Northern pike are a top-level predator of fresh waters, and a popular species to fish for. This video discusses the biology of the northern pike, spawning activity, and how to catch a pike with fishing tackle.
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Very informative, general info. Own footage. Solid delivery. Well done.
is braided light line good for fishing??
Freshwater Barracuda
I’d love to see a video like this about lake trout or walleye
Pike are really just fresh water Baracuda!
Very informative!…
I’ll admit I’m a steelhead snob..pike are fun and easy to catch…always fun
Great video! Would love more videos like this on different species.
Got a 23 and 7 8ths northern off the breakeall the other day in michigan.
Nice video!
I love pike, great fight and good to eat if prepared properly, tough to clean for me. I always use mepps as a lure
Great video
Wtf?..pike-cancer?.
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omfg… That release at the 37 second mark had me bricked up, so sexy.
How to distinguish which fish is female and which is male??
Hope we don’t overfish these guys.. it might be the land of 10,000 lakes but I’ve noticed a decrease. My grandpa used to tell me that they used to gather fisherman to fish certain lakes near brainard and fish as many as they could within a weekend to stop them from eating all smaller walleye. They would catch so many they would use them to make fertilizer for their farms. After pickling a choice few of course.
Few things make me happier than having a pickerel or pike come off the hook. This family of fish has no chill and unhooking trebles from them is just a sketchy process when they keep struggling.
Pike have very sharp teeth so wire leaders are good.
how did u get those ai pics in their there awsome
Back in the 50s and 60s we would vacation in Little Current Ontario, my dad like to troll for Pike in the North Channel, back then it was lamphery marks that were the bane of pike, I remember the thrill of catching one even at the age of 7 or 8
Caught pike in Canada on fingernail clippers, I was bored
Such an amazing video
Absolutely love your videos. Not a fan of the weird ai art you use sometimes though lol 😅 not that it’s bad (which it is) it is also just unethical lol I’d ask that you don’t keep using them but you do you and I will keep watching either way 🙂
Caught a 105cm 8kg pike today
Thanks for the concise break down of pike habits and habitats 👍
I hate pike! Many years fishing walleye in northern Quebec and they were a real pain in the ass. Constantly catch them and need to reel them in a toss them back…..they are as annoying as getting constant snags except full of teeth and slime. No point keeping them, full of bones, pain to clean and taste like a wet sock.
Hello, great video. It's interesting to see how people fish for pike around the world. I live in Finland and here we most often troll for pike and use metal leaders, also my friend taught me a way to grip pike. You take your hand and slide it under the gill and that allows for a good grip.
But we use the same lutes you use exept the topwater frogs.
You mad ? This is not devises this Wass one bite by lamprey wiils , lern beffore make this video
This was good video! Thank you
Pike make great aquarium fish … you need about 200g tank and a good filter … that way you can watch the pike
Went out today to fish before work: I was there for large mouth bass but WOW: had 2 of these boys completely SLAM my swimbait, they are fighters & they completely destroyed steel leader, it was so fun, I couldn’t help but come learn everything about them. ( I caught both with a soft swimbait, darker green 3.5 inch & a smaller purple soft swimbait 2 inch – good luck fishing fellas. God bless you all!
💞Wow🤍🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍🧡
They are very common here in sweden but anoying as they are hard to filet and dont taste as well as perch and trout do
I live in Central Finland and ive had 3 of these in my net once. My river is infested with them since my shore is filled with water plants where they like to hide and hunt in.
Id be happy but… well… i dont like the taste of pikes. They taste very mild and the meat is tender. I honestly only eat them smoked.
Fun fish to catch tho.
These guys are the reason I got braided line on all my reels
hey man if i could take a second of your freetime and ask you if you know if there is pike in Olsbæksøen idk if you can just tell by how it looks on google maps but im planning on going there
Can't count how many hooks they got from me
It sucks that finding good spots are hard. Used to have such a good spot with my buddies but overfishing, construction and low waters ruined it
Come on man, no need to cheapen your video with ai generated images
For anyone asking titanium leader is what you want
Some of the most fun fishing I've had was using a Rebel Wee Crawfish lure on St Joseph river in Indiana. If it was the right time of year, almost every other cast landed a hard fighting pike.
Pike are my favorite to catch, so aggressive. When you bring in a big one up close it sorta looks like a gator. I noticed something interesting about them. The small and medium size ones will fight like a normal fish. But all the monster pike I've caught have swam towards the boat to cause slack in the line. They've learned in a sense so avoid that feeling of tension on them felt then swimming away. Could just be a small sample size but I was really cool to experience it. Reminded me of how the shark swam under the boat in Jaws when Quint first hooked it. "He's a smart big fish".
So you have caught pike while snorkeling…spear gun ? Net ? I'm from the mid west, used to dive in Florida, now I live in Colorado. I want to go out and get some pike on the snorkel. Tips…would be great.
As stated before, I have been fishing most of my life but only now am I learning how to fish. We have a pretty heavy population of Chain Pickerel around the grassy areas of the lake we have a camp on. As you have mentioned it in the video, they are easy to catch. I can be out trying to get a few small mouth bass but not get anything. I now know I can head to certain grassy areas and am pretty much guaranteed to get a few pickerel. I have learned that they don't like bait that just sits there. They seem to like action.
I started with a frog at first but they just couldn't seem to really get a hold of it. Then I tried a jitterbug and BOOM!!!! Last weekend, trying braided line for the first time-finally, I caught a couple with a Rapala floater and also a torpedo. As always, thanks for the info. I am learning a lot.
Quick question. Do you think that if I was pike fishing and I had to go deeper with jigs, that a 4 inch white twister tail would produce good numbers and size of pike? Obviously I know I would catch dinks, but would some better ones be mixed in? Also, could I use a steel leader while jigging for pike or would that spook them?
I never try to catch pike but when I do they are either stiff as a board or put up a good fight
Fresh water barracuda
To day I caught a foot long pike in the Athabasca river in Alberta cause I’m only a hour away from it and I brought it home but the meat was yellow and one fillet had worms so I threw them out I was sad tho but it was healthy on the outside and somehow I caught it without leader and my line never got snapped off I do not know how it never snapped my line off