“Epic Start to 2025 Landing Two Big Pike on My First Session!”

[@francolinobasco]

lovely opening scene Steve and some very nice pike

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you 👍

[@RIVERMASTERS]

Go Steve! Boom! Great session. Lovely fish, awesome vid 🎣👊👏🤠

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thanks Si 👍

[@StuWNZ]

Happy new year! Great fishing session and a cracking Pike . Look forward to the next video.😊

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you very much, hopefully you had a great new years too?

[@LondonPredatorAngler]

Some nice fish there Steve. Cracking session. Well done mate.

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Cheers Barrie, I pleased as punch. I hope your well 👍

[@dpfisherman]

Awesome captures great video Steve 👍🏻 nice to see you still doing well 🎣

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Eye up matey, thank you 👍 it’s been a while since my last outing that’s for sure

[@andrewellison1203]

Well do my friend and can I say what lovely scenery you did on your video apart from that amazing pike😊

[@baldvale5418]

Happy New Year Steve, great start to the new season & a really good video. When that Pike started to thrash about in your hands i thought that things were about to get bloody ;)

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you, hopefully you had a good one? Yeah the fish properly started to bend my arm around. Once I’d lowered the fish I could let it go and the cradle stopped it going off. I did have a couple teeth marks 😂

[@IanHearsum]

Great video really enjoyed this one you did well not to knock anything in tight lines 😮

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you very much 👍 😂😂 your not wrong, and normally it would be me knocking everything about

[@AtlauaFishing]

Nice to see you back with another video! What a session you’ve had to start the year off! Well in! 👏🎣

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you very much, I couldn’t have asked for better 👍

[@CharlieTroutAdventures]

Enjoyed that. Nice one Steve 🍻🐊

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Cheers Charlie, I wish I had time to hit the Lilly ponds but just not enough time

[@DavidScobie]

Cracking effort buddy well done

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Cheers matey, it had been a while 😂

[@Bankside_Official]

What an awesome start to 2025 dude and mega video 🙌🏼

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you very much 👍

[@mattgoodchild8215]

Absolutely fantastic session Steve well done some beautiful Pike and a very happy new year pal 👍🏼🎣🎸🍻👊🏼

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you very much Matt 👍

[@riverblanker6616]

Cracking start to the year that sir! Well done 👏 💪⚡️

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you very much 👍

[@canalpiker7546]

Great session and a couple of beauties. Well in 🎣💪😁

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thanks Mark, have you been out recently

[@canalpiker7546]

Not doing much since before Christmas. Esthwaite in the Lake District closed in Sept. It's meant fishing the canal has lost a bit of it's draw on me at the moment. Very little chance of a special fish and mostly scratching around for tiny jacks. Currently working on my boat to get it ready for getting back out to sea. 👍

[@BlackCountryPiker]

@@canalpiker7546 ahh fair play, hopefully you’ll be back at it soon

[@leeneilson1913]

Great to see you back and what a start to 2025 👏

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you Lee 👍

[@silentangling]

Great session to kick off the new year. Thanks for sharing and the work in putting a video together.

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you very much, I do hope to get down to stacklands on the wye before spawning season.

[@silentangling]

@BlackCountryPiker hopefully we'll bump into each other. They've locked the gate for the winter so travel light as it's a bit of a walk

[@BlackCountryPiker]

@ that field is a bit of a nightmare I believe if it’s been flooded or just wet for too long. Cars driving off track from the old hut and getting bogged down. Yes it would be lovely 👍

[@philipmurray5493]

Cracking video Steve well done 👏

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you Philip 👍 it definitely made my day

[@leejohnson7471]

Always enjoy your videos cheers.....im out on the local clay pit tomorrow ❤

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Cheers Lee, I hope you have a great session 👍

[@AdamsAnglingTv]

awsome video Steve🎣 nice pike🐊

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Cheers Adam 👍

[@mickwalker7219]

Class Angling Steve 👍

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thanks Mick 👍

[@nigelkey3983]

Hey well done steve Not started my season yet as I'm in Australia back in few weeks great video look forward to the next

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you very much, have you managed any fishing out there?

[@darrenmusgrove503]

Great video Sir , I'm just getting back into fishing after 12yrs and losing my leg in Sept 24 where were u fishing ? I'm based in Wolvo

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you Darren, sounds like you’ve had an awful time of it. This was Stourport-On-Severn

[@darrenmusgrove503]

@BlackCountryPiker nice one cheers gonna have to pop down there and have a look 👍

[@amomentintimechannel1315]

Well done mate, but I was a bag of nerves watching that, I was convinced it was only a matter of time before your phone/tripod ended up in the river but then I thought about it 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you, I’m not going to lie I came close to knocking it in 🤦‍♂️😂

[@leeramskill2683]

Couple nice ones there well done tough on lures managed one this morning in some open water as a lot of the canal was frozen

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Cheers Lee, canals are a nightmare aren’t they at this time of year. I’ll always try to head for big basins or wooded areas as they tend to have more chance of being clear. And bridges 😂

[@LG_Fishing]

great work. keep it up

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you very much 👍

[@carruthers1957]

Nice fish buddy 👏👏

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you 👍

[@stevebell8552]

Nice one ste 👍

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Cheers Steve 👍

[@makethedayuk]

Nice one Steve, I've had some decent pike from there in the past, I also often fish overnight at the lakes just the other side of the river from where you were 👍👍

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you very much 👍 I’ve never fished the lakes, I hear they are a carp Mecca. I know my dad caught like there before and the owner said they got in from previous flooding

[@makethedayuk]

@@BlackCountryPiker Yes mate, My pb carp is from there, 22lb 2oz. One of the guys who runs it was telling me there's quite a few pike in there, reckons a 21lb pike came out not too long ago..... Although he doesn't let just anyone fish for them.

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Ahh right, I’m guessing dead baits only? So there’s no chance of hooking his carp. I’ve wanted to go there to fish the weir to be fair.

[@makethedayuk]

@ Yes mate, dead baits with single hooks only. but as I said it's not common knowledge. I should be going in the next couple of weeks, I'll let you know how I get on 👍

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Nice one, thank you and good luck

[@Vincentdonnelly5158]

A great day. 😮

[@BlackCountryPiker]

A great day indeed Vincent 👍

[@mrhuxley68]

great result mate. You think using circle hooks is more effective than trebles? Cheers.

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thank you, in fairness I think some sessions I have lost fish due to using circle hooks which is frustrating. But better for the pike.

[@crystalsdaddy]

Have you ever done a colab with snaggedbro? I remember them bumping into you on the canal once and they gave you a shout out. Been watching your videos ever since.

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Ahhh nice one, we’ve met up a couple of times and just fished but never collaborated really.

[@Jameslow2486]

Nice video

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Thanks James 👍

[@BostinAngling]

bag up, you need to be on the barbel this time of year too, all fish am welcome, well in!

[@BlackCountryPiker]

Nice one, with there not being long left before the pike spawn I’ll be using any free time for them