The best video out there demonstrating this!!!! Every pike in the country thanks you dear sir!!!! We need information on how to get a teddy pike from please
Thanks. This one was a gift, but I believe they cost £250 to make because they're hand made and take a lot of time. I remember when soft toy carp first came about - someone had one commisioned to remember their PB catch, using the photo. Cost went from £80 to make down to £30 once the demand went up, so there's hope. If you still really want one, give me a shout via the Fishwish website contact details and I'll try and put Alex Fraser in touch with you. Where you based?
A great video and amazing how much effort you've put into this coaching tool. All of this however is why I don't fish for them anymore! I got good at looking after them but I had a moment where I was straddling a pike that I just thought, this isn't for me!
Thanks Joe and nice to hear from you. All the credit goes to Alex Fraser for making Gert. I don't do much dead baiting for pike anymore either but that's not because of any extra risk that I think it poses to the fish - I just enjoy lots of other types of fishing. If it rolls in the net with snap tackle and a flying treble goes into the fish or the net, things can get messy and last winter I saw a fish get blinded in one eye - the angler was absolutely gutted. But...I think it's a bit of a wormhole as you could say you're not going to cast a line to anything on this basis. Done properly, I don't think you're subjecting any more risk to a pike with deadbaits, than you are to other fish, using other methods. They can all be done badly and even with best approach, we are at risk of causing stress, damage or fatality to a fish unintentionally. Like when every returned roach that has to run the gauntlet past pike when a net is emptied, which they would otherwise avoid. Or a tiny trout getting temperature shock from being held in a cold wet hand. I almost gave up fishing when a carp got hooked in the eye once. A freak accident at a venue that was far too heavily stocked. Sorry, I'm going off on one - I just feel that we are trying so hard to minimalise these risks with best practice and fish welfare in mind, that some people forget...or deny that they are putting fish under stress for their own pleasure. The saving grace is that we feed them, protect them, create and protect their habitats, and no longer bash everything we catch on the head and eat it. Well most of us, most of the time, anyway! Although Isaac Walton cooked a mean bream 🤮
Think this is brilliant and will be sharing it with the local younger guys who pike fish on the Tiverton canal. Any advice on handling deep hooked Jack pike caught accidentally on match tackle. 🙏
Thanks Chris - those canal pike need all the help they can get if the Tiverton is anything like the Bridgwater and Taunton. Not had many small jacks on light match gear as they normally bite me off, but on the odd occassion that I have, I slip a single finger under the gill plate to open the mouth and try to get a disgorger to it, using the other hand. If I thought they might be a persistent problem, I'd use a hook pattern with a claw point (as opposed to a straight one more typical of a maggot hook) - much easier to remove the claw shape with a correctly matched nylon disgorger as it masks the point on the exit. Always amazes me when I see match angers with only one size of disgorger. I guess for bigger jacks, you'd need a disgorger extension! When I've taken groups onto the canal to fish specifically for jacks, I use bunches of lobworm on a large single hook, tied to 8lb Surestrand American Fishing Wire (or similar) under a big chubber float - catch more tench than we do perch and jacks! So much for worm and caster on fine line.
Great little education film for ALL Pike anglers not just newbies. However watching this isn’t it time we ditched the trebles and go for barbless singles? After all trebles were used for keeping fish to eat including Pike back in the day. Moving forward it’s easier removing single hooks barbed or de barbed and much kinder to the fish. I see Circle inline singles the best way forward?
@@petermitchell421 Thanks Peter. I believe there’s good examples now of circles getting stuck in stomachs so I’m not sold on them. I agree that trebles can be a huge problem - especially barbed ones, but big singles can do huge damage too. I’ve never quite understood why someone doesn’t bring out a style of treble where two of the points are effectively harmless - just attaching bait and presenting a well positioned single point. Invariably, when I’ve used trebles, one point is in the dead bait, one point is laying flat on the DB, and the third is only one showing. With singles and doubles I’ve had them end up flat against the bait. Not that I do much dead baiting these days…
@@steveparker1240 Alex Fraser made quite a few for Pike Anglers Club regional representatives so I reckon your best first port of call would be Pike Anglers Club, but let me know if it doesn’t lead to anything and I’ll ask Alex to give you a shout.
Great Video Charlie. Very informative. Brilliant!
The best video out there demonstrating this!!!! Every pike in the country thanks you dear sir!!!! We need information on how to get a teddy pike from please
Thanks. This one was a gift, but I believe they cost £250 to make because they're hand made and take a lot of time. I remember when soft toy carp first came about - someone had one commisioned to remember their PB catch, using the photo. Cost went from £80 to make down to £30 once the demand went up, so there's hope. If you still really want one, give me a shout via the Fishwish website contact details and I'll try and put Alex Fraser in touch with you. Where you based?
A great video and amazing how much effort you've put into this coaching tool.
All of this however is why I don't fish for them anymore! I got good at looking after them but I had a moment where I was straddling a pike that I just thought, this isn't for me!
Thanks Joe and nice to hear from you. All the credit goes to Alex Fraser for making Gert. I don't do much dead baiting for pike anymore either but that's not because of any extra risk that I think it poses to the fish - I just enjoy lots of other types of fishing. If it rolls in the net with snap tackle and a flying treble goes into the fish or the net, things can get messy and last winter I saw a fish get blinded in one eye - the angler was absolutely gutted. But...I think it's a bit of a wormhole as you could say you're not going to cast a line to anything on this basis. Done properly, I don't think you're subjecting any more risk to a pike with deadbaits, than you are to other fish, using other methods. They can all be done badly and even with best approach, we are at risk of causing stress, damage or fatality to a fish unintentionally. Like when every returned roach that has to run the gauntlet past pike when a net is emptied, which they would otherwise avoid. Or a tiny trout getting temperature shock from being held in a cold wet hand. I almost gave up fishing when a carp got hooked in the eye once. A freak accident at a venue that was far too heavily stocked. Sorry, I'm going off on one - I just feel that we are trying so hard to minimalise these risks with best practice and fish welfare in mind, that some people forget...or deny that they are putting fish under stress for their own pleasure. The saving grace is that we feed them, protect them, create and protect their habitats, and no longer bash everything we catch on the head and eat it. Well most of us, most of the time, anyway! Although Isaac Walton cooked a mean bream 🤮
Awesome video! 🔥
Thanks for taking the time to leave the kind comment
Great watch
Thanks Ian
this is crazy bro really made a pike
Her name is Gert
The key fob is a great idea
@@James-bristol thanks for commenting on that James. Not my idea, but I agree.
very instructive video. More liike this please, eg, what type of net. thanks again Michael
Hi Michael, Looking at making a vid on nets this weekend. Did you mean specifically for pike or net choice in general? Thanks
@Fishwish mostly for pike but would be good to touch on the subject as a whole
Think this is brilliant and will be sharing it with the local younger guys who pike fish on the Tiverton canal.
Any advice on handling deep hooked Jack pike caught accidentally on match tackle. 🙏
Thanks Chris - those canal pike need all the help they can get if the Tiverton is anything like the Bridgwater and Taunton. Not had many small jacks on light match gear as they normally bite me off, but on the odd occassion that I have, I slip a single finger under the gill plate to open the mouth and try to get a disgorger to it, using the other hand. If I thought they might be a persistent problem, I'd use a hook pattern with a claw point (as opposed to a straight one more typical of a maggot hook) - much easier to remove the claw shape with a correctly matched nylon disgorger as it masks the point on the exit. Always amazes me when I see match angers with only one size of disgorger. I guess for bigger jacks, you'd need a disgorger extension! When I've taken groups onto the canal to fish specifically for jacks, I use bunches of lobworm on a large single hook, tied to 8lb Surestrand American Fishing Wire (or similar) under a big chubber float - catch more tench than we do perch and jacks! So much for worm and caster on fine line.
Great little education film for ALL Pike anglers not just newbies. However watching this isn’t it time we ditched the trebles and go for barbless singles? After all trebles were used for keeping fish to eat including Pike back in the day. Moving forward it’s easier removing single hooks barbed or de barbed and much kinder to the fish. I see Circle inline singles the best way forward?
@@petermitchell421 Thanks Peter. I believe there’s good examples now of circles getting stuck in stomachs so I’m not sold on them. I agree that trebles can be a huge problem - especially barbed ones, but big singles can do huge damage too. I’ve never quite understood why someone doesn’t bring out a style of treble where two of the points are effectively harmless - just attaching bait and presenting a well positioned single point. Invariably, when I’ve used trebles, one point is in the dead bait, one point is laying flat on the DB, and the third is only one showing. With singles and doubles I’ve had them end up flat against the bait. Not that I do much dead baiting these days…
Where can we get the pike used in this video from
@@steveparker1240 Alex Fraser made quite a few for Pike Anglers Club regional representatives so I reckon your best first port of call would be Pike Anglers Club, but let me know if it doesn’t lead to anything and I’ll ask Alex to give you a shout.