasions think my favourites are the fruck and also the spro bbz rat the fruck for getting right on top of the weeds and tempting them out and for whatever reason the bbz rat seems to switch them on when other lures get nowt more than just a follow could be the rattle in them anyway top vid mate
I saw a Pike take a Grass Snake on a local canal - a chance in a lifetime (or two!). One swirl on the surface, another subsurface and the sanke had gone. The snake and the Pike were of not disimilar lengths and the efficiency of the Pikes actions suggested experience and specialised feeding in a place where both species exist.
I find that for top-water lures one should simply retrieve the lure until you feel the resistance of a bite, and not deciding when to set the hook by merely watching the splash on the surface. When fishing for shakehead I got so mad that I wasnt getting any proper hook set but tons of bites, that at some point I just continued the retrieve, which proved to be the way to actually catch them.
They sure are in there and willing. I'd like to see a much larger snake lure. If they take rats and mice, well maybe the bigger ones would smash it. Nice job again, such nice photography.
Great video Chris... May fave type of fishing, topwater blow-ups are epic! I have noticed that once a Pike hits a topwater and missed it rarely has another go, whereas Perch will hit it again till they get iry (more competitive?). But great vid, and inspiring me to run out after work at 7 for a couple of hours :)
Are you serious I think its total neglect hence my comment a treble barbed hook near the eye and nothing to disinfect it just launch the fish back to get disinfected yeah good shout fella...I would never treat any freshwater fish like that no matter what species...and yes I'm a carp angler but go for pike in the winter
Nice video, as usual. May I ask you? Do you plan your fishing days based on the weather, or you just go? Because I cannot go whenever I want, so I always try to go with low pressure and overcast, but I've caught three pikes in two years…
Maaate. You can catch one in every type of weather. I have my rod and a small tacklebox in my car. Whenever I need to kill half an hour I find a spot and fish it!
Go early morning and evenings for the best action. Buy a couple of decent crank lures 5-6cm and your should catch 2-3 a session no problems. If you aren't catching it's more maybe your technique. Give it a few winds a bit of a jerk then pause... then the pike should smash it. 12 in a 2/3 hour session is my best so far.
Thank you everyone for you replies. I wonder if it can be because I go fishing in city canals? I don't have a car, so I have to go and fish in the canals in the city centre. Could it make a difference?
@@giorgiotatananni9652 I'm my opinion could boat traffic people etc.. but if you go early / late you don't get that as much. Canals can great venues. What size lures? And are you using a large reel maybe? Ps my area of predator fishing is hard crank jerkbaits and such
Have you any tips for fishing frogs? I’ve bent my hooks out a bit and tried waiting a couple seconds before striking but missed about 10 blowups in the last week. So frustrating. Thinking maybe my rod isn’t stiff enough? been using 8-20g rod but it’s quite stiff. Drags tightened right up using .30 mm braid and a .80mm fluro trace.
Yea, a bit stronger rod wouldnt be a bad idea, also bend the hooks on your frog a bit outward from the frogs body. They are probably lined up right against the body, so just bend them 1mm out. It will still be quite weedless unless you are casting into really really grassy stuff and the hook up ratio will be quite better.
My hook up rate with frogs is horrendous - must be less than 5%! I’ve tried everything, bending the hooks out, delaying the strike, striking really hard straightaway ……you name it. Only top water lure that has reasonable hook up rate is the Whopper Plopper - and that’s still only 50%. But top water is far more exhilarating than any other form of fishing. And so addictive.
Hi Mate, i love your videos. Great job! I do use savage gear lures on sea and fresh water and must say that they never let me down. Did you know that pike can eat fish 2/3 of their own length? Also pike can grow up to 60cm in one year from they hatch if they have enough of food 😃 Tight lines mate!
I don't know about that mate but, muskie will go after a hard bait here mate. Always remember that a bad day fishing is always better than a good day at work.
Chris just wondering when do u stop fishing for pike cuz i have heard different things and have asked fox rage but not got a response. My localish canal has loads of jacks and i want to catch on some top water lures
Don't fish in hot temperatures and just basically use common sense. One of the lakes I know has to have aerators to keep the carp alive in hot weather. That's no different but they don't stop fishing for them.
@@darthpictus6445 it's one of those spikey issues and it would be different from one angler to the next in his opinion. So many factors effect oxygen levels... Just use common sense.
@@darthpictus6445 10c is very low I think the water has less oxygen at 10 than at 15 degrees. Usually I hear people say don't fish for them at 18-20 degrees+ but I don't think there are any studies on northern pike mortality from fishing during high temperatures so I'm not really sure how dangerous high temps are for them but some people swear on not fishing for them during hot summers
Bro don't pull so quickly! You are pulling the bait out of their mouths! Let them bite and take it down and you will not be missing them like that! 👍 good video quality 👍
Hi Chris, many thanks for the swim advice this morning - had a 9.12 barbel, lost one and had a chub about 3.10. Had another barbel 7.11 from the Melvyn section later on. Cracking video. Pike aren't timmid about having a go at anything lol.
No worries buddy I was just wondering how you'd got on, sounds like a cracking start to the season! At this time in the season the pike will happily jump in your net to try and take your catch no matter the size haha
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Watched one video that was suggested and i was hooked mate, give me the motivation to fight my PTSD and take the little one down the canal for some fun on light tackle he even caught two pike at the age of 7! Thank you sir!
Sounds brilliant buddy keep at it!
These videos are also very therapeutic to watch .
Your life must suck. You let ptsd get you so bad you barley go fishing? FISHING!!! THE GREAT OUT DOORS YOU GOT PTSD ON YOUR MOND. MY GOD GET A GRIP
Pike fishing bring happyness to your life ..😎🙌🐊
Good man get on the bank.. take some maggots to drown for the kids on a float rod. Just incase u blank... We do all the time but there's always greedy perch or 2 about.
Fair play to you. This has to be one of the most entertaining fishing channels ever. I could imagine this being a hit series during the golden days of TV, back in the past. Completely original, and you never seem to run out of new ideas. Brilliant stuff!
Massive shout out to Shaun, top man!!
Chris is back with a banging video, we love surface fishing, it's always exciting. Keep the great content coming! 🎣💥💥💥
I don't know why your channel wasn't doing well. I really enjoy it especially when you're fishing small rivers. I don't get too much fishing in these days as my legs are failing and body shop does nothing in my size so your videos take me to the water's edge. Thanks
Perhaps the best fishing channel on TH-cam, i watch these as soon as they are uploaded. Keep plugging away my friend.
No perhaps about it. Chris is really accomplishing something important here.
Another good shop for the bookmarks. Thanks Shaun and Chris
I’ve been watching your videos for 6 years now and they never get old
Good on ye....all that marvellous diversity of green growing things along that canal...great habitats for wild things...
It just goes to show that there some nice genuine people out there well done Shaun.
Great vid - looking forward to the river season!
Every time I watch this channel ,I end up spinning out and about ,keep up the good work ,I introduced two anglers to pike spinning now it's all they do I've created two monsters 😳
I must have missed this when it came out! I can remember fishing a small lake that through the summer was full of frogs and grass snakes which would hunt the frogs alongside the perch, especially in the shallows. It’s easy to see that the pike, at the top of the food chain, wouldn’t turn its snout up at a quick and relatively easy meal. I’ve seen a homemade version of one of these,I’m pretty sure it involved cotton reels, so maybe taken from the Ladybird book of Pike Fishing?
Epic Video as always and Shaun you’re a legend!!
looked like brilliant fun again there Chris , lovely little river, thank you
So cool that you can bike along a gorgeous trail landing pike !
Brilliant that buddy, again proving changing the presentation makes the fish more curious, good to hear there is still good people in this world that was absolute class to help you out with that equipment, agin cracking show , cracking fish and a escape for thirteen minutes bliss ❤️❤️
Well said mate
Absolutely love the content.
Nicest fisherman on youtube😊
Tight lines👌
Love top water fishing.. nice 1 chris👌
Great content Chris glad u got new equipment would be at a loss without ure channel great fishing on the top water 🇮🇪🇮🇪👍
Hi 👋
This is my first time watching your channel and I like your non pretentious style.. fun session chasing pike with the snake 🐍 lure .. I never imagined you could use this type of lure ..
I have hit your bell 🛎.. and now I have a stack of your content to watch back ..
thank you for sharing 👍
i grew up watching ur videos with Sam at hallcroft and grove seeing how far u have some really does make me happy and keeps me wanting to fish more. Keep it up mate.
Love the videos Chris. Thanks
that first hook up was madddd. love it
Fantastic as always
Another great video.. Thank you. 🐟
Your films are so good and clear. When I up load mine they go all grainy! Great fishing there too!
Supercool shots. Never underestimate the hunger of a pike. I caught a lot of 60-70cm pike with 40-50 cm eels inside their mouth. They are insane and i love em. Love from austria buddy
Nice one 👍😊
Angling community are full of super guys, keep up the vids mate and when I need some pike tackle for my day out on Rudyard I'll defo check out your guys shop!
I love your videos and I love fishing
Awesome video! I really enjoyed it!
Wicked content bro just subbed and hit the notification bell!😊 Seen a few of your vids already just what I luv smashing some pike regardless of the size!👍
Shaun coming in clutch. Just dropped a few £££ and got some extra lures from the site, just in time for the little one's birthday 😁
Good job Chris you killing it, fishing is good videos are good, keep at it. You gonna make it big trust me
Was interested re your comments about striking when using a hard lure. Never thought about it before but makes sense. Thanks another great video .. Dave B, Chichester West Sussex
Wow, I wish the canals in the south east were that clear. I subscribed really early a few years ago now. It’s been a great honour to see you grow. Here’s to another 100k. 👊
Great video Shaun
, Not been a lover of treble hooks I just use single hooks ,seen so many with torn mouths
and treble hooks down there throat
Top water fishing is just awesome 😊 Your videos are really good, thx for all the work. Cool channel, I'm hooked. Petri Heil from good old Germany 👍
Startef watchin you a few months ago bro an im hooked pardon the pun..love the vids
I totally agree with you about the hard baits with the exception of the whopper plopper. my hook-up ratio has been good even with smaller pike. Also great video! I was interested in getting one of those snakes but I think I'll pass now.
Yeah well done Shaun for re kitting Chris with go pro and memory cards etc
Brill stuff Chris kind regards Mr D
Great content definitley worth a sub keep up the great work Chris
Another great video thank you for sharing and sorry to hear you lost some of youre gear
You get some amazing footage. You’re a talented guy. How is that canal so clear ! I guess there’s no boat traffic
I bet wouldn't work on the Ashby Canal
your footage & videos are awesome. Subscribed ! Keep up the good work pal.
Strange one Chris, snake for bait.surprising what pike will take . Great video as usual 👍
Yet another very watchable fishing video even the long shots of the canal looked stunning, one thing I noticed was the shot of the malard ducks, they only had one chick, which leads me to suggest a surface duckling lure of sorts may be as deadly, thanks again for such an enjoyable video.
Really enjoyed the video and great to hear that you managed to replace your stuff 👍
Lovely stuff. Have you ever thought of putting a polarised lense in front of the gopro so we can see what you see when you're wearing your polarised glasses?
Great stuff chris i have been using the Savage Gear snake since it was released there awesome lures not many people know the lure has 2 connecting points one for surface fishing the other makes it swim just below the surface it's deadly nice video chris thanks for posting it,
love me some top water action I even wrote an article about it which featured in pike predator magazine back in the days of print lol I have used the snake successfully a couple of occasions think my favourites are the fruck and also the spro bbz rat the fruck for getting right on top of the weeds and tempting them out and for whatever reason the bbz rat seems to switch them on when other lures get nowt more than just a follow could be the rattle in them anyway top vid mate
Thanks shaun for the gear!! 🤘👌
I saw a Pike take a Grass Snake on a local canal - a chance in a lifetime (or two!). One swirl on the surface, another subsurface and the sanke had gone. The snake and the Pike were of not disimilar lengths and the efficiency of the Pikes actions suggested experience and specialised feeding in a place where both species exist.
Well done Sean!
You're very welcome buddy and thanks for the lovely words ❤️
great fishing, thanks for sharing..
Thank you Shaun
Chris - are you still crushing the barbs on the hooks ?. using whisker barbs now.
I find that for top-water lures one should simply retrieve the lure until you feel the resistance of a bite, and not deciding when to set the hook by merely watching the splash on the surface. When fishing for shakehead I got so mad that I wasnt getting any proper hook set but tons of bites, that at some point I just continued the retrieve, which proved to be the way to actually catch them.
Sean's a good mate :-)
They sure are in there and willing. I'd like to see a much larger snake lure. If they take rats and mice, well maybe the bigger ones would smash it. Nice job again, such nice photography.
Awesome mate thanks 😊
Hi mate can you do more bream and tench fishing like you did a couple videos ago one of the best fishing vids I’ve watched
Great video Chris... May fave type of fishing, topwater blow-ups are epic! I have noticed that once a Pike hits a topwater and missed it rarely has another go, whereas Perch will hit it again till they get iry (more competitive?). But great vid, and inspiring me to run out after work at 7 for a couple of hours :)
I think it's a bit of a competition thing with perch as they usually hunt in packs
I love your videos man. I love how careful you handle the fish and the quality of your content✌️
Are you serious I think its total neglect hence my comment a treble barbed hook near the eye and nothing to disinfect it just launch the fish back to get disinfected yeah good shout fella...I would never treat any freshwater fish like that no matter what species...and yes I'm a carp angler but go for pike in the winter
Love your videos I do some fishing to in-fact. I almost caught a ten pounder but I popped of in front of my face
Nice vid👍🏻
Nice vid mate 🤙
Nice video, as usual. May I ask you? Do you plan your fishing days based on the weather, or you just go? Because I cannot go whenever I want, so I always try to go with low pressure and overcast, but I've caught three pikes in two years…
Maaate. You can catch one in every type of weather. I have my rod and a small tacklebox in my car. Whenever I need to kill half an hour I find a spot and fish it!
put a ledger on when it's sunny
Go early morning and evenings for the best action. Buy a couple of decent crank lures 5-6cm and your should catch 2-3 a session no problems. If you aren't catching it's more maybe your technique. Give it a few winds a bit of a jerk then pause... then the pike should smash it. 12 in a 2/3 hour session is my best so far.
Thank you everyone for you replies. I wonder if it can be because I go fishing in city canals? I don't have a car, so I have to go and fish in the canals in the city centre. Could it make a difference?
@@giorgiotatananni9652 I'm my opinion could boat traffic people etc.. but if you go early / late you don't get that as much. Canals can great venues. What size lures? And are you using a large reel maybe? Ps my area of predator fishing is hard crank jerkbaits and such
What polarised glasses do you wear.
Have you any tips for fishing frogs? I’ve bent my hooks out a bit and tried waiting a couple seconds before striking but missed about 10 blowups in the last week. So frustrating. Thinking maybe my rod isn’t stiff enough? been using 8-20g rod but it’s quite stiff. Drags tightened right up using .30 mm braid and a .80mm fluro trace.
Yea, a bit stronger rod wouldnt be a bad idea, also bend the hooks on your frog a bit outward from the frogs body. They are probably lined up right against the body, so just bend them 1mm out. It will still be quite weedless unless you are casting into really really grassy stuff and the hook up ratio will be quite better.
My hook up rate with frogs is horrendous - must be less than 5%! I’ve tried everything, bending the hooks out, delaying the strike, striking really hard straightaway ……you name it.
Only top water lure that has reasonable hook up rate is the Whopper Plopper - and that’s still only 50%.
But top water is far more exhilarating than any other form of fishing. And so addictive.
I am planing to buy some sunglasses, which one you use in this video? Thanks
What is that net? Looks nice.
Love your clips need to get down my canal before we have a match and remove some of those big pike there killing us
Which shoppe did you find that lure.
Match the hatch.. been wondering if it's possible to immitate carp roe
What Rod and reel setup do you use ?
What camera do you use for recording that fishing?
Hi Mate, i love your videos. Great job! I do use savage gear lures on sea and fresh water and must say that they never let me down. Did you know that pike can eat fish 2/3 of their own length? Also pike can grow up to 60cm in one year from they hatch if they have enough of food 😃 Tight lines mate!
what is the reel you are using ??
Hello mate what part of the uk canal u fishing??
Chris, you don't have to tell me which rivers or canals but what area of the UK do you fish in.
Top man x
Have you tried soft plastic snakes pike love those
I don't know about that mate but, muskie will go after a hard bait here mate. Always remember that a bad day fishing is always better than a good day at work.
Puts your faith back in human nature when someone does you a favour like that mate💪🏻
Good shout out👍🏻
Please do a catch n cook pike. They are really good
That snake lure is out of it. Wouldn't be much use in NZ though as there aren't any snakes here.
Chris just wondering when do u stop fishing for pike cuz i have heard different things and have asked fox rage but not got a response. My localish canal has loads of jacks and i want to catch on some top water lures
Best thing is to ask your local tackle shops or club bailiffs. Our local canal is closed for pike between March and October.
Don't fish in hot temperatures and just basically use common sense. One of the lakes I know has to have aerators to keep the carp alive in hot weather. That's no different but they don't stop fishing for them.
@@thepikeangler2022 yh cheers the bit a fish is shallow and my general rule is dont fish for pike over 10c but i keep seeing these topwater vids
@@darthpictus6445 it's one of those spikey issues and it would be different from one angler to the next in his opinion. So many factors effect oxygen levels... Just use common sense.
@@darthpictus6445 10c is very low I think the water has less oxygen at 10 than at 15 degrees. Usually I hear people say don't fish for them at 18-20 degrees+ but I don't think there are any studies on northern pike mortality from fishing during high temperatures so I'm not really sure how dangerous high temps are for them but some people swear on not fishing for them during hot summers
The canals near me must be crap. Can anyone suggest some good canals to try in the Midlands please?
what is this landing net?
Sad that my local lake only allows spinning and lures in Winter
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So when can I do pike fishing on canal
No surprise, Pikes have a "snapping reflex" you can pull banana peel infront of it and it would bite down on it.
Bro don't pull so quickly! You are pulling the bait out of their mouths! Let them bite and take it down and you will not be missing them like that! 👍 good video quality 👍
Hi Chris, many thanks for the swim advice this morning - had a 9.12 barbel, lost one and had a chub about 3.10. Had another barbel 7.11 from the Melvyn section later on. Cracking video. Pike aren't timmid about having a go at anything lol.
No worries buddy I was just wondering how you'd got on, sounds like a cracking start to the season! At this time in the season the pike will happily jump in your net to try and take your catch no matter the size haha
What river or canal is this
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