Right now I walk across two feet of Georgian Bay ice to get my pike . Your shows help get me through the rest of winter until I can cast again ! Thanks Muchacho keep your hook in the water .
Nice catch mate👍🍻 I like your choice of bait. Big bait= big fish. I canoed and fished a Municipal drainage ditch emptying from a large wetland prairie marsh in central Manitoba Canada during mid summer. We saw a large number of big pike but only caught many small 12-24" pike (we call them hammer handles) that strangely, upon hitting would all immediately head straight to the banks. I found out why further up at the control gate where you could see 36"-45"+ fish by the dozens streaming through the shallows, constantly. I found out that small pike were the main food supply for the lunkers and would hide out in the bank reeds to avoid their elders. Number 1 bait for catching the lunkers turned out to be 12-18" pike. They wouldn't even touch large pike lures and bucktails. A local gent I met laughed at my amazement & said this is nothing, he claimed during spring spawn you could walk across the ditch😅. I fear he wasn't exaggerating, I kid you not, it was worthy of a mini-documentary on nature, let alone fishing. The variety and sheer number of birds ducks geese & hawks alone was worth the trip. I went back a couple years later and it was typical prairie dry weather cycle, completely bone dry. Apparently this little known and even less fished marsh is a major but erratic pike breeding area for the Assiniboine River. It's many square miles of marshy maze & very easy to get lost in as channels change drastically with fluctuating water levels & plant growth. Now that GPS is more accurate and reliable, I hope to go back and canoe the marsh before I'm no longer able, & remember to bring a camera along...
Another great upload Chris, thanks. I've been using small pike as deadbaits since around 1986, when we saved euthanased pike from a trout river in N Ireland. They catch some mighty fine fish! Your last fish certainly looked heavier than 11lbs!!!!
Hi in from NI. Where do you recommend to catch big pike. I caught my first one today at lough mourne ioutside Carrick and then caught another 3 but were very small. Really enjoyed catching them though. Felt a lot different from trout
Isn't sea fishing boring?for me fishing on rivers,lakes and other things which are implied in frashwater are 5x better,its more fun,fish are more atractive and for me its you know,you dont have fish which u can't cach,in the sea is really different and in frashwater fish are sweeter and tastier taste,im saying every1 like something but thats just my opinion
Hello fisherman, not only are you a good fisherman but a good man as well, I watched your video when you took care of the pike that you caught, and you helped this fish with some sort of spray which i thought was great helping this good looking pike, a proper good thing to do, keep up your fishing videos. Brother Carl away
I've never caught a carp but I love the way they look especially like a mirror carp or something. For some reason I find their face and fat belly cute lol.
I don't understand the thumbs down, I'm guessing it's because you used a PIke, not sure if they still do, but bait companies use to farm small jack pike as specialist baits back in the late 90's, I remember a company up north selling them frozen packed in 2's....if you find a dead jack, no point in wasting it, use it, circle of life and all that, its one of the best baits there is for catch large pike... I have, like Chris used every bait you can think of, from rats, dead pigeons, I even caught pike on raw sausages years ago! nice one Chris!!!
New to your channel, great to watch a proper sport fishing person,the way you treat the fish and catch and realize is the way all ppl who fish should act,sickins me when I see Dead fish mutalated on the bank,these ppl are just wrong and warped,best of Irish luck fishing in the Future ☘️🇮🇪
We have Chain Pickerel where I live in MD USA. They’re related to Pike but much smaller. That looks like a blast!! You’ve inspired me to get my fishing gear out again. To much bad stuff on the news.
Pike fishing is so interesting , I have gone for about 7 sessions (all day ) trying to catch a pike with dead bait and a float we planked a few times but we have just caught out first golf pike about 9-10 pound , this is all because me and my brother watch your vids . Keep it up
Another good video Chris 👍👍. You never strike when using Circle hooks, just tighten down . I had a right bollocking off a skipper whilst Tope fishing, we'd been out for a few hours and had nothing, I got a good run and in the excitement I struck, only to pull the bait from its mouth. Haven't done it since 🙈🙈🙈👍👍
Interesting video again. That first big one looked like she had been a bigger fish, judging by the size of her head anyway, maybe had lost a bit of weight and condition due to that old mouth injury, but certainly looking better now. Thanks for sharing your session and keep up the good work. Cheers
Just brilliant Chris another Pike masterclass good angling bud.Just excellent bank side care and husbandry top notch I really wish people would follow your un hooking and care of the fish.Just wondered if you knew a top old piker back in the day called Clive Lovedale caught a 39lb Pike on a 5lb Pike Livebait in Knipton .He like you was very observant and noticed on a lure session many jack's 5/6lb had big bite marks on them.He made a rig up and upgraded all the standard kit to catch the big one.I believe he used a gaff to land the fish under the chin un harmed.All the best stay safe.Tony
The most important parts of fishing are to respect the fish and their treatment as much as possible in fishing context and respect the waterways, clean up after yourself and remove any waste/rubbish you find from previous idiots! I always check over fish I catch, remove any parasites and treat any wounds and ALWAYS take home any rubbish/ discarded tackle I find. If all of us fishermen do this we’ll have healthy fish stock and healthy waters ! Like your videos 👍
Thats a massive pike. Wow congrats. Ive yet to catch one. 32 years old. Walleye my biggest was 4 inch baby thats it. Ive always wanted to catch a monster pike
What's going on Ginger Fisherman! New subscribers here! Those were some Nice Pike you caught with that Pike bait you rigged up! That's what I'm talkin about! Great video man! Keep on getting down!
Gosh I love fishing with dead bait. It makes me feel like it's even more effective than live bait! Caught my pb Zander (maybe 3-4kg) on one. And some pike of course.
Hey man nice video. Just a bit of TH-cam amusement, if you turn on the c captions from 9.30 onwards you get applauds as you lift the fish out of the water.
Pike fight best during the late summer. Taking spinners and plugs with great enthusiasm. Winter pike fishing is by comparison a dire affair. Fish when the fish are feeding!!!
Top vid that. You have some great waters where you are. Here in Manchester, there are a few decent waters but no real decent rivers. The river Irwell behind my house has a few but they are well spread out. Always enjoy your vids, keep it up.
Small pike are a favourite food for large pike! They keep the numbers of small pike down, which is better for the other species in the river (or lake).
I remember catching a 4lb pike and as i got it near the bank a huge pike that looked about 30lb plus grabbed it and made a huge swirl and took it right out, i couldn't stop it, was like a train, spent about 3/4 of an hour playing it, then it dived with the pike so deep and snapped my line, was amazed. I just caught a 27lb one that morning, that felt like a 40lb do'er. I then caught another jack about 3 and half and used as bait, had to throw it out as couldn't cast with that weight. Big pike are ruthless haha.
Once read an article many years ago by TV personality Chris Tarrant. Don't remember the exact details but he recalled having once caught quite a large pike in an Irish lake trolling with a 3lbs jack
Perfekt to watch now during snowseason here upnorth Sweden ! i do enjoy my angling with deadbaits not in smaller streams but rivers good fu n !what is that a 9-10f rod ? i need to buy some lighter tackle 12-13f is rather large for fishing freelined on . Good fun that ! Thx Ginger ! 7/ PAul
nice catch there.... no one wants to mention the elephant in the room? that background music this time is crazy lol.....) good video as always. use other songs by the group!
Nice. And if you continues using the new pike for catch another bigger one and successively, finally you will caught the bigger pike of the universe, biggest than our planet maybe... Will wait for it
Great video. I'm gonna give pike fishing a go in a month or so. I've never done it and will probably try spinning. Personally, I'd never use a livebait, I just don't like the idea of it. I also would never use a course deadbait either, I never kill any fish. I'd buy sea fish from the local Mozzers to try deadbaiting. Anyway, these vids are great and certainly fill me with the hope that I might be able to break my pike duck :)
Don't think you need big baits for big pike. I caught my PB 3 months ago (Although small compared to many other's PBS, 16.5lb measuring 78cm from top to bottom. Caught on the smallest spinner I own on the lightest rod (5-10g) I own, Was literally packing up after a day with only 1 pike strike breach on a top water mouse previously and no other fish. Just wanted a couple of small perch so I could go home happy. Thought I got caught in weed as the fish didn't fight at all and felt just like a dead weight. Also you mentioned not dead baiting because you don't want to kill the fish, that's fair enough. Sometimes things happen though. I've had dead fish float down the river which i've managed to net and use, i've also had a greedy perch that insisted on swallowing hooks so deep it's irretrievable. In these cases, You may feel it better to use the fish to your advantage rather than simply throwing it back
Back in '64, several obnoxious Michigan woodchucks who all claimed to be gamblers named Earl enjoying a four day combination sightseeing tour of Hamtramck and re-enactment of the Peloponnesian Wars encased me in concrete and killed me. I sure miss fishing.
Nice and interesting! I live in France, and it's forbidden to use small pikes as baits. We have legal minimum sizes to keep them (from 50cm to 70cm in general, depending of the place). Some small rivers with wild trouts don't have those minimal legal sizes, as pikes as considered detrimental/invasive species in those small streams. BUT in this case, it's forbidden to use them as baits. Best regards from FrogsLand ;).
Nice pike mate great sess, but how you managed to fish that spot its all fenced off , i always assumed it was a no fishing area just off g@@s@@oor l@@@ next to the bridge ?
I have been using them since watching Chris’s under water footage and had lots of success once you get used to not striking hard like with trebles. Wind down and very gently lift and in the scissor 100% of the time, in my experience anyway.
When I first turned this on the sound was off, for the first few seconds I thought I was watching the current world heavyweight boxing champ enjoying a day away from the ring. Enjoyed the video though.
We call that a “ quick strike rig” by Joe Bucher from Fishing Facts Magazine from about 1979. I’m AMAZED you can get 10-13 lb pike out of a tiny stream like that. If guys catch a 2 # pike here in the Cook Co Forest preserves (Chicago) people go ga-ga 😄 Like it was 15# 😁😁😄 P.s. I would’ve caught some perch for a nice meal with the girlfriend or your wife after releasing the pike Good job. Keep up the good work. “ a day out fishing, is a day added to your life “ 2). “Good fishermen fish alone “. Mick Thill
Awesome channel , love your videos, I am going to fish my local river this weekend , and it’s going to be my first time pike fishing, I have experience catching many other species back in South Africa but this will be my first attempt for pike, I have learnt a lot watching your videos, I would like to know what size circle hooks you recommend and what braid are you using? Keep up the great work !
Tell you what your alot braver then me with them treble hooks and handling the pike itself fair play man i need more experience catching them and unhooking ive got the right gear just no idea🤣👌
Brilliant vid again Ginge I gotta say I really like the look of those circle hooks and the fact that they inflict less damage on the pike. Can you tell me what glasses you use please mate. Great channel keep em rollin.
Pike (1960) Ted Hughes Pike, three inches long, perfect Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold. Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin. They dance on the surface among the flies. Or move, stunned by their own grandeur, Over a bed of emerald, silhouette Of submarine delicacy and horror. A hundred feet long in their world. In ponds, under the heat-struck lily pads - Gloom of their stillness: Logged on last year’s black leaves, watching upwards. Or hung in an amber cavern of weeds The jaws’ hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument; The gills kneading quietly, and the pectorals. Three we kept behind glass, Jungled in weed: three inches, four, And four and a half: fed fry to them - Suddenly there were two. Finally one With a sag belly and the grin it was born with. And indeed they spare nobody. Two, six pounds each, over two foot long. High and dry in the willow-herb - One jammed past its gills down the other’s gullet: The outside eye stared: as a vice locks - The same iron in his eye Though its film shrank in death. A pond I fished, fifty yards across, Whose lilies and muscular tench Had outlasted every visible stone Of the monastery that planted them - Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast But silently cast and fished With the hair frozen on my head For what might move, for what eye might move. The still splashes on the dark pond, Owls hushing the floating woods Frail on my ear against the dream Darkness beneath night’s darkness had freed, That rose slowly towards me, watching.
good to see there are TH-cam People, who care about the fish and handle them like they deserve, maybe this skinny guys grows to a Monster! well done!
Right now I walk across two feet of Georgian Bay ice to get my pike . Your shows help get me through the rest of winter until I can cast again ! Thanks Muchacho keep your hook in the water .
The Ginger fisherman and Carl and Alex.. my favourite fishing channels👍
Been binge watching him from when he first started videoing and man he’s quality 💯
Nice catch mate👍🍻 I like your choice of bait. Big bait= big fish. I canoed and fished a Municipal drainage ditch emptying from a large wetland prairie marsh in central Manitoba Canada during mid summer. We saw a large number of big pike but only caught many small 12-24" pike (we call them hammer handles) that strangely, upon hitting would all immediately head straight to the banks. I found out why further up at the control gate where you could see 36"-45"+ fish by the dozens streaming through the shallows, constantly. I found out that small pike were the main food supply for the lunkers and would hide out in the bank reeds to avoid their elders. Number 1 bait for catching the lunkers turned out to be 12-18" pike. They wouldn't even touch large pike lures and bucktails. A local gent I met laughed at my amazement & said this is nothing, he claimed during spring spawn you could walk across the ditch😅. I fear he wasn't exaggerating, I kid you not, it was worthy of a mini-documentary on nature, let alone fishing. The variety and sheer number of birds ducks geese & hawks alone was worth the trip. I went back a couple years later and it was typical prairie dry weather cycle, completely bone dry. Apparently this little known and even less fished marsh is a major but erratic pike breeding area for the Assiniboine River. It's many square miles of marshy maze & very easy to get lost in as channels change drastically with fluctuating water levels & plant growth. Now that GPS is more accurate and reliable, I hope to go back and canoe the marsh before I'm no longer able, & remember to bring a camera along...
Another great upload Chris, thanks.
I've been using small pike as deadbaits since around 1986, when we saved euthanased pike from a trout river in N Ireland. They catch some mighty fine fish!
Your last fish certainly looked heavier than 11lbs!!!!
Hi in from NI. Where do you recommend to catch big pike. I caught my first one today at lough mourne ioutside Carrick and then caught another 3 but were very small. Really enjoyed catching them though. Felt a lot different from trout
The way you take care of these fish is awesome
He killed a small pike only for bait🧐
@@dm1896 he found it already dead he didnt kill it
@@nickcoco34 oh okay sorry. Didnt know that
as much as im a sea fisherman, this fishing is really interesting to watch.
Isn't sea fishing boring?for me fishing on rivers,lakes and other things which are implied in frashwater are 5x better,its more fun,fish are more atractive and for me its you know,you dont have fish which u can't cach,in the sea is really different and in frashwater fish are sweeter and tastier taste,im saying every1 like something but thats just my opinion
Hello fisherman, not only are you a good fisherman but a good man as well, I watched your video when you took care of the pike that you caught, and you helped this fish with some sort of spray which i thought was great helping this good looking pike, a proper good thing to do, keep up your fishing videos. Brother Carl away
What a pretty fish. Has to be my second favourite type of fish after carp! They are awsome
I've never caught a carp but I love the way they look especially like a mirror carp or something. For some reason I find their face and fat belly cute lol.
@David Epic Ok.....weirdo
Your my favourite fishing TH-camr
Good session Chris learning loads you pretending to lick mackerel reminds me of many a drunken Saturday night😂😂😂😂😂
Inspirational vid Chris, both on fish method as well as care for the pike, regards from Belgium going to try freelining myself as well
I don't understand the thumbs down, I'm guessing it's because you used a PIke, not sure if they still do, but bait companies use to farm small jack pike as specialist baits back in the late 90's, I remember a company up north selling them frozen packed in 2's....if you find a dead jack, no point in wasting it, use it, circle of life and all that, its one of the best baits there is for catch large pike... I have, like Chris used every bait you can think of, from rats, dead pigeons, I even caught pike on raw sausages years ago! nice one Chris!!!
New to your channel, great to watch a proper sport fishing person,the way you treat the fish and catch and realize is the way all ppl who fish should act,sickins me when I see Dead fish mutalated on the bank,these ppl are just wrong and warped,best of Irish luck fishing in the Future ☘️🇮🇪
Almost had a heart attack when your bag tipped over thought for sure that was going in the drink 😂 great video my friend *and reflexes* 😂
This is the best catch and release I've ever seen.
We have Chain Pickerel where I live in MD USA. They’re related to Pike but much smaller. That looks like a blast!! You’ve inspired me to get my fishing gear out again. To much bad stuff on the news.
Great Session! Like the way you freelined the bait and observed what was going on.
Pike fishing is so interesting , I have gone for about 7 sessions (all day ) trying to catch a pike with dead bait and a float we planked a few times but we have just caught out first golf pike about 9-10 pound , this is all because me and my brother watch your vids . Keep it up
Nice pikes. Small detail: your chest camera aims to low. Maybe an idea to aim a little higher ?
I don’t think he takes feed back well 😂
I agree
Losers don’t like to learn from others
@@maxpower7721 You calling me a loser?
@@mattiassvanberg9161 are you slow?
Love how you look after the fish.
Congrats on 50k subs, dude! Well deserved.. love your content 💪🎣
Another good video Chris 👍👍.
You never strike when using Circle hooks, just tighten down . I had a right bollocking off a skipper whilst Tope fishing, we'd been out for a few hours and had nothing, I got a good run and in the excitement I struck, only to pull the bait from its mouth. Haven't done it since 🙈🙈🙈👍👍
I Like the way the first big pike hung around for a second or two when you put him back,
as if he was saying....Fanks for spraying me wounds mate :O)
I think it was just trying to get a little water back in itself lol
Bin watching you for a wile now you smash the editing n got confidence in front of camera that's what i find hard Haha guna sub mate
Im still getting used to it after nearlly 9 years haha
Interesting video again.
That first big one looked like she had been a bigger fish, judging by the size of her head anyway, maybe had lost a bit of weight and condition due to that old mouth injury, but certainly looking better now. Thanks for sharing your session and keep up the good work.
Cheers
Just brilliant Chris another Pike masterclass good angling bud.Just excellent bank side care and husbandry top notch I really wish people would follow your un hooking and care of the fish.Just wondered if you knew a top old piker back in the day called Clive Lovedale caught a 39lb Pike on a 5lb Pike Livebait in Knipton .He like you was very observant and noticed on a lure session many jack's 5/6lb had big bite marks on them.He made a rig up and upgraded all the standard kit to catch the big one.I believe he used a gaff to land the fish under the chin un harmed.All the best stay safe.Tony
Clive Loveland 1967 Knipton Reservoir 39 lb Pike on a pike Livebait
Now that's what we call here in the States a honey hole. wow I wish I had me a place nearby I could catch pike like that, great catch and video. 👍
The most important parts of fishing are to respect the fish and their treatment as much as possible in fishing context and respect the waterways, clean up after yourself and remove any waste/rubbish you find from previous idiots! I always check over fish I catch, remove any parasites and treat any wounds and ALWAYS take home any rubbish/ discarded tackle I find. If all of us fishermen do this we’ll have healthy fish stock and healthy waters ! Like your videos 👍
I just ordered a savage gear 3d pike to throw around. Thanks for showing us those circle hooks so much better. Cheers
Thats a massive pike. Wow congrats. Ive yet to catch one. 32 years old. Walleye my biggest was 4 inch baby thats it. Ive always wanted to catch a monster pike
What's going on Ginger Fisherman! New subscribers here! Those were some Nice Pike you caught with that Pike bait you rigged up! That's what I'm talkin about! Great video man! Keep on getting down!
Thanks mate!
The people who dislike this video catch trophy size sticks. Great day of fishing bud I enjoyed watching it awesome catch
G'day from Australia, great video, SUBSCRIBED! :)
Gosh I love fishing with dead bait. It makes me feel like it's even more effective than live bait! Caught my pb Zander (maybe 3-4kg) on one. And some pike of course.
Can depend on time of year and how active the pike are..
Hey man nice video. Just a bit of TH-cam amusement, if you turn on the c captions from 9.30 onwards you get applauds as you lift the fish out of the water.
Pike fight best during the late summer. Taking spinners and plugs with great enthusiasm. Winter pike fishing is by comparison a dire affair. Fish when the fish are feeding!!!
Top vid that. You have some great waters where you are. Here in Manchester, there are a few decent waters but no real decent rivers. The river Irwell behind my house has a few but they are well spread out. Always enjoy your vids, keep it up.
Small pike are a favourite food for large pike! They keep the numbers of small pike down, which is better for the other species in the river (or lake).
Great vid, you make it look so easy. Thanks for sharing 🖒🖒🖒
Hey love your videos some days ago I got subscribed...GOD BLESS YOU SIR SIR !
Lovely video again. Please don't stop with this videos
What a legend!!!! Awesome 🙌 absolute it counts
i tell you what you must have the greatest eyes in the universe to see fish in that detail from that far ////
I remember catching a 4lb pike and as i got it near the bank a huge pike that looked about 30lb plus grabbed it and made a huge swirl and took it right out, i couldn't stop it, was like a train, spent about 3/4 of an hour playing it, then it dived with the pike so deep and snapped my line, was amazed. I just caught a 27lb one that morning, that felt like a 40lb do'er. I then caught another jack about 3 and half and used as bait, had to throw it out as couldn't cast with that weight. Big pike are ruthless haha.
Once read an article many years ago by TV personality Chris Tarrant. Don't remember the exact details but he recalled having once caught quite a large pike in an Irish lake trolling with a 3lbs jack
Amazing! That second pike dint wanna leave ya after u took care of its old wound.....
Great fishing mate 👍 I fish the same tackle and methods 💯 love the vids just starting to get through them lol an try some lamprey eel for monster pike
Nice pike good to see a healthy pike fishery sadly all my local waters have drastically declined due mainly to cormorants
Another enjoyable display of skill, knowledge and enthusiasm! Glad I'm not a fish when the Ginger Fisherman is out and about... ;-)
Beautiful color
Nice video! Here in Holland people would complain if you would use pike as bait.
Perfekt to watch now during snowseason here upnorth Sweden ! i do enjoy my angling with deadbaits not in smaller streams but rivers good fu n !what is that a 9-10f rod ? i need to buy some lighter tackle 12-13f is rather large for fishing freelined on . Good fun that ! Thx Ginger ! 7/ PAul
nice catch there.... no one wants to mention the elephant in the room?
that background music this time is crazy lol.....) good video as always.
use other songs by the group!
Don't blame the hooks Chris, its the same as someone says blaming the tools for doing a bad job 😂
Très jolie démonstration , mon ami ! Tu as de la chance d'avoir une rivière aussi riche en brochet !! Bravo superbe démonstration de pêche.
Nice. And if you continues using the new pike for catch another bigger one and successively, finally you will caught the bigger pike of the universe, biggest than our planet maybe... Will wait for it
It seems like going to fish market. Such a density of fishes I've never seen before. I envy you. Nice channel. Keep going!
Great video.
I'm gonna give pike fishing a go in a month or so.
I've never done it and will probably try spinning.
Personally, I'd never use a livebait, I just don't like the idea of it.
I also would never use a course deadbait either, I never kill any fish.
I'd buy sea fish from the local Mozzers to try deadbaiting.
Anyway, these vids are great and certainly fill me with the hope that I might be able to break my pike duck :)
Don't think you need big baits for big pike. I caught my PB 3 months ago (Although small compared to many other's PBS, 16.5lb measuring 78cm from top to bottom. Caught on the smallest spinner I own on the lightest rod (5-10g) I own, Was literally packing up after a day with only 1 pike strike breach on a top water mouse previously and no other fish. Just wanted a couple of small perch so I could go home happy. Thought I got caught in weed as the fish didn't fight at all and felt just like a dead weight.
Also you mentioned not dead baiting because you don't want to kill the fish, that's fair enough. Sometimes things happen though. I've had dead fish float down the river which i've managed to net and use, i've also had a greedy perch that insisted on swallowing hooks so deep it's irretrievable. In these cases, You may feel it better to use the fish to your advantage rather than simply throwing it back
Very nice and a great Session
Back in '64, several obnoxious Michigan woodchucks who all claimed to be gamblers named Earl enjoying a four day combination sightseeing tour of Hamtramck and re-enactment of the Peloponnesian Wars encased me in concrete and killed me. I sure miss fishing.
You are a real pro pike hunter! Awesome vid. Cheerse mate and tight lines! 🤝
Another great video bud , what Polaroid glasses would you recommend ?
You should keep doing stuff like this and especially filming it, your good at it!
Thanks for the show :)) very good
awesome fishing as always those pike were top notch.
Enjoyed that one Ginge the content was great.
Which wader are these that you're wearing. They look really thick and long-lasting...
Love your content...can you please let me know the name of the stuff you spray on injured fish to help promote healing...nice to help nature
Nice and interesting! I live in France, and it's forbidden to use small pikes as baits. We have legal minimum sizes to keep them (from 50cm to 70cm in general, depending of the place). Some small rivers with wild trouts don't have those minimal legal sizes, as pikes as considered detrimental/invasive species in those small streams. BUT in this case, it's forbidden to use them as baits. Best regards from FrogsLand ;).
Cool vid mate, especially the way you take care of your catch, excellent 🙂
You deserve more followers💪🏻
Nice pike mate great sess, but how you managed to fish that spot its all fenced off , i always assumed it was a no fishing area just off g@@s@@oor l@@@ next to the bridge ?
Well done for looking after the fish so well. Don't tell anyone the whereabouts of your captures, you don't want the fish thieves moving in.....
What electronic scales do u use. Thanks. Keep up with the awesome vid. Ive subscribed))
Just ordered some circle hooks Chris. I'll let you know how I get on. A couple of lovely ladies you had there.
Hi let us all know how you get on with them bud ie what make,size,cost and results cheers.Tony
I’ve seen my mate do well on them aswell I don’t feel confident myself
You will not use anything else after trying circle hooks. great hookup rate and it is so easy to unhook fish, mostly hooked in the scissors.
I have been using them since watching Chris’s under water footage and had lots of success once you get used to not striking hard like with trebles. Wind down and very gently lift and in the scissor 100% of the time, in my experience anyway.
@@itsmoyzehh3873 I didn’t either but have got more faith in circle hooks than a double treble now
When I first turned this on the sound was off, for the first few seconds I thought I was watching the current world heavyweight boxing champ enjoying a day away from the ring. Enjoyed the video though.
I love how much care you take for those beautiful creatures. What spray is that?
WD-40
@@menneer get on somewhere else, troll.
Is that spray a liquid form of klinik a gel antiseptic
Great video and fish you have caught Chris!
Great video! You make it look so easy!
hi mate! Can you send me a link which sprey you use for disinfection? I will need it for my lovely bronw Trout, Cheers buddy. Thank you
lovely footage well done sir
We call that a “ quick strike rig” by Joe Bucher from Fishing Facts Magazine from about 1979.
I’m AMAZED you can get 10-13 lb pike out of a tiny stream like that.
If guys catch a 2 # pike here in the Cook Co Forest preserves (Chicago) people go ga-ga 😄 Like it was 15# 😁😁😄
P.s. I would’ve caught some perch for a nice meal with the girlfriend or your wife after releasing the pike
Good job. Keep up the good work.
“ a day out fishing, is a day added to your life “
2). “Good fishermen fish alone “. Mick Thill
Quality fish ! well done. Your videos are always great
Literally a crocodile of the fish world!. If you had to unhook by hand is there a glove you could recommend that is impervious to the teeth?
I’m trying this asap. Awesome!
Great video Chris 👍
You're a legend man. Love these videos 😉
Beautiful, big and fighting Pikes :) I like it
how to look for that hook removel in amazon
what was that spray you used and what does it do?
Awesome channel , love your videos, I am going to fish my local river this weekend , and it’s going to be my first time pike fishing, I have experience catching many other species back in South Africa but this will be my first attempt for pike, I have learnt a lot watching your videos, I would like to know what size circle hooks you recommend and what braid are you using? Keep up the great work !
Did you have much luck?
What was that for a spray for the wound?
Tell you what your alot braver then me with them treble hooks and handling the pike itself fair play man i need more experience catching them and unhooking ive got the right gear just no idea🤣👌
What a crazy little river, full of pikes.
What net are you using ? I’m looking for something to for the canal this winter and that looks perfect.
It's an advanta one I think, angling directs own brand, very good 👌
Pause at 2.29. Abu Garcia 🧐
Brilliant vid again Ginge I gotta say I really like the look of those circle hooks and the fact that they inflict less damage on the pike. Can you tell me what glasses you use please mate. Great channel keep em rollin.
Pike (1960)
Ted Hughes
Pike, three inches long, perfect
Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold.
Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.
They dance on the surface among the flies.
Or move, stunned by their own grandeur,
Over a bed of emerald, silhouette
Of submarine delicacy and horror.
A hundred feet long in their world.
In ponds, under the heat-struck lily pads -
Gloom of their stillness:
Logged on last year’s black leaves, watching upwards.
Or hung in an amber cavern of weeds
The jaws’ hooked clamp and fangs
Not to be changed at this date;
A life subdued to its instrument;
The gills kneading quietly, and the pectorals.
Three we kept behind glass,
Jungled in weed: three inches, four,
And four and a half: fed fry to them -
Suddenly there were two. Finally one
With a sag belly and the grin it was born with.
And indeed they spare nobody.
Two, six pounds each, over two foot long.
High and dry in the willow-herb -
One jammed past its gills down the other’s gullet:
The outside eye stared: as a vice locks -
The same iron in his eye
Though its film shrank in death.
A pond I fished, fifty yards across,
Whose lilies and muscular tench
Had outlasted every visible stone
Of the monastery that planted them -
Stilled legendary depth:
It was as deep as England. It held
Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old
That past nightfall I dared not cast
But silently cast and fished
With the hair frozen on my head
For what might move, for what eye might move.
The still splashes on the dark pond,
Owls hushing the floating woods
Frail on my ear against the dream
Darkness beneath night’s darkness had freed,
That rose slowly towards me, watching.