Ethan Mcginn: Still on the flyrod but slow retrieval when open water 👍

They're pike. white spots, dark background. I'm assuming this is either NWT, Yukon, or Alaska. Muskies aren't quite that far north

you need glasses, or a head examination

No, there pike

+Austin Noring u dont know shit man rOFL

+Magnus Gustavsson Yeah I don't know shit! I didn't spend 4 years studying fisheries and another 2 years getting my masters researching catch and release mortality. Btw. Nice factory tied flies and bitch casts....look at that CLA burning drag. Prob need a salt water reel for all those hogs. Again bunch of tossers!!

+Austin Noring haha "2" years studying catch and release mortality! Might as well have obtained a degree in feminism studies

+Austin Noring You mad huh? Who gives a shit if they're factory flies? The fly doesn't matter in this type of situation unless you're of the elitist snob variety.

your uncle dad is calling you might wanna go study with him, and learn some shit while youre at it.

+Orby387 You are kidding right?

Wet flies came before dries, check your history :-)

have you ever tried grabbing a pike anywhere else? mouths full of teeth, if youre releasing you arent gonna grab em by the gills.. the tails the best place to grab it you goon lol

There is zero harm in grasping a pike this way. It's the same way most salmon fisherman hold the fish prior to release. way better than hanging them vertical from the gill plate which can cause internal organ damage

It's actually not in the gills themselves, and it's the best way and least damaging way to hold pike. Doesn't hurt them at all

Grnsk I've been fishing since I was 6 - tuna, flounder, stripped bass, trout, pike, pickerel, pumpkin seeds, sharks, squawfish, carp, suckers, bluefish, steelhead - I'm 40 now and lesson number one is never put your hands inside the fish if you want to release it, it's a bad habit and lower mouth-gill plate or not, it's a good way to transfer harmful bacteria to the fish in it's most vulnerable spot. If you're going to eat the fish no problem how you handle it but if you're going to release it then give it the best chance of survival.

mdschmog Didn't know that bacteria can be transfered, but there are studies from Sweden that show that the "gill" grip is much to prefer over other ways of landing fishes. What would be an alternative better way to do it?

Mdschmog: you are not the smartest aren't you?

Marcin Pisarski do you still have any pike left in Poland?

I thought Pike fishing was alive and well in all the parts of Europe within their range? Their genetics, forage bases and environments are supposedly better than those North America

​@StickyRig In eastern and southern Europe almost every fish that's caught gets killed and eaten. North west of Europe there is more catch and release and thus more big fish

+Tiverton69 Actually we have to travel more for walleye and lakers they arnt as common as u think.

+Tiverton69 I think many people don't get excited about pike is because they don't really run very far for their size. A big brown trout or steelhead that is 12 - 15 pounds is going to run all of your fly line and at least 50 yards of the backing, and more than once. Pike might take the fly well but as I saw on this video none ran more than 40 feet of line..

***** Yep, I understand and if I had a good pike fishery within a 100 miles of where I live I would target them too.

What??