The tip about fishing in the same spot after you have caught one fish already really works. I went fishing one day with deadbaits and cast into a spot and caught a 6lb pike, unhooked it and cast into the exact same spot and no word of a lie I pulled out a 20lb + pike. It's my PB :)
Hi Graeme, just discovered your channel. Thanks. One tip on pike fishing worth a mention, especially with big pike, is that they're the ONLY coarse fish to thrash and shake their heads on the surface. They're unique in this respect. I've caught hundreds of pike, many well over 20lbs, so write from years of (sometimes bitter!) experience. When a pike is almost beaten and surfacing this is without doubt the most dangerous time to lose it. This is the stage where they are most likely to throw the hook (I wholly agree on a single small treble by the way) or worse, saw through the trace and be lost. This then leaves a badly injured fish with gear in it's throat. Always be ready to drop the rod tip immediately, keep the fish low in the water, then draw it from depth over the net.😇
+rossefc1 Good fish on a lure.I just got in tonight from a couple of grabbed hours trying a new lure.Lost a few Pike then got a 13 pounder.Happy Days !!
+TAFishing that's lure fishing win some loose most haha. for me I had a better hook up rate with the "twichin bitchin" rig of yours but I find the lures more entertaining. when I make my lure traces up they all have the rotating plastic spoons on as a homage to my old style.
Hi TA fishing. Love the show. The reason I don't use live fish baits is I've seen the underwater cam of the poor mites tethered and terrified as a pike approaches to investigate. I'm not comfortable with it myself but I don't judge others. Tight lines!
Hi guys! Graeme! I just purchased your pike fishing hardback from Amazon! Great pic on the front champ! :) Looking forward to reading it - absolute love the show guys, turned a few of my fishing buddies 'in the biz' on to it, thanks so much - keep 'em coming - more pike vids! (Barbel too?) x
Hi Graeme/Mike, I have a question if i may. I purchased a Tronixpro casting float weighted at 40 grams. It doesnt come with any instructions, however Tronixpro state on their website that it works great with a Washing Line setup. Could you please tell me and indeed perhaps other viewers what this is and do you have any other ideas on how best to use this type of float. Myself being a beginner its a bit of a head scratcher. Thanks guys in advance if you have the time to respond. Fabulous channel even if you dont reply. Cheers Steve in Fife.
+Stevie D Have no idea about that one.I did see a weird surface fishing float with a long arm to it.It took three carp guys ten minutes trying to fathom out how it worked.Maybe it was that one.All I know is I outfished the weird float/lever thing by about 8 to 1 using just a single biscuit freelined on a hook.I won't be buying any floats until I see they outfish me or at least put me in a better position to catch fish. You could always try a cheap,plain bubble float .
Yes it has a long arm which is for a 4mm light stick. I will try your suggestion on a freelined hook. Thanks so much for replying and all the best to you both for now. Steve.
here in the states new york to be exact thers also lot of regulations in the past few years. cant transport live bait anywhere (heft fine)unless you have recipt from minnow dealer. can only take minniows from the water your fishing and cant use cast nets. but i love fishing with live minnows. like using 3 way swivel with bank sinker and 8" chubs for musky or northerns
Graeme why do you lip hook live bait, and not the old - school way through the top of the Dorsal fin ,Does it make the fish swim better by hooking them like it. I can understand the fish will live longer by hooking it through the lip, its just when the pike is turning the fish to swallow that means the hook will be further down it's throat and become deep hooked . dave
+nanouk54 What sort of pie ? Chicken and mushroom or steak and kidney ? I'll pop down the supermarket and see what I can hook out.A long cast through the frozen section should do it !!!!...
+TAFishing lol Pike , but if you have tips and a Vid on steak and kidney, not live bait fishing ,I'd go a long way down the aisle, keeping my head down, to buy/ see it.
Once I was at a fishery and I was in a small lake, I caught a roach and it was swimming in the water. While I was reeling it in a pike darted out the water and swallowed it hole. I guess thats live fishing haha. 15 lbs pike.
I'm gonna try using deadbaits next season for walleye(like a zander), sauger/saugeye(also similar to zander/walleye) and pike&muskie. In the US we dont use deadbaits unless we are fishing for catfish and a few other species like bowfin or gar. I'm not sure it will work but I'm gonna try it. People in UK catch tons of pike, zander, etc on dead baits.They even use stuff pike dont have access to in their water. i.e. squid and mackerel. What other species in the UK will take deadbait? Will European perch eat deadbaits?
hey +TAFishing I have been watching your channel now for along time I'm a huge supporter , plz reply it will make my day, I want to ask if u can make a vid on how u set up ur pike float set up and what rods ur using , thank u
Thanks TA. In my view your best tutorial, as you really go into detail on the specifics of catching pike. Also because, the Totally Awful music is pretty much kept to a minimum, although it does start to creep-in as the video goes on. Just saying...... Ray
@@TAFishing Good to hear it. Out of interest though - and I understand the purpose of soundtrack music, but why do so many, so it's not just your Totally Awful Music, but loads of very good fishing video makers spoiling the shows with really irritating music/sounds? No need to answer that one, I guess it's rhetorical, but what has the calm and peaceful pastime of fishing got to do with boring synthetic pop rock music? Anyway - rant over. Keep up the great job you do. Regards. Ray
And after that video on pike - will go back to the shop - only to put everything on hold as fishing jyst opened up in Canada - we can’t use live bait but I have a Len Thompson green and black spoon they the pike love - should keep me outta trouble for the afternoon ! - Thanks for the inspiration and keep the videos and music coming!!
I want to catch a smaller pike as at my local water (which isn't even a fishery and me and my stepbrother are the only ones that fish it!) but I haven't even caught a pike under 15lbs!!!
That’s just where it’s been layed down in the weed. There’s a lot of weed in that lake. It’s not a particularly healthy water tbh very small with silly numbers of small fish and a few decent ones
Tbh I'm now 26 in December an iv been pike fishing the best part of 18 years when I say pike I mean that's all I fish for an I use most Riggs but your find easy is better less time seting up an more time with bait in the water ... So for me on float rod on an then other rigg on the bottom
+RBx Monsters Listen ,don't worry about your English,its certainly better than my French. Glad you like watching the shows.We like to keep everything at ground level to get people into appreciating whatever they catch....large or small.Keep watching,and spread the word over there.A lot of our techniques should work on your fish.
+Cameron Smith You could try checking the news reports in fishing publications.Might be a good spot in whichever area you live.Or scan through some of the forums and see if anyone else in your area has ideas.
In 2011 they banned using live bait fish altogether here in Sweden, they ruled that fish can feel pain just as any other animals and thus are included in the Swedish Animal Welfare Act. If you catch a fish you intended to keep you must kill it instantly with a hit on the head, even pushing its head back to break is neck is illegal because that doesn´t kill the fish fast enough apparently. It´s all a bit strange I think and the "science" it´s based on seems a bit loose, but I don´t really care all that much, never fished with live bait fish, or live bait at all for that matter, so it didn´t really impact me.
+eldsprutandedrake I have heard about that, went to Sweden last Easter. Doesn't make sense really, they 'ban' livebaiting because the fish feel pain, yet you're allowed to rip a lure into its mouth, pull it all over the place and chuck it back? Kind of contradictory to be honest! But there are laws here in the UK for live baiting here too, as Graeme explained, it's generally down to the fishery rules that you fish. Mike
don't seem right, live baiting. surely the live bait fish is suffering. seems quite clear to me. it's 'not on' in my opinion. So you take care with pike, carefully looking after it's health. What about the health of the fish you using for bait. just saying
You are entitled to your opinion John. However, If you don't like live baiting, you could always just not watch the video to save you going through the stress of it all? At the end of the day, you are putting a hook through a Pikes mouth, pulling it around in the water then pulling it up on the bank. Whilst we do care for the safety of the Pike, you are also putting it through stress. Seems odd that you are ok with doing that, but then not ok with lip hooking a small fish? As Graeme stated in the video, this is the natural bait that Pike, Catfish and Zander are eating all of the time. Perhaps it might be better for you to not go fishing at all? That way you have no worry about harming or causing stress to fish? Regards, Mike
oh god graham don't try to go into the politics and ethics of live baiting you honestly do not know enough, I live bait and still know its ethically wrong
Thanks for the advice from North Carolina! Caught a pike in a river near home and thank the lord I found you to teach me something
The tip about fishing in the same spot after you have caught one fish already really works. I went fishing one day with deadbaits and cast into a spot and caught a 6lb pike, unhooked it and cast into the exact same spot and no word of a lie I pulled out a 20lb + pike. It's my PB :)
Hi Graeme, just discovered your channel. Thanks. One tip on pike fishing worth a mention, especially with big pike, is that they're the ONLY coarse fish to thrash and shake their heads on the surface. They're unique in this respect. I've caught hundreds of pike, many well over 20lbs, so write from years of (sometimes bitter!) experience. When a pike is almost beaten and surfacing this is without doubt the most dangerous time to lose it. This is the stage where they are most likely to throw the hook (I wholly agree on a single small treble by the way) or worse, saw through the trace and be lost. This then leaves a badly injured fish with gear in it's throat. Always be ready to drop the rod tip immediately, keep the fish low in the water, then draw it from depth over the net.😇
have u ever tried pike fishing with soft plastic frogs around bushes a reeds
“There’s not much left in this one, he’s had a bit of exercise” 😂
I used to feed my aquarium fish live goldfish. You need a social worker to buy one these days.
nice to see you pikeing again I love your pike videos. I got out today and got my pb on lures 19.3lb my previous was 15.8lb on twitched sprat.
+rossefc1 Good fish on a lure.I just got in tonight from a couple of grabbed hours trying a new lure.Lost a few Pike then got a 13 pounder.Happy Days !!
+TAFishing that's lure fishing win some loose most haha. for me I had a better hook up rate with the "twichin bitchin" rig of yours but I find the lures more entertaining. when I make my lure traces up they all have the rotating plastic spoons on as a homage to my old style.
Hi TA fishing. Love the show. The reason I don't use live fish baits is I've seen the underwater cam of the poor mites tethered and terrified as a pike approaches to investigate. I'm not comfortable with it myself but I don't judge others. Tight lines!
+Iain Clark Thanks, nice to see an honest opinion without the swearing! Tight lines.
Mike
*****
Catch'n'release is about ecology.
Hi TA fishing, another excellent video I think it is vital to return the pike over here in Germany it can be a problem
as fisherman keep Pike.
it's about bloody time u 2 are on tv
Brilliant video guys!!!
Hi guys! Graeme! I just purchased your pike fishing hardback from Amazon! Great pic on the front champ! :) Looking forward to reading it - absolute love the show guys, turned a few of my fishing buddies 'in the biz' on to it, thanks so much - keep 'em coming - more pike vids! (Barbel too?) x
Lovely video Graeme
Awesome matey I love pikeing
Great tips... Thumbs Up
at 12:40, i allways lay it so the rod and handle is on the ground, that way you keep the reel up and away from sand and ground. :)
Sand??
I wach a lot of your videos and i even go lake fishing and beach fishing
We have plenty of videos on beach fishing too :)
Next friday can not come soon enough!
Good video, greetings from Poland :)
Hello, super video. Thank you very much for video
I like your beach quest
Hi Graeme/Mike,
I have a question if i may.
I purchased a Tronixpro casting float weighted at 40 grams. It doesnt come with any instructions, however Tronixpro state on their website that it works great with a Washing Line setup. Could you please tell me and indeed perhaps other viewers what this is and do you have any other ideas on how best to use this type of float. Myself being a beginner its a bit of a head scratcher.
Thanks guys in advance if you have the time to respond.
Fabulous channel even if you dont reply.
Cheers Steve in Fife.
+Stevie D Have no idea about that one.I did see a weird surface fishing float with a long arm to it.It took three carp guys ten minutes trying to fathom out how it worked.Maybe it was that one.All I know is I outfished the weird float/lever thing by about 8 to 1 using just a single biscuit freelined on a hook.I won't be buying any floats until I see they outfish me or at least put me in a better position to catch fish. You could always try a cheap,plain bubble float .
Yes it has a long arm which is for a 4mm light stick. I will try your suggestion on a freelined hook. Thanks so much for replying and all the best to you both for now.
Steve.
I’ve been fishing for carp at finches farm in the Uk but I don’t recognise this part of the lake is the one your talking about in Berkshire?
great tips
Crongrats on 100k
Thanks man! - Mike
Yeah. Well done I. Will hopefully get to100K on my channel. Carp
And trout fishing Show
carp and trout fishing show umm your on 5
carp and trout fishing show umm your on 5
here in the states new york to be exact thers also lot of regulations in the past few years. cant transport live bait anywhere (heft fine)unless you have recipt from minnow dealer. can only take minniows from the water your fishing and cant use cast nets. but i love fishing with live minnows. like using 3 way swivel with bank sinker and 8" chubs for musky or northerns
+Arcs & Sparks Welding Similar to the UK, very strict laws about moving fish from one area to another.
Congrats 100k gream
Hi will you been visiting Holme grange a gain next summer? I've recently just gone and I had 16 fish in the margins😃
Graeme why do you lip hook live bait, and not the old - school way through the top of the Dorsal fin ,Does it make the fish swim better by hooking them like it. I can understand the fish will live longer by hooking it through the lip, its just when the pike is turning the fish to swallow that means the hook will be further down it's throat and become deep hooked . dave
are u going to do a UK beach fishing vid
Love your show and happy to se some livebaiting when its the method of choise for me when i fish for predators
would you ever go pike fishing in lough ree ireland?
great vidio bros
Nice one, any chance of fishing for pie with a lure ,or is there already a video on that ?
+nanouk54 What sort of pie ? Chicken and mushroom or steak and kidney ? I'll pop down the supermarket and see what I can hook out.A long cast through the frozen section should do it !!!!...
+TAFishing lol Pike , but if you have tips and a Vid on steak and kidney, not live bait fishing ,I'd go a long way down the aisle, keeping my head down, to buy/ see it.
i usually use Capricorn for live bait its very popular trash fish on Estonia
i usually just put a 5-6g led bullet in the middle between the float and a 10cm roach, then it can't really swim around too much.
Great vid, what fishery is this? Cheers
Once I was at a fishery and I was in a small lake, I caught a roach and it was swimming in the water. While I was reeling it in a pike darted out the water and swallowed it hole. I guess thats live fishing haha. 15 lbs pike.
Would you ever use bite alarms
Haha looks like nice pug nose pike near the end
I'm gonna try using deadbaits next season for walleye(like a zander), sauger/saugeye(also similar to zander/walleye) and pike&muskie. In the US we dont use deadbaits unless we are fishing for catfish and a few other species like bowfin or gar. I'm not sure it will work but I'm gonna try it. People in UK catch tons of pike, zander, etc on dead baits.They even use stuff pike dont have access to in their water. i.e. squid and mackerel. What other species in the UK will take deadbait? Will European perch eat deadbaits?
Yes perch will certainly take small deadbaits as will eels and sometimes chub
Are u going to Courtmacsherry soon ?
+John Murphy We were there in the summer.Bad weather,but still managed some fish.
hey +TAFishing I have been watching your channel now for along time I'm a huge supporter , plz reply it will make my day, I want to ask if u can make a vid on how u set up ur pike float set up and what rods ur using , thank u
You are a realy good fisher :-)
Thanks TA. In my view your best tutorial, as you really go into detail on the specifics of catching pike. Also because, the Totally Awful music is pretty much kept to a minimum, although it does start to creep-in as the video goes on. Just saying...... Ray
The music choice in the early films are not always mine,but now I am doing it all on my own the times(and music tracks) are a-changing.
@@TAFishing Good to hear it. Out of interest though - and I understand the purpose of soundtrack music, but why do so many, so it's not just your Totally Awful Music, but loads of very good fishing video makers spoiling the shows with really irritating music/sounds? No need to answer that one, I guess it's rhetorical, but what has the calm and peaceful pastime of fishing got to do with boring synthetic pop rock music? Anyway - rant over. Keep up the great job you do. Regards. Ray
Music is terrific
And after that video on pike - will go back to the shop - only to put everything on hold as fishing jyst opened up in Canada - we can’t use live bait but I have a Len Thompson green and black spoon they the pike love - should keep me outta trouble for the afternoon ! - Thanks for the inspiration and keep the videos and music coming!!
I want to catch a smaller pike as at my local water (which isn't even a fishery and me and my stepbrother are the only ones that fish it!) but I haven't even caught a pike under 15lbs!!!
and great video
Could use a patenosta rig to pin it where u want it
That pike around 1220 looked like it had a worm/parasite problem. Is that common in the UK
+24jh42 sorry asked before you explained later in the video
That’s just where it’s been layed down in the weed. There’s a lot of weed in that lake. It’s not a particularly healthy water tbh very small with silly numbers of small fish and a few decent ones
I really want to know what's in that raptor oil . . . . .
how deep do you set your stop knot? fair enough it depends how deep your venue is, but if you had no idea, what sort of depths would you set it at?
+Lewis Kilgallon You plumb the depths first so you know the depth.Then fish your bait above it.About two thirds down would be right in winter.
Thanks very much I will do just that on Saturday. any bait recommendations for canal. Natural or sea baits?
+Lewis Kilgallon Naturals if you have them.Some tackle shops sell packs of small Roach.That would be my choice.Or sprats if using saltwater baits.
Tbh I'm now 26 in December an iv been pike fishing the best part of 18 years when I say pike I mean that's all I fish for an I use most Riggs but your find easy is better less time seting up an more time with bait in the water ... So for me on float rod on an then other rigg on the bottom
What's the contents of the rig like the name of the float and stuff ?
hello i'm french so not verry speak english but i like say your materiel i see this vidéo and i appreciate your contenus :$ sorry for my english ^^
and you fish never in leurre
+RBx Monsters Listen ,don't worry about your English,its certainly better than my French. Glad you like watching the shows.We like to keep everything at ground level to get people into appreciating whatever they catch....large or small.Keep watching,and spread the word over there.A lot of our techniques should work on your fish.
nice pike
what do u think is better live bait or dead bait in my opinion dead baits better
+Sarah White Probably a twitched deadbait as it covers more ground and you can work it where you want to.
Any tips on venues
+Cameron Smith You could try checking the news reports in fishing publications.Might be a good spot in whichever area you live.Or scan through some of the forums and see if anyone else in your area has ideas.
+TAFishing thanks
Thankyou
i once caught a jackpike on a worm
Where did you get the livebaits?
+FrancoDaLad Caught at the fishery.You cannot transport livebaits in the UK. Helps stop the spread of fish disease.
I didn't know there was skunks in the UK!? Lol.
@ 21:00 mins
That's a dog
Yeah thanks for clearing that up for me 😂
have it closer to the camera and then you can say you caught a monster haha
Pure nostalgia for me, we arent allowed to live bait here anymore...
What’s the oil called please?
8 pounds is about 3,5 kilograms? This IS very good fish
2nd is open. I'll take 2nd.
Fished out anothet ass named Dutch.
I troll with a white 1/4 rooster tail been killing them in the rivers
One word zombait 👍🏼
I. catch Cray fish from the same place as I pike fish could u live bait with crayfish
In 2011 they banned using live bait fish altogether here in Sweden, they ruled that fish can feel pain just as any other animals and thus are included in the Swedish Animal Welfare Act. If you catch a fish you intended to keep you must kill it instantly with a hit on the head, even pushing its head back to break is neck is illegal because that doesn´t kill the fish fast enough apparently.
It´s all a bit strange I think and the "science" it´s based on seems a bit loose, but I don´t really care all that much, never fished with live bait fish, or live bait at all for that matter, so it didn´t really impact me.
+eldsprutandedrake I have heard about that, went to Sweden last Easter. Doesn't make sense really, they 'ban' livebaiting because the fish feel pain, yet you're allowed to rip a lure into its mouth, pull it all over the place and chuck it back? Kind of contradictory to be honest!
But there are laws here in the UK for live baiting here too, as Graeme explained, it's generally down to the fishery rules that you fish.
Mike
leve bait fishing in uk is a illegal :D i was seen some many poeple start mooning ;-) good job ;-)
Aleks Romantik its not illegal unless the live bait you caught is being used to fish on the same fishery you caught it
Aleks Romantik not unless you take fish out of other fisheries which will proscucute u
What is this fishery
PIKE OVER 4 LB ARE FEMALE LET ME KNOW IF NOT PLS
Oil is hydrophobic, fish cannot detect oil.
alanrtment porter they CANNOT detect oil.
alanrtment porter all the evidence you require is out there, fish don't even have a receptor capable of detecting oil 👍
Soooo everyone are going to just act like they didn't see all of those Parasites on the fish at 12:14? Yuck.
Fourth
third
first
Why do you guys try and make it a competition on who gets here first. You should be here to watch the video not compete on positions
don't seem right, live baiting. surely the live bait fish is suffering. seems quite clear to me. it's 'not on' in my opinion. So you take care with pike, carefully looking after it's health. What about the health of the fish you using for bait. just saying
You are entitled to your opinion John. However, If you don't like live baiting, you could always just not watch the video to save you going through the stress of it all? At the end of the day, you are putting a hook through a Pikes mouth, pulling it around in the water then pulling it up on the bank. Whilst we do care for the safety of the Pike, you are also putting it through stress. Seems odd that you are ok with doing that, but then not ok with lip hooking a small fish? As Graeme stated in the video, this is the natural bait that Pike, Catfish and Zander are eating all of the time. Perhaps it might be better for you to not go fishing at all? That way you have no worry about harming or causing stress to fish?
Regards,
Mike
I live bait small Pike and Perch for big Pike. Pike love Pike. I bet you think I'm immoral but I don't care +john b.
Change your name you imposter
@@TAFishing good answer Mike!!- I fish for the frying pan!!
oh god graham don't try to go into the politics and ethics of live baiting you honestly do not know enough, I live bait and still know its ethically wrong