Now then, can you imagine, a decent pike on a small catfish deadbait and, a decent catfish on a small pike deadbait; in the same session? Now there's a challenge lad. 😊
@@Jensonallen23 You're absolutely right except I'm only 70. But I will ask one of my grandchildren what the low taper fade reference is all about. Thanks 😊
One of the best fishing youtuber on TH-cam and you teach so much.Snag bro you guys need to take notes 😂😂 Always look forward to watching your new videos. tight lines mate.
Excellent vid Chris. All those Pike were amazing colours and camo. And they fought well too. 🎣🙂 Thanks for all your great videos this year. I'm looking forward to seeing what 2025 brings you. Best wishes to you and your family mate. 🙂
Wanna tell you sommething about pike. When I was young we had a big caravan on a big lake. And one day I was walking with my friend next to the big lake. And we saw A HUGE pike lying in the water next to the road. We only saw his back and it was so thick as our labrador dog. This must have been a gigantic pike. We where not allouwd to swim in the big lake , but we did it annyway. But from the moment we saw that monsterpike we didnt dare to swim annymore in the big lake .... We where both stunned. He must have been much MUCH longer than 120 cm.
Watching you being annoyed by "small" pikes that you were catching, while im sitting home right now, came back from my 6th, 5+ hours trip for pike on live bait and still no bite...... im crying. You are living in the greates, most bountyfull areas for fishing ever.
The condition of that catfish is the reason I don't ever use live or dead real bait. Yup. Artificial's for me.. all the way! You'll be washing your hands for weeks and still smell that thing! Your rigging always intrigues me as well. Although I used to fish mainly for bass, now I mostly fish with ultra lite and Super Ultra Lite gear in the Southern portion of The United States, so I don't use or have any knowledge of those types of things. As always, enjoyed your video. Have a blessed Christmas.
Would love to see a circle hook experiment with the dead baits, obviously they are the safest for the fish but I wonder if you would miss a lot of bites
Can't understand why you don't have the landing net fully opened. I know it's a pain when you are mobile on a river to have it opened when moving between swims but would be beyond annoying if you got something 20 plus and couldn't utilise the net as it wasn't properly open and the swim makes it difficult to chin her out for whatever reason. Not having a pop, you obviously know what you are doing but if it was me that would be my concern. I always have the net fully opened. Been using a Korum Pike spoon net by the way for a couple of seasons. That doesn't fold once on the pole but net can be secured with magnets / small cable ties to landing net pole to.make less cumbersome when roaming a river. Tight lines and merry Christmas all you pike nuts.
Chris - Catfish as bait is a new one on me - well done for trying something 'different'. I would just like to ask though - when unhooking the Pike caught on the Catfish, I find it odd that you used wire cutters to unhook the fish rather than the long nosed pliers alongside you? Wire cutters are used to cut the hooks / trace, and there is an audible 'snap' before you retrieved the 'hooks'? Can you advise why you chose to unhook a pike with wire cutters rather than pliers / forceps...
@@The_ginger_fisherman Chris - fair enough - yet the Pike you unhooked at 10:13 in your video was with a different set of pliers as opposed to those laying on the floor at 14:50 in your video? - this means you had 2 sets of pliers with which to extract the hook - and that audible 'click' at 14:49 is of a hook being cut.
@@Noah-jn8xb Maybe watch the video - 'Pliers seized?' - he used a different set to unhook the 8lb er which means a second set was available. Maybe if you knew anything about fishing and stopped being a little starry eyed sheep, you might learn something.
@@Boxersboy-um1fd just a video mate, the pike was unhooked safely and it looks very much like your telling him how to unhook a fish yet he's probs twice the angler you are. Stop reading into it so much and enjoy the video.
Well done lad.., 👏👏👏.. Love the video, s... Missing fishing in the UK.. I grew up there.. ❤ I'm in Spain now 16+yrs.. Delta Ebro ❤❤❤❤. Big catfish tuna.. got me... 😁🤣🤣🤣.. Old school... Not doing u tube.. 🤫🤦😁,. Fan only.. subscribe now after the yrs watching.. 💪👍.. Big fish sports.. check out lampola, cataluna. 😮😅😊.. Id love to have a day with you.. Help you get a great video.. As long as you don't put me in front of the camera..😂😅.
Your fish care is exceptional. A good example to all people who fish. All the best Pete 🎣
what the fuck are you talking about? Hes been going straight for the gills in the last video.
Now then, can you imagine, a decent pike on a small catfish deadbait and, a decent catfish on a small pike deadbait; in the same session? Now there's a challenge lad. 😊
You know what else you could imagine
@@Jensonallen23 You're absolutely right except I'm only 70. But I will ask one of my grandchildren what the low taper fade reference is all about. Thanks 😊
Ha ha ha, I've just looked it up. I've got a haircut just like that only mine's got a solar panel 😆
No other video notification makes smile as much as yours. Merry Xmas from Sweden.
Great session Chris!! loved the blurred-out bum shot too ;)
You make this fishing game look so easy. Great session👍👍
Snagged Bro.. take notes 😂
Yes, I agree with you 💯%
Snagged Bro... Double only 😂😂😂
Snagged Bro don’t use deadbaits……….”its not proper pike fishing ” 👍👍😂😂
One of the best fishing youtuber on TH-cam and you teach so much.Snag bro you guys need to take notes 😂😂
Always look forward to watching your new videos.
tight lines mate.
Thx again Chris 👏👏
All the best to you and the 'ever growing ' family 🥳🥳🥳
When you sniffed that packet I gagged with you 😂😂
Tremendous Chris! As always great river craft! Hope you have a great Christmas!
Cheers, Chris. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Excellent vid Chris. All those Pike were amazing colours and camo. And they fought well too. 🎣🙂 Thanks for all your great videos this year. I'm looking forward to seeing what 2025 brings you. Best wishes to you and your family mate. 🙂
Wanna tell you sommething about pike. When I was young we had a big caravan on a big lake. And one day I was walking with my friend next to the big lake. And we saw A HUGE pike lying in the water next to the road. We only saw his back and it was so thick as our labrador dog. This must have been a gigantic pike. We where not allouwd to swim in the big lake , but we did it annyway. But from the moment we saw that monsterpike we didnt dare to swim annymore in the big lake .... We where both stunned. He must have been much MUCH longer than 120 cm.
Another fantastic video Chris, I wish you and your family a very merry Christmas and a happy new year
Well done on all of the pike. 🐟🎣 Have a good fishmas.🎄🎁 Great vid as always.
Happy Christmas to you and your family. Thank you for the wonderful video footage during the year. ❤ 👍 🎅
Snagged Bro.. double only 😂😂😂
Happy n great Christmas to you Chris n family all the best mate. 👌Steve 👌n tight lines always
Love your videos
I nearly honked up when you sniffed that bag! Eeeuuuuueeeeeeeeeewwww!!!!!!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family 🎉🎄. Great video 👍
Merry Chrimbo Ginger, and tight lines for 25!
Really great watch - thanks
Watching you being annoyed by "small" pikes that you were catching, while im sitting home right now, came back from my 6th, 5+ hours trip for pike on live bait and still no bite...... im crying. You are living in the greates, most bountyfull areas for fishing ever.
Hello!
Merry Christmas from Hungary!🎄
The condition of that catfish is the reason I don't ever use live or dead real bait. Yup. Artificial's for me.. all the way! You'll be washing your hands for weeks and still smell that thing! Your rigging always intrigues me as well. Although I used to fish mainly for bass, now I mostly fish with ultra lite and Super Ultra Lite gear in the Southern portion of The United States, so I don't use or have any knowledge of those types of things. As always, enjoyed your video. Have a blessed Christmas.
chris you really should gotta go catfishing once i never seen you caught one before👍awesome video as always btw🎣
Nice video Chris!
Hope you will make a big lure video catching pike (jerkbaits, swimbaits and big softbaits).
Im from Holland,that is proper fishin love watchin the Ginger Beard
Merry Christmas Chris, thank you for your expert content. I would like to see a book written by you one day.
I use live catfish to catch giant snakeheads in thailand,they can't resit them.
I've got a few Hardy dead bait spinners on Ebay with wire tracers and 2 trebble hooks, they're also weighted.
Great Video👌Merry Christmas to you and your family.🌲🌲
Love the video
amazing angling ginge. makes me wanna start predatory fishing
Good stuff Chris! Have a great Christmas 🎄
Enhorabuena por las capturas y siempre captura y suelta un gran saludo 🤠🤟
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas with the family Chris ..
👏🏼👏🏼 well done on the fish protection
Hi have a great Christmas and a great new year keep up with the great video blogs very useful
Yeah,next bait on session is?Cocdrillo G.Merry Christmas🤣
It's not just a catfish, it's a Wels catfish. In France, they can grow up to nearly 3 meters.
Hi Chris, I think you need to sharpen your knife.........and have a nice Christmas and a happy newyear.
Good fishing. Some very nice pike too
Have you fished for pike in lough erne before? Over the winter it'd be a decent spot to try a big bait like that whole catfish
A proper fun bit of experi-mental fishing, Chris.
I'd like to see you catch a Chub on the fly rod. Can it be done???
I've seen 7lb chub caught on the fly, never tried myself though.
You make it look easy, Merry Christmas.
I never thought Id be catfished by a catfish. almost spat my dinner out when you pulled that thing out of its bag
it got eaten, you mean :)
Sick bro.
Brilliant content merry Christmas mate.
Would love to see a circle hook experiment with the dead baits, obviously they are the safest for the fish but I wonder if you would miss a lot of bites
🎉nice session
Look at it's face 😂😂.
What BRAND and MODEL is your landingnet?
You so should have held it up like you caught it and tricked us haha. 😅
"it got ate"? Come on man you're better than that.
Nice one Chris, but may I please point out its Box standard not ‘Bog’
Thanks buddy! But it's definitely bog-standard 😅
Bog standard is much more common in usage, but here is no right or wrong version
blurred out the crack 🤣
Ich habe die Mülltonne rausgestellt und sie wurde geleert. 😂
Nice pike!
When is that Sean guy coming back. He was amazing
Merry christmas to you and the whole family
.tight lines in 2025
Can't understand why you don't have the landing net fully opened.
I know it's a pain when you are mobile on a river to have it opened when moving between swims but would be beyond annoying if you got something 20 plus and couldn't utilise the net as it wasn't properly open and the swim makes it difficult to chin her out for whatever reason.
Not having a pop, you obviously know what you are doing but if it was me that would be my concern. I always have the net fully opened.
Been using a Korum Pike spoon net by the way for a couple of seasons. That doesn't fold once on the pole but net can be secured with magnets / small cable ties to landing net pole to.make less cumbersome when roaming a river.
Tight lines and merry Christmas all you pike nuts.
You should go fishing for Wels catfish
Chris - Catfish as bait is a new one on me - well done for trying something 'different'.
I would just like to ask though - when unhooking the Pike caught on the Catfish, I find it odd that you used wire cutters to unhook the fish rather than the long nosed pliers alongside you?
Wire cutters are used to cut the hooks / trace, and there is an audible 'snap' before you retrieved the 'hooks'?
Can you advise why you chose to unhook a pike with wire cutters rather than pliers / forceps...
@@Boxersboy-um1fd my heavy duty long nose pliers had seized up so I used the cutters to grab the shank of the hook to twist it out 👍
Stop being a jobsworth. Your at it on every comment 😂.
@@The_ginger_fisherman Chris - fair enough - yet the Pike you unhooked at 10:13 in your video was with a different set of pliers as opposed to those laying on the floor at 14:50 in your video? - this means you had 2 sets of pliers with which to extract the hook - and that audible 'click' at 14:49 is of a hook being cut.
@@Noah-jn8xb Maybe watch the video - 'Pliers seized?' - he used a different set to unhook the 8lb er which means a second set was available.
Maybe if you knew anything about fishing and stopped being a little starry eyed sheep, you might learn something.
@@Boxersboy-um1fd just a video mate, the pike was unhooked safely and it looks very much like your telling him how to unhook a fish yet he's probs twice the angler you are. Stop reading into it so much and enjoy the video.
Is it the land and the water the farmer owns or just the land we can't be on..
Catfish the best fighting fish in the uk
Wels catfish?
I can smell that catfish from across the ocean.
Dress up like santa and do an Xmas day session lol 🎅 🐟
Under 1000 likes gang
can u try to fish with live bait ?
I wish you hadn't used that catfish. I nearly brought up my mince pie and I'm sure I now have a mild case of PTSD. Yukk!
*GOT EATEN 😅
Or an otter....Old wound
In the great experiment of life
Catfish tails
The head would catch as well.
Have a gud un...with ur family...
😂I am subscription. Awhile
Try fishing whit a 30-40 cm bream maybe u will catch the king
Idk if you have any in close proximity but if possible you should try to catch your first catfish in 2025
Nutta
thats mad
Well done lad.., 👏👏👏..
Love the video, s...
Missing fishing in the UK..
I grew up there.. ❤
I'm in Spain now 16+yrs..
Delta Ebro ❤❤❤❤.
Big catfish tuna.. got me... 😁🤣🤣🤣..
Old school... Not doing u tube.. 🤫🤦😁,.
Fan only.. subscribe now after the yrs watching.. 💪👍..
Big fish sports.. check out lampola, cataluna. 😮😅😊..
Id love to have a day with you..
Help you get a great video..
As long as you don't put me in front of the camera..😂😅.
Why aren't you using them circle hooks, and your using them horrible treble hooks, jus a thought
Illegal knife
Unless a magistrate could be persuaded that using it for fishing was a reasonable justification for carrying it. A bit of a gamble, though.
Nothing wrong with it as he's fishing.
Different scenario if he's walking through a town centre with no intentions of fishing......
@@stewillo86 surely be safer to use scissors knives are illegal for a reason
@@stewillo86 and what if happened to lose it by accident and it got into the wrong hands 🙃
@@NickyBaytonthe chance of some chavvy little nurk finding it out in the countryside miles from the nearest McDonald’s strikes me as highly unlikely
Eaten not ate. Dumbing down is ruining TH-cam. Unsubbed.
Hi gingerfisherman can you send me some fishing gear pls mate cause I haven't been able to get some as I've just come out of hospital
Get your own! 😂😂😂
He takes excellent care of the fish but dont like how thumbnail looks like live fish- some scumbag would do it.
What landing net is that your using i need a decent one as mines now dead 😂 thanks
Eaten.